Monthly Archives: August 2025

‘This Is Not A Film About The Beatles’ (film: Midas Man – Joe Stephenson, 2024)

Posted on August 14, 2025 by admin

My problem with ‘Midas Man‘, released in 2024 and directed by Joe Stephenson, is that – starting with the posters – it is marketed as ‘a MUST watch for Beatles fans’. Those Beatles fans who will come to see it … Continue reading →

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words, lies and love in one of the best romantic movies of the 80s (film: Choose Me – Alan Rudolph, 1984)

Posted on August 13, 2025 by admin

Why didn’t Alan Rudolph become one of the most appreciated filmmakers of his generation, that of the great American directors born in the 1940s? Born sometime between Scorsese and Spielberg, launched as an assistant to Robert Altman, he is almost … Continue reading →

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Misterele Kievului (carte: Andrei Kurkov – Samson și Nadejda)

Posted on August 12, 2025 by admin

Orice carte nouă a lui Andrei Kurkov este un eveniment așteptat de cititorii săi fideli și de lumea literară. Născut în aprilie 1961, luna în care Iuri Gagarin inaugura era explorării spațiale cu echipaj uman, scriitorul ucrainean (care scrie mai … Continue reading →

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a remarkable debut (film: Tropicana – Omer Tobi, 2024)

Posted on August 10, 2025 by admin

‘Tropicana‘ (2024) is the debut feature film of a young director – Omer Tobi -, known so far mainly for music-related films (music videos and a television series). And what a debut! In 82 minutes, this film (for which Omer … Continue reading →

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the ides of october (documentary: October 8 – Wendy Sachs, 2025)

Posted on August 7, 2025 by admin

Much will be written and many films will be made about the events triggered by the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, and the war in Gaza. The conflict continues and it is not clear how and when it will … Continue reading →

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the ultimate conspiracy thriller (film: Capricorn One – Peter Hyams, 1978)

Posted on August 6, 2025 by admin

‘Capricorn One‘ was produced and released in the same years (1978-79) as ‘Superman’, ‘Star Trek’, ‘Alien’, ‘Grease’, ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Deer Hunter’. The estimated budget of around $5 million was modest by the Hollywood standard at the time and probably … Continue reading →

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TNGng – (film: The Naked Gun – Akiva Schaffer, 2025)

Posted on August 4, 2025 by admin

The producers of the new ‘The Naked Gun‘ insist on calling their film as a ‘reboot’ rather than a ‘remake’ of the original series. I’m not sure that I understood all the subtle differences between the new cinematic category and … Continue reading →

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the indiscrete wickedness of the bourgeoisie (film: La rupture – Claude Chabrol, 1970)

Posted on August 1, 2025 by admin

Some of the most scathing cinematic critiques of the bourgeoisie and the social order it dominated were created in the years after the student uprisings of 1968. They did not always take the form of explicitly political films, and one … Continue reading →

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