Every plan is perfect until it’s met by Flaw and Improvisation at the door. There are plenty of films about losers who try to get rich by breaking the law, sometimes even for a good cause, and this one stands out only in how quickly it piles on plot twists that prevent the viewer from thinking too deeply about the…

What to do in Oklahoma when one doesn't live there... The Swabian gangsters from American backwaters can be visually appealing, in a way stylish, but here it becomes clear that they struggle to work with characters and the potential of their actors. Take, for example, the Brooklyn pizza man Frank Grillo, who clearly…

After watching the last episode of Shōshimin Series, I felt an overwhelming urge to revisit Hyouka, and even after all these years, I’m still loving it. Oreki is a character I relate to so much, sometimes it feels like he’s speaking directly to my inner self. It’s not that I’m lazy—I just like to conserve energy, and…

It makes sense when a romantic comedy of a more or less typical cut lands in cinemas and makes a heap of money, that it is the work of Will Gluck, who broke the bank in a similar way twelve years ago with Friends with Benefits. And because I like all his genre pieces, I was also rooting for Anyone But You, but really…

A scene-for-scene copy of the Danish original, all the way up to the climax, which is completely reworked here. The European and American versions are an exemplary illustration of the differing approaches to the viewer. In filmmaking terms, the American version is adequately well-crafted and is surprising thanks to…

Finding something positive here is about as difficult as spotting a louse with the naked eye in General Drago's fancy fur coat! Maybe the fact that something is always happening, but you'll need to overlook how it’s happening. Lundgren resembles a drunken polar bear with facial paralysis, carrying grenades in his…

It's hard to say whether Wilson is an overly honest neurotic, a sociopath, or just an idiot, but after a few seconds of his screwball antics, you feel like spiking his face as if it were a volleyball. Naturally, it becomes clear that he has a good heart and just expresses it in his own quirky way, but that's just…

Predator set in a time when its adversaries couldn’t sharpen pencils because the CIA hadn’t been founded yet. The pros are its straightforwardness and its ability to stand alone without adhering to the rules of McTiernan's 35-year-old universe (I didn’t even catch a single note from Silvestri). On the downside, it…

The saying about worries growing in proportion to the size of your children is true. You can show them the path to take and provide support in case of minor accidents, but how fast they drive, and whether they swerve or completely take a different road is largely out of your hands. You only know the rule that if…

Patrick Swayze is such a badass head bouncer that if he worked at the Titty Twister, Chet Pussy would never use the word "pussy" again, and the entire staff would be in bed by eleven to avoid causing any trouble! When he gallantly helps the dancing women off the tables, you almost feel like "Time of My Life" is about…