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…
Reviews Movies of the Weeks #19 #20 #21 (2017) 30 May 201730 May 2017 To be honest, this isn't really about weeks #19 and #20. The only movies seen in that petty time frame were Alien Covenant (which, as a true fan, I even…
Reviews Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010): The Return of the GIFs 14 Mar 201720 Jun 2020 You know, people walk up to me on the street and ask: Tributary, why do you love the sappy, the immature, the stories of teenage wonderment? Is it because you…