The following review is as SPOILER-FREE as possible. The plot Corpus Christi (2019) is a Polish drama directed by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz. It is the story of Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia), a 20 year old convict in a Polish youth detention centre. Daniel wants to become a priest but the crime he… Read More Beyond God: Corpus Christi (2019)
An Officer and a Spy (French: J’accuse), released in 2019, is Roman Polanski’s last film about the famous Dreyfus scandal that led France into a major political crisis in the last years of the 19th century. Polanski and Dreyfus The movie is Polanski’s attempt in influencing the public opinion in his favour after he was… Read More An Officer and a Spy (2019): a critical review
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According to Roland Barthes, prominent French literary theorist and semiotician, the film Julius Caesar (1953) is full of errors. In Mankiewicz’s film all Romans have fringes not because its historically accurate, but because a fringe serves as a sign of Roman-ness. For a Frenchman like Barthes, the fringes look funny when combined…
What the title says. I saw many series in the last decade but not all of them. Here are my favourite 20. 20. Chernobyl Chernobyl gets in the top 20 because of its haunting atmosphere. Watching it you get a disturbing feeling that you might be close to a nuclear radiator. History-wise the series is… Read More Top 20 TV Series of the Decade
Happy 2020 people! My wish is for this year to be an even better one for cinema! I am a bit late to the party, as I was a bit lazy and did not make my list on time. Apostolis, the working bee of the blog already published his list here. … Read More Top movies of the decade- A list by Antonis
Lists, lists lists! It is that time of the year again! Well, since I posted my personal list of my best albums of the year, there was only one way to go. Movies! This time though, I will try and select my favorite (hint: Not Lanthimos’ film) movies of the decade that is about to… Read More Top movies of the decade: A list by Apostolis
A film starring Roberto De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, can hardly go wrong. If the film is about the golden age of the American Italian mafia and is directed by Martin Scorsese, then it surely must be a masterpiece of its genre. Truly there could be no better director and cast for ‘the… Read More The Irishman (2019): An Epic Gangster Tale
This year found me listening, again, mostly extreme metal and its subgenres, as always, but while this year was really important for the genre, I found myself reaching mostly to unknown regions of music genres, due to the fact that 2019, in music, was equally amazing and experimental. If I could sum up the end… Read More Best Albums Of 2019: A list by Apostolis
This is a spoiler free review of Star Wars’ Episode IX: The Rise Of Skywalker Happy holidays everyone! Hope these days find you full of joy, health, quality time and everything you wish for. In the meanwhile, here is a spoiler free review not only of the new Star Wars installment but of the whole… Read More The Rise Of Skywalker Review: The Fall Of A Trilogy
The King (2019) is Netflix’s newest historical medieval drama following the successful footsteps of Outlaw King (2018). The film is inspired by Shakespeare’s ‘Henriad’ plays drawing from both historical and fictional sources and focuses on the crowning and early reign of King Henry V. The photography is beautiful successfully transferring the viewer to a medieval… Read More Is The King (2019) ‘Anti-French Nonsense’?
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