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The Trials of Vera B. feels and functions exactly like the Czech series Burning Bush. It's a great essay from recent history with very fine performances and believable sets. The main character is real and the story of her life is very animated. There's nothing to fault here, and we also have the excellent Hans Werner Meyer in various supporting roles, the beautiful Katja Flint, and Irina Wanka in a spicy episode.

Another great slapstick from the Pat and Patachon cycle, in which we can admire the charms of dancer Greta Nissen. This time the action takes place backstage at the theater. The gags are very good, and, for example, the depiction of the dream in which Pat and Patachon become skeletons. The overall atmosphere is lovely, especially when the two comedians enjoy Greta's performance, later say goodbye to her, and return alone again to the arms of bathing beauties that even Hal Roach would envy.

A delightful slapstick from the Pat and Patachon series about how they dazzled Danish bathing beauties and helped one of them find marital happiness. While Pat is an eloquent comedian, Patachon is an innocent good man with a stocky body. Nothing but success can be expected from these two if they decide to save the beautiful maiden from a marriage arranged by her stubborn mother.

The first hour is excruciating, but when the chaos shifts to Hawaii and Nicole Kidman appears, it all starts to make sense, the jokes suddenly become funny and the useless characters become marginal. If you can stand the hula hula competition, believe me, you won't know where to look, because you'd be surprised to know that Nicole and Jennifer Aniston are more attractive than ever and the presence of some awkward Sports Illustrated cover beauty in a small role really can't mess them up. Go Girls.

When the cosmopolitan poster appeared in the summer months, the only question of uncertainty was whether the proclaimed faces could withstand such a project in Czech conditions. Surprisingly, both Vica Kerekes and Pavel Batěk are up to it. Vica can play a distinctive and sexy girl without cheap vulgarization and Batěk is an interesting alternative to the main protagonists of today, although he is the same visual type as Matěj Hádek. The third main character is played by Filip Blažek, who, after years of theater and TV work, also knows how to find a suitable position that does no harm and is fully helpful to the whole. Issová and Přeučil took the supporting roles just to make sure, and the only one who again didn't pay attention to anything integral and created an original acting etude on the theme was Lábus, but that's why we all like him so much. So, in sum, can a Czech-Slovak film travel from Prague to Brno, Ostrava, and Beijing and still remain interesting, suspenseful, and believable? And also deal with a cliffhanger of a gradation that is unmatched even by the world's best melodramas? Yes, it can. I’m thankful we have it. Cosmopolitanism be damned, this year I'd like to see All My Tomorrows as the favorite to receive the award for best Czech film.

A technically sophisticated film from the alternative reality of the Slovak presidential election. However, none of it is seen through to the end. Yet the atmosphere is engaging, the visual ideas are not odd, and some of the performances are remarkable, especially among the female cast. Monika Hilmerová reigns as the grey eminence of the biggest schemers and has never looked so mature and so great. If you're interested in believable espionage in Slovak scenery with a bit of Czech pessimism, go for it.

This is absolutely fine. I've read the comics, and admittedly the story was perhaps a little more climactic, but in the context of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies series, Throne of Atlantis is an absolutely perfect piece. It's a nice tie-in to Justice League: War and the reality of The New 52 is becoming completely natural. Maybe I should be gnashing my teeth over another version of Wonder Woman, but why bother? If this is her face from the animated The New 52 and she continues to be this way, I'll get used to it. Lantern and Flash have plenty of one-liners, Bats is cold-nosed, Cyborg is riding his own plotline and Shazam! hardly interests anyone, so why not enjoy Aquaman's ascension to the throne and Clark Kent and Diana Prince dating?

There's this perception that says Nicole Kidman's career was conditioned by Tom Cruise in the 1990s, which has merit because, between Days of Thunder and Eyes Wide Shut, she really was just Ms. Cruise. There was a brief period after that when Nicole was loved by everyone, audiences and critics alike, and then... she disappeared from the public eye again. Why was that? It’s not because she started making completely illogically bad films. In my opinion, it is possible to view Nicole's filmography after 2004 as a selection of a mature actress who wants to have fun, has something to say, and no longer has to prove anything to anyone. So, just as naturally, she may become Diane Arbus as Margot, who has so much influence over her sister that she (unwittingly) manipulates her out of her upcoming wedding... Noah Baumbach is a highly skilled writer who is not afraid to develop a relationship between two sisters comparable to the acting orgy in Jocelyn Moorhouse's A Thousand Acres, in which Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer reign side by side. The intimacy between the sisters is fantastic, all the dialogue is very natural and the whole film builds up in such a way that you feel as if you have lived through the whole story with Margot and her family.

I said goodbye to Bomb Girls last year, so the transition to 1946 couldn't have been more natural. And, of course, I really only love the first Cap movie out of the entire MCU, so it's no surprise that Marvel's Agent Carter is the right series for me.

Okay, this is another Kirsten short. She's also already made her directorial debut in this format, and anyone who likes her knows she's not afraid of anything stupid... But this was just WTF. A sketch on the theme: "Hi, are you Kirsten Dunst? Yeah? Come take a selfie with us. Not that we're interested in you or anything." And there’s no ending.