Watched in the cinema (135th visit in 2023)
The battle between heaven and hell is old. Again and again, demons from hell escape and attack humans. Valak had taken the form of a nun in "The Nun" and attacked in a monastery. Now he terrorizes other countries.
In 1956, four years after the harrowing events at the Romanian convent, strange deaths occur among nuns and clergy of the Catholic Church. In France, a priest is found burned to death. The…
Watched on Disney +
"Guess Who" is being sold as a sort of twisted "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". While the latter was a courageous and socio-political film, Kevin Rodney Sullivan's comedy comes across as very light-footed and ill-conceived. The topic of skin color is roughly touched upon, mentioned from time to time, but an actual processing takes place neither in a critical nor in a cliché-ridden way. The problems between the future son-in-law (Ashton Kutcher) and the father of…
Watched in the cinema (39th visit in 2021)
What do "Saw", "Insidious" and "The Conjuring" have in common? The three are among the most successful horror franchises of the last 20 years, and director and screenwriter James Wan was at the beginning of all of them. The Australian is a master at pulling original horror material out of his hat that is such a hit that sequels quickly become a fact of life. But instead of then concentrating on the…
Watched on YouTube
I think I understood the movie... nah, just kidding!
Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel understood that dreams have no logic. They had that ahead of filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, who give the impression of having excessive fantasy, but still press everything into a corset of rules. That does not mean that I dislike what Nolan does. He needs order, so he limits himself. Still impressive stuff.
Un Chien Andalou is the opposite.
If Un Chien Andalou was…
