Films

Free Solo – ★★★★

Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin created an impressive portrait with the US documentary “Free Solo” (2018). The film follows the free solo climber Alex Honnold on his “El Capitan” project, a huge rock ledge in Yosemite Park [yoh-SEM-i-tee] in California, without protective gear. Due to the enormous heights and the lack of safety in

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Hoop Dreams – ★★★★★

The 1994 American documentary film “Hoop Dreams” directed and produced by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert is regarded as one of the best documentaries ever made. During it’s nearly three hours runtime it follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American high school students, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball

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Tenet – ★★★½

After the long Cinema break due to COVID-19 one of the biggest mainstream releases of this year finally arrives in cinemas after it has been postponed several times. I’m talking about “Tenet” the new film by popular British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Dark Knight-Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk). This is a short spoiler free review of

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