Author: Felix

  I remembered the Kazakh filmmaker Adilkan Yerzhanov after the previous film, the black-humored absurdist crime “A Dark, Dark Man”. That film impressed me so much that I included it in the list of the …

Still, British Steve McQueen’s “12 Years of Slavery” is probably the best film about the American slaveholding system ever made. Perhaps not so much shocking, as we’ve seen it all before, as a poignant, emotional, …

    We still remember the Palestinian Hanya Abu-Assad for better films than “Huda’s Salon”. As many as two of his films (Paradise Now and Omar) have been nominated for Oscars, but unfortunately Abu-Assad has …

Religious fundamentalism can often grow into something very unhealthy, but also extremely dangerous. There are many examples of this, let’s just remember one fresh one ISILbut other religions, primarily Christianity, have not been deprived of …

We also learned what “The French Connection” works in the legendary action crime crime novel by William Friedkin in 1971 with Gene Hackman in the lead role. according to actual events. The French connection was …

Arthur Bretnik (Aaron Eckhart) is a mentally unstable conspiracy theorist and private investigator with a traumatic past. Apparently Arthur has gone astray after his daughter was killed in a car accident and his wife ended …

This humorous crime drama still enjoys cult status in Turkey today, and “Eskiya” or “Bandit” was one of the most watched domestic films in Turkish cinemas in the 1990s. It is not one of those …

Legendary American actor Burt Lancaster earned the only Oscar (out of four nominations) for Best Actor for his role as a traveling salesman and tramp, both a sweet-spoken and resourceful con man who will become …

Today we know very well that in addition to the battlefield, wars are fought in the dark. Somewhere deep in the darkness, these “invisible wars” are being fought, that is, battles in which intelligence services …

The Spaniard Paco Plaza, together with his colleague Jaume Balaguero, presented himself with the successful zombie trilogy “REC”, after which their paths diverged. However, both have in common that they still (mostly) stick to horror …