I was looking forward to an action-packed brutal ride with vampires, and I got a vampire B-movie for kids with make-up effects so horrible it made me physically nauseous. Another failed Stephen King adaptation, yes they are cursed! It's two hours long, with unlikeable characters, and, as I mentioned, downright tragic…

An average western thriller with the traditionally good Sarah Paulson, good craftsmanship and a decent soundtrack and that's about it. I deliberately say thriller because in the beginning they build some sort of mythology around a Greyman of sorts (A western version of Babadook? bring it on!), but in the end nothing…

A fine sequel to one of my favourite Tim Burton films (the favourites are completely different though). The logic was already haphazard then and it's not much better this time around, but who could be mad when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is such irresistible mayhem, genuinely entertaining and made with love for all things…

A new thriller directed by Guillem Morales, who has brought us two decent Spanish genre films in the past, Julia’s Eyes and The Uninvited Guest. It is admittedly a talky thriller where one woman approaches another with a proposition to kill her husband and spends most of the runtime thinking of the perfect plan. Both…

This jumped out at me today as the second highest rated horror movie of the year on Letterboxd's top ten list. I had no idea the film existed until then, so it immediately caught my attention and I had to fill in. I cried the first time when I realised it was from India, I cried the second time when I saw the running…

Vielleicht ist es die Nostalgie, aber die französischen Krimis (sgn. "polar") gehörten in den 1960er bis 1990er Jahren zu einem der wichtigsten Genren. Es gab eine Handvoll Filmemacher und Protagonisten, die ihren festen Platz im internationalen Filmgeschehen mitgestaltet haben. Und das Trio Deray-Delon-Trintignant…

Geschichten dieses Typs sind immer unterhaltsam, und die französischen Filmemacher verstehen es, ihnen einen besonderen Charme und eine spezielle Atmosphäre zu verleihen. Die Erinnerungen des kleinen Marcel an die Ferien, die er mit seinen Eltern und Freunden auf dem Lande in der Provence zu Beginn des 20.…

An average western thriller with the traditionally good Sarah Paulson, good craftsmanship and a decent soundtrack and that's about it. I deliberately say thriller because in the beginning they build some sort of mythology around a Greyman of sorts (A western version of Babadook? bring it on!), but in the end nothing…

I was looking forward to an action-packed brutal ride with vampires, and I got a vampire B-movie for kids with make-up effects so horrible it made me physically nauseous. Another failed Stephen King adaptation, yes they are cursed! It's two hours long, with unlikeable characters, and, as I mentioned, downright tragic…

A fine sequel to one of my favourite Tim Burton films (the favourites are completely different though). The logic was already haphazard then and it's not much better this time around, but who could be mad when Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is such irresistible mayhem, genuinely entertaining and made with love for all things…