“The Dry,” the film adaptation of Jane Harper’s 2016 international bestseller of the same name, opens with aerial shots of the parched land in Kiewarra, a farming community somewhere outside Melbourne. But there’s clearly no farming going on in the arid expanse below, with its lifeless ...
Not quite John Ford and not quite John Dahl – to audiences in the American southwest watching director Robert Connolly's new adaptation of Jane Harper's award-winning first novel “The Dry,” the film's overwhelmingly massive landscape seems equal parts foreign and familiar as it spools out b...
Unsettling viewers to set the tone right from the start,The Dryopens with haunting imagery depicting the immediate aftermath of what appears to be a double murder-suicide. A woman lies in the front door hallway shot dead and bloodied, as does a young boy somewhere off-camera. The only soun...
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, The Adults wouldn’t exist. The actors and characters seem on the same wavelength as mumblecore writer/director Dustin Guy Defa for his dry, strange comedy about...
Guatemalan jungle to one of the world’s most beautiful lakes surrounded by three massive volcanoes, Lake Atitlán lies 1560m above sea level. The most challenging spot took the highly decorated cliff diving trio to the country’s tallest waterfalls at Los Amates in the so called “dry area...
Explosive fights, tense arguments, and painful breakdowns emerge in Baumbach’s look at a fractured family of artists that delicately balances dry humor with emotional revelations. — O.W. How to watch: The Meyerowitz Stories is now streaming on Netflix. 10. The Hand of God Italian filmmaker ...
Dreijer—along with a cadre of co-producers including their brother Olof, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and batida beatmaker Nídia—injectsRadical Romanticswith textures that are as sticky as sex, and as crackly as stockings snagging on dry skin. Their register bounds between ecstatic highs an...
Robert Guillaume became one of the best-beloved and respected television actors of the late 1970s and 1980s playing one character in two different series and establishing a trademark capacity to render bone-dry wit, stoic demeanor and even thoughtful compassion. An accomplished Broadway performer ...
The best films, released in the last three years, that I saw during 2024:Enys Men(Mark Jenkin),Moonage Daydream(Brett Morgen),The Eternal Daughter(Joanna Hogg),No Bears(Jafar Panahi),All the Beauty and the Bloodshed(Laura Poitras),TÁR(Todd Field),About Dry Grasses(Nuri Bilge Ceylan),...
The excruciating story is based on a dire but also true situation where soldiers of Kilo Two Bravo battalion were stranded on a dry river bed that was an active mine... Read more Watch the trailer of Kajaki (Kilo Two Bravo)RATING: 71/100 Stream Kajaki (Kilo Two Bravo) via: ' Netfli...