
Review: “Blitz”
“All we need is love,” says director Steve McQueen at the press conference for his film ‘Blitz’, whose DNA, like the Briton himself, is anchored in the history of this country. An epic that illuminates an event through the eyes of a mixed racial 9-year-old boy who is separated from his mother and has to

“Joker: Folie à Deux”: That’s (not) entertainment
In 2019, Warner Brothers still had a big smile on its face: While the DCEU kept going downhill because they couldn’t manage to find the right dark tone for their films, ‘Hangover’ director Todd Philipps came around the corner and created a surprise hit with “Joker”. Not only did it earn the studio over a

“The Apprentice” or the American nightmare
There was a time, way before the ‘Winter Solider’, when Sebastian Stan was simply the pretty boy of network TV. He stayed in the background and embellished the overall picture, be it in “Gossip Girl” or “Once Upon A Time”, but for a few years now you can see that the actor has realized where

Review: “Whiplash”
Shortly after Damien Chazelle released his eighteen-minute short film, titled “Whiplash” in 2013, in which J.K. Simmons plays the eccentric and manipulative music professor Fletcher pushing the young Andrew Neiman to peak performance, the young director won the “Short Film Jury Prize” at Sundance, which supported him to make a feature-length film out of this

Essay: “Afire” and the glowing embers
It is night and he looks out at the open sea. Until now, he has ignored this beauty, this glitter on the water – he didn’t even wanted to notice it. But now that the emptiness envelops his body and takes over his soul, he suddenly pays attention. How a single fire, a blaze within