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…

This heavyweight parable about human society and the monstrousness of power was made as a cryptic artistic project under totalitarianism, but it wasn’t released to cinemas until after the revolution, which was to its detriment. What under communism would have ended up being a mythical project by an artist suffering…

A film about the love between a human and a vampire, and which celebrates chastity and passivity. Yeah, who would have thought that the Twilight franchise would have a precedent in the form of a fifteen-year-old Czech film directed by the guy whose contributions to Czech culture include Kamarád do deště, Discostory…

A centuries-old master of the occult, whose longevity is due to a potion made from the blood of young people, lives on an island where he runs a renowned winery. He uses the bodies of his victims as a secret ingredient and fertiliser, but for whatever reason, the corpses rise from their shallow graves in his vineyard.…

Producers are people too – Levinson’s adaptation of the book by Art Linson (a producer by trade) doesn’t offer anything particularly innovative. The intertwining of the story involving an unsuccessful film (don’t kill children and dogs) with Ben’s effort to make things right is imaginative except for the use of an…

I like the way De Niro doesn’t rush anywhere in the narrative and takes his time with the characters and their motivations so that he can deliver even harder blows in the nicely pumped-up ending. Though he plays the somewhat hackneyed character of an always even-keeled father, he avoids preaching as a director. You…