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  • Horrifically Dull: “Crimes of the Future” Review

    by Pete Brown Articles, Film

    Veteran director David Cronenberg, known for his boundary-pushing films, has long fascinated audiences with his unique brand of body horror and psychological exploration. However, his recent offering, “Crimes of the Future,” falls short of expectations, leaving a viewer perplexed and unsatisfied. This film, which attempts to shock and provoke, ultimately descends into pointlessly disgusting and

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  • Between Pain and Amen

    by Pete Brown Articles

    Between Pain and Amen Director Toma Enache has used his second feature film “Between Pain and Amen” to tackle a story little known to many Westerners: about the brainwashing and torture-based experiment during the Communist party rule in the Pitești Prison Romania. Nobel Laureate and gulag survivor Alexander Solzhenitsyn called it “the most terrible act

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  • Interview with Radda Novikova

    by Pete Brown Articles

    High profile Russian film and TV director Radda Novikova gives us an in depth interview about her new projects Radda, the only way to catch you is on a film set. Now you have just finished shooting a social issue project about school bullying. What is it? The project is called “Sharp Currents”, company “Kinoagentstvo”,

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  • Francesca Borgatta’s “Spectre’s Bride”

    by Pete Brown Articles

    Spectre’s Bride is a macabre tale of an undead spirit attempting to take an innocent maiden on a journey to the underworld. In August 2018, Francesca Borgatta was searching for a folktale with the theme of conflicted love for her next video. She attended a rehearsal of the of Antonin Dvořák’s “Spectre’s Bride” sung by

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  • La-La Land

    La-La Land Review

    by Pete Brown Film, Reviews

    La-La Land is a very important film. It received so many Oscars, but we have seen weak films awarded before that. It is important as a proclamation of incompetence. This film invaded the musical genre which traditionally belonged to artists who can sing and dance. Falsification of art began a long time ago, for instance

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  • Bridge of Spies

    Bridge of Spies Review

    by Pete Brown Reviews

    “Bridge of Spies” is the new film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Joel and Ethan Coen made in 2015. It received positive feedback from critics, garnered many awards and nominations and even received an Academy Award for the Best Supporting Actor (Mark Rylance).   The film set during the cold war is a

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  • Despite the Falling Snow starring Rebecca Ferguson and directed by Shamim Sarif

    Despite the Falling Snow – PIFF 2016

    by Pete Brown Festivals, Film

    The film was shown on the 17th of August, 2016 at the Prague Independent Film Festival (PIFF) and won the awards for Best Feature Film, Best Actress (Rebecca Ferguson) and Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Head). It is a romantic drama with elements of an espionage thriller adapted from the successful novel by Shamim Sarif with

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  • Film Director

    10 Mistakes of Beginner Filmmakers

    by Pete Brown Articles, Film

    Bad casting. Do not give roles only for the reason that it is cheap or free of charge. Although you might have great friends that does not mean they will make great actors. Actors should be either professional or similar to their characters both visually and behaviorally. Bad composition of the frame. Avoid extreme close-ups,

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  • Deadpool

    Deadpool Review

    by Pete Brown Reviews

    The film is based on Marvel Comics about the former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who was a subject of a horrible  experiment which healed him from cancer and gave him incredible super power, but scarred him for life. With the help of  his supernatural abilities Deadpool tries to exterminate the man who

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  • Danish Girl

    The Danish Girl Review

    by Pete Brown Reviews

    “The Danish Girl” is yet another politically correct movie by Tom Hooper. No doubt that the topic – the story of the first transgender patient was chosen by him not by accident. To criticize the film is a hard task when critics can be interpreted as intolerant and so on. However the director was not

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