Show only: all | reviews | shorts | comments | links

Variations on a theme

review: Nine, Sunday 24. January 2010, 03:07

I hate musicals. They are dumb, infantile, irrelevant and generally lack a proper plot which altogether means I usually fall asleep on them in a cinema. The only musical that I enjoyed was Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd about the ...

10 Best Movies of 2009

review, Thursday 10. December 2009, 16:50

Was 2009 a good year for the film buffs around the world? I would call it rather average. Still there were at least 10 movies that I can call truly great, if not masterpieces. Here they are... in reverse order: ...

elega Tuesday 15. December 2009, 04:02

Uff ... there are some movies that did not know. ...

michuk Tuesday 15. December 2009, 09:15

District 9 was entertaining, but not good enough to make ...

elega Thursday 17. December 2009, 22:44

Yeah, okay, maybe you might be right. Broken Embraces?? I ...

Comments (3) | Reply

London Film Festival 2009 - Filmaster Awards

review, Friday 30. October 2009, 16:58

The 53rd London Film Festival is over. As an accredited Filmaster reviewer for the festival I watched 14 movies and so far wrote 4 reviews of the films + short impressions on the other 10. I'll be ...

Cracks [London Film Festival]

review: Cracks, Thursday 29. October 2009, 16:34

I watched Cracks by accident. Literally. The tape with Sweet Rush which I went to see turned out to be unusable and the nice lady from RichMix cinema anounced that instead of the Polish master's latest ...

Lebanon [London Film Festival]

review: Lebanon, Thursday 22. October 2009, 15:24

Lebanon is the movie I've been waiting for since the Venice Film Festival where it grabbed the main prize. I finally watched it on a DVD in the London Film Festival mediateque as I managed ...

sketchbook Wednesday 10. March 2010, 17:49

This is a rave. What I read earlier was v. ...

Comments (1) | Reply

Up in the air [London Film Festival]

review: Up in the Air, Monday 19. October 2009, 15:00

Up in the air, which I have just seen at the BFI London Film Festival, is not a typical festival movie. It's rather a typical blockbuster, a smart (romantic?) comedy with lots of great lines and fabulous acting. It's the ...

A Single Man in L.A.

review: A Single Man, Friday 16. October 2009, 12:10

A Single Man tells a story of loneliness of a university lecturer who has lost his life partner in a car accident and tries to figure out what to do next, if anything at all. Borys Musielak George ...

michuk Wednesday 03. March 2010, 19:39

Well it seems that I was wrong with the Oscars. ...

cliodhna Thursday 04. March 2010, 12:15

Nice review. I really want to see this, but I ...

Pippin2010 Thursday 04. March 2010, 13:18

True that A Single Man was not nominated for Picture ...

michuk Thursday 04. March 2010, 14:36

Jeff Bridges in "Crazy Heart" was fantasti and he well ...

Pippin2010 Thursday 04. March 2010, 17:30

Apologies, did not notice the date of publication of your ...

Comments (5) | Reply

Wajda's "Katyń": A Missed Chance

review: Katyn, Monday 28. September 2009, 15:39

Katyń is a project Andrzej Wajda had in mind for years. It's very personal. Director's father was among the ones murdered in the forest. And then for some 45 years the Polish and Russian governments lied about the genocide, blaming ...

ChrisKnipp Monday 28. September 2009, 20:46

Since you're incorporated our discussion into your review and give ...

michuk Monday 28. September 2009, 22:56

There is actually one Polish war movie to come out ...

Comments (2) | Reply

Torn Pictures, Broken Embraces

review: Los abrazos rotos, Wednesday 02. September 2009, 19:55

Pedro Almodóvar has been developing as a story-teller, director and artist with each and every movie since he made his last "wild" picture, "Kika", in 1993. "Broken Embraces" is no exception. In this beautiful film, the Spanish (film)master shows his ...

sketchbook Wednesday 03. March 2010, 07:57

Excellent review. Gotta see this instanto.

michuk Wednesday 03. March 2010, 10:20

Thanks a lot. It's always good to hear a compliment ...

Comments (2) | Reply

Who's the bastard?

review: Inglourious Basterds, Friday 21. August 2009, 22:28

Quentin Tarantino... Many believed that even a quasi-serious war movie is an over-ambitious project for him. Being seriously disappointed by his latest features (a too-long-and-quite-boring Kill Bill saga and a nice-try-but-failed Death Proof incident) I was obviously very sceptical prior ...

MalviLLe Saturday 22. August 2009, 10:45

Wow! Sounds great! I have to wait until October to ...

michuk Saturday 22. August 2009, 10:57

Yep I know. In Poland it's September so I'm used ...

JeffreyVC Saturday 22. August 2009, 20:15

I agree and I think liked the movie even more ...

michuk Saturday 22. August 2009, 23:30

Yes, the second part of Kill Bill was better, it ...

Comments (4) | Reply

E-mail notifications and better filtering of Planet Filmaster

We spent the last month implementing a couple of major features, that may not look that major but are so ...

Half a million film ratings at Filmaster.com!

We’ll be celebrating 1st birthday of Filmaster (at least the Polish version) soon, but we already have great news. We’ve ...

Lots of minor features and bug fixes

Over the last few weeks we’ve been constantly updating Filmaster with new features and bug fixes. This post is a ...

The Planet

The Planet shorts

The Planet reviews

The Planet comments