So Here's What Happened

For this episode of So Here's What Happened! Podcast reviews of what to read and watch, Carolyn and LaNeysha chat about their favorite reads and watches, and not so favorite watches (*ahem* Morbius), of March.LaNeysha's PicksBooks: Lupin The 3rd : Castle of Cagliostro, The - Complete Storyboards by Hayao Miyazaki Studio Ghibli TankobonTV : Kotatro Lives Alone (Netflix)Movie: MorbiusCarolyn's PicksBooks: DC's Nubia & The Amazons by Stephanie Williams, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, Dark Blood comic by LaToya MorganTV : Pachinko (AppleTV+), Bel-Air (Peacock)Movie : SpiritwalkerFollow the SHWH Pod hosts on Twitter and Instagram at @NeyshaPlays, and @Carriecnh12

In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with director and writer Valerio Zanoli, about his film NOT TO FORGET, about the challenges caretakers face when taking care of a loved one living with dementia. It stars Karen Grassle, Kevin Hardesty, Olympia Dukakis and Cloris Leechman in her last film role.NOT TO FORGET is available for streaming on AppleTV+, Amazon PrimeVideo and other platforms.

Written and directed by Nyla Innuksuk, and set in the small arctic coastal town of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Slash/Back which premiered at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, is a multi-genre coming of age action feature showing how one's connection to culture and homeland can give a person the strength to fight back against invaders.In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with Nyla and actresses Tasiana Shirley and Nalajoss Ellsworth about how their Inuit heritage, culture and identities helped inform them as creatives, and how the film itself inspired and encouraged them to embrace their roots.

Carolyn and Neysha are back for another year of So Here's What Happened! To begin their recaps for 2022 they get into their some of the shows they've seen like the latest Korean Zombie drama All of Us Are Dead, books and Wetoons read, and for Carolyn some of the films she saw and creatives she interviewed during her coverage of the Sundance Film Festival.Below is the list of all content mentioned throughout the episode.Films:Carolyn's picks: Nanny written and directed by Nikyatu Jusu, and After Yang, written and directed by Kogonada. Both films showed at Sundance.Neysha's pick: The 2021 Disney animated film Encanto, Co-directed and written by Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Charise Castro Smith.Books:Carolyn's picks: The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-WeinsteinKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-jooNeysha's pick: Archie Comics: Big Ethel Energy by Keryl Brown Ahmed and Sioban.TV Shows:Neysha's pick: Netflix produced Korean thriller All of Us Are Dead, directed by Lee Jae-kyu and Kim Nam-soo, with adapted screenplay by Chun Sung-il, based on the webcomic by Joo Dong-geun.Carolyn's Picks: K-dramas The Ghost Doctor, Bad and Crazy, C-drama Why Women Love, Hong Kong drama The Line Watchers and the Japanese live-action adaptation of the manga Kei x Yaku. For these shows Carolyn doesn't give full reviews, but just mentions them as her January/early February watched.Follow Carolyn and Neysha on Twitter and Instagram at: @CarrieCnh12, and @NeyshaPlays

Believing he has no other recourse than to take action to obtain the money he's owed, Brian Easley a veteran of the U.S. Marines walks into a bank, passes a note saying he has a bomb to the teller, and there begins a day that many will never forget, and many more never even knew of. In this episode of Carolyn Talks..., I discuss the film 892 with Valerie Complex, film critic and associate editor at Deadline.Directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written with Kwame Kwei-Armah 892, is the dramatic feature film based on this fateful day in 2017. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance film Festival, and stars John Boyega as Easley, Nichole Beharie, Selinis Leyva and Michael K. Williams as the people bank staff and hostage negotiator who try to get through to Brain in order to prevent him from making a decision he could never come back from.In our discussion Valerie, who her self is also a veteran of the ARMY, shares her own personal perspective on 892, experiences dealing with the Office of Veterans Affairs, and the way the system fails people once it no longer needs them.

In this episode of Carolyn Talk..., I speak with award winning director Ryoo Sung-Wan about his 2021 film Escape From Mogadishu, about the harrowing escape of South and North Korean diplomats from the city of Mogadishu at the beginning of the Somalian civil war in 1991.Co-written with Lee Ki-cheol Escape from Mogadishu is based on the book "Escape' by Kang Shin-sung, who was a diplomat for the South Korean Ambassador to Somalia at the time, and was there during the actual escape. In the film the two groups of diplomats come to an uneasy alliance as they're forced to take shelter together. But as they spend more time they realize there are more similarities between them as a people, than there are differences.Director Ryoo Seung-wan has enjoyed critical acclaim for the film and multiple awards with the Blue Dragon Film Awards since it's release at multiple festival screenings including the New York Asian Film Festival where I saw it, and Fantasia Fest. The film stars veteran Korean performers such as Zo In-sung, Kim Yoon-seok, Heo Joon-ho, Park Kyung-hye, and Park Myung-shin.Escape from Mogadishu was released on Blu-ray by Well Go USA, January 18th, 2022.

In this new episode of Carolyn Talks..., I speak with Savita Singh, writer, director and cinematographer about her new short film Shadow Bird (Sonsi).Starring veteran Indian actor Jameel Khan as The Timekeeper, Shadow Bird is a surrealist story about Nadi (Arohi Radhakrishnan), a little girl a who becomes enamored with a mysterious bird in a mystical and mythical Indian village where time flows differently.To learn more about Savita and her work visit https://www.sharkpartymedia.com/shado...Follow me on Twitter and Instagram at: @CarrieCnh12.My hashtags: #DramasWithCarrie #SaturdayNightSciFi

December Episode of So Here’s What Happened! picks up withLaNeysha and Carolyndiscussing andreview everything they watched and read during the month. The December episode of the podcast features include BooksThe Iron Widow by Xiran Jay ZhaoThe Walking Cat: A Cat's-Eye-View of the Zombie Apocalypse by Tomo KitaokaShowsNetflix's Original Anime Komi Can't Communicate Korean dramas Hellbound (Netflix) and HappinessFilmsSpider-Man: No Way HomeThe Tragedy of Macbeth

Following its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival fellow film critic Emily Tannenbaum, joined me for this episode of Carolyn Talks..., to discuss Mass, a film that asks and in a sense answers the question of how do you have the most difficult conversation of your life with the people who possibly hate you the most?Written and directed by Fran Kranz, Mass is an emotionally intense and at times heartrending film centered around four parents having the most difficult conversation of their life, as they grapple with the why and how of a devastating tragedy that strikes their families. Taking place over the course of one day, set in the conference room of a nondescript protestant in a small suburban American town where Linda (Ann Down), Gail (Martha Plimpton), and their husbands Jay (Jason Issacs) and Richard (Reed Birney) are brought together by a mediator for the couples to find some sort of understanding about the grief, anger and confusion they're each dealing with.With just each other to react to and the minimum of props to provide a distraction the cast give extremely impressive performances as their characters go through the ebb and flow of the intense emotions their characters experience in a conversation that seems to go no where. But it's in this apparent cycle that you realize that somethings have no rational explanation. That there will never be satisfactory answers when the lives of children are taken in an instant. That grief is a constant when tragedy is sudden and devastating. With his direction and script Kranz brilliantly shows that life is unpredictable and humanity is fragile, and in order to cherish the memories we have to have to learn how to let go, even when we don't want to.Mass was released in theatres on on October 8, 2021.