Tag: Netflix

The Piano Lesson–A Cacophony

Written by Diana Paul on March 3, 2025. Posted in movie reviews. 1 Comment on The Piano Lesson–A Cacophony

Adapted from August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Piano Lesson (2024) opens with Mississippi slaver Robert Sutter (David Atkinson) trading two enslaved brothers for a piano to give to his wife at the onset of the Civil War. Fast forward to 1911 and brother Charles (Stephan James) steals the piano from enslaver Sutter’s...

One Hundred Years of Solitude–An Alternative Universe?

Written by Diana Paul on February 25, 2025. Posted in movie reviews, Television reviews.

One Hundred Years Of Solitude (1967) by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is a masterpiece of magical realism, telling the story of seven generations of the Buendía family. Sprawling over a century, the tragic circumstances in a utopian conceived town–Macondo–are revealed, where isolation as a community at...

Black Doves–”Slow Horses” meets “The Americans”?

Written by Diana Paul on December 30, 2024. Posted in Television reviews. 2 Comments on Black Doves–”Slow Horses” meets “The Americans”?

The six-episode Netflix mini-series Black Doves is being promoted as a Christmas holiday spy thriller, full of such fun scenes as explosions, intense gun-fight street battles and stylish upper-class British banter to mix up with the tinsel and ornaments. Helen Webb (Keira Knightley of “Pirates of the Carribean”, “Pride and...

Paranoid–Someone’s After Me

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

Paranoid, a British police procedural crime series (2016) set in the small town of Woodmere, opens with a brutal murder of a general practitioner pushing her young son on a swing in a public park. The woman is murdered in public by an unknown man in a black hoodie. Who could be the murderer? And what can the...

Colors of Evil: Red—Blood and Rage

Written by Diana Paul on August 18, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

The Netflix film Colors of Evil: Red (2024) is adapted from a novel by Polish author Małgorzata Oliwia Sobczak. This Polish police procedural opens with the body of a young woman, brutally murdered and mutilated, washing onto the beach, surrounded by police and the forensic doctor. The circumstances of her death indicate Monica was the...

I Came By (2023)–Don’t Look

Written by Diana Paul on July 8, 2024. Posted in movie reviews.

A dark psychological thriller, I Came By portrays two young working-class graffiti artists who wish to taunt the most privileged and wealthiest by tagging I Came By inside their mansions while they sleep. Toby (George McKay) and Jay (Percelle Ascott) view themselves as activists, not losers, fighting for social justice and a...