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Films I’d Never Seen #5: The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is an elegiac, surreal, brutal yet hopeful, study of Brazil’s collective memory of life under the military dictatorship in the 1970s. The dreamlike fluidity of writer/director Kleber Mendonça’s third feature written under the...

Bloodhounds season 2: more action, more brutality, and a bond put to the test

After a three-year wait, adrenaline and boxing return to Netflix with the second season of Bloodhounds (사냥개들). Based on Jeong Chan’s acclaimed webtoon, this seven-episode season (each approximately an hour long) expands the universe of...

The JFK Jr / Carolyn Bessette tale in the spotlight: Love Story review

I resisted watching Love Story for a long time. The reaction of the Kennedy family and many other friends of John F Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy to the TV series put me off. The view of so many of their inner circle seemed to be that the...

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