The Man with the Iron Heart (2017)

Reinhard Heydrich at its best...or should I say, its worst. The movie is well directed, my only con is that it should have been spoken in German and Czech 100%. However, it's something I can cope with, since the atmosphere was really caught by the Director Cédric Jimenez. It's something you immediately see, when you know the story, that it will not end well, and so it cannot be a stupid american movie for stupid americans. Photography 5/5, good soundtrack, and again..beautiful color, beautiful Prague, even though sometimes you notice it's not Prague but reinforced cardboard structures :)

4 out of 5.

Assassin's Creed (2016)

What has Jeremy Irons come to...I watched this, as I recently engaged with the AC game series (Origins, in Egypt, and a bit of the one in China) and it looked like a nice Universe. But this movie...just shows that great visual effects (which it has, carefully using lense effects and color filters, smoke, etc) is not enough to get a movie. The story sucks, and mix between modern and old feels as they say.. desynch'ed. All in all.... 2 out of 5.

The Donner Party (2009)

The Donner Party is a real story, though a bit changed, of the odissey of a group of migrants from the East of the US to California, through Sierra Nevada, where they were blocked and forced to spend the Winter, resorting to extreme actions to stay alive.
The movie misses the beginning and the end of the epopeya, which is a pity. But all in all , 3 out of 5.

The Shape of Water (2017)

Best Picture Oscar of 2018, it's truly a masterpiece from Del Toro. The lights, the color (teal !), the different symbolisms used to represent minorities and their benefits, the "being different is the new black", etc, etc.

All in all a great movie, and the real question ? How do you know it has a happy ending ? I do.

By the way... references to Brazil, Blade Runner, Back to the Future and Big Bang Theory. Four of my favorite B items.

5 out of 5.

Lion (2016)

A true story. A deep touching movie, again without the "american style" idiocy, but still with some violence for the mind, if not the body. Plus, you get to learn about real India, not the Bombay/ND/Bangalore cosmopolitan centers, but what happens around it, the lack of development together with the effort of some to push it into the XXth century. Yes, I know, we're in the XXIth, but huge parts of India are still lagging behind.

The Lunchbox (2013)

A nice indian movie, not to miss. No "american style" happy endings, no "american style" violence, just a pure human movie, about human emotions, that trasverse the entire World.

Not to miss.

4 out of 5.

Emperor (2012)

A movie that's not typical american, historically accurate (kind of), and talking about of part of history that's not much in the highlights. Who wants to know what happens after one side wins ? Well, that's a time-continuum, so yes, it's important to know, how it went. That's what the movie talks about. Furthermore, no fake happy endings, just real ones.