Category: Movies

I am a huge movies fan. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I don’t get much free time to enjoy watching movies. But when I do, I try to share my thoughts about the movies that I’ve seen. Movie reviews, celebrity news, trailers of upcoming flicks, etc – are all in this category.

Statski sovetnik

Statsky Sovetnik (2005)Some Russian movies seem to get into my film watching periods no matter if I want them or not, it seems. Statski sovetnik” was one of this movies. Ididn’t particularly want to see it, but since I got my hands on a copy, I thought – why not…

Directed by: Filipp Yankovsky
Genres: Drama, Crime
Cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Mashkov, Emiliya Spivak, Mikhail Yefremov, Oksana Fandera, Aleksei Gorbunov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Oleg Tabakov, Mariya Mironova, Aleksandr Strizhenov
IMDB raintg: 7.3
My rating: 5.0 [rate 5.0]

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Birdy

Birdy (1984)“Birdy” DVD cover looked somehow very familiar, by neither Martin database nor my memory could reveal the fact that I rented this film. I also looked at the few pictures on the back of the DVD box and read the description of the film. Again, it looked very familiar but I couldn’t remember if I so it or not. So I decided to take. It turned out that I haven’t seen it before…

Directed by: Alan Parker
Genres: Drama, War
Cast: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby, Nancy Fish, George Buck, Dolores Sage, Robert L. Ryan, James Santini, Maud Winchester, Marshall Bell, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Sandra Beall
IMDB raintg: 7.2
My rating: 8.5 [rate 8.5]

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XXVII Moscow International Film Festival: Day 6

Today is the last day of the Festival. This will probably bring sadness to those who follows the event and joy to those who don’t, as I might have bored them with these post series to death by now.

Anyway, without further ado, read onto the movie list.

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Mockery or compas confusion?

While going through a list of movies for the Festival, I’ve noticed these two entries:

Considering the fact that one of this movies is a well-known high profile entry and the other movie is totally unkown, what are the chances of mockery? This is one time when IMDb doesn’t tell me for sure…