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Big Ambition, Gorgeous Drama: The 2026 East of Eden Miniseries
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Adapting John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden is a huge challenge. The famous 1955 movie starring James Dean succeeded by focusing only on the final part of the book. In contrast, the 2026 Netflix limited series—created by Zoe Kazan, the granddaughter of the original film's director—takes on the whole story. Across seven episodes, this ambitious, beautifully filmed show covers almost everything from the novel. While it isn't completely perfect, it is a powerful an

Denise Breen
4 minutes ago2 min read


Time to Delete the Apps: The Social Reckoning Exposes Facebook’s Machine, Flaws and All
Rating: ★★★☆☆ Sixteen years after The Social Network defined the dawn of our hyper-connected alienation, Aaron Sorkin has returned to the digital empire he helped mythologise. But where David Fincher’s 2010 masterpiece hummed with icy, prophetic paranoia, The Social Reckoning arrives carrying the exhausted baggage of a society that already knows it is being poisoned. Sorkin, stepping behind the camera as both writer and director, delivers an urgent, crackling, yet frequently

Denise Breen
2 days ago3 min read


How I Learned to stop laughing: "Digger" reinvents Dr. Strangelove for the climate crisis
Rating: ★★★½☆ (3.5 / 5) Set in an uneasy, plausible near future, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger takes aim squarely at corporate hubris and impending ecological collapse. At its core, the film is driven by an urgent environmental theme, tracking the frantic ripple effects when unchecked industrial ambition triggers a catastrophic crisis. Yet rather than delivering standard Hollywood disaster spectacle, the film frames its planetary reckoning through an audacious, surrealist le

Denise Breen
Oct 42 min read
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