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…

Though, strictly speaking, 28 Days Later should not be ranked among zombie movies, given that the origin of the apocalypse it depicts would rather place it among contagion films, it draws directly from the tradition of zombie-apocalypse movies on many levels. Furthermore, its international box-office success had a…

When seen from the perspective of today, when Tran Anh Hung’s filmography already includes five titles, his second film appears in a new context. If we can deduce any generalisation from the films that he has made so far, it is that Tran alternates escapist, charmingly intimate portraits of everyday life and the…

Unfortunately, Maniac Cop is a case of concept winning out over content. Or perhaps I just made a mistake in letting the film’s hype build up for too long. When the whole series was released on VHS in the nineties, the Video Plus website was decorated with attractive photos of ruthless, zombified cops, which burrowed…

Though it can be assumed that the success of Drive was the impetus for Motorway, the latter is in no way just a typical Hong Kong copy of a successful foreign film, the likes of which were churned out by the dozen in the 1980s and ’90s. The new film produced by Johnnie To and directed by his protégé Pou-Soi Cheang is…

Kira at Night is a bizarre and unintentionally funny attempt by a leading craftsmen of the American mainstream porn industry to make an art-porn film. Instead of a typical linear narrative based on any of the usual porn plots, the film offers up a would-be mysterious psychological spiral, where the lead actress, Kira…