Unhealed Wound – Page 5 – Passion for Art, Movies, and Culture

Occupied–No Time Left

Written by Diana Paul on April 6, 2026. Posted in Series.

In Occupied, a complicated three-season Norwegian series (Okkupert: 2015-2019) inspired by the masterful author of thrillers, Jo Nesbø, no one wins. In the near future, there is a pending crisis: climate change may be at the point of no return. Norwegian Prime Minister, Jasper Berg (Henrik Mestad) of the Green...

The Roses–Scenes from a Marriage

Written by Diana Paul on March 30, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

An adaptation of Warren Adler’s novel The War of the Roses, The Roses, produced by Danny DeVito, is the first remake since the 1989 film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. The main theme chronicles the dissolution of a marriage once felt to be idyllic, now transmuting into poison. The Roses opens with a consultation in the...

Tehran– Foreshadowing Today’s US Headlines

Written by Diana Paul on March 26, 2026. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

In this exciting edge-of-your-seat spy thriller, we see the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and Mossad in a fierce, white-knuckle fight-to-the-death, cat-and-mouse battle. Tehran’s main character is Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), a death-defying martial-arts skilled undercover Mossad spy who enters Tehran to neutralize...

Hamnet–“The rest is silence.”

Written by Diana Paul on March 15, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

Hamnet, is multiple Academy-Award nominated eponymous film from bestselling Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell. Directed by Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao (“Nomadland”), Hamnet is Zhao’s additional interpretation over and above O’Farrell’s speculative invention.. A young William Shakespeare’s love for Agnes (=Anne Hathaway) and her...

“Don’t Bother” Movies

Written by Diana Paul on March 11, 2026. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound.

Although I usually review movies that have some rationale for investing one or two hours viewing time or much more in case of mini-series, this week I am giving you a heads-up on what not to watch. Read a good book instead of wasting your time on any of these ten, although they all have A-list actors. 1.”Seven Dials”...

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes–Singing in the Right Key

Written by Diana Paul on March 1, 2026. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes–Singing in the Right Key

Based on the 2020 novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, this prequel to “The Hunger Games” (2012) and the fifth installment in “The Hunger Games” film series won the 2024 People’s Choice Action Movie of the Year. Set more than sixty years before The Hunger Games trilogy, the fictional...