Movie reviews

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS

Watchable. While I didn't laugh even once, I felt entertained throughout. Really light, colourful and de-braining. Let's hope DJ deadmau5 doesn't sue them over "DJ Dead Mice". Kate Moss looks like a mermaid in her glimmering green dress. The ending is great as it's a direct play on the final scene from "Some Like It Hot".

A MONSTER CALLS

Watchable. Tragic, sad and depressing, about a schoolboy's mum dying of cancer. And so slow-paced I slept through the middle. Says some sad truths about people.

PUTIN FOREVER?

Watchable. I'm not sure if it had to be 93 minutes long. The whole film is just home-based interviews with Russian opposition activists. You see how determined they are to end Putin's rule and how aware they are it's going to take years of demonstrations. Boris Nemtsov appears disarmingly gentle and kind. So the ending listing all of the portrayed activists either in voluntary exile or, Nemtsov, dead, is striking. Is Putin immovable? Good, jumpy Russian music. I couldn't resist the impression Poland may reach the stage at which Russia is now.

WSZYSTKIE NIEPRZESPANE NOCE (ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS)

Watchable. Lots of techno and electro music (mostly Das Komplex and Lutto Lent). Partly filmed in 1500m2 and Bar Studio. Two guys: one hot, one not. On of them dances very well and a lot. Frustration shown in their constant smoking. All about music, drugs, looking for happiness and the fear of loneliness.

INFERNO

Watchable. A blockbuster following Hitchcock's rule that "A good film should start with an earthquake and be followed by rising tension." The beginning is confusing only to reflect Professor Langdon's muddled state of mind. Then regular action takes over with all the mandatory twists and turns, red herrings and solving the ideogramic puzzle. Florence, Venice, Istanbul feature with the accompaniment of Hans Zimmer's music giving the film a monumental feel. A good action movie following the genre rules.