spacetime coordinates: set and filmed in (2000’s) Bruges, Belgium
In Bruges is a 2008 black comedy crime film written and directed by Martin McDonagh in his feature-length debut. The film stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson as two Irish hitmen in hiding, with Ralph Fiennes as their enraged boss. OST by Carter Burwell. (wiki)
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“A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unravelling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.”
A Feel Bad Danish/Dutch thriller / horror-comedy (?) directed by Christian Tafdrup.
spacetime coordinates: 2020’s Mopani Reserve in South Africa
Beast is a 2022 American survival thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur. The film stars Idris Elba, Iyana Halley, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Sharlto Copley. Nate Daniels and his two teenage daughters visit a South African game reserve, and must fight to survive when they are stalked by a vicious rogue lion. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: present day Istanbul / London >> 10th century BC ancient Israel / kingdom of Saba, 16th – 17th century, mid-19th Century Ottoman Empire.
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed by George Miller and starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Miller wrote the screenplay with Augusta Gore, adapting the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt. Elba stars as a djinn who is freed by a professor (Swinton) and recounts his life to her. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2020’s Los Angeles
Emily the Criminal is a 2022 American crime drama film written and directed by John Patton Ford. It stars Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Gina Gershon. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: July 7, 2017, Wells Fargo Bank, Marietta, Georgia
Breaking (original title 892) is a 2022 American thriller drama film starring John Boyega as a Marine Corps veteran, Brian Brown-Easley. It is written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written by Kwame Kwei-Armah, based on the 2018 Task & Purpose article “They Didn’t Have to Kill Him” by Aaron Gell. The film also stars Nicole Beharie, Selenis Leyva, Connie Britton, Jeffrey Donovan, and Michael Kenneth Williams. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: 2010’s / 1990’s / 1610’s Castle Rock, Maine
Castle Rock is an American psychological horror streaming television series, featuring and inspired by characters, settings, and themes from the stories created by Stephen King and his fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. The series premiered on July 25, 2018, on Hulu. It was created by Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, and stars André Holland, Melanie Lynskey, Bill Skarsgård, Jane Levy, and Sissy Spacek in its first season. On August 14, 2018, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season starring Lizzy Caplan, Paul Sparks, Barkhad Abdi, Yusra Warsama, Elsie Fisher, Matthew Alan and Tim Robbins, which premiered on October 23, 2019.
In November 2020, Hulu canceled the series after two seasons. (wiki)
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