Unhealed Wound – Page 62 – Passion for Art, Movies, and Culture

True Detective Season 3–Whodunit…or Not?

Written by diana on February 27, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound. 1 Comment on True Detective Season 3–Whodunit…or Not?

For armchair sleuths, the latest season of True Detective will probably not fit neatly into the category of cops-and-killers genre, buddy-cop, film noir, or police procedural. Surprisingly,True Detective’s latest season has elements of all four. True Detective Season 3 Set in the Ozarks in the ‘80s (with virulent Jim Crow...

Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo–Cinema Verité

Written by diana on February 19, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

Three Netflix series -- Narcos, Narcos Mexico and El Chapo-- are gritty, raw, and bingeable. Each chronicles the most powerful drug lord and his cartel at the rise of cocaine and marijuana production in Colombia, Mexico, and other parts of the world.

Velvet Buzzsaw–Art Can Be Dangerous

Written by diana on February 12, 2019. Posted in Unhealed Wound.

In this grisly art-world satire, Velvet Buzzsaw opens with a renowned art critic, Morf Vandewalt (the sensational Jake Gyllenhaal), in his designer sunglasses, turning his pompous, gimlet eye on artwork at the highly hyped Art Basel Miami show. Pontificating about what he considers worthy or unworthy, Morf has the power to punish or...

The Favourite–A Compelling Menage à Trois

Written by diana on February 4, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 3 Comments on The Favourite–A Compelling Menage à Trois

Nominated for ten Academy Awards including best picture, The Favourite is perhaps one of the best revenge thrillers of 2018. Reminiscent of Downton Abbey with its opulent settings and costumes, The Favourite is also an historical drama. In the early 18th century court of Queen Anne, we see a mentally fragile and damaged queen (the...

IndigNation–Jim Carrey’s Political Cartoons

Written by diana on January 28, 2019. Posted in Art, Unhealed Wound.

Squeeze. Mueller. Squeeze Every time I think I know what Jim Carrey will do next as a comedian the actor throws me off balance. Think of his new HBO series Kidding. But most of all, his evolution as a no-holds-barred political artist just blows me away. I recently was privileged to see more than 80 of his sketches at the Maccarone Gallery...

Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Written by diana on January 13, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

Filmmaker Werner Herzog, in this tech-retrospective of the history of the internet and the convoluted relationship between humans and computers, examines the past, present and future of the internet. His easily recognizable gravelled-voice of the narrator is both ominous and puzzling. Lo and Behold gives the viewer a spellbinding,...