Given that this is my first contribution to this website, I thought I might as well kick it off with something I’m really into and link it up with a recommendation of something you could do right now. I love going to the cinema, especially smaller independent/arthouse type cinemas. And in Rostock, that means the […]
Film reviews
Titanic 2.0 – Passengers movie mesmerizes with surprisingly little plot
A new era of Sci-Fi movies seems to have begun , and of course Jennifer Lawrence (“The Hunger Games” trilogy) had to star in one, too. Together with shooting star Chris Pratt (“Guardians of the Galaxy”), she shows off her bikini-body in beautiful dresses and a much cooler version of the infamous infinity pool in […]
Independence Day: Resurgence: A real disaster movie
They had twenty years to prepare and what did they create? Another movie apocalypse directed by Roland Emmerich, and a ludicrous attempt to make a sequel of his 1996 blockbuster hit Independence Day. It feels like a copy of the formulaic blockbuster movies we have watched a billion times before. Emmerich was not able to […]
Fantastic Bedazzlement and What You Should Try to Ignore
If you expect “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” to feel like a ninth Harry Potter movie you will probably be disappointed. Though set in the same universe as J.K. Rowling’s disgustingly successful (and rightfully so!) Harry Potter book series and the movie adaption thereof, “Fantastic Beasts” is the start of its own story. […]
Welfare at its worst, realism at its finest – I, Daniel Blake review
The fact that poverty and life on the edge of starvation are not only phenomena of third world countries may not be obvious to the average middle class European. Ken Loach’s most recent feature film is about Daniel Blake, a carpenter in Newcastle, who seeks benefit payment after suffering from a heart attack that leaves […]
Accepting Simplicity: Paterson film review
The thing with independent and alternative films is that you cannot really apply the rules of the classical Hollywood narration. In “Paterson”, the new movie of American cult director Jim Jarmusch (“Broken Flowers”, “Only Lovers Left Alive”), this was what I had to remind myself of several times. Once I accepted the fact that there […]
Nasty Guys Turn Into Superheroes
On Thursday, 18th of August 2016, the time had come: “Suicide Squad” started in the German-speaking world. Director David Ayer (‘Fury’, 2014) brings his eagerly awaited DC comics-based action noir to the screen starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto and Viola Davis. A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks […]
Arrival puts the Science in Science Fiction
It is a common assumption that a successful science fiction movie includes time travel, laser gun fights or space exploration and strange planets. Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve, who has already done astounding work on Sicario, is a reinterpretation of its own genre and does not confirm to these standards. The movie script was based on […]
Paterson – Ode to the usual
Jim Jarmusch’s new film – on screen at LiWu (Lichtspieltheater Wundervoll) in December Jim Jarmusch’s newest work is another character-based drama, although one might say that in it, nothing really happens. He manages to bring to us the wonderful and dreamy facets near again – not by creating complex plots, but by characters that […]