Reality Winner’s name is almost too good to be true, considering the facts of the case. The former United States Air Force member, a linguist contractor with the NSA, fluent in Farsi, Dari, and Pashto, with top security clearance, and, of course, eventual whistleblower, was arrested on June 3, 2017, for printing out classified information […]
Robert Redford saw Mary Tyler Moore walking on the beach and realized that the woman who had created two iconic television characters known for sunny cheerful outlooks, both, she said, very close to her personality, had a darker quality audiences had never seen. Redford cast her in “Ordinary People” as Beth, a mother from the
We are likely in the very early days of the “Social Media” phase of the horror genre, as the international reliance on apps like Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter provides fuel for screenwriters to plumb their terrifying depths. The truth is that most of them so far have been less scary than the notification that tells
At an American school gym, a French woman who is stuck with a malfunctioning car in South Dakota gets to meet a teenager practicing free throws on the basketball court who tells the woman that her nickname is Magic Johnson. The lady in this movie “Eureka”, who is being portrayed by Chiara Mastroianni says to
The Korean psychological thriller “Sleep” could have quickly transformed into a run-of-the-mill horror comedy but their clever storytelling makes it a very effective marital drama that has elements of sleepwalking, paranoia, and ghost stories. Director and writer Jason Yu, in his first feature film, seamlessly blended character-driven gruesome tales with more elaborate ones. He was
The Universal Theory is a German supernatural thriller written by Timm Kröger. It centers around a young physicist, who, while at a quantum mechanics convention near the Swiss Alps, becomes tangled in webs of murder, insanity, and conspiracy. The rest of the film performed similarly on the level of the remarkable, yet some might even
Two American photographers are in Adolf Hitler’s apartment at the very end of World War II when the German leaders are dead. Lee Miller (Kate Winslet) undresses and gets ready to get her photograph taken while in a bath. This moment connects numerous ethical issues in the movie’s “Lee” narrative where she as a model
