Tag: Colin Farrell

Penguin–A Waddle of Weirdness

Written by Diana Paul on December 1, 2024. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. No Comments on Penguin–A Waddle of Weirdness

Based upon the DC Comic Batman and one of his nemeses, Penguin, this HBOmax mini-series is a spinoff of the 2022 Batman movie. Premiering on September 19 as a weekly installment, each episode tightly leads the viewer to the next surprising and noirish plot point. Oz Cobb (Colin Farrell), rather derisively called Penguin because of a limp and a disfigured face, no longer wants to be the nebbish that the mob boss, Carmine Falcone (Mark Strong of “Law and Order” fame), orders around contemptuously as his driver and go-fer in Gotham City. Not...

“Thirteen Lives”—An Unlucky Number?

Written by Diana Paul on August 18, 2022. Posted in movie reviews. No Comments on “Thirteen Lives”—An Unlucky Number?

Thirteen Lives (directed by Ron Howard) retells the heart-pounding rescue mission from June 23, 2018. A dozen Thai soccer players, aged 11 to 16, and their coach were trapped in a flooded, terrifyingly claustrophobic cave system during an unexpected monsoon rainstorm in northern Thailand. A massive international rescue effort of more than 10,000 people are deployed to save the twelve soccer players and their coach. Will rescuers be able to deliver them to safety without a loss of life? Potential disaster lurks around every twist in the...

The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

Written by diana on December 12, 2017. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 5 Comments on The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

In Sophia Coppola’s reinterpretation of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film by the same name, The Beguiled opens with an eleven-year-old girl gathering mushrooms in her straw basket deep in a quiet wood in Virginia. Conjuring an image of Little Red Riding Hood soon coming upon a big bad wolf, we see her discover the wounded John McBurney (Colin Farrell), a Union soldier in the midst of the Civil War. The child decides to take him back to her girls’ boarding school. Headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Nicole Kidman) is reluctant but feels a moral obligation to tend to him. Edwina...

Tag: Colin Farrell

Penguin–A Waddle of Weirdness

“Thirteen Lives”—An Unlucky Number?

The Beguiled–Bewitched and Possessed

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