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…

An intimate analysis of the mental state of young Anne, who wants to have an “illicit” abortion at any cost, even though that could land her in prison (France in the 1960s) or even cause her death. Director Audrey Diwan, who had an abortion herself, focuses exclusively on the character of Anne, putting her in a…

Ein schleichendes atmosphärisches Psychospiel mit einer interessanten Darstellung von Nicolas Cage und der zuverlässig verträumten Maika Monroe, aber mit einem durchschnittlichen Drehbuch. Dieses verbindet eine Krimi-Detektivgeschichte mit einem satanistischen Horror und versucht, mit Details zu überraschen und zu…

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…

The plot was decent; when almost every character seems to have a motive, you're usually in for some fun. Unlike in a lot of other crime films, I couldn’t quite figure out who the killer was. But honestly, that might have been because the filmmakers didn’t give the audience enough clues to work with. The final reveal…

A creeping atmospheric psychological thriller with an interesting performance by Nicolas Cage and the reliably dreamy Maika Monroe, but a mediocre screenplay that combines a crime flick with a satanic horror movie and tries to surprise and shock with details, which don’t really work, and with insufficiently…

An intimate analysis of the mental state of young Anne, who wants to have an “illicit” abortion at any cost, even though that could land her in prison (France in the 1960s) or even cause her death. Director Audrey Diwan, who had an abortion herself, focuses exclusively on the character of Anne, putting her in a…

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…