Month: July 2022

Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai has been one of the favorites of movie audiences and critics for decades, and that’s not surprising because he is the author of a recognizable, unique style. It’s a director …

Alan Arkin is perhaps best remembered for the roles he played already in serious, late roles. One such role, namely the role of the legendary grandfather in “Little Miss Sunshine”, brought him the only Oscar …

A rather shocking and poignant combination of drama and thriller comes to us from Germany, and the film, whose title sounds like the subtitles of some kind of soap opera, starts almost on the trail …

The novel “Lighter” was published by Stephen King in 1980, when he was probably at his creative peak (coincidentally or not, since the man stopped writing at the end of the eighties, his books have …

From the short description of the Dutch Oscar-nominated film, I thought that “Do Not Hesitate” might be a Middle Eastern variation on the theme of Walter Hill’s iconic “Southern Comfort”. The short description of the …

The most expensive Netflix movie of all time, an action thriller whose production cost 200 million dollars, turned out to be a generic action like we’ve probably seen a thousand times before. Brothers Anthony and …

A man can think that he has seen everything and anything in his life, but something even crazier and more extreme than anything he has seen so far always appears. Thus, in this completely incredible …

The Danish-Serbian actor Dejan Čukić is still best remembered for the cult crime comedy “In China They Eat Dogs”, and until watching this darkly humorous combination of thriller and drama, I had forgotten that the …

This make-up, costume drama takes us to Hong Kong on the eve of the beginning of World War II and the Japanese occupation. A girl, Ge Wilong, arrived there from Shanghai to study, and instead …

This emotional mix of family drama, coming of age and road movie showed that something can work even if you ride on clichés and make fun of something that we have already seen many times. …