The 2018 French documentary film L’Isle au Tresor (Treasure Island) by Guillaume Brac is a beautiful authentic portrait of a water park in Paris. It shows natural everyday moments of the people going and working there and features some great scenes of witnessing the pure joy of youth and childhood, while also giving insight into […]
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The 1955 artistic French documentary short film Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) by Alain Resnais is showing on Mubi. The film deals with the holocaust, detailing the progress from the rise of the Nazis, the deportation process, the construction of concentration camps and the life of the prisoners in contrast to the camps staff
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On Mubi you can watch the great Georgian-French drama film დასაწყისი (Beginning) by Déa Kulumbegashvili that was released in 2020 and is her first feature film. It follows Yana, the wife of a Jehova’s Witnesses community leader, who struggles with her life and emotional world in the aftermath of an attack by extremists. It is
The American-Norwegian documentary film Gunda, directed, co-written and co-edited by Russian director Viktor Kossakovsky is now showing in cinemas. The nonverbal film observes the life of pigs, chicken and cows on rural farms in an aesthetic style. It gained broader attention when Joaquin Phoenix stepped in as executive producer. It is interesting to get so
The new US epic medieval-fantasy film The Green Knight directed, written and produced by David Lowery (Ghost Story, 2017) is showing in cinemas and is worth a look. The film stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, 2008) as young Sir Gawain, who wants to become a respected knight at his uncle King Arthur’s round table in
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The second season of the comedy show by US comedian Tim Robinson was released on Netflix. The sketches are totally random and hit or miss. From total unfunny crap to hilarious ideas that make you laugh a lot (Burger Scene). The main topic throughout seems to be about persons who are wrong in the first
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The US biographical drama film Judas and the Black Messiah directed by Shaka King is out now in cinemas. Set in the late 60s the film is about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out / Black Panther), the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago, by
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The 2020 US drama film “Nomadland” by Chloé Zhao that won the Oscar for Best Picture at this years Academy Awards is out now in cinemas. It is based on the book by the same name by Jessica Bruder and follows Fern (Frances McDormand [Three Billboards, 2017] a vandwelling working nomad, who left her hometown
After watching Soul recently I went back and took a look at all the Pixar Films I have seen. I returned to them over the past couple years and checked, which ones are still holding up today.
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Soul is a computer animated fantasy comedy-drama by Disney’s very talented Pixar Studios which was released last Christmas and is available for streaming on Disney+. The film follows a middle school music teacher named Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after…