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Netflix's The Haunting Of Hill House  is a 2018 drama series, the first season of the horror anthology series known as The Haunting. Created by Mike Flanagan, it stars Michael Huisman, Carla Gugino, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Victoria Pedretti. It centers on the Crain family: parents Hugh (Henry Thomas) and Olivia (Gugino), and the children Steven (Huisman), Shirley (Reaser), Theo (Siegel), Luke (Jackson-Cohen), and Nell (Pedretti). The story jumps between two time periods, the present, and when the children were young. Most episodes give particular focus to a member of the family, and various little hints planted in the early episodes only become important and relevant later on. The plot focuses on how the family deals with the horrors in their lives, both the memories of the terrifying events in their childhood in the House and how their childhood experiences and the resulting trauma drove them to various unhealthy behaviors and coping mechanism...

The 2018 Netflix series The Haunting Of Hill House , created by Mike Flanagan of Hush and Oculus fame, was a massive success, garnering much critical acclaim for being not just a great horror series, but a great family psychological drama, focusing on themes of loss, family and growth. It starred Henry Thomas, Carla Gugino (also in Gerald's Game , a film directed by Mike Flanagan), Kate Siegel (Mike Flanagan's wife and the lead in Hush ), Michael Huisman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and then-newcomer Victoria Pedretti. The performances and the writing were excellent, the scares were brilliant and chilling, the score was magnificent, and everyone (horror fan or not) should give it a watch. It's honestly superb. Its success was so great that the series was then made into an anthology series known as The Haunting , with each season having little to do with each other aside from sharing cast members. The stories would have no connection at all. Hill House was a great self-containe...

Tenet is an action science-fiction thriller, the latest film directed by acclaimed director Christopher Nolan. It stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, and Kenneth Branagh. Nolan staple actor Michael Caine also shows up briefly in a small but delightfully witty role. The film centers on an unnamed CIA agent (played to cold perfection by Washington) who is recruited into a secret organization to help stop an upcoming apocalyptic event. This seems like typical action-thriller fare, but leave it up to Christopher Nolan to add in a mind-numbing caveat: time inversion. It turns out that a villainous businessman (played by Branagh) has obtained bullets and items that travel backwards through time, and is attempting to assemble a weapon that could destroy the past, and the protagonist must stop him, with the help of fellow agent Neil (played by a very suave Pattinson). Over the course of the film, we see various events from different perspectives, ...