Stalker: Secrets of the Zone

Photo: Goskino Andrei Tarkovsky’s crew found a grim place to shoot the scenes inside the film’s mystical Zone – two deserted hydro power plants just outside Tallinn. There had also…

Hustlers 

Shortly before the 2008 recession, New York stripper Destiny (Costance Wu) is mentored by Ramona Vega (Jennifer Lopez); a few years later, when times are tougher, they embark on a…

Downton Abbey

In 1927, the Crawleys are informed that King George V and Queen Mary will visit Downton Abbey, and the preparations begin. The movie adaptation of the 2010-2015 TV series has…

Creed II 

Heavyweight champ Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) is challenged by a Russian who is the son of Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), the Soviet boxer who killed his father in the…

Kramer vs. Kramer: Learning on the Job

Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Justin Henry. Photo: Columbia ”Wall-to-wall sentiment”, Time Out wrote in a disdainful review. Sure, if that’s what you choose to hate. Kramer vs. Kramer became…

Solaris: Journey of the Mind

Donatas Banionis. Photo: Mosfilm He’s admired now, but in the late 1960s Andrei Tarkovsky wasn’t doing so well. His second film, Andrei Rublev, had not been released due to controversial…

Song of the South: Disney’s Bad Conscience

James Baskett. Photo: Disney It’s not like this classic Disney flick is banned. Since its premiere, Song of the South has been rereleased in theaters on several occasions, the last…

And Then We Danced

Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has been training Georgian dance together with his girlfriend (Ana Javakishvili) for years when a new dancer (Bachi Valishvili) makes an appearance…  The love story may be…

I Am Curious (Blue)

Director Vilgot Sjöman divided his I Am Curious project into two movies. This follow-up to Yellow continues in the same vein, with a fictitious romance and a socialist examination of…