Watched on 4K UHD Blu-Ray
(Argento Cut)

When I look back at all the zombie films and zombie series I've seen so far, they all have one thing in common, regardless of their other qualities and content: I rarely found the gore effects disturbing or frightening. This didn't change today either with "Dawn of the Dead", but for a film from 1978 it's astonishingly made. On the one hand, this is probably due to the fact that Romero and SFX…

Watched on Blu-Ray

For a long time, Mizuki was alone, a whole three years. Her husband was and remained missing. An accident at sea? But a body was never found. Then the film sets in, and as then in "Pulse", it is in the shadows that a boundary between the afterlife and this world can be crossed. One morning, Yusuke (Tadanobu Asano) is suddenly standing in the room, in semi-darkness, without movement. He has come back, now there again, for…

Watched on Netflix

He gave us Children of Men, one of the most exciting dystopias of all time. He gave us the best Harry Potter movie. And now Alfonso Cuarón gives us his most personal work so far. Roma is nothing but pure life in 2 hours 14 minutes of concentrated form.

The film breathes authenticity from every pore. Almost documentary and in astonishing technical and visual brilliance, Cuarón portrays the everyday life of two housemaids in 1970's Mexico. Their…

Watched in the cinema

Well, first of all, I didn't hate Guy Ritchie's live-action version of Aladdin. But I didn't like it very much either.

Princess Jasmine and the Genie are by far the best about this colorful reinterpretation, which is story-wise and in some scenes also staged very much like the cartoon from 1992, but above all in the characterization of the well-known characters it offers interesting and sometimes really misguided paths.

Jasmine is staged here just as intelligently…