Category: Movie

“The Woman King” turned out to be another (quasi)historical epic spectacle that we have actually seen countless times. As a generic action spectacle set in some historical period, written according to the formula of “Braveheart”, …

Amaia (Laia Costa, who is still best remembered for her starring role in the iconic German crime film “Victoria”) has just given birth, but she doesn’t seem very happy. Although both she and her partner …

Ali Abbasi is an Iranian who arrived in Sweden from Tehran in the early 2000s to study. After graduating in architecture in Stockholm, he became interested in film and then graduated from the film academy …

After several years of delay, I finally watched the Israeli series that served as inspiration for the American series “Homeland” and in the end I was quite disappointed. The series, which starts off great, as …

Nine years after the successful “Philomena”, the legendary British director Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons, The Shop of Dreams, The Queen) and the screenwriting tandem Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope joined forces again. Again, Coogan and …

Steven Spielberg is the latest in a series of authors who decided to reach into their own childhood and youth and film a coming-of-age drama with autobiographical elements. This prompted Spielberg, after more than two …

Mel Brooks is one of America’s greatest comedians and the man who probably best understood comedy since the silent film era. He became famous with farces and parodies, and he is one of the few …

  Along with Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu is probably the greatest and most important Japanese filmmaker of all time. And while his slightly younger colleague Kurosawa (1910-1998) was mostly more interested in history and is …

Nana Mensah is another in a series of not too well-known actresses who decided to try their luck in scriptwriting and directing. In this humorous drama, in which she played the main role, she presented …

The Spaniards have long practiced shooting supernatural thrillers, and one of the solid offshoots of that subgenre was shot by debutant Ignacio Tatay. He also wrote the screenplay for “Jaula” or “The Chalk Line” together …