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an American anti-hero (Film: Black Mass – Johnny Depp, 2015)

Posted on October 4, 2015 by admin

The season for screening films with ambitions for Academy Awards must have started. Black Mass is directed by Scott Cooper – a relative newcomer (this is only his third film) but a rising star among directors at Hollywood if we … Continue reading →

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Aferim, Radu Jude! (Film: Aferim! – Radu Jude, 2015)

Posted on October 3, 2015 by admin

What critics and audiences call ‘the Romanian New Wave’ is not that new any longer. Already in its teens it has focused on the present times, and the recent past of Romania – the last decade of the Communist era … Continue reading →

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at crossroads in Mexico (Film: Eisenstein in Guanajuato – Peter Greenaway, 2015)

Posted on October 1, 2015 by admin

Peter Greenaway‘s career is beyond any ambitions of commercial success – his most successful (audience-wise) movies were made in the 80s. Even then the combination of colors and music, architecture (he is an architect by formation) and composition, his obsessions … Continue reading →

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enjoyable start-up melo (Film: The Intern – Robert De Niro, 2015)

Posted on September 29, 2015 by admin

Should I feel guilty? I really enjoyed this melodramatic, stereotype-rich, rose-water sprinkled feel-good movie which is ‘The Intern‘, directed by Nancy Meyers, and bringing to screen the improbable pair of actors composed of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. Now … Continue reading →

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the subject deserved a better movie (Film: Les femmes de l’ombre – Sophie Marceau, 2008)

Posted on September 27, 2015 by admin

Winning WWII was to a large extent the merit of women – many kept the economy and the households working, many other served in different tasks in the armed forces, and yes – a few fought in secret missions. Cinema … Continue reading →

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out-Bonding James Bond (Film: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – Tom Cruise, 2015)

Posted on September 26, 2015 by admin

I did not see any other blockbuster this summer, but I have the feeling that having seen the latest in the ‘Mission:Impossible’ series may have been sufficient for having seen the best. I confess that good action movies are one … Continue reading →

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a remake worth being made, but … (Film: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – Daniel Craig, 2011)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by admin

When I wrote about the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo a few years ago I ended with a remark that I am concerned about the news of an American Hollywood version of the film. I still … Continue reading →

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murders at the farmhouse (Film: Dark Places – Charlize Theron, 2015)

Posted on September 19, 2015 by admin

I was looking for the ‘inspired from a true story’ label in the credits or the information surrounding Dark Places but what I found instead was that it’s based on a book by Gillian Flynn, who also inspired Gone Girl … Continue reading →

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a hot tub comedy (Film: Hot Tub Time Machine – John Cusack, 2010)

Posted on September 17, 2015 by admin

Before I will be hit by the sequel which I hear is much worse than the original, here are my short impressions about this comedy with promising premises but quite a flat and dull execution. Since ‘Back in the Future’ … Continue reading →

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under the wing of Almodovar (Film: Relatos salvajes – Damián Szifrón, 2014)

Posted on August 15, 2015 by admin

‘Relatos salvajes’ (or ‘Wild Tales’ – the title under which the movie was distributed in the English-speaking space) was selected as one of the five candidates for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year of the Academy in 2015. It … Continue reading →

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