After being canceled last year because of the Covid pandemic Yerevan's unique Golden Apricot film festival is back in action. The 18th edition of this Armenian festival has been moved back this year...

By Alex Deleon   The  full scale revival of the Karlovy Vary film festival is an encouaging sign that the end of the Covid era may soon be in sight. Delayed only a month from its usual early to mid...

By  Alex Deleon, flying film cynic   As far as VIP visitors are concerned, some pretty big names can turn up in some pretty peculiar places, as long as their schedules permit, the deal is made...

It's still the same old story ... Casablanca.     The story of a hot love affair with  badly crossed wires. Rick Blaine,  an American  adventurer  (H. Bogart) is hanging out in Paris after the...

By Alex Deleon                 Some actors never die, they just pass away to a higher realm.             The ultimate incarnation of James Bond, double 0'Seven, has cashed in his chips here down...

Staying safe at the movie with Spielberg.

By Alex Deleon Just watched one of the greatest of all Russian films -- On Russian TV, One of the very best. Ballad of a Soldier.  World War II. Black and white masterpiece. I saw it only when it...

By Alex Deleon I just thought it was mostly boring with a  tacked on violent ending to relieve  the preceding two hours of tedium.  With crashingly Uninteresting characters all around in an achingly...

By Alex Deleon. <filmfestivals.com> 1. SYSTEM CRASHER, director, Nora Fingscheidt, (Germany) Starring ten year old Helena Zengel, as an uncontrollable child   My own Best actress of the...