This Czech interpretation of true crime succeeded. The subject was easy to choose because the Stodola couple became legends of criminology years ago. Director Petr Hátle relied on a pair of actors who are fairly new. Jan Hájek has directed plenty of average things, and Lucie Žáčková is also a much more prominent…

If viewers were to vote on the attractiveness of both previous seasons, the second season would easily win. Not for the quality of the scriptwriting, which is noticeably weaker, prone to issues, didacticism, and schematics, but for the attractiveness of the subject matter, which this time revolves around human…

L’histoire autobiographique d’un jeune Sorrentino ? Un beau film sur le passage à l’âge adulte et sur l’effet d’une terrible tragédie familiale sur l’adolescence d’un jeune homme. Dans la première moitié, même les querelles et les frictions entre les personnages sont allégées par un humour typiquement italien, et le…

Une aventure hollywoodienne bien ficelée, avec des personnages de singes bien construits grâce à un rendu numérique parfait de leurs expressions faciales. Et un scénario riche en rebondissements dans un cadre magnifique et varié. Ce n’est que vers la fin que certaines choses n’ont plus de sens, par rapport à la…

L’histoire de Furiosa et de sa vengeance annoncée, associée à un aperçu plus complet de la Citadelle, est plus riche sur le plan dramaturgique que la course-poursuite sans fin de Fury Road. Pourtant, le film n’est guère émouvant, même dans ses scènes les plus violentes ou dans ses allusions aux sentiments. Et surtout,…

Lee Carter, a textbook example of a school deviant played by the annoying Eustace from Narnia, together with the naive and somewhat limited Will Proudfoot, decided to make a film that should win a young filmmakers competition. Well, I've heard worse combinations! I like films where someone tries to make an amateur…

Dracula, the immortal monster classic starring the brilliant Bela Lugosi, whose mesmerising gaze and incredible charisma made the Transylvanian Count an unforgettable figure in horror cinema. I've seen very few Dracula films, only Nosferatu and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (which is actually a parody, but pretty…

Very similar to all the previous parts, especially the third. Once again, the Grim Reaper is sharpening its scythe on the unfortunate few who dared to bypass it, and all the seemingly rather random deaths of the survivors are tragic to the point of morbid. The whole film is really about Death being unable accept any…

The fifth installment of the horror series about a bloodthirsty reaper who can't stand any trickery perpetrated against it is actually better and more engaging than the previous three. It's not just about the killing of the survivors, but it also deals more with the issue of fate and how to reverse it. The bizarre…

Womb deals with the controversial topic of human cloning and the bond between mother and son, who is much more than her offspring. As far as the premise is concerned, apart from the somewhat flatter ending, I have absolutely nothing to fault. The cinematography is absolutely stunning, especially when the action shifts…