Russia

Why Don’t You Just Die?

By Lorry Kikta | April 2020

Ideological concerns notwithstanding, I won’t lie and tell you I don’t love a good violent movie. I love it a lot. In…

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Ideological concerns notwithstanding, I won’t lie and tell you I don’t love a good violent movie. I love it a lot. In fact, the crazier the violence...

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Call Sergey Lukyanenko the Russian Neil Gaiman...on steroids. The prolific Slavic author may lack his British counterpart’s eloquence, subtlety,...

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Kantemir Balagov's Beanpole (or its original Russian title Dyida) does something that a lot of films about WWII typically don't. It shows us the ravages...

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In Jeffrey Grellman's fantasy/horror/thriller Mermaid Down, Alexandra Bokova plays the title role of a real-life mermaid, pulled out of the ocean, fin...

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David vs. Goliath tales are quite typical in documentary features. Filmmaker Alex Gibney seems to envision himself as David. His Enron: The Smartest Guys...

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Art Camacho’s Wild League tells the story of how football (or “soccer,” as we Yanks like to call it) was introduced to the Russians by the Brits. The...

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The eminent Fiennes siblings are known for their long-standing fascination with Russia. Joseph Fiennes played one of the Russian leads, Commisar Danilov,...

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Translating a novel into a film is just as delicate and imperfect a process as translating one language into another, if not more so. In both of these...

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