Alien: Covenant (2017) is certainly a film not worth watching. I warded off boredom by thinking about work. When a scriptwriter writes the script for a film, they concentrate on themes essential to the story and fill out the rest with everyday stuff. In a science fiction film you thus might think about monsters and … [>>>>>>>]
If you are not in Sarajevo (Bosnia) for the first time, you know that you have entered the culinary heaven for meat eaters and you are already salivating thinking about ćevapi (meat), pljeskavica (meat), ćufte (meat), dolme (meat), burek (meat), … If you don’t know the best restaurants, you will go to TripAdvisor, list “Sarajevo … [>>>>>>>]
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was able to bestow limitless powers upon himself despite minimal enthusiasm of voters at home (51.5% voted for him) because he was helped by Turks living in Germany (with 63%, in some towns even as many as 76% voting for him). It seems those living in a democracy do … [>>>>>>>]
A few summers ago I was driving through the outskirts of Trieste and was tempted by the sea. I stopped the car and went for a swim. As I was drying myself off under some pine trees a number of Italian families began arriving. Their descent appeared more complicated than the disembarkation in Normandy; they … [>>>>>>>]
Praises and awards are splashing on Toni Erdmann, film by Maren Ade. It got every important European Film Academy award and is now being rumored as a sure foreign Oscar winner. After seeing it, my first thought was about just two possibilities: we’re doomed or in the few years everybody will be totally embarrassed, asking … [>>>>>>>]
Slovenia has voted on referendum about gay marriages twice so far. Here are the maps with the results: YES is blue, NO is red. Most of the voters didn’t show up (just 36.25% in 2015 vote). If you look at the 2015 map and ask yourself what are these small blue islands: yes, they’re the … [>>>>>>>]
Tired of TV news, immigrant panic, hate speech on the Facebook, I decided to relax with one of my favorite movies, Casablanca. I press play with box of tissues by my side and … … ah, here he is, good old Humprey Bogart, son of English and Dutch immigrants. And now, let me hold my … [>>>>>>>]
Growing up in the socialist Yugoslavia I read and heard a lot about self-censorship: The writers just didn’t want to go where the whip of the government was waiting. Later on, I’ve noticed that most of this self-censorship is unconscious. The idea is killed or changed even before it reaches the consciousness – this is … [>>>>>>>]