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 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…

This Slovak contribution to experiential cinema based on an immediate emotional response makes the age of its maker (24) too obvious, as he sometimes approaches it too aggressively, while at other times holding back in explaining what’s readily apparent. Unlike hybrid mash-ups for everyone and no one, however, Money…

Animism was among the qualities of film that Epstein most admired. This adaptation of two Edgar Allan Poe stories (The Fall of the House of Usher and The Oval Portrait) animates the inanimate at the level of form and content. A loved one is summoned back from the realm of the dead by grief, static objects are set in…

The question of guilt is deliberately set aside by omitting the protagonist’s past, without clarification of her relationship to the supposed terrorist. The indictment is focused on the more general issue of prioritising social order over the rights of the individual. The film still elicits chills with the suppression…