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…

Would it be possible next time to make a better world without glycerine tears, curt behaviour of the characters (which the screenwriter “assigns” or temporarily “withdraws” based solely on which extreme emotion is needed on the screen at the moment), mechanically accurate timing of dramatic situations (an explosion, a…

They were away for a long time and now they’ve come back. To a world that has lost interest in them. Scarecrow is a slow, conventionally directed drama, of the kind that was made in the late 1960s and early ’70s, when Hollywood began to take interest in actual events happening “out there” (e.g. The Rain People,…

Hollywood is a place of endless possibilities and the most bizarre encounters. Cowboys & Aliens didn’t do so well, so why not throw “Mannequins and White Monkeys” at viewers… A major positive of this remake of Turkish Star Wars is that it is capable of self-irony in its embryonic state. The jokes at the film’s own…

Though it is set in Paris, The Bohemian Life is an excellent demonstration of the characteristic creative signature of a leading Finnish director. A mournful atmosphere. Long black-and-white and predominantly static shots in which there is not a single object too many. Silences, fade-outs and flashes of humour here…

From a practical standpoint, there is perhaps no better option than marooning in the middle of the desert a bunch of sweaty guys who understand technology; from a non-practical, and of course more pleasant standpoint, I would prefer a different sort of people, i.e. women, for whom there was no room aboard the Phoenix …