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 …
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HUSTLE (2022, USA) Movie review, plot, trailer, rating
Adam Sandler is one of the actors who annoyed me for a long, long time and I couldn’t watch those silly comedies of his that he filmed in his younger days. But in The Safdie …
Continue readingALI & AVA (2021, GBR) – 6.5 / 10
English filmmaker Clio Barnard with this romantic drama seems to have decided to go the way of her older and much more famous compatriot Ken Loach. Almost so, “Ali and Ava” is a typical …
Continue readingTHE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE (2020, UKR)
It was this observational documentary Irine Cilik whose plot is located in the Ukrainian region of Donbass one of the most awarded European documentaries in the year it started distribution. “The Earth is Blue as …
Continue readingMAMA (2020, CHN) – 6.5 / 10
It can often be observed that the authors of documentaries in the first films they make choose the Ich form and make personal films either about themselves or about their family members. It often happens …
Continue readingDELICIOUS (2021, FRA) – 7/10
Without a restaurant, it would probably be hard for us to imagine life today, and this charming French humorous drama that takes us back to the time just before the French Revolution, tells the story …
Continue readingASAKUSA KID (2021, JPN) – 6.5 / 10
I would certainly have bypassed this film if I hadn’t noticed at the last minute that this is actually a biographical drama about the legendary Japanese comedian, actor, screenwriter and director Takeshi Kitan, also known …
Continue readingTHE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT (2022, USA) – 7/10
Nicolas Cage definitely belongs to the narrow circle of the most controversial actors of our time. After winning an Oscar in the mid-1990s for his role as a suicide drunkard in “Leaving Las Vegas,” …
Continue readingWE OWN THIS CITY (2022, USA) Movie review, plot, trailer
Exactly 14 years after “The Wire” ended, the creator of the series, considered by many to be one of the best of all time, David Simon, has returned to the crime scene. In Baltimore, where …
Continue readingTWIN SISTERS (2002, NLD) Movie review, plot, trailer, rating
After the death of her mother in 1926, six-year-old twins born in Germany, Lotte and Anna separated. They belonged to further relatives, and fate played out so that the sickly, tuberculous Lotte ended up with …
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