This French historical drama is worth a watch. The men settle their honour by duelling each other with swords or pistols, and the acting is dominated by fencing master Roschdy Zem, who plays a very likeable character. It's got attractive visuals, strong themes like honour, pride and feminism, interesting dueling rules…

The story from an unreliable narrator, a double agent, full of deceit and uncertainty. Hoa Xuande is the discovery of the year, an utterly convincing performance from a chameleon you root for despite his moral failings. He's overshadowed only by the multi-role Robert Downey Jr. and he's a little different every time,…

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…

Hats off to this directorial debut. I discovered Missing You quite by accident and although it seems very understated it is a golden gem of this year. The film is on a par with top notch thrillers in the vein of The Chaser. It's the story of a psychopath who murders an entire family, and only a 5 year old girl…

Brad Peyton makes his first foray into horror and it didn’t go too well. San Andreas and Journey 2 suited him better as a genre. You certainly can't criticize the visuals, they are skillful, and he's also brought in a more familiar face, Aaron Eckhart, but that isn't enough. The lack of jump scares or anything scary…

This French historical drama is worth a watch. The men settle their honour by duelling each other with swords or pistols, and the acting is dominated by fencing master Roschdy Zem, who plays a very likeable character. It's got attractive visuals, strong themes like honour, pride and feminism, interesting dueling rules…

This is how I imagine a film that is so timeless and compelling in its premise that it can continue to captivate audiences even decades after it was made. Sunset Blvd. is an acting tour-de-force by Gloria Swanson, who took my breath away with her performance, demonstrating to a tee the acting techniques of the silent…

An incredibly long film, which undermined its reputation with me mainly because of its excessive running time, which could have been even a third shorter. In terms of production design and costumes, I liked it, but some of the scenes bored me and seemed silly and completely unnecessary. In short, for me personally, a…