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…

How much does winning cost? A few years ago, Pitt probably would have got the role of a top-tier baseball player. Because he has become more like Redford, in a good way (more serious material, a more serious expression), he now plays a guy who stands in the background. Less action, but no less ambition. For him,…

A performative documentary about two Donkey Kong players, conceived as a struggle between David and Goliath. In this case, Goliath is Bill Mitchell, a self-made man who doesn’t want to lose his (maybe-not-so-) hard-won prestige. Given the North American tradition of playing arcade games, the predominantly serious tone…

The voice of the individual is drowned out in the monolithic chanting of the crowd and the filmmakers, including Wajda, who voluntarily admits (as assistant director in Bursky's constructive documentary), that they were not innocent in this. A truly Citizen Kane-esque digging into the past, which I paradoxically most…

“Nice work, but don’t fucking ever do something like this again“, John Cassavetes advised Scorsese after seeing the latter’s B-movie answer to Bonnie and Clyde. The motivation to make this exploitation road movie that absurdly combines leftist ideology with Christian symbolism was allegedly the opportunity to preserve…

For Waters’ guileless admission “I know a lot of perverts...”, I would gladly give this film a full five-star rating, but its objective shortcomings, such as its lack of objectivity, won’t allow me to do that. If you want to prove at any cost that the MPAA is a non-transparent organisation in which a group of…