Category Archives: Film/TV

When I grew up in Hungary the celebrity culture was much less pervasive and aggressive than it is now. One of the first time I heard or paid attention to a filmstar was when my grandmother, a journalist working for … Continue reading →

I have owned DVD copies of, watched once and kept rewatching segments of three documentaries made Gábor Zsigmond Papp. They were all made using archival footage only from earlier decades. Their audio was a mixture of the original sound, readings from the … Continue reading →

I thought I liked action movies. The Warrior’s Way proved to me that not at all cost. I presume it would be possible to mix a ninja movie with a  western and a romance with reasonable results. But this movie … Continue reading →

I heard about Cronos, Guillermo del Toro‘s first feature film, but never had a chance to watch it before. I just did and I have mixed feelings about it. I loved the story and the camerawork. But I was unimpressed with … Continue reading →

Yet another silly and stylish cartoon, although darker than the previous installments. That’s pretty much all I can say about Shrek Forever After. I thought it didn’t make me think or feel a  single bit, so I would nothing else … Continue reading →

Let me get my two (spoilerizing) disappointments about Westworld out of the way first. I kept waiting for the image of Yul Brynner as it is shown on the movie poster. That never happened. I admit that his body, as … Continue reading →

The Extra Man was full of surprises. First the faces. I haven’t seen Kevin Kline for a while, so he suddenly seemed old. I couldn’t decide though whether he really aged or was made up to look older for this … Continue reading →

I had a friend at college who was doing a really interesting Masters combining music, computers and visual arts. I never fully understood what he was studying, but he must have been on the right track, because after graduation he got a job … Continue reading →

Compared to modern horrors movies Dead of Night from 1945 was not too frightening visually. There was no bloody gore going on explicitly. I am thankful for that, I only checked it because it is one of those top 1000 films. After watching … Continue reading →

A short news item at a Hungarian portal prompted me to watch a movie that has been standing on my shelf for a while. The piece was covering Ibolya Oláh, a singer, who often goes to sleep with an empty stomach, because she cannot … Continue reading →