Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes, 2014)
Small or open space, crowded places, Friday 13th, spiders, lizards, ghosts, blood...That fear, those monsters aren't real, they live exactly in our heads (just like Steven King ones said). What do we hate and afraid the most in life for real? Injustice, betrayal, horrible coincidences, to lost memory in the middle of the city, to get robbed, to lost …
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'Finding Vivian Maier' (2013)
I really like documentaries. The only problem (and the biggest one) is to find something really valuable in tons of quasi-scientific films, in that huge 'basket' with boring and pretentious films about celebrities and their lives, in the infinite line of movies about boring experiments, live-shows etc. The film I'm going to write about to…
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Strudel for Shoshanna
A few weeks ago I spent another wonderful time with Inglourious Basterds . There's a scene when brave Shoshanna meets her biggest SD Standartenführer Hans Landa face to face. This scene is one of my favorite in the entire film, because of it's huge tension. Hans Landa orders strudel, 'not so terrible one'. So I got really inspired …
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Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
My relationships with Woody Allen have never been perfect. I was always sure, that he's overrated, not that funny as all think, I hated his glasses and that to see him in one of the main roles in his own films was pretty typical. And who on Earth could produce 1 (or more) film per year during the last few decades, except Allen, and this fact was ma…
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American Horror Story: Cupcakes for Bette and Dot
I've waited for quite long time to finally bake my first cupcakes. And because I'm not a big fan of that kind of desert, the only thing I was doing is putting paper forms from one place to another. But when I saw pink (but very and very dangerous in the show!) cupcakes in "American Horror Story: Freak Show", I thought that this is it.…
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American Horror Story: Freak Show. Season Review
Honestly, primarily I became American Horror Story fan only because of the constant cast. If to be more honest, because of Jessica Lange and Sarah Paulson. These two are not only really talented actresses, they're also a great example of a strong, feminine beauty and hypnotic charisma, which they both have. The first season was nice, the second w…
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'The Return' (2003) by Andrey Zvyagintsev
It was the very beginning of 2008 when I heard his name for the first time. Cold, winter morning, January the first, lots of people in one place, after party mood. I clearly remember that morning, like it was yesterday because then I've met one of my most favorite film directors ever. A real master of a frame, of a story, of everything. That morn…
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