August 2021

Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn

Movie Review “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn” is a three-part television feature film, an adaptation of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The small but brave heroes search for treasure, become “pirates,” and engage in a dangerous battle with Indian Joe. But the most

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45 years

Movie Review It’s not every film that wins two major awards for acting at a film festival. This one did, in Berlin. The Mercer couple prepare to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their marriage. A week before the celebration, Jeff receives a letter in German saying that a girl’s body has been found in the

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A Man Called Ove

Movie Review There’s a special direction in contemporary European cinema that hasn’t yet been named. Let’s call them tragicomic stories about lonely grumpy old men who find meaning in life through casual encounters with strangers. “Uwe’s Second Life is just one of these. Uwe, in his seventh decade, is angry and discontented all the time,

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Labor Day

Movie Review A single woman and her son live in a small town where everyone knows everyone else. She wants for nothing – she tried to live once, but it didn’t work out and she shut herself away in her house. She tries to communicate with the world only through her son. That is until

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Calvary (2014)

Movie Review The protagonist is a priest who considers it his duty to heal his parishioners’ wounds and absolve them of their sins. The drama here revolves around such difficult topics for humanity as the crisis of faith, compassion and, of course, forgiveness. And the whole plot revolves around the fact that in confession one

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The Hunt (2012)

Movie Review How easily and, worst of all, with gusto, people are prepared to ruin another man’s life – director Thomas Vineberg tells us with his film. Once upon a time, an acquaintance, a psychologist, showed up on his doorstep to follow cases where fantasies replace real memories. He told Vineberg that he should definitely

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