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…

From Weepies to Chick Flicks is an entirely clever product of pop-feminism. This is mainly due to Molly Haskell, who presents a condensed yet slightly expanded version of her influential book From Reverence to Rape. However, some of the statements by the actresses and female filmmakers drag the documentary down to the…

The history of post-war Czechoslovakia through the lens of gender. The Bed is a different kind of film, even at the cost of its own schizophrenia. Outwardly feminist, yet chauvinistic, belligerent and even apologetic at its core, it is a film in which a male viewer will find and lose himself in equal measure. Thanks…

Everyone loses their sense of humour sometimes. It’s even worse if you make your living by making others laugh. I really would not have expected Judd Apatow to make a sad film about people who have taken being funny as their mission in life. Of course, there are jokes on the topic of “when the penis met the vagina”,…

“Fucking knightly glory.” Dirty inside and out. Due to the period setting, the absolute and all-pervading nihilism finds greater justification here than in the similarly dark The Borstal. The unmerciful depiction of the national character is disrupted only by the moments when the screenwriter expresses something…

Though Get the Gringo is communicative in a post-modern way, it very much comes across as a standard (chili) western. The nameless gringo finds himself in a strange environment, with offscreen exaggerated commentary reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain talking about his foreign adventures in No Reservations, and inserts…