Hard to imagine that Fritz Lang’s extraordinary silent epic was a box-office flop when first released ‘ and almost bankrupted its financiers, UFA (Germany’s largest film production company)…

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I’ve been meaning to buy this movie on DVD for a while. Turns out my brother beat me to it, so I borrowed his copy and sat back last night to re-enjoy my favourite heist movie.

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It’s been ages since I went to a Dutch film. So many of them are mediocre or downright crappy, but ‘Van God Los’ was actually pretty good.

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I loved “Out of Sight”, “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Traffic”, so when this movie was on Dutch TV last week I was hoping for another great Steven Soderbergh movie. And hey, Julia Roberts doesn’t really hurt my eyes either…

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This Academy Award winning full length feature film by animation legend Hayao Miyazaki, is an amazing journey of transformation with an appeal to audiences both young and old. This is not just a cartoon, it is Art, and the best kind, since it is both beautiful and fascinating to look at as well as completely entertaining…

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This film is a charming comedy combining the best of stylized Spanish cinematography with that typical Castilian humor which has helped to make new Spanish films more popular than ever. Directed and written by the duo of Daniela Fejerman and In’s Par’s, A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres, is a delightful comedy of errors with a high feel-good factor ending…

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OK, I’ll confess, ever since I saw “The Wedding Singer” I have had this strange sort of thing for Adam Sandler. It falls into the genre of weird things that I have. Hugh Grant falls into this category as well. I bring this up because in P.T. Anderson’s latest film, we see certain similarities between these two romantic lead characters that Sandler portrays…

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