Movie/TV Reviews

I suffered through watching The Odyssey so you don’t have to. Here’s what I saw, and why it’s important. All of my previous apprehension about this movie turned out to be correct, but I didn’t expect it to be this bad. The plot is meandering, weirdly written and badly paced. It reminds me of Dune, … Read more

Recently I watched the 1943 pro-Soviet Hollywood movie The North Star, set in the Ukrainian SSR at the start of the German invasion. I found it to be quite entertaining and informative. The North Star’s message, of course, is that Soviet people are America’s friends, and there’s no better way to do that than to … Read more

For reasons I can’t quite explain, watching A Man For All Seasons compelled me to have another watch of V For Vendetta. Maybe it is because they are both about the same thing; a rebellion against British authority. And yet in a way they are opposites of each other.

Here are six widely believed but untrue plot holes in Star Wars. Leia Leading the Empire back to the rebel base In Star Wars: A New Hope, people frequently claim that it was a plot hole for Leia to know about the imperial tracking device on the Millennium Falcon but still fly back to the … Read more

Today we went to the local theater in Feodosia to watch the new Russian war movie Litvyak, a biopic of the most famous woman combat pilot in history. And, well, it was disappointing.