Justified: City Primeval (2023)

15 years later, Raylan's vacation with his teenage daughter is interrupted by local events that require his attention.

'Justified: City Primeval' is an event season that resumes the story of Raylan Givens, 15 years later than we last saw him in the last season of Justified, and introduces a more modern, complex and rapidly developing context. And so Boyd Holbrook enters the scene in an intriguing and nuanced role, not qite as nuanced as everyone's favorite antagonist (Boyd Crowder), but a close attempt. However, the rest of the context loses a bit of its weight, plausibility and authenticity. Just enough. A shame, but still worth watching.

Director:  Michael Dinner and others   

Production:  FX   

Creator:  Dave Andron, Michael Dinner   

Duration:  1 special season of 8 episodes (48 minutes each)   

With: Timothy Olyphant, Boyd Holbrook, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Marin Ireland, Vivian Olyphant, Terry Kinney

Rating: 7/10

The Night House (2020)

Beth is a recent widow looking for answers about her partner's death, an experience full of unusual experiences and worrying discoveries.

'The Night House' is a horror film with accents of drama and investigative film. Rebecca Hall and the hallucinatory mystery of the circumstances manage to raise the quality from a simple horror to that of a well-made film that deserves all the attention. The main actress (with some directorial intervention of course) manages to dazzle us with feelings that fill the viewer with doubts about the truth of the actions and information that's revealed, in a way that fascinates, keeps the audience in perpetual suspense and finally shocks them with the truths's suddenness.

Director:  David Bruckner      

With: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit

Rating: 9/10