The first episode with the series' Julia Pennyworth. Casting Christina Wolfe was a classic whitewashing drama because in the comics she's the dark-skinned daughter of Batman's butler Alfred and Mademoiselle Marie (but only since 2014). Originally, everyone was white, and Julia started as Julia Remarque, whose…

A film that offers some impressive moments, but as a whole it mostly skims the surface. It deals with a few key themes, but it is mostly too thesis-like and one-dimensional. A raging America where we get no introduction and a miserable, rushed conclusion. Jesse Plemons steals for himself what is undoubtedly the film's…

It’s too colourful, too CGI-laden, and Jennifer Lopez runs around with her big ass at the beginning and admits in one of the dialogues that she has wrinkles and covers her grey hair because nobody gets younger, and for that she gets my nod because her Botox colleagues in the industry probably see it differently. You…

The 61st Disney feature film is a modern blend of classic adventure stories from the Earth's core. The family dynamics are reminiscent of Indiana Jones, but one can practically recall anything from Verne's works to Narnia or Pellucidar. In the context of Disney films, the theme continues from Atlantis: The Lost Empire…

An extraordinarily gentle, quiet and slow film with a pure melancholic soul. It starts out as a profile of overpopulated, rain-soaked Mumbai with a look into the lives of two friends living there and later shifts to a calmer, quieter place. As the debut fictional film of an experienced documentary filmmaker, All We…

Unfortunately, Maniac Cop is a case of concept winning out over content. Or perhaps I just made a mistake in letting the film’s hype build up for too long. When the whole series was released on VHS in the nineties, the Video Plus website was decorated with attractive photos of ruthless, zombified cops, which burrowed…

Though it can be assumed that the success of Drive was the impetus for Motorway, the latter is in no way just a typical Hong Kong copy of a successful foreign film, the likes of which were churned out by the dozen in the 1980s and ’90s. The new film produced by Johnnie To and directed by his protégé Pou-Soi Cheang is…

Kira at Night is a bizarre and unintentionally funny attempt by a leading craftsmen of the American mainstream porn industry to make an art-porn film. Instead of a typical linear narrative based on any of the usual porn plots, the film offers up a would-be mysterious psychological spiral, where the lead actress, Kira…

The first surprising thing about Gargoyles is the fact that it is a product of the Walt Disney studio.  With its dark atmosphere, adult characters that undergo development within the series, extended stories covering several episodes and motifs referring to Shakespeare’s dramas, this animated action series is an…

Thanks to the proliferation of genre-oriented festivals in the new millennium, a trend has arisen involving films whose main strength consists in imaginatively combining various formulas and genre templates. Though these films and their makers often appear to be innovative and progressive, they are essentially just…