When you watch Hollywood movies, then what is happening on the screen makes the impression of deja vu. As if there is a certain black box where typical images of heroes, villains, men, women, policemen, criminals, agents, templates of phrases, ... Read more
I had got a chance to watch the new fantastic film “Mortal Engines” (2018) the other day. I know that within the framework of the project "What is Good", the attention is seldom focused on the second semantic series or hidden meanings, since the ... Read more
Superheroes replaced human being heroes “Doesn’t matter where you are, it does matter what you are seeking for”. This phrase is relevant to many areas of our life. Including for cinema, which not so much reflects the reality, as it programs, ... Read more
The time has passed when most of the children were brought up in fairy tales, carefully transferred from the older generation to the younger one. To replace tales came cartoons, and grandfathers and grandmothers, on whose shoulders in many ways the ... Read more
I’m getting more and more convinced that a superhero myth – both in comics and movies, based on them – is a lengthy, colourful and solemn hymn to Blind Luck. You’d been disabled since childhood, but they chose you for a secret military experiment. ... Read more
The “Peter Rabbit” - is an American animated feature film based on the stories of the English writer Beatrice Potter. The film premiered on February 9, 2018 in the US. The script and direction of the “Peter Rabbit” was performed by an American ... Read more
Children’s film industry, both in Russia and in the West, is going through hard times. The Hollywood wave of a low-grade humor and outright vulgarity was “a must” in a so-called entertainment film format for adults and then percolated into ... Read more
The “Supernatural” – is one of the most famous modern TV series. It has been filmed for already 13 years, and is the most long-playing mystical series. As it happens, the duration of the series has influenced it for the worse, which noticed ... Read more
At first, everything seems clear from the trailer – here you are slim Charlize Theron, killing hand to hand a dozen of men-squad; here there are scenes of smoking and drinking alcohol, colored with tantalizing vision and elevated halo of the very ... Read more
Having caught on the beautiful name and the mesmerizing trailer, I decided to watch this movie. Until the final credits were about seven minutes, and I was sure that in front of me is one of the most worthy representatives of teenage movies. The ... Read more
The trailer and the idea of the film "Wonder woman" immediately caused a reaction of the audience: feminists are rejoicing at the presence of a female warrior in the movie, the appropriate people have decided that this is another movement of the ... Read more
In the cartoon “Despicable Me 3”, the narration goes about an unsuccessful supervillain Gru, who has several hundreds of servants in hand – unusual creatures, minions. The plot of a new chapter is plane: already married on a special agent Lucy ... Read more
The movie “Everything, everything” has been released 19 of May 2017 and is the screen adaptation of a cognominal adolescent novel. The picture is being positioned as kind and reassuring story, praising the beauty of the world. This is a fairy tale ... Read more
All, who is familiar with Hollywood cinematography, know that most of the scenarios come down to a set of standard situations and plot twists. By that reason one, having seen a dozen of pictures, may by the first ten minutes of the film rather ... Read more
The cartoon “The Boss Baby” entered into a wide release in March 2017 and appeared to be one of the most profitable and popular pictures lately. The world box office results are about half a billion US dollars. Obviously, the most part of it – ... Read more
The film "Ghost in the Shell" introduces to viewer the world of the future, in which all kinds of implants and technical devices built into the human body have become an everyday reality. Robotics has reached a level where it is already difficult ... Read more
The “Beauty and the Beast” – a modern screen adaptation of a cognominal Disney cartoon (1991), released on February 23, 2017. The plot is well-known: a handsome, but cruel and self-centered prince finds himself in a refuge of an old woman, under ... Read more
The film "La La Land" was premiered at the Venice Film Festival on August 31, 2016, is the rare case when the presence of numerous awards from the film does not indicate its intrusive ideological orientation or extremely low morally meaningful ... Read more
Cartoon "Moana" - the 56th cartoon in the list of full-length animated films of the Disney studio, released November 14, 2016 (world premiere). The story tells about the adventures of a girl named Moana, the daughter of the leader of a small ... Read more
The film “Me before you” came out 23 May 2016 (world premiere), received mainly positive reviews in official media: “more than just a tragic romance”, “an exceedingly emotional, insightful and thought provoking film, which just might even change the ... Read more
Film “Arrival” had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016 and was released in the USA and Canada on November 11, 2016. It has been nominated for numerous awards, including eight Oscar nominations. The film’s central ... Read more
The film “Collateral Beauty” was released on December 15, 2016 and gathered a whole constellation of popular Hollywood actors. Thanks to the original (rather classic, but forgotten) idea of communion of a lost and desperate man with the Universe, ... Read more
A plot (for those, who didn’t watch the cartoon) The cartoon starts with a dedication to « brave firefighters all over the world who risk their lives to save the lives of the others». The first scene is an aviaracing. We are meeting with the ... Read more
There are a lot of films nowadays showing the catastrophic future of our planet. The latest are: Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road, Elysium, both parts of Divergent. Most of time in these movies characters try to survive under the conditions of ... Read more
