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Ripley (2024)–The One Who Got Away?

Written by Diana Paul on June 9, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

Based upon Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 classic, The Talented Mr. Ripley, this neo-noir remake reinterprets good and evil, survival and triumph, guilt and psychopathology. Tom Ripley is a young intelligent grifter residing in squalor in the 1960s, sharing a filthy bathroom with sewage backing up into the drain. Feeling...

“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness” (Season Two)–Stranger Things Happen

Written by Diana Paul on August 11, 2020. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews. 1 Comment on “The Alienist: Angel of Darkness” (Season Two)–Stranger Things Happen

In this relatively seamless sequel to “The Alienist”, based on Caleb Carr’s second psychological thriller, season two is a retelling of Carr’s Angel of Darkness. But this is much more than a sequel. (For my review of season one, see my April 29, 2018 review: “The...

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood–A Lackluster Fairy Tale

Written by diana on August 19, 2019. Posted in movie reviews. 6 Comments on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood–A Lackluster Fairy Tale

Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to movie buffs. And Once Upon a Time in Hollywood continues to feature the themes Tarantino cherishes. With a fully-loaded cast of A-list actors, especially Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, what we witness is more a “buddy film” than the advertised “tribute to the...

“The Alienist”– Something Wicked This Way Comes

Written by diana on April 29, 2018. Posted in Television reviews. 1 Comment on “The Alienist”– Something Wicked This Way Comes

“The Alienist”, a TNT psychological thriller set in 1896, is based on the novel by Caleb Carr. People with mental illness were once considered “alienated from society,” unfathomable to doctors and laymen alike. Those who thought they could treat them were referred to as alienists, pre-dating the Freudian psychiatric...

Tag: Dakota Fanning

Ripley (2024)–The One Who Got Away?

“The Alienist: Angel of Darkness” (Season Two)–Stranger Things Happen

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood–A Lackluster Fairy Tale

“The Alienist”– Something Wicked This Way Comes

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