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A well-fed DiCaprio strides in for another Oscar. A rather shaky, but occasionally unexpectedly realistic picture with a powerful message which shows where we have got to and how bad things are. We could just laugh, but McKay really wanted to terrify us. A modern horror wrapped in cynical humor and dispassion. Showing us prime examples of bad decisions that are constantly being made today on a regular basis. This is filmed for dumb people too.

Happy Holidays! A lightweight, enjoyable snack, nicely following up on and complementing events at Marvel. Renner is excellent and passes the baton on to a thrilled Hailey Steinfeld. Bishop has the balls to be in the Avengers, but it remains to be seen who else Feige will cast in the movies. It’s good to see Yelena and Wilson here and their appearances are meant to be the high points of the series. But it turns out that the real high point is the chase through the streets of New York with the souped-up darts. The series is worth watching for this alone. We're all gonna die.

A lot weaker than the first season. The first episode is great, but then it all starts going downhill. Political intrigue, sudden changes of direction, some unimportant people discussing the war and I fell asleep. Geralt and Ciri are super. Well-acted characters. The rest are a bit boring, as a rule. The dialogs are very stiff, dumbly pointing out things that would have been obvious with a better screenplay. The action is fine, but there is too little of it. The production design is great and the monsters intriguing. I am reading the book and it seems the creators aren’t being faithful to it; maybe next season. Just look at what happened to Game of Thrones when the creators began improvising.

All’s well that ends well. Compared to the dark depression of the last movie, there is much more humor here. Obsession with NFTs, McCormicron, Space Jam 2. The most interesting character remains Cartman and his storyline where the motive of saving his own family by killing Kyle makes its appearance. Parker and Stone pile up absurdity on absurdity of our world, making the viewer laugh hysterically, but in fact it is all much more serious than we realize.

Loser Parker heads for happiness and for the good of everybody else. A grand finale with all the trimmings. Bringing magic into Spider-Man means lots of impressive scenes with villains we know and love, but the high point is jumping around in the mirror dimension. Arrivals from older series pump nostalgia into your veins, making fans’ dreams come true, and they all seem much better than in their original appearances. Demonic Dafoe’s acting is on a higher level even than first time round and his Goblin as Parker’s trainer is the biggest trump card. No Way Home is full-on to bursting (it really features almost everybody you can think of) and sometimes it seems a shame that the movie isn’t any longer, despite the fact that in some places it drags on rather slowly. This lure to watch the sequel to Dr. Strange, who screwed up badly last time, heightens expectations to the limits of our universe and maybe even beyond.

A glimmer of hope for Czech cinema... Kozub and Štáfek drift through today’s pulp online inspiration unscathed, poking fun at it in a way that makes you laugh out loud. Andy Fehu has a feel for comic timing and lets Kozub improvise when needed, like he does in his YouTube show Three Tigers, but manages occasionally to calm him down a little. The journey to find the dead bride, combined with the story of disintegrating friendship pulls another ace out of its purse in the form of Magnus’ "Master of the Shits" which presents YouTubers in their full glory. It’s been a while, but at last a really amusing Czech movie. P.S.: It even made it to Netflix, which is a triumph for the main protagonists.

The thin veneer of civilization cracks under the pressure of cold and hunger... Former army surgeon forced to join a whaling trip choses conflict with a human monster whose greatest talent is survival. Colin Farrell excels in the role of harpooner Henry Drax, making watching The North Water a perverse kind of enjoyment, showing man in all his nakedness. O'Connell’s Sumner attempts to balance this by philosophizing under the influence of laudanum and the love thy neighbor style that he learned from the Bible, but the result is that battle he is fighting with his moral integrity is already lost. Beautiful nature and a raw approach to depicting violence. Something between The Revenant and Heart of Darkness. I'll gobble down anything you give me, any fսcking thing at all. I ain't fussy. Brains, bollocks, arseholes.

I just love these shorts. Disney+ rocks. It’s hard even to describe my daughter’s reaction to the episode with the puppies. Concentrated joy! Of course, a lesson or two is taught during this show, but it’s mainly about letting kids have fun. The storyline about training and about dogs being man’s best friend fits perfectly into the Up concept.

Cleverly written and masterfully made reconstruction of the last ever trial by combat between chevaliers of Medieval France. Wonderful dialogs and various points of view of the three main protagonists build up the atmosphere gradually, culminating in the final punch-up. The intense, bloody duel is the crowning glory of this exquisite acting recital delivered by Damon, Driver and Jodie Comer too. Similarly, Affleck greatly enjoys his debauched nobleman. Scott quite possibly came up with the movie of the year. P.S.: And once again, a great soundtrack from Harry Gregson-Williams. CONFESS!!!

I watched this again, years later, with my daughter and I’m shocked by its chilling authenticity. This dystopic sci-fi from Miller seems like it takes place in post-Brexit Britain. There’s a gas shortage and Alexa has gone round the bend. An energy crisis and a hard winter wipes out the whole population and the only person to survive owes his life to Mole. The punchline and Mole’s laughter at the end are brutally chilling.