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The Impossible Escape (Film: The Next Three Days – Russell Crowe, 2010)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin

I had many reasons to be unhappy with this film, yet I ended by being reasonably satisfied with my action movie selection. So what makes The Next Three Days work? It starts as a happy_family_meets_hell film (when the beautiful wife … Continue reading →

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The Risks of Good Education (Film: Kynodontas – Greece, 2009)

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

Director Giorgio Lantimos‘ film Dogtooth (Kynodontas) is an anti-utopia. It imagines a world that does not exist, with rules and conventions so different from the ones of the society we live in that some of its aspects are shocking. A … Continue reading →

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Stretching to the Limit (Film: Limitless, 2011)

Posted on May 7, 2012 by admin

One of the latest films I saw before ‘Limitless’ was ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’. The two share at least one line in which the supernatural capabilities of the hero are explained by his making used of 100% of his brain capabilities, … Continue reading →

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Mission Accomplished, the Oscar (Film: The Iron Lady – Meryl Streep, 2011)

Posted on May 6, 2012 by admin

If the goal of The Iron Lady was to get another statuette for Meryl Streep, the mission was accomplished. Streep receives a generous part which takes former British PM Margaret Thatcher from her early days in the Commons to the … Continue reading →

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An Accomplished Musician – Emil Aybinder

Posted on May 4, 2012 by admin

I had the privilege to hear last night a musician that I knew nothing before. I actually came to listen to Israeli percussionist Chen Zimbalista in a program of Gypsy Music, part of a series of World Music which runs … Continue reading →

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TV series – Rubicon (2010)

Posted on April 29, 2012 by admin

I like detective or spy stories, but only those with soul and brains, and unfortunately there are not too many. I do not like conspiracy theories but I recognize that they make great thriller and action movies stuff – X-Files … Continue reading →

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Film: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Nicholas Cage, 2010)

Posted on April 28, 2012 by admin

‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ is designed on a very clear and often used formula of the Disney family movie with special effects, and it holds no surprises – in any case neither too bad, nor too good ones. A murky magicians … Continue reading →

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Carte: Alexandru Petria – Deania neagra

Posted on April 27, 2012 by admin

Pentru cinefilul din mine volumul de schite al lui Alexandru Petria ‘Denia neagra’ aparut la editura Herg Benet in 2011 se asociaza imediat cu cele doua colectii de filme scurte adunate de Cristian Mungiu sub titlul ‘Amintiri din epoca de … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday, Israel!

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin

  These are maybe the most Israeli two days in the year. Memorial Day – the day we remember the soldiers fallen in the wars of Israel and the victims of the terror attacks against Israel precedes the celebration of … Continue reading →

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TV: HaMeuheded (Special Unit)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by admin

‘HaMeyuheded’ (The Special, or The Special Unit) is a half-baked tentative of the Israeli TV industry to create a high quality crime drama, a genre which is extremely popular in Israel on the cable and satellite TV thanks to imports … Continue reading →

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