Reviews, rants & poetry

  Evan Peters as Jefferey Dahmer. photo credit: Netflix.  I think that Ryan Murphy is a god when it comes to telling incredibly complex stories based on true-life occurrences. From FEUD , to the OJ story on his AMERICAN CRIME STORY series, to DAHMER . Ryan has mastered the art of conjoining these complexities and intricacies to deliver a spellbinding all round look into the histories of these people he's exploring and the lessons he wants us to pick up and learn from them.   Having read opinion pieces about the victims’ families reliving the hurt before first watching the 2022 Netflix show, the first 3 episodes ticked me off badly as I thought the series was going to follow the trope of Hollywood's horrible history of "idolizing" criminals and serial killers but thank God as the show progresses, you begin to realize it's rather a cautionary tale that forces its viewers to look beyond the surface storytelling of the titular character.   To me, this show was mo...

photo credit: Netflix  Friends of a private Facebook group which I belong to raved for days about this supposed limited tv series. Members wrote posts upon posts about how incredibly good the plot twist was and then when I realized that it bothered on astral travel and lucid dreams, two phenomena I often experienced as a child but had no name for until much later into adulthood, I knew I’d been had. I was going to see this.  The English series stars the incredibly talented Simona Brown, Tom Bateman, Robert Aramayo and Eve Hewson as the major characters, Louise, David and Rob/Adele which this psychological/supernatural adultery themed thriller revolves around.   The series begins with a very beautiful, black, single mother of a 7yr old boy named Adam as she prepares for a date. She gets to the venue of the date, a bar and after realizing she’s been stood up, makes a move to leave but bumps into a tall handsome hunk of a man with a Scottish accent. They make small talk...

  photo credit: Netflix Written and directed by Sam Levinson of Euphoria fame, this film follows a heterosexual couple’s arguments after they return home for the night from a movie premiere which the man is responsible for writing and directing.  Filmed totally in black and white, every still in this film literally looks like a work of art, so much that if you find it hard to see films made in black and white, this would be an easy one to sit through as the shots are amazing to look at. High praise goes to the director of photography and the director as well, for their visually outstanding work with the shots. The chemistry between the titular characters the entire plot revolves around is impeccable and this film is actually proof that John David Washington can act, as opposed to the critical reviews he received for his performance in Christopher Nolan's TENET . I could clearly feel his frustrations, anger, disgust, total admiration and love for his partner onscreen and it wa...