The Burning Season, 2023. Directed by Sean Garrity. Starring Jonas Chernick, Sara Canning, Joe Pingue, and Tanisha Thammavongsa. SYNOPSIS: Alena and her husband spend a summer up at Luna Lake Resort. JB runs the place. He and Alena begin a dangerous and passionate secret affair. Summers only. That’s the rule. Until they break it. A […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Review – The Teachers’ Lounge
The Teachers’ Lounge, 2023. Directed by Ilker Çatak. Starring Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer, and Rafael Stachowiak. SYNOPSIS: When one of her students is suspected of theft, teacher Carla Nowak decides to get to the bottom of the matter. Caught between her ideals and the school system, the consequences of her actions […]
Masters of the Air – Part Eight Review
Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of Masters of the Air… Masters of the Air’s penultimate episode sets the stage for the show’s conclusion as the allied forces move closer to reclaiming Europe both in the build-up and aftermath of the D-Day landings, of course, depicted in the previous series Band of Brothers. The focus […]
The New Look Episode 6 Review – ‘If You Believed in Me’
Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of The New Look… The New Look has at times struggled for focus in its first season with the focus on the rise of Christian Dior and the fall of Coco Chanel. The sixth episode seems to find more of a balance giving both storylines a prominent focus with […]
Masters of the Air – Part Seven Review
Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of Masters of the Air… Following his capture at the end of the previous episode, John “Bucky” Egan finds himself reunited with his friend Major Cleven but not in the circumstances they might have wanted. They are in Stalag Luft III, a German POW camp famous for The Great […]
The New Look Episode 5 Review – ‘Give Your Heart and Soul to Me’
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of The New Look… After what has been a somewhat uneven start to The New Look, Ben Mendelsohn’s Christian Dior takes centre stage in an episode where he grapples with his future as a fashion designer while coming to terms with whether or not his sister Catherine will be […]
Masters of the Air – Part Six Review
Chris Connor reviews the sixth episode of Masters of the Air… After the all out action of the previous episode and sense of loss, Masters of the Air’s sixth episode takes a more sedate pace with the focus split between Callum Turner’s Major Egan, stranded in Germany to fend for himself, and Harry Crosby and […]
The New Look Episode 4 Review – ‘What a Difference’
Chris Connor reviews the fourth episode of The New Look… The New Look’s fourth episode sees events move post-war as France has been liberated. The scars of the war linger for all to see with Coco Chanel implicated by her involvement with the Nazis during the war and sought out by the new authorities. Christian […]
Masters of the Air – Part Five Review
Chris Connor reviews the fifth episode of Masters of the Air… After the shocking conclusion of the previous episode and the revelation that Austin Butler’s Buck Cleven may have perished, we immediately find that Harry Crosby (Anthony Boyle) and several of his crew survived their presumed deaths. This opening burst of positivity is offset by […]
The New Look – Episodes 1-3 Review
Chris Connor reviews the first three episodes of Apple TV+’s The New Look… Coco Chanel and Christian Dior remain icons of the fashion world and household names, decades on from their peak. What is less widely discussed perhaps is the work either did during the Second World War when Paris was under Nazi occupation and […]
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