Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Robin Hölzken


Today's Cat


Yasmeen Ghauri


Destroyer (2018)


A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.

Dark, intense, downward spiral of an undercover cop is skillfully revealed in slow bits and with a twist ending; Nicole Kidman delivers a remarkably terrifying performance as the downtrodden cop.

Monday, February 17, 2020

Ruth Bell


ph: Liz Collins

New York


New York in the documentary Our Godfather (2019)

Veronica Lake


First Lines: Helen DeWitt - The Last Samurai


My father's father was a Methodist minister.

Maartje Verhoef


Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)




Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.

OK sequel doesn't have really live up the original, but has good effects, some capable performances and does offer some exciting action.

Sunday, February 16, 2020

Hannah Motler


ph: Angelo Pennetta

Today's Cat


A kitten aboard a floating Victoria water lily pad in the Philippines, 1935.Photograph by Alfred T. Palmer, National Geographic Creative

Felice Noordhoff


ph: Billy Kidd

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)



A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the body of a young woman, who was apparently harboring dark secrets.

Quite original horror tale made with some sense for the genre, gory, with an atmosphere of doom, but not without some humor.

Abby Champion


Today's Cat


A cat runs on the pitch during a game between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield, 1964