Watched on Blu-Ray
After three films about Daniel LaRusso, the reboot "The Next Karate Kid" followed ten years after the original. Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) remains, but he gets a new student, the stubborn Julie (Hilary Swank), who is suffering from the death of her parents. The basic framework is similar, but "The Next Karate Kid" tries to change the formula somewhat - not particularly successfully.
After three "Karate Kid" films with Daniel-san, not only was the story of the…
Watched in the cinema (28th visit in 2025)
Director Mike Cheslik not only managed to win numerous awards with his feature film debut "Hundreds of Beavers" in 2022, but also managed to completely win over his audience with his many absurd ideas, so that the film was briefly considered the craziest film of the year (and probably is). Thanks to Lighthouse Home Entertainment, the beavertastic black and white silent film event is now coming to German cinemas almost 3 years…
Watched in the cinema (22nd visit in 2025)
When trying to visualize the typical 90s action flick for a film lover with little experience, sooner or later you will almost inevitably stumble across a work starring Sylvester Stallone. Alongside "Demolition Man", "The Specialist", "Judge Dredd" and "Assassins", it is above all Renny Harlin's "Cliffhanger" that sums up the refreshing lightness of the action genre of that period. Handmade effects work had not yet been replaced by digital orgies of destruction,…
Watched in the cinema (20th visit in 2025)
Somehow, people didn't want to be in the shoes of the Paddington makers after 2018. With the second part, they had produced a sequel that was not only extremely successful, but also delighted fans and critics. It appeared in several best lists and was even mentioned in the Nicolas Cage meta-comedy "The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" as one of the best films of all time - completely unironically. How do you…
Watched in the cinema (19th visit in 2025)
Even though Alexandre Dumas was very prolific throughout his career, writing several dozen novels and plays, he is primarily known to most people for two stories. One concerns the young D'Artagnan, who, together with the three musketeers, is on the trail of a great conspiracy. The other tells of the young sailor who is unjustly convicted and later plots a great revenge. The fact that the two key works are so immortal…
Watched on Disney +
You have to hand it to Blue Sky Studios: they took an astonishing amount of time to follow up their surprise success "Ice Age". It was to take three years after their celebrated debut before they showed a new sign of life with Robots, and another until the sequel "Ice Age 2" was released in cinemas. However, it is not entirely clear why. Because hardly anything has actually changed in four years.
Original stories were not…
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…
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…