"Pretty": Metecan Duren's Ambitious Horror Debut Shows Promise
New horror film "Pretty" is good to look at thanks to 19-year-old director Metecan Duren.

A dementia patient finds herself at the center of a murder investigation, desperately trying to piece together scattered memories that may identify the killer - if she can trust what her mind tells her.
New horror film "Pretty" is good to look at thanks to 19-year-old director Metecan Duren.
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
'Selena: The Series' loses sight of the story's heart: Selena herself.
This coming-of-age movie discusses immigration issues in the United States through the eyes of two exchange students in Brazil.