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…

Crippled animals, crippled souls. Guilt, punishment, responsibility. Nykvist goes into details, Bergman goes deeply into the dialogue. The proximity to the actors, their faces and feelings, evokes the impression of oppressive intimacy. The director closes us off with them in a single, austerely furnished room.…

Who knows what we would find if we looked for a woman behind everything? We will actually find one behind Jean Renoir’s debut. Because he didn’t manage to find an appropriate screenplay for his wife, Catherine Hessling, he wrote one himself and directed it in cooperation with Albert Dieudonné (who later starred in…

Even in an ordinary screening, without high heels, rattles and rubber gloves, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is endlessly entertaining and, during the existential songs, it is a touching defence of eccentricity and a tribute to the sci-fi and horror B-movies of Val Lewton and William Castle. Thanks to the tastelessness…

The suffering of Catherine Hessling, part II. This time, Renoir has his wife almost raped, physically assaulted several times and robbed before resting in the arms of a noble prince (gladly cantering on a white horse). The realistic presentation of these events aggressively contrasts with the atmosphere of a light…

At the time, especially after the extraordinary failure called Topaz, there were more frequent contrary responses, but Hitchcock’s return to England didn’t turn out well in my opinion. With a few shining exceptions, this is a very unimaginatively directed crime thriller that strives for the greatest possible…