Netflix's best documentaries: untold stories
The American television network Netflix has a reputation for several years as a supplier of valuable documentaries, including both bright Oscar-winning works and large-scale scientific studies of modern society. Believe…

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"Mandy": and one in the field warrior
It is not necessary to Wake a sleeping bear, know all the inhabitants of the forest and hunters. And that not to Wake Nicolas cage should have been learned by…

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(Not)heroes: the story of a deconstructed superhero image in comic book adaptations
Marvel now many took out. More precisely, not even Marvel itself as such, but the dominance of their film comics. Film adaptations are full of stamps and even self-copying (I…

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Monthly Archives: December 2017

“Ralph vs. the Internet”: deep thoughts in a child’s wrapper

Animation has long ceased to be a genre for children. Hundreds of threads on forums are devoted to search of various Easter eggs and references to the real world and serious topics in animation, and in discussions about a plot in the style of “what the author really wanted to say” the strongest minds of mankind fight. And to combine a bright, cartoon design with something close to an adult, you really need to be able to. Fortunately, the creators of the cartoon “Ralph against the Internet” (Raplh Breaks the Internet) it turned out.

Recently, cartoon franchises have been growing with their viewers. On the sequel to finding Nemo-finding Dory – most of the movie room was occupied by teenagers and students, not children, and they were happy to return to the characters of childhood. Continue reading

“Fantastic beasts: the crimes of green de walda”: the darkness of heartache

What certainly expects the viewer, going to the film on the universe of “Harry Potter”? Most likely, the feeling of magic, tales — sometimes naive, sometimes harsh, sometimes too close to real life. “Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald “(Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald), the second film in the series” Fantastic creatures”, traditionally released in the winter season. But this time the new year’s magic did not help him.

It should be noted that the franchise “Harry Potter” has had a huge impact on mass culture. Perhaps, on popularity from book series and their adaptations its surpasses, wasn that, “the Lord of the rings” – but books Professor and there are longer, and, say honestly, have more fertile the ground for multi-year discussions.But the success of “Harry Potter” is not a secret, and it is logical that such a cash cow should not be missed. In the first “Fantastic beasts”, events which occur about a century before all the pandemonium with the boy with the scar, the viewer is enticed by the atmosphere and mantle: follow the adventures of a shy magical zoologist and animals in the distant, incomprehensible and harsh to America was very exciting and damn magical. Continue reading

TV series "Chernobyl": peaceful atom in the service of the entertainment industry
Chamber mini-project for 5 episodes caused a real surge of spectator activity. There is talk of the decline of the serial era, "Chernobyl" has become a kind of small TV…

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Kim Ki-Duk, high five! Top 5 films of the main humanist of Korean cinema
On December 20, 1960, the world-famous Director Kim Ki-Duk was born in Sobenni village (South Korea). The biography turned out to be motley: he left school as a 15-year-old teenager…

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Horror movie man: remastered and dubbed
How much anxiety audiophiles delivers the difference in sound of the two records, while literally next to the movie tracks there is a Texas chainsaw massacre. Discuss? Mastering of the…

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