March 3, 2013

Downton Abbey: Season 4 (2013) ***

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The Walking Dead: Season 4 (2013) ***

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The first 8 episodes are set in the Prison during an epidemic, the last 8 episodes are set on train tracks leading to the Terminus.

Peaky Blinders: Season 1 (2013) **

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True Blood: Season 6 (2013) ***

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Submission Of Emma Marx (2013) ***

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Breaking Bad 6 (2013) ****

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Mad Men 6 (2013) ****

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Ray Donovan: Season 1 (2013) ***

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The Girl's Guide To Depravity: Season 2 (2013) ***

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Orange Is The New Black: Season 1 (2013) ***

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The Vikings: Season 1 (2013) ***

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The Americans: Season 1 (2013) ***

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House Of Cards: Season 1 (2013) ****

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Game Of Thrones: Season 3 (2013) ****

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Banshee: Season 1 (2013) ***

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Underworld (2013) ***

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February 2, 2013

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) **

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Uneven film about a struggling musician. Greatest highlight - Golden Globe nominated song, "Please Mr Kennedy" .

The Lone Ranger (2013) **

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Violent western starring Johnny Depp.

Oz The Great and Powerful (2013) **

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Handsome prequel to "The Wizard Of Oz" (1939).

Frances Ha (2013) **

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Mumblecore pic in black and white, with Greta Gerwig, but without any nudity.

Saving Mr Banks (2013) **

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Moderately amusing comedy about Walt Disney trying to convince P.L.Travers to let him adapt "Mary Poppins" for cinema. Emma Thomps...

The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013) **

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Uneven English-language film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, about a young boy genius from Montana.

The Place Beyond The Pines (2013) **

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The first hour of this film is quite boring, but stick with it because in the seconds half it becomes quite interesting, despite a disappoin...

August: Osage County (2013) **

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A "Fucked-Up Family Movie" to end all Fucked-Up Family Movies. Julia Roberts is terrific, but Meryl Streep starts to descend into ...

Enough Said (2013) **

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By accident, a woman becomes friends with an ex-wife of her new boyfriend.
January 1, 2013

Iron Man 3 (2013) *

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Lame and boring action flick.

All Is Lost (2013) *

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A bit like "Life Of Pi", but without a tiger. And very depressing.

Epic (2013) *

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Boring animated film with a ecological theme.

The Book Thief (2013) *

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Extremely boring film set in Nazi Germany.

Admission (2013) *

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Tina Fey plays a Princeton admission officer in this tiresome movie.

The Butler (2013) *

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Great story - 50 years of the civil rights struggles in America as seen through the eyes of a black White House butler who served under seve...

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) *

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The second film in the series. Just as disappointing as the first. Even Jena Malone`s striptease is a disappointment - we only see her bare...

Adore (2013) *

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Boring and rather pointless film about two mothers who sleep with each other's adult sons. Rarely has there been a more conventional f...

A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) *

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An absolutely atrocious, boring, repetitive, obnoxious and pointless action flic, by far the worst of all "Die Hard" installements...
December 12, 2012

Top 10 Films of 2012

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1. "Post Tenebras Lux" (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico) 2. "Searching For Sugar Man"  (Malik Bendjelloul, Sweden) 3. ...