Category Archives: movies

worst is good (Film: The Disaster Artist – James Franco, 2017)

Posted on January 29, 2018 by admin

Hollywood loves more than anything else to make films about Hollywood. There may be some trivial economic reasons for this, films about films taking place mostly in film studios are easy to make in film studios. There is a more … Continue reading →

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halucinating and dystopian view (Film: Abluka – Emin Alper, 2015)

Posted on January 28, 2018 by admin

Some of the best film achievements have come and will come from places which are under social and political pressure and are being created by film directors who are deeply involved in the life of their countries and have both … Continue reading →

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Godard – father of inventions (Film: Vivre sa vie – Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)

Posted on January 26, 2018 by admin

I usually try to form my opinion about films based on how entertaining or interesting or enriching or none of these I felt that they were during the time spent watching them. Only afterwards I try to understand why I … Continue reading →

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classic and timeless (film: Gloria – John Cassavetes, 1980)

Posted on January 25, 2018 by admin

Good movies are timeless. Or they feel so. Sometimes this is because their subject is universal and it does not really matter what epoch the action is set in. In some other cases the quality of the story and of … Continue reading →

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life and anger in deep America (film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, 2017)

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri‘ is positioning itself as the main favorite of the Academy Awards season, and if it will win some of the statuettes in the major categories it will be by merit. It is quite interesting that … Continue reading →

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broken city, messy movie (Film: Broken City – Mark Wahlberg, 2013)

Posted on January 21, 2018 by admin

Sometimes telling the idea or describing the synopsis of the film is much clearer than the feeling that we had while viewing it. This is exactly my feeling about Broken City, a political thriller taking place in the days between … Continue reading →

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the boring life of ghosts (Film: A Ghost Story – Casey Affleck, 2017)

Posted on January 16, 2018 by admin

I am seldom asking such questions, but now I need to ask it. ‘Why did they do this film?’. Seriously. A film may made because the director or the script writer have one or more messages to transmit. In some … Continue reading →

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good old film making about good old journalism (Film: The Post – Steven Spielberg, 2017)

Posted on January 15, 2018 by admin

Movies about the late 60s or early 70s become more and more epoch films. They describe a time when dollars were kept in boxes to be used by kids ten or fifteen years later and still have some value, when … Continue reading →

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the right to forgive (Film: The Railway Man – Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, 2013)

Posted on January 11, 2018 by admin

Can the unforgivable be forgiven? What is the right attitude towards perpetrators and collaborators of crimes of war, genocide and torture? Does time really heal? Is revenge the right answer? Is forgiveness possible and who has the right to forgive? … Continue reading →

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Poirot is Back (Film: Murder on the Orient Express – Kenneth Branagh, 2017)

Posted on January 10, 2018 by admin

It’s not easy to adapt Agatha Christie to screen in 2017, and it is even more difficult to take upon ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ which already had a fabulous and stars-blessed version made in 1974 by Sidney Lumet. The … Continue reading →

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