The Ghost Writer By Witold Żygulski 23 February 2010 The latest Roman Polanski movie is based on a best-selling novel by Robert Harris, a writer whose fiction has been adapted for the screen several times before (Fatherland from 1994 by Christopher Menaul, Enigma from 2001 by Michael Apted, and the made-for-television Archangel from 2005 by Jon Jones). Polanski's adaptation is a dark thriller that exposes the mechanisms of global politics and the ambition and pressures on people in high places. The movie robs the viewer of any optimism whatsoever.
Sherlock Holmes By Witold Żygulski 4 February 2010 The premiere of Sherlock Holmes prompted a critic with boundless patience to count up the number of films and television shows that have featured Britain's most famous British detective: 212 to date. This time, fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might be in for a shock with this effort from Guy Ritchie (Snatch; Revolver; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels). The resulting movie has little in common with the literary original and instead aims to appeal to younger audiences, featuring references to several recent blockbusters.
Avatar 13 January 2010 It took just 17 days from its world premiere for James Cameron's Avatar to rake in a staggering $1 billion at the box office. Admittedly, tickets to 3D screenings are more expensive than regular ones and Avatar was shown over two long weekends during Christmas and New Year, but it is clear that Cameron is aiming to beat his own record set by his blockbuster Titanic from 1997, which raked in $1.2 billion around the world. While Titanic won 11 Academy Awards, none of those went to the actors. It is highly unlikely that any actor in Avatar will win an Oscar either, because all the human roles merely provide a backdrop for a futuristic extravaganza that may well sweep this year's Oscars for its sets, costumes, make-up, cinematography, editing, score and last but not least, the special effects.
Spread By Witold Żygulski 16 December 2009 It's time to announce the winner of our informal Worst Movie of 2009 Competition. At the beginning of the year, it seemed the title would go to Peyton Reed's Yes Man, but this dud was knocked off the top spot in July by Largo Winch, directed by Jerome Salle.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon By Witold Żygulski 2 December 2009 How can a movie panned by users of the Internet Movie Database, the largest movie website (an average rating of 4.5 out of ten after almost 23,000 votes) manage to top the American box-office and stay there for several weeks? It can if it's a vampire film or, more specifically, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass, About a Boy) and based on the second book of a best-selling series written by Stephenie Meyer. In just three days after release, it raked in $141 million in the United States, which has been bested only by such blockbusters as Spider-Man 3 and The Dark Knight.
2012 By Witold Żygulski 18 November 2009 Over the past couple of years, movies about the end of the world have been increasingly popular with producers who have budgets of hundreds of millions of dollars to shock viewers with ever more sophisticated special effects. This strategy pays off, because the said effects are what draws audiences to movies that usually have nothing else to offer. Most characters in doomsday movies are one-dimensional while the scripts overdose on sentimentality, which is set off by bombastic musical scores.
The Rebound By Witold Żygulski 28 October 2009 Sandy (Catherine Zeta Jones-Chicago, Traffic) is a housewife and the mother of two small children. One day she sits at her computer editing a video film from her son's birthday and suddenly her life falls apart when she sees her husband caught on camera in the kitchen indulging in a sexual act that once made headlines, courtesy of an American president and his intern. Shocked, Sandy files for divorce, takes the children with her and heads for New York City to start a new life.
Films in English 28 October 2009 The Luna movie theater in October began screening shows films with English subtitles every Thursday. The screenings comprise foreign movies that are little known in Poland, including productions from countries such as China, Azerbaijan, India, Georgia and Bahrain, in addition to Polish movies and world releases that opened in Poland recently.
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