#Sci-Fi

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Review: four trips to the cinema in Ukraine

I Watched Avatar: The Way of Water Four Times Because Ukraine Kept Losing Power

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) — my review, and the strange story of finally managing to watch it from beginning to end in Ukraine during the winter of 2022.

Most movie reviews follow a familiar pattern: you go to the cinema once, watch the film, go home, think about it for a few hours, and write down your thoughts. …

Dune (1984) Review: A Beautiful Failure Caught Between Lynch and Hollywood

Dune (1984): A Beautiful Failure Caught Between David Lynch and Hollywood

There are two fundamentally different ways to approach David Lynch’s Dune. The first is to see it as an ambitious artistic blockbuster—a rare studio film from the 1980s that wasn’t trying to entertain teenagers as much as provoke philosophical reflection. Many viewers were willing to project Frank Herbert’s …