Film reviews, behind-the-scenes stories, and deep dives into cinema from a filmmaker’s perspective.
In 1984, The Terminator stormed onto screens with a singular vision: gritty, relentless, and terrifyingly original. James Cameron’s low-budget sci-fi masterpiece gave us Arnold Schwarzenegger…
There’s a point at which nostalgia stops being fun and starts feeling like exploitation. With The Expendables 3, that line is crossed, trampled on, and…
Hayao Miyazakis Wie der Wind sich hebt (Kaze Tachinu, 2013) ist ein Film, der sich anfühlt wie der letzte, zarte Pinselstrich eines großen Künstlers. Es…
Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been the quintessential larger-than-life action star, commanding the screen with explosive charisma and iconic one-liners in films like Commando (1985), Predator…
By 2013, the golden era of ’80s action heroes was long gone, but Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger had found ways to keep their legendary…
The Last Stand marked Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role after his tenure as the Governor of California, and it seemed designed to reintroduce him as…
Quentin Tarantino hat es wieder einmal geschafft: Mit Django Unchained erschafft er einen Western, der nicht nur als Genre-Hommage an die italienischen Spaghetti-Westerns seines Lebens…
By the time The Expendables 2 hit theaters in 2012, the idea of reuniting every major action star of the ‘80s and ‘90s had lost…
Since Monday, I've been working while standing. No more seat for me. There are various reasons for this, among the top ones are my (over-)weight…
Check out the teaser trailer to my upcoming documentary "Souls of Zen - Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism": You can visit the…
SHANGHAI — At a Shanghai building site, a man in a black Stetson looks over his shoulder at two approaching thugs. Four others appear, fists…
While embezzling $14 billion from a Chinese bank for the US government, two Western bankers grab $15 million in cash for themselves. They store it…
