I was talking to an old friend about our favorite horror films from 2024 and we both agreed that the movies we both admired were incredibly fresh and original, not to mention memorably dark and creepy. It’s just a great…
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The achingly romantic new gay film by Ferzan Ozpetek (Steam: The Turkish Bath, His Secret Life, Facing Windows) is now available on Netflix and it’s a stunner. The title comes from the marquee of a movie theater in Rome in…
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The series Paris Police 1900 on MHz Choice was one of the most exciting shows I’d seen in some time. Every episode a nail-biter, beautifully acted, with expert attention to period detail in costumes and sets. Set in the Belle…
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One of my favorite filmmakers- the prolific, gloriously gozo Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) has directed a whacked-out new South Korean 6-part series on Hulu called Connect and it’s surreal, gory, suspenseful, action-packed, addictive insanity. Ha Dong Soo (criminally…
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I think Tuesday is fast becoming my favorite day of the week. That’s when MHz Choice releases their new episodes and series. MHz is to me more valuable than Netflix and Amazon Prime, with their dizzying array of brilliant series…
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Once again, MHz Choice has got me through bleak times by immersing me in terrific foreign series you cannot see anywhere else. Gritty, twisty procedurals, suspenseful mini-series, and then there’s the wonderful eccentric detective Captain Marleau (like Olive Oyl in…
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“Everything’s weird underwater,” says Ben (James Jagger) to comfort his skittish girlfriend Tina (Camille Rowe) as they plan to dive down in a remote lake in Southwest France to explore (on camera) an entire house buried underwater. In directors Alexandre…
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To be honest, MHz Choice kept me sane during the pandemic. This superior streaming service has riveting TV series from around the globe- mystery series from Denmark, thrillers from Germany, procedurals from Sweden, first-rate dramas from Italy. I found myself…
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I have to admit I’ve been weary of Netflix for a while- strolling their menu in vain for anything to watch. There’s always a glut of choices but nothing that speaks to me, that’s for sure. And then, like magic,…
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I was recently turned on to a Youtube video of the 1963 TV version of The Legend of Lylah Clare starring Tuesday Weld. I admit being obsessed with Robert Aldrich’s 1968 sardonic, poisonous-valentine-to-Hollywood version starring Kim Novak, but hadn’t heard…
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