Category Archives: movies

a real fallout (film: Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Tom Cruise, 2018)

Posted on July 30, 2018 by admin

I know that I am the only one to blame. Guilty pleasures are often punished and enjoying action movies now and than is one of those. I also should know that in the first week on screens it’s mostly the … Continue reading →

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black and white and black (Film: Fritz Lang – Gordian Maugg, 2016)

Posted on July 29, 2018 by admin

Cinema about cinema and its more and less famous heroes is one of the most popular themes, and the results are very mixed, from superb classics to dull failures that do not succeed to get close to the sparkling and … Continue reading →

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Goldie is Back (film: Snatched – Goldie Hawn, 2017)

Posted on July 26, 2018 by admin

Snatched should have been an event. Goldie Hawn, the beautiful, smart and daring comic star of my younger days is back on the big screens after 15 years of absence. She’s starring in an action comedy, she pairs with Amy Schumer, … Continue reading →

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entertainment for kids of different ages (Film: Black Panther – Ryan Coogler, 2018)

Posted on April 21, 2018 by admin

The usual introduction and disclaimer applies. When I chose to go to a comics-inspired movie I expect a different type of experience than the one that I expect when I go do a Shakespeare-inspired film or an European art production. … Continue reading →

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victims of war (Film: Au revoir là-haut – Albert Dupontel, 2017)

Posted on March 15, 2018 by admin

It’s one hundred year since the world entered in the final year of the first global conflict. WWI was a fractal event in history. It changed the world order that had been in place for the last century, it led … Continue reading →

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my best laughs in a while (Film: Game Night – Rachel McAdams, 2018)

Posted on March 11, 2018 by admin

I confess that I was waiting for such a movie for quite a while. It’s so long since I have seen a comedy that made me laugh without being stupid, with characters I could care about without falling into melodrama, … Continue reading →

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the taylor of the emperor’s clothes (Film: Phantom Thread, Daniel Day-Lewis, 2017

Posted on March 8, 2018 by admin

The lead male hero in “Phantom Thread” is a tailor of the high society ladies in a city of London vaguely located in time sometimes after WWII. It is seldom that I am in such a disagreement with the opinions … Continue reading →

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the differences that bring us together (film: Nunta in Basarabia – Nap Toader, 2009)

Posted on March 4, 2018 by admin

Weddings are sometimes odd gatherings that bring together people from different backgrounds, nationalities, identities. Films about weddings have been used too describe not only the folkloric aspects of tradition, but also to deal with rather serious issues beyond relationships – … Continue reading →

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a study in vice (Film: The Gambler – Mark Wahlberg, 2014)

Posted on February 24, 2018 by admin

The vice of gambling inspired quite a number of literary and cinematographic works, starting maybe with Dostoevsky’s novel which shares the name with the films that inspired it until the almost masterpiece movie “House of Games” written and directed by … Continue reading →

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games of hazard (Film: 3 coeurs – Benoît Jacquot, 2014)

Posted on February 22, 2018 by admin

Director Benoît Jacquot‘s “3 coeurs” (“3 Hearts”) gathers on screen a stellar cast. The three lead feminine roles are trusted to Catherine Deneuve, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of …,  and  Chiara Mastroianni, also the daughter of … and also the daughter of … Continue reading →

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