Wreck-It Ralph: Feel it in your code!

A cute and creative piece that might seem trivial but secretly teaches kids some really important stuff The Arcade. The building stone of many childhoods. The devourer of quarters. The giver of tickets. … I think. I’ve never been to an arcade. Do they give out tickets? Doesn’t matter. What matters is that arcades are …

Ready Player One: It’s always sunny in the OASIS… or is it?

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of an unexplicably beloved novel is magnificently mediocre in the best sense of the word You know what I don’t usually expect from a movie? To be better than the book. Yeah, I’m that kind of snob. It’s just ingrained in me, same as I never expect a sequel to be better …

Charles Vane´s Silent Death

I have originally posted this on my Tumblr, so if you are familiar with it, it´s probably from there. I just felt really bad that I haven´t put anything here for literal months, so I decided to copy this. Also, hence the colloquial tone of this. Is that a word? Colloquial? I hope it is. …

Summer Film School – Polish and German Films (plus one I´d rather not talk about)

Polish films have their place in Summer Film School due to a close cooperation of some of our film institutions, if I´m not mistaken. Therefore I saw two very neat films from the polish production. Since I don´t have enough material to make a separate article on the german films I saw (I saw one, …

Summer Film School – British Films

British Heritage Film was one of the sections included in this years programme. I saw five pieces from this section and all of them were packed. Originally I wanted to start the whole festival experience with A Passage to India but since it took me like five years to find my acommodation, I hadn´t managed …

Summer Film School – Scandinavian Films

Sweden was a big part of this year´s Summer Film School. Daniel Bergmann, that Bergmann´s son, was among the guests. I´m quite ashamed to admit I haven´t attended a single event with him, or at least a single movie, for reasons I don´t remember anymore. I assume it was so packed I wouldn´t have gotten …

Summer Film School – Czech and Slovak films

Though I´m not hyper into my own country´s cinema, I couldn´t actively avoid all the czech and slovak stuff that appeared on the SFS programme. In addition to that, one of the most famous slovak actresses (I dare to say the most famous slovak actress ever), Magda Vašáryová, was one of the guests and I …

Summer Film School – Sci-fi

A big part of this year´s Summer Film School was science fiction and thanks to that I saw a few gems I would´ve missed completely otherwise. Several of them were introduced as „films that got buried by Matrix because they happened to come along in the same decde“. Matrix was screened too, if I´m not …

43th Summer Film School – Visitor´s thoughts and impressions

Uherské Hradiště is a smallish town pretty close to my home. Yet it took me, a student of film, three years to get off my butt, pack the sleeping bag and go to the, I dare to say, biggest summer film event we have here in our lovely country. My friends either work at Summer …