Category Archives: movies

not just action (Film: Edge of Tomorrow – Tom Cruise, 2014)

Posted on August 15, 2017 by admin

A lot of film fans deplore or criticize Tom Cruise‘s latest choice of roles. They all seem to be focusing on action movies, with the 55 (!) years old actor cast in roles where the ration between fights, high-speed chases … Continue reading →

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magic fun (Film: Now You See Mee – Morgan Freeman, 2013)

Posted on August 13, 2017 by admin

I have somehow missed ‘Now You See Me‘, a very entertaining movie directed by Louis Leterrier when it was released four years ago. Luckily, it’s one of those movies that do not lose their appeal that fast, and then it’s … Continue reading →

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victims of war (Film: Frantz – Francois Ozon, 2016)

Posted on August 12, 2017 by admin

‘Frantz‘ is one of those films that follows you long after the screening is over. What I and maybe many other viewers of François Ozon‘s 2016 film  will remember years from now will be the silhouettes of the two principal … Continue reading →

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graphic novel on screen (Film: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For – Mickey Rourke, 2014)

Posted on August 11, 2017 by admin

There are films based on graphic novels (comics books) heroes and action stories and the genre is flourishing making happy studios and fans of all ages. And there are the ‘Sin City’ films which are graphic novels on screens.  ‘Sin … Continue reading →

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men at war (Film: Dunkirk, Christopher Nolan, 2017)

Posted on August 10, 2017 by admin

I fail to join the chorus of praise from critics and many film fans for Dunkirk. I came with big expectation to this film, not only because I read the critics, but also because Christopher Nolan is a director whose … Continue reading →

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the enemy is not what we believed (Film: The Beguiled – Nicole Kidman, 2017)

Posted on August 8, 2017 by admin

Director Sofia Coppola has built a name of herself clearly distinct from the one of her illustrious father by describing the world of women, their fears and tragedies, their anxieties and ambiguities, their relation with the world of men and … Continue reading →

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Holocaust – the story of the people who helped (Film: The Zookeeper’s Wife – Jessica Chastain, 2017)

Posted on August 7, 2017 by admin

It’s not easy to make a good fiction movie about the Holocaust. The story was told many times from different perspectives, it has a well known ending and a definite set of tragic victims and of evil characters. Although the … Continue reading →

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summer entertainment (Film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – Luc Besson, 2017)

Posted on August 4, 2017 by admin

The first two minutes of Luc Besson‘s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are one of the funniest introductions that I have seen on the big screen in the last few years. After the next 15 minutes I … Continue reading →

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old school cinema (Film: Obsession – Brian De Palma, 1976)

Posted on August 1, 2017 by admin

They do not make films like this one any longer. Usually this sentence when found in the review of a movie is supposed to be appreciative. Not in the case of Brian De Palma‘s Obsession. The film is made in … Continue reading →

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La Grande Nostalgie (Film: La Grande Vadrouille – Louis de Funes, Bourvil, 1966)

Posted on July 29, 2017 by admin

Comedies age. All things age actually, films included, comedies included. Seeing 50 years later a film that you remember having laughed at until falling under the chair (this is a Romanian expression, I hope it’s clear what it means) is … Continue reading →

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