Tag Archives: German cinema

Oscars Everywhere All At Once – Some Thoughts on the 2023 Academy Award Winners

Posted on March 15, 2023 by Cora

I used to do an annual post commenting on the Academy Award winners, but a quick check of my archives reveals that the last time I did an Oscar winner comment post was in 2019. Of course, skipping the pandemic … Continue reading →

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Cora is Elsewhere on the Web Today

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Cora

The third local paper Kreiszeitung also reported about my Hugo win today. This article by Andreas Hapke focusses on the odyssey (chronicled here) that my poor Hugo trophy had to go through to reach me. And here is the article … Continue reading →

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Toss a Coin to Your Witcher: Some Thoughts on The Witcher

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Cora

I have to admit that initially, I wasn’t even going to watch The Witcher. For while I am cursorily familiar with the books, I have never played the videogames nor watched the Polish TV series from the early 2000s. And … Continue reading →

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Lone Mandalorian and Yoda Cub: Some Thoughts on The Mandalorian

Posted on January 5, 2020 by Cora

After The Rise of Skywalker review, here is the promised review of The Mandalorian, the new live action Star Wars show broadcast via Disney’s streaming service. The following was written in bits and pieces over several weeks, as I watched … Continue reading →

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Old Directors Yell at Clouds – Pardon, Superheroes

Posted on October 25, 2019 by Cora

This October seems to be “aging directors lash out at superhero movies” month. Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, Casino and others, fired the first volley during an interview to promote his latest film, The Irishman, which … Continue reading →

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Time Travel, Bond Rip-offs and the Fashion for Folksy Rural Themes in the 1960s

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Cora

Blogging has been light over here for the past two weeks or so, but today I am over at Galactic Journey again, where I review the post-apocalyptic novel Davy by Edgar Pangborn in a double post together with Victoria Silverwolf, … Continue reading →

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Some Comments about the 1944 Retro Hugo Awards Winners

Posted on August 16, 2019 by Cora

So the 1944 Retro Hugos were awarded during the opening ceremonies of WorldCon 77 in Dublin last night. I didn’t go to the opening ceremonies, but was having dinner at The Drunken Fish, a Korean restaurant in Dublin. But of … Continue reading →

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Remembering Artur Brauner and Dr. Mabuse

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Cora

This will only be a short post, because I’m still hard at work doing the 2019 July short story challenge. If you want to follow along, bookmark my July short story challenge day by day post. Meanwhile, I’m also over … Continue reading →

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Why you should not dismiss “Münchhausen” out of hand

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Cora

One of the finalists on this year’s Retro Hugo ballot in the Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form category is a German film, namely the 1943 UFA film Münchhausen, at the time one of the most expensive German films ever made. … Continue reading →

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Cora is time-travelling to 1964 to revisit the Edgar Wallace movies

Posted on June 4, 2019 by Cora

My latest post is up over at the Hugo nominated fanzine Galactic Journey. This time, I talk about the West German Edgar Wallace movies of the 1960s, a subject about which I’ve written in these pages before. Of course, it’s … Continue reading →

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