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Rewired on Reads & Reels
Books and movies, untangled for sharper insights and unexpected connections. Perfect for a deep dive or a conversation that actually goes somewhere.
The Tinder Swindler or the Secret Thrill of Being Duped
Review of Tinder Swindler crime documentary on Netflix By the time he asked for $30,000 to escape his enemies, she’d already seen the...
Jun 134 min read
“Hit Man” (2023) Review – Nerd, Lies, and Videotape
# Hit Man: A Genre-Hopping Adventure An article about a philosophy professor, two cats, a bunch of wigs, and a fake German accent walks...
May 134 min read
The Idea of You: A Deep Dive Into the Glamorous Fantasy of Love
Directed by Michael Showalter | Starring Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine A Unique Plot With Unexpected Lessons Plot? Barely....
Apr 204 min read
High Drama on Mount Olympus: KAOS and the Curse of Eternal Free Time
Netflix’s KAOS opens with Jeff Goldblum staring at a suspiciously zit-like mark on his divine ass. That’s your first clue: this is not...
Mar 262 min read
Close-Knit and the Quiet Radicalism of Care
On the surface, Close-Kn it (Original title: Karera ga honki de amu toki wa, 2017 ) looks like a cozy Japanese film about cherry...
Mar 252 min read
God Bless America (2011) – A Parody of Rebellion dir. Bobcat Goldthwait
God Bless America plays like a parody of Natural Born Killers —except there’s no love, no sex, just two strangers united by sheer...
Mar 203 min read
Vanity Fair tv mini series (1998): Flirting, Scheming, and the Fine Art of Getting Exactly What You Want
You know that one coworker—the one who never stays late, never volunteers for extra work, and somehow still gets promoted before you? The...
Mar 173 min read
Stardust (2007): How to Stop Being a Dull, Predictable Loser and Find Some Magic
It's absolutely outrageous that most of us aren’t living in fairy tales. We’re not dashing across magical kingdoms, rescuing celestial...
Mar 153 min read
Mirror Mirror and No Wall
Mirror (Зеркало), 1974 dir. Tarkovsky “Do you understand what I’m saying?” —a voice whispers through the veil of time, breaking the...
Mar 143 min read
The Fever Dream About Grave Robbing, Lost Love, and Why You Should Really Learn to Let Go
La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher Alice Rohrwacher ’s latest film is about an archaeologist who spends his days digging up Etruscan...
Feb 254 min read
The Fall, the Trial, and the Stories We Choose to Believe
ANATOMIE D’UNE CHUTE (2023) dir. Justine Triet A courtroom drama, a psychological thriller, a family tragedy—all at once, yet none of...
Feb 53 min read
Mirror Lives and Hidden Truths: Reflecting on Tafrigh
It’s said that every one of us has at least five people in the world who look exactly like us. Once, I saw a woman on the highway driving...
Jan 152 min read
For a Hookah Date Where History Smokes Itself
Fairytale, 2022 Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov So, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Churchill walk into a purgatory. They’re stuck in limbo,...
Dec 14, 20242 min read
A Psychedelic Bathwater Fever Dream for Your Messiest Date
Saltburn, 2023 dir. Emerald Fennell This movie takes your hand, waltzes you through opulent halls dripping in marble and silk and then...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
We Are Such Stuff as Memes Are Made On: The Movie for a Trippy, Meta-Date Night
Dream Scenario (2023) Dir. Kristoffer Borgli "Dream Scenario" is like someone took a sociology lecture, spiked it with absinthe, and...
Nov 19, 20242 min read
For a Boardroom-Date Fever Dream: A Game of Corporate Overkill
Tetris (2023) Dir. Jon S. Baird Imagine gearing up for a movie night only to realize you’re about to watch a two-hour LinkedIn...
Nov 1, 20242 min read
For a Spy Date: Secrets, Betrayal, and a Walkman
Movie : L'affaire/ Farewell "Farewell" is your classic Cold War spy thriller, but with a twist: it’s more about midlife crises, awkward...
Oct 15, 20242 min read
I Heart Huckabees: A Screwball Comedy for the Existentially Curious
Tough sell, this one. So tough that co-writer and director David O.Russell struggled to get it off the ground—his fevered pitch likely...
Aug 21, 20242 min read
Drunken Masquerade: Polanski’s Boozy Trainwreck at The Palace
Welcome to a palace where the absurd and the ridiculous join forces in a masquerade of vanity and lunacy, and you’ve got Roman Polanski's...
Aug 14, 20243 min read
From Minnesota Nice to North Dakota Nonsense: Fargo Season 5's Unholy Mess
Fargo's fifth season is a spectacle that somehow manages to be both wildly unremarkable and excruciatingly painful to endure. It's as if...
Jul 23, 20243 min read
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