Apes strong together... With Caesar's passing came the necessary long exposure. The new hero Noah, the new heroine Nova, and of course family and friends. Funny sequences about the foul odors of human females alternate with themes of artificial evolution. Knowledge and technology vs symbiosis with nature is…

Indonesia also adds its hand this year with a decent adrenaline action flick. Angga Dwimas Sasongko is one of Indonesia's more aspiring filmmakers, but only now has he made a film that I can appreciate above average, even though his Stealing Raden Saleh has had a decent amount of success abroad. Here you can see a…

I'm glad I caught up on this one. The combination of Robert Zemeckis and Denzel Washington sounded good and it worked. The opening 30 minutes with the plane crash is a decently intense beast and I liked the aftermath, the investigation and the subsequent trial where the protagonist is tried for alcohol and drugs. I…

Gareth Edwards wanted to revive this dramatic concept back in 2014, but the mass success of his Godzilla seems to have been broken by Hollywood dictates. Godzilla -1.0 has it a lot easier in this regard, having been made for a few bucks and in a far more Godzilla-friendly environment than the US dream factory. And the…

The main thing you will take away from this film is that Vittorio Storaro (Coppola's Apocalypse Now) was a grandmaster of the camera, a GRANDMASTER! Without knowing in advance who was holding that wonderful optics machine, I immediately noticed the amazing visual compositions, of which there are many, along with the…

Apes strong together... With Caesar's passing came the necessary long exposure. The new hero Noah, the new heroine Nova, and of course family and friends. Funny sequences about the foul odors of human females alternate with themes of artificial evolution. Knowledge and technology vs symbiosis with nature is…

This short film was an incredible piece of bullshit, but also very imaginative, I must admit. Of course, the thing that impressed me the most was the absolutely spot-on parody (or copy) of probably the most famous shower scene - I don't need to elaborate. In short, it was a stupid thing that was so embarrassing it was…

No matter what anyone says, Pacific Rim is just a decent and action-packed blockbuster with breathtaking audiovisual effects and a great and badass soundtrack. So what if many of the scenes are formulaic and riddled with all sorts of clichés. I went to the cinema expecting to see what it looks like when a bunch of 80…

Manhattan didn't awaken bursts of laughter in me, rather it impressed me with its highly intellectual and sophisticated script, in which, paradoxically, I didn't understand much of the dialogue at all. The plot is neither complicated nor unorthodox, it is simply a story from life. The cast was really perfect,…

Thieves is an average film with a bland cast and a simple (if somewhat original) story. I'm not saying that I was bored, but this film is a quickly forgettable affair that unfortunately only builds up at the very end. In short, a film from which much more could have been squeezed out, but it still doesn't offend - a…