Tag Archives: action movies

much more than a revenge movie (film: Revenge – Coralie Fargeat, 2017)

Posted on April 19, 2024 by admin

‘Revenge‘ is the feature debut of French director Coralie Fargeat, a director who doesn’t seem to be in a hurry. She was already 40+ years in 2017 when this film was made, and only this year, as she approaches the … Continue reading →

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the last great swashbuckler? (film: Le bossu – Philippe de Broca, 1997

Posted on February 17, 2024 by admin

French literature of the middle and second half of the 19th century offered its readers a treasure trove of mystery and adventure novels with themes inspired by the history of France from the Middle Ages to the period of the … Continue reading →

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deadly game, deadly resistance (film: Bacurau – Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, 2019)

Posted on January 20, 2024 by admin

I rarely get a chance to see Brazilian films, but the ones I get to seem all to be special. This is also the case with ‘Bacurau‘ (2019), written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho – a well-known director with … Continue reading →

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kill the system (film: Peppermint – Pierre Morel, 2018)

Posted on November 30, 2023 by admin

‘Peppermint‘ (2018) is the kind of movie that has a good chances of satisfying action movie buffs while almost all other categories of viewers will avoid it and film critics will turn their noses up in superiority. Personally, I believe … Continue reading →

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good in the 1970s, good in the 2020s (film: ‘Le sauvage’ – Jean-Pierre Rappeneau, 1975)

Posted on January 11, 2023 by admin

Jean-Paul Rappeneau made only eight feature films in his entire career as a director. However, each of them has a special charm, and in all of them you can feel the hand of a professional director, who knows the secrets … Continue reading →

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crime and politics (film: Tueurs – Jean-François Hensgens, François Troukens, 2017)

Posted on November 19, 2022 by admin

The Belgian film ‘Tueurs’ (‘Killers‘) made in 2017 has two directors. One of them, who is also the author of the story and co-screenwriter, is called Francois François Troukens and is a former bank robber who spent some time behind … Continue reading →

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Luc Besson – Deja Vu (film: Anna – Luc Besson, 2019)

Posted on August 11, 2022 by admin

When Luc Besson made ‘Nikita‘ in 1990, he unleashed a veritable avalanche of films whose heroines (or maybe we should say super-heroines) are young and beautiful women who, in extreme and hopeless situations, are recruited by espionage services to be … Continue reading →

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a 2 hours + video game (film: Top Gun: Maverick – Joseph Kosinsky, 2020)

Posted on June 6, 2022 by admin

I was not a ‘Top Gun‘ fan in 1986 when the original movie was released. I didn’t become a fan even after watching this sequel called ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ directed by Joseph Kosinski. I like action movies when they are … Continue reading →

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a revenge movie like no other (film: Riders of Justice – Anders Thomas Jensen, 2020)

Posted on November 24, 2021 by admin

The poster for ‘Riders of Justice‘, the 2020 film by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen, features a bearded and tough-looking Mads Mikkelsen with a rifle on his back and a pistol in his hand. It could very well be a … Continue reading →

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21st century Bond (film: NoTime to Die – Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021)

Posted on October 4, 2021 by admin

One of my guilty pleasures as a moviegoer is watching James Bond movies and I have no intention of apologising for that. Thus, I watched as soon as I had the opportunity ‘No Time to Die‘ directed by Cary Joji … Continue reading →

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