Category Archives: movies

the end of capitalism? (Film: The Big Short – Adam McKay, 2015)

Posted on June 4, 2016 by admin

Was Karl Marx right with his critics and analysis about the capitalist system, its crisis, and inequalities? The question must have crossed the minds of many people faced with the periodic failures of the world economy and financial systems in … Continue reading →

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undecided movie about an undecided pope (Habemus Papam – Nanni Moretti, 2011)

Posted on May 15, 2016 by admin

Papacy and its institutions have attracted film makers in many different ways. The Vatican or its clones have been used as sets and stage for many movies in genres ranging from historical movies to crazy comedies. Nanni Moretti‘s Habemus Papam … Continue reading →

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sleepy (Film: Somnul insulei – Mircea Veroiu, 1994)

Posted on May 11, 2016 by admin

‘Somnul insulei’ (‘The Sleep of the Island’) is a film that looks today quite tired. Sleepy and tired. It is to some extent a combination of the time it talks about (the Communist dictatorship period) and the time it was … Continue reading →

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Requiem for True Journalism (Film: Spotlight – Tom McCarthy, 2015)

Posted on May 7, 2016 by admin

Director Tom McCarthy authored a very interesting first film in 2003 (The Station Agent) and then his career seemed to go adrift into ‘OK movies’. Now he hits gold with Spotlight which does not differ much in directing style from … Continue reading →

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a cynical exercise in evil (Film: The Hateful Eight – Quentin Tarantino, 2015)

Posted on February 14, 2016 by admin

The movies fans word is divided in two – those who love Quentin Tarantino’s work and those who hate it. There is almost nothing left out, if you have seen a film by Tarantino you either liked it immensely, or … Continue reading →

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the borders of the country of law (Film: Sicario – Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, 2015)

Posted on January 30, 2016 by admin

If you really need to put genre tags or labels on movies, ‘Sicario’ would belong to the ‘psychological thriller’, ‘violent drug action’, ‘Mexican border’ categories. While each of these naming would have its dose of justification, ‘Sicario’ succeeds to be … Continue reading →

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smart and sad, apparently simple (Film: Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, 2015)

Posted on January 15, 2016 by admin

I expect something different, something smart, something deep, each time I am seeing a film written or (lately) directed by Charlie Kaufman. Many of his films are not one-time experiences, the second or later viewing brings new understanding and discovers … Continue reading →

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Jobs as father (film: Steve Jobs – Michael Fassbender, 2015)

Posted on January 11, 2016 by admin

The second film in the mini-festival of Steve Jobs movies that I enjoyed last Friday was also the better one. Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, Sunshine, and Slumdog Millionaire may have hit gold again, as his Steve Jobs started … Continue reading →

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what would have Jobs thought? (Film: ‘Jobs’ – Ashton Kutcher, 2013)

Posted on January 10, 2016 by admin

The entrepreneur is one of the incarnation of the new American Hero in movies, and it is not surprising that the people who made the Personal Computer and the Internet part of the basic fabric of our lives, and turned … Continue reading →

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love in times of war (Film: Suite francaise – Michelle Williams, 2014)

Posted on December 30, 2015 by admin

The life and death of Irène Némirovsky and the fate of the cycle of novels that inspired ‘Suite francaise‘ could be the subject of a thrilling movie, a different one. Born in 1903 in an Ukrainian Jewish family, she took … Continue reading →

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