Reviews Aftersun (2022): holding memories in film 14 Nov 202215 Nov 2022 Living in a country that's not on the beaten path of the mainstream means that my chances of witnessing flashy movie premieres of global hits is an unlikely occurrence. Not…
Reviews Heikos Welt (2021) 15 Jul 2022 This was one of those rare occurrences of going into the cinema and just watching a movie you know nothing about and that movie actually proving to be a heck…
Reviews R.M.N. (2022) 9 Jun 20229 Jun 2022 It's been half a decade since Cristian Mungiu's previous film, the excellent Bacalaureat/Graduation, and there's a bit of its thematic DNA in his most recent work. The movie goes beyond…
Reviews Harry Potter 20th Anniversary 1 Jan 20224 Jan 2022 Has it really been 20 years? I remember the day my mother confiscated my keyboard, punishing me for one gaming excess or another. It was the day I first picked…
Reviews Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) 3 Dec 20218 Dec 2021 As a fan of any particular gaming franchise, you go into a movie adaptation with...no expectations. Resident Evil and Paul W.S. Anderson already put us through a series of sub-mediocre…
Reviews Schumacher (2021) 20 Sep 20218 Dec 2021 Netflix just released a documentary about F1 legend and hero-of-my-childhood Michael Schumacher. Created by the trio of Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns, Vanessa Nöcker and Michael Wech, it has been received with a…
Reviews Anelka: Misunderstood (2020) 6 Aug 20206 Aug 2020 I never followed Nicolas Anelka's career with a lot of attention, but he's the kind of player who was always on your radar if you cared about football during the…
Reviews The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018) 25 Jan 202020 Jun 2020 "I think the fact that he spelled his name with two "r"s was a warning that he would be complicated" (Kevin Nealon) I knew little of Garry Shandling before watching…
Reviews One and a Half Prince (2018): Review 8 Sep 2018 Incompleteness is an important theme to Ana Lungu's feature, a 'story' about three friends cohabiting with one another, featuring a selection of scenes from their lives. The ever so slight…
Reviews Review: Infinite Football (2018) 10 Mar 2018 Corneliu Porumboiu's most recent work is a 'documentary-essay' about - well, the human condition. The director likes to focus on the question of how one can be truly free within…
Reviews Planeta Petrila (2017): Oh, Petrila, My Sweet Chinchilla 21 Jul 201721 Jul 2017 Nobody can accuse Dascalescu's documentary of being without flair. I still recall, almost a decade ago, emerging from a forest road into Zlatna, a mining community some 200 km apart…
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