Tag Archives: Hollywood movies

Film: Valkyrie (Tom Cruise, 2008)

Posted on October 9, 2011 by admin

The plot to kill Adolf Hitler put together in July 1944 by a group of military was the last in a series of attempts to kill the head of the Third Reich and save what could be saved of the … Continue reading →

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Film: Source Code (Jake Gyllenhaal, 2011)

Posted on October 2, 2011 by admin

Source Code is a rare kind of a film nowadays. A techno-thriller with brains and soul. No easy task, but apparently not a first for director Duncan Jones whose previous film Moon (which I did not see yet) has a … Continue reading →

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Film: Knight and Day (Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz – 2010)

Posted on October 1, 2011 by admin

Knight and Day was one of the 2010 summer blockbusters. With a plot line that is one of the less credible action stories ever seen on screens there was not much alternative left for director James Mangold but to play … Continue reading →

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Film: Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Posted on August 27, 2011 by admin

Amazing how many times can Hollywood try to squeeze the idea that triggered in 1968 the ‘Planet of the Apes’ series. The original film starred Charlton Heston and led to four sequels in the few years after its original release. … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)

Posted on March 23, 2011 by admin

Elizabeth Taylor died today. She was a wonder child actress. She was one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century. She was one of the biggest super-stars in the history of Hollywood. She had a stormy sentimental life … Continue reading →

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Film: True Grit (Coen Brothers – 2010)

Posted on February 18, 2011 by admin

For once the Coen brothers played it according to all the rules of commercial cinema, and no wonder they did it as the producer of True Grit is no other than Steven Spielberg. The film went out in time for … Continue reading →

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Film: Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky – 2010)

Posted on January 29, 2011 by admin

‘Black Swan’ is about art and obsession, is about sanity and madness, it’s about perfection and genius, all this described in the world which can be so mistakenly perceived of classical ballet. A world in which the spectator is supposed … Continue reading →

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Film: The Book of Eli (Hughes brothers – 2009)

Posted on January 22, 2011 by admin

Post-apocalyptic movies are by no means unexplored territory. The Book of Eli has a very strong idea which gave it the premises to be different. To a large extent it failed. As 2012 happens to have been the previous film … Continue reading →

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Film: 2012 (2009)

Posted on January 9, 2011 by admin

After having destroyed a few times on very big screens Manhattan, Washington DC, the United States and the whole North America it was time for director Roland Emmerich to get to the ultimate stuff – destroying the planet. What better … Continue reading →

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Film: Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

Posted on September 20, 2010 by admin

Here is the genre of action movie that catches you while you watch it, keeps you on the edge of the chair or sofa, but later, when lights are turned on again you start asking questions about credibility and authenticity … Continue reading →

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