‘Medieval’ movie review: Ben Foster a stoic Jan Žižka in brutal Czech epic
Gorgeous sets and locations, great action scenes, and solid performances struggle against a muddled script in the Czech Republic’s biggest film to date
Gorgeous sets and locations, great action scenes, and solid performances struggle against a muddled script in the Czech Republic’s biggest film to date
Limbs are severed and throats slit in the gruesome new trailer for the Czech-produced film starring Ben Foster and Michael Caine
Four years after wrapping production in 2018, the most expensive Czech movie ever made will premiere in September
Agnieszka Holland’s excellent biopic tells the story of Czech healer Jan Mikolášek, but doesn’t tell you what to think about him
The acclaimed Czech filmmaker inserts himself into an adaptation of the Čapek brother’s famed play in this often-hilarious surrealist delight
The assassination of Reinhard Heydrich is brought to vivid life in this Prague-shot film, which premieres locally on Czech Statehood Day
The Butcher of Prague is an admirable but ultimately underwhelming film version of the Heydrich assassination and Lidice massacre
Robert Sedláček’s Long Live the Family is a slow-moving, low-energy, but occasionally affecting family drama-cum-road movie,
Leaving (Odcházení) sees former Czech president Václav Havel turn debut director in a surprisingly refined piece of intellectual surrealism
Protektor, a period drama set before and during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, nearly swept the 2010 Czech Lion awards
Robert Sedláček´s intense drama absolutely seethes with tension, but is somewhat mislabeled as a thriller