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…

The concern that Bird, who undoubtedly has a liking for technology, would bury the franchise that Abrams jump-started under a pile of modern gadgets was unfounded. High-tech gadgets are the last thing that the participants in this experiential journey to the roots of the franchise can rely on, though they encourage…

Remember the likable girl who dumped Mark Zuckerberg at the beginning of The Social Network? Try to imagine her with a lot of piercings, a mohawk and t-shirt emblazoned with FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING FUCKER on her thin, pale body. Love her or hate her, she doesn’t know how to be any other way. Lisbeth Salander. Though the…

Though it’s not would-be action-packed revving of diesel engines, this “ungraspable” film deserves the title Fast & Furious. The first screwball third and second slapstick third are clearly funnier than the not-so-amusingly mishandled ending, which is really just too much. I would prefer to see this play (actually…

Ready, aim, fire. It’s that easy. Like killing a mockingbird. Harper Lee used the title of her celebrated autobiographical novel not only in this sense. It is also a crucial acknowledgement of the protagonist, Jean Louise Finch. Killing a bluejay and killing a mockingbird are not the same thing. The film adaptation of…

The techniques of silent, avantgarde and music-video filmmaking in the service of an eclectic apocalyptic parable with bold satirical undertones. The film’s form was apparently shaped in a long brainstorming session attended by David Lynch, Fritz Lang, Derek Jarman, former members of Monty Python (living and dead) and…