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…

A horror/crime movie that had the potential to be either a narratological treat (conversion of fiction into reality and vice versa) or the trash flick of the year (bloody killings, a woman in peril, a hard-drinking protagonist). It ultimately turns out to be an arduously mechanical pile of motifs from the works of…

This is war! Though the superheroes here are self-centred weirdos (like the Watchmen), they know what to do when the world needs them and they don’t spend a lot of time thinking it over (unlike Superman). The Nordic bruiser with a hammer and theatrical tendencies, the scientist who turns green from time to time, an…

As an appetizer for a Woody Allen film, this relationship comedy does not disappoint. Conscious of its actors’ abilities and the options provided by the budget, it doesn’t delve into grand existential issues, but it still could have achieved a better result in its lightweight category. In the introduction, we are…

From Weepies to Chick Flicks is an entirely clever product of pop-feminism. This is mainly due to Molly Haskell, who presents a condensed yet slightly expanded version of her influential book From Reverence to Rape. However, some of the statements by the actresses and female filmmakers drag the documentary down to the…

The history of post-war Czechoslovakia through the lens of gender. The Bed is a different kind of film, even at the cost of its own schizophrenia. Outwardly feminist, yet chauvinistic, belligerent and even apologetic at its core, it is a film in which a male viewer will find and lose himself in equal measure. Thanks…