Watched on Disney +

For animation fans, the 2000s will always mark the decade in which the mass extinction of classic animated films began. Disney broke away from its glorious handmade history with "Home on the Range", DreamWorks Animation was also fed up after various flops. Fox Animation Studios even had to close down completely after "Titan A. E". And this also had an impact on "Ice Age". Originally intended as a dramatic animated film, Blue Sky Studios was not…

Watched in the ZDF Media Library

64 years have passed since this film was made and the team of reporter Tintin and sleuth Snowy have been investigating for almost 100 years. Conceived by Hergè, probably one of Europe's best-known comic authors, the two heroes have been chasing the mysteries of this world since 1929. In his adopted country of France (Georges Prosper Remi, alias Hergè, was originally born in Belgium), "Les aventures de Tintin" are part of the cultural heritage…

Watched in the cinema (4th visit in 2025)

Luca Guadagnino knows all about special relationships between men. The Italian director celebrated his breakthrough with "Call Me by Your Name", in which a young man from a wealthy family and a student fall in love. Most recently, his film "Challengers" was shown in cinemas, which was about the rivalry between two tennis players - love triangle and homoeroticism included. With "Queer", things are about to get even more explicit. The title…

Watched on Blu-Ray

After "The Karate Kid Part II" grossed 115 million dollars, a sequel was apparently a must. However, this was three years in the making and was generally received rather cautiously. The disappointment at the time is understandable: Basically, the movie simply gives the story of "The Karate Kid" a new guise and tells it again, while practically negating the second part in some key points. With enough distance, however, it's not as bad as it seemed at…

Watched on YouTube

How I loved this movie as a child! A trashy mix of "The Neverending Story" and Terry Gilliam. I watched it again today after a very, very long time. "Olle Hexe" is a movie that really makes it clear how quickly technical means have developed in recent decades. Even though the film is 33 years old and therefore not actually that old, its technology seems ancient from today's perspective, although that certainly has its charm. At least…

Michael Light stellt ein Team zusammen und nimmt an einem knallharten Adventure Race quer durch unwegsames Gelände teil. Dabei trifft er auf einen Straßenhund, der sein treuer Begleiter wird.
„Arthur der Große“ hat Potential, welches viel zu häufig ungenutzt liegen bleibt. Wettkampf-Feeling will sich aufgrund der holprigen und sprunghaften Inszenierung nicht einstellen und auch die Momente mit dem Hund lassen keine Bindung entstehen. 
Umso mehr wird in den letzten 20 Minuten nach dem Abschluss des Rennens auf die Tränendrüse gedrückt.…

Watched in the cinema (194th visit in 2024)

Over 300 million for "Sonic the Hedgehog" and over 400 million for the sequel "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" two years later: the box office figures for Sega's golden hedgehog are certainly impressive, which is why this series about the blue hedgehog who whizzes around at a monkey's pace is constantly being expanded. There was a mini-series on streaming TV this year with "Knuckles" to tide us over (which I haven't seen), and…

Watched in the cinema (193rd visit in 2024)

Disney lets the lions roar again! Barry Jenkins invites us into the realm of the wild animals and presents the sequel (actually the predecessor) to "The Lion King". With vocal support from Mads Mikkelsen, Seth Rogen, Thandiwe Newton, Beyoncé and her daughter Blue Ivy Carter, we enter a fantastically animated world in which Mufasa tells his story. Packed with action, drama and suspense, this is an adventure lasting just under two hours…

Watched in the cinema (189th visit in 2024)

It may seem paradoxical at first glance, but respect is due to those who meet the films from Sony's Spider-Man universe (SSU) with unbroken anticipation. The characters on which these productions are based are by no means uninteresting. However, their cinematic realizations have increasingly developed into pale caricatures. The once menacing Venom has been degraded to a witty sidekick, the vampiric Morbius has become a bloodless production and Madame Web has involuntarily…