Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Recent activity
All
Recent reviews
More-
Stand by Me 1986
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
TL;DR: this can’t even be called a film.
‘The hill, the stream, the tower, the tree, – / Are they still such as once they were? / Or is the dreary change in me?’ (Sir Walter Scott, The Dreary Change.) This is a typical American homely film of children’s adventures in a morbid wasteland. But it wastes its opportunity.
This could have been a good film, maybe even a great one. There could have been moments of genuine threat to…
Translated from by -
Germany, Year Zero 1948
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
First experience of Neorealist cinema, was not blown away by it, but I suppose it has its merits. For instance, the taking on of the point of view of the Germans after the Second World War, and the honest depiction of their lives and of the ruined, decimated Germany. Yet I feel the film could really have done with more endearing moments, to make these depictions seem less brutalist and by comparison more saddening.
And although one does feel sorry for…
Translated from by
Popular reviews
More-
Inglourious Basterds 2009
Liked it but I find I always have to get myself used to Tarantino’s epic style
Translated from by -
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009
Cinematographically the best one of the series, charts the tipping into a dark adulthood of a young hero and his friends, all of whose innocence and still adolescent energy salvage what light there is to experience in this otherwise very dark picture
Translated from by
