Ryan Hogan
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Ryan Hogan
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· Mar 27
The Severance Season 2 Finale: Cognitive Dissonance in Mystery Television
*Spoilers ahead*
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Have been writing a few film/TV pieces lately so thought I'd collect them in a Substack. First one up is on the Severance S2 finale and mystery television, couple more pieces to come this week open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
New piece on Substack today about Mike Leigh’s treatment of time (with HARD TRUTHS as a jumping-off point): open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
Mike Leigh's Moment of Truth
Hard Truths marks Mike Leigh’s long-awaited return to his natural habitat of the contemporary suburb - and also his return to entirely from-scratch material since 2010’s Another Year, without historic...
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March 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New piece on Substack today about Mike Leigh’s treatment of time (with HARD TRUTHS as a jumping-off point): open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
Short review of FLOW (worth seeing and still out in cinemas) on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
Flow (2025) - Review
Set in an ambiguously located post-human world, this adventurous animation from Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis resembles a riff on Noah’s Ark, as a rag-tag group of critters (cat, dog, capybara, l...
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March 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Short review of FLOW (worth seeing and still out in cinemas) on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
Have been writing a few film/TV pieces lately so thought I'd collect them in a Substack. First one up is on the Severance S2 finale and mystery television, couple more pieces to come this week open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
The Severance Season 2 Finale: Cognitive Dissonance in Mystery Television
*Spoilers ahead*
open.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Have been writing a few film/TV pieces lately so thought I'd collect them in a Substack. First one up is on the Severance S2 finale and mystery television, couple more pieces to come this week open.substack.com/pub/ryanhoga...
Sorry, but this is false advertising
February 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sorry, but this is false advertising
Okay, I'll bite. I feel like I haven't seen much this year, but here are ten new releases I loved:
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT
HOARD
I SAW THE TV GLOW
THE BEAST
LA CHIMERA
RED ROOMS
REBEL RIDGE
SHOWING UP
JANET PLANET
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT
HOARD
I SAW THE TV GLOW
THE BEAST
LA CHIMERA
RED ROOMS
REBEL RIDGE
SHOWING UP
JANET PLANET
December 31, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Okay, I'll bite. I feel like I haven't seen much this year, but here are ten new releases I loved:
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT
HOARD
I SAW THE TV GLOW
THE BEAST
LA CHIMERA
RED ROOMS
REBEL RIDGE
SHOWING UP
JANET PLANET
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST
CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER'S POINT
HOARD
I SAW THE TV GLOW
THE BEAST
LA CHIMERA
RED ROOMS
REBEL RIDGE
SHOWING UP
JANET PLANET
Reposted by Ryan Hogan
"Set over three years and with a cast of dozens of deftly drawn characters, FANNY AND ALEXANDER is overflowing, generously humane and discursive, combining novelistic scope with theatrical intensity, run through with biblical allegory and Shakespearean allusion."
The Little World | Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Compared with the constrained, masterly chamber dramas which dominated Ingmar Bergman's earlier output, Fanny and Alexander is a cornucopia.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:58 AM
"Set over three years and with a cast of dozens of deftly drawn characters, FANNY AND ALEXANDER is overflowing, generously humane and discursive, combining novelistic scope with theatrical intensity, run through with biblical allegory and Shakespearean allusion."