Red Cynic

Everybody knows who Dracula is. Or rather they think they know. Cos' many heard, mainly, only about various ‘counts’ and ‘vampires’. While the man who Bram Stoker turned into the protagonist (or, to be more precise, the antagonist) of his book, is far from being widely known. 2014 motion picture ‘Dracula’ is, in its essence, an effort to tell ‘the forgotten’ and reexamine ‘the fiction’. We’ll find out what came out of this effort right away.

Few people know about the sacrifice made by American tankers during World War II. Their exceptional heroism and... and the frighteningly high number of casualties. And if the feats of the infantrymen and paratroopers are widely enough covered in fiction and cinematography, the tankers, as a rule, do not leave the boundaries of documentary movies. The creators of the movie "Fury" tried to fill this gap. And how much they managed to do it, we will know right now...

"Interstellar" made a lot of noise. The number of praises exceeds all reasonable standards of decency. The film is licked, caressed and... turned into an idol (and Nolan in the first priest). Idol... all of science fiction. Well, let's see what kind of "science fiction" it is. We love all kinds of a wonderful, marvelous and funny animals very much…!

In 2013, we figured out who Rambo was. Today we're going to look at who he eventually became. "Rambo 3" is remarkable to many. Not only is it one of the brightest specimens of klukva (stereotypes about Russians). It's also an example of a klukva which is expensively filmed and qualitatively produced. But, enough preface! Hey! The Red Orcs are coming...

The fifth year. Season five. Great biologist, doctor, architect, climatologist, metallurgist, meteorologist, military historian, military commander and just a very good man is no longer a scriptwriter. How did it affect the series? Has the quality bar dropped? Or, on the contrary... has it gone up? We'll find out right now...

Once upon a time (or maybe not so recently) a young (or maybe not so young) and unknown (or maybe already a little known) talent named Neil Blomkamp filmed a short movie about robotic policeman from South Africa. For many years the author dreamed of a more serious implementation of this idea. And so, finally, in 2015, Neil turned his dreams into a brilliant movie... Or maybe not so brilliant...

Diverting your wait of a big review, we will look at the 2001 movie "In August '44..." and learn how it is inferior to its original source, the novel by Vladimir Bogomolov "The Moment of Truth."

In mass culture, the popularity of vikings can only be compared with ninjas, pirates and aliens. Almost every year studios realising movies about the harsh northern warriors, but as a rule, all this has very little to do with real northerners. But in 2013, a series with a multi-language title "Vikings" was released on TV. Was it able to authentically reproduce the life, culture and spirit of famous warriors and discoverers? We find out right now...

Diverting your wait for the big review, we'll take a short ride on the tetralogy of Max Rokatansky and try to find out where the road is more asphalted, the engines are louder, and freaks are more insane...

Agent 47 is one of the most famous and iconic characters in computer and video games. Games about Hitman are benchmarks in the genre of stealth-action and, although many can be surprised by that, in the genre of logic puzzles and tactical action. 47 tried to get on the big screen as much as two times. And what in these adaptations with tactics, logic and stealth? Well, uh... Let's find out right now...