Tag Archives: science-fiction films

CHANGE.WORLD: Planetele maimuțelor

Posted on October 6, 2024 by admin

La început a fost cartea. Romanul ‘La Planète des singes’ a apărut în 1963, a fost tradus foarte repede în limba engleză și a devenit un bestseller mondial. Autorul său era scriitorul francez Pierre Boulle. De formație inginer, Boulle fusese … Continue reading →

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a play about aliens directed by Wes Anderson (film: Asteroid City – Wes Anderson, 2023)

Posted on July 7, 2023 by admin

Watching ‘Asteroid City‘ I realize I’m starting to have a problem with Wes Anderson‘s movies. Each of them is an aesthetic delight and a demonstration of cinematic stylistic virtuosity. They are full of humor and almost every sequence includes reverences … Continue reading →

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Planet Earth survives another disaster (film: Greenland – Ric Roman Waugh, 2020)

Posted on May 28, 2023 by admin

The global catastrophe that was the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the path to viewers of hundreds or thousands of cinematographic productions. One of them was ‘Greenland‘, the 2020 film by American director Ric Roman Waugh, known mostly for action thrillers. ‘Greenland‘ … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Reîntâlnire cu Solaris

Posted on April 17, 2023 by admin

Revăd foarte rar filme și doar în ocazii sau cu motive speciale. De ce am ales, deci, să revăd ‘Solaris’, filmul din 1972 al lui Andrei Tarkovski? Declanșatorul a fost premiera pe scena Teatrului Excelsior din București a piesei ‘Solaris’ … Continue reading →

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the matrix after the trilogy (film: The Matrix Resurrections, 2021)

Posted on January 7, 2023 by admin

I’m a big fan of the original ‘Matrix’ trilogy. I gave the first film in the series a 10 out of 10 grade, which means that I think it’s among the 50 or so best movies I’ve ever seen. For … Continue reading →

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films for all the family need not be childish (film: The Adam Project – Shawn Levy, 2022)

Posted on November 1, 2022 by admin

‘The Adam Project‘, Shawn Levy‘s 2022 film, is one of those film projects that strives to prove that Netflix has become a production house that can rival any of the major studios. The film belongs to a hugely popular film … Continue reading →

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a festival of screaming dinosaurs (film: Jurassic World Dominion – Colin Trevorrow, 2022)

Posted on September 9, 2022 by admin

If my count is correct, ‘Jurassic World Dominion‘ (2022 – directed by Colin Trevorrow) is the sixth major studio film to develop the world and characters invented byMichael Crichton and first brought to the screen in 1993 by Steven Spielberg. … Continue reading →

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small is the future (film: Downsizing – Alexander Payne, 2017)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by admin

Whenever I have a hard time to categorize a film in a certain genre, the reasons can be very good or very bad. Sometimes it’s one of those original and inventive films that escapes the patterns imposed by film critics. … Continue reading →

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more Cronenberg than David Cronenberg (film: Titane – Julia Ducournau, 2021)

Posted on March 11, 2022 by admin

‘Titane’, the film written and made in 2021 by Julia Ducournau is a shocking movie. While writing this sentence, I am also surprised to think if anything can still be considered shocking compared to what we see in the news … Continue reading →

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lost senses (film: Perfect Sense – David Mackenzie, 2011)

Posted on February 15, 2022 by admin

Yeah, I can hear your protests and I understand your amazement. Watching a film about a global pandemic that is causing unrest and disorder around the world and is endangering the social order and perhaps even the existence of the … Continue reading →

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