Tag: Hulu

Sentimental Value –Home Is Where the Heart Is

Written by Diana Paul on April 27, 2026. Posted in movie reviews.

The multiple Academy Award -winning film, Sentimental Value, directed by Joachim Trier, opens in Oslo. In their beautiful airy home, sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas), are grieving over the death of their beloved mother. They are distressed by the return of their long-estranged father, Gustav (...

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...

The Amateur–A Nerd Thriller

Written by Diana Paul on August 6, 2025. Posted in movie reviews.

In the Hulu spy drama, The Amateur, released June 11, we see Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), a brilliant, but underappreciated CIA programmer communicating with an unidentified programmer about code that doesn’t seem legit. Charlie’s life soon becomes tragic as he watches the news of a London terrorist attack in...

The Americans–Cold War at Home

Written by Diana Paul on December 16, 2024. Posted in Television reviews.

In this multiple award-winning six-season Hulu series (2013-2018), The Americans has invaded the hearts of countless viewers. The Americans takes place during the Reagan era of 1980-1987, the Cold War with Gorbachev and what was known then as the Soviet Union. Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Catherine (Keri Russell) Jennings are...

Operation Napoleon–Frozen Conspiracy

Written by Diana Paul on November 4, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

Operation Napoleon, a conspiracy treasure-hunt thriller, will have you thinking you are watching an “Indiana Jones” drama. Romanticizing parts of a true story, Operation Napoleon opens in April 1945, when a Nazi airplane flies over Iceland in the middle of a storm. The plane crashes with no...

Marsh King’s Daughter–A Companion Piece to Where the Crawdads Sing?

Written by Diana Paul on May 14, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

In this mystery thriller based on Karen Dionne’s novel of the same name, we see a story taking place in a swamp with a young girl and her mother trapped by an abusive father. The Marsh King’s Daughter opens with the ten-year old Helena [Brooklyn Prince of “Florida” (November 7, 2017 review )] in the...