Category: Reviews

  • Report from the 58th International Short Film Festival Brno 16

    Report from the 58th International Short Film Festival Brno 16

    By Barbara Ocsovayová Brno16, or B16, in Czech “Brněnská šestnáctka”, is an international festival of short films. In the beginning, the festival only featured films with a 16mm format but now includes other formats as well. The filmmakers range from professionals to students. The topic for this year’s festival was “We Are Family”.

  • Arbitrary Humanity: The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

    By Michaela Medveďová A crew comprised of four different species, the universe governed by a galactic government, a wormhole-making spaceship travelling light years away to an unknown world. The setting for Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to A Small, Angry Planet  provides a seemingly perfect opportunity for a breathtaking space adventure, filled with chases and…

  • Fighting for the “Right” Version of America: Timeless Review & Analysis

    By Tereza Walsbergerová Time-travel, popular historical figures, and light humor, but also mystery, conspiracy, and corruption at the very root of America’s past… The American TV series Timeless, created by Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (Lie To Me), is a seemingly straightforward time-travel procedural packed with popular history trivia, stereotypical characters, and overused television…

  • HIDDEN FIGURES

    by Anna Jílková An American film of 2017, Hidden Figures portrays issues of the 1960s. These include the Cold War, civil and women’s rights activism and the first NASA space projects.

  • Art Makes Us Stronger

    By Anna Jílková and Michaela Medveďová When trying to answer a simple question – what is art – one may come to realize that this question is, indeed, very tricky. At least the search for the answer is. The definition varies from one person to another – what one considers to be art someone else may…

  • Just a Bloke from Stratford: Upstart Crow Review

    By Blanka Šustrová Our hero lives in a small cottage somewhere in Warwickshire. He has to feed and clothe his old, grumpy parents together with his wife (eight years older) and their three children – a mopey teenager that only speaks in grunts and twins whose only interests are sweets. He commutes to London every…

  • He Will Most Certainly Not Be Fine: Please Like Me as a Millennial’s Adaptation of Contemporary Australia

    By Tereza Walsbergerová   Chuck Palahniuk is not by far the only one who realises that being in one’s twenties can be extremely tough. In fact, there is one comedian in Australia who based his entire livelihood on this notion and even created a TV show around it. Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me is about…

  • Grantchester: the double trouble of a vicar-detective

    By Martina Krénová What could go wrong when a handsome, charismatic vicar partners with a police detective to solve crimes? The duo of a flawed vicar loving cricket, whiskey, jazz, and women, battling his inner demons, and a highly practical police detective, who has a strong sense of duty to make the society better, stumble…

  • Bond: The Man Fleming Always Wanted to Be

    By Anna Formánková Three years after the 50th anniversary of James Bond on screen, the franchise continues with what is expected to be the most successful Bond movie yet: SPECTRE. The embodiment of what Ian Fleming always desired to become returns on silver screen in the 24th instalment, the fourth adventure starring Daniel Craig as…

  • Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond

    by Anna Formánková Ian Fleming, the man who introduced the world to one of the biggest British heroes: Bond. James Bond. Though best known as a successful author of the Bond novels, Fleming drew inspiration for 007’s adventures from his own experience which he gained while working at the British Naval Intelligence Division. His life…