Attack of the Clones soared when its heroes discovered a hidden planet by challenging mainstream knowledge and using independent thought. They dug deeper and pulled the veil off the official version. Miserable, focus-group, committee-driven Rogue One is the polar opposite. Lacking personality or incentive for creative thinking, it unfolds like a programmed checklist of flat motivations, a few isms du jour and glossed-over political issues. Feminism for X points, multiculturalism – Y points. Calculate the balance. Profit. (more…)
March 11, 2017 Leave your thoughtsCategories for Film
Masterpieces
- Our Little Sister (2015)
- Still Walking (2008)
- Nobody Knows (2004)
- After Life (1998)
War Dogs is a strange beast with a lot of bark and little bite, or so it seems.
Fan poster for Kamen Kalev’s Face Down (2015)
Kamen Kalev's <i>Face Down</i>
January 14, 2015 Leave your thoughtsMore than a simple outsider biopic, this is a story about stories and their huge influence over people’s fates.
The old British domination is history, but history remembers how it operated ruthlessly through the years. Britain’s supreme power abroad, the agent, falls down from their last industrial pride – the railroad in Istanbul. Then in Macao, a stiff lifeless body travels through the underworld on a boat on the river Styx and is swallowed whole by the dragon. The spy, as a symbol of fashionable prestige, returns to the real world to find it dramatically changed. This happens at the Pearl River Delta, where the empire fought by all means necessary to force the East to open up its trade routes in the prosperous 19 AD.
