Stranger Things 3: flawed, overstretched and yet unmissable Fun, touching, sweet, and just plainly entertaining as all fans hoped for. [Note: the following review contains only mild spoilers of Season 3 of Stranger Things]. Published in Medium – 9 July 2019. Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Steve, […]
Read MoreShould we love Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk? No! The film original aim might have been to be a subtle, understated epic about national brotherhood. It meant to show us the indomitable spirit of the people who later withstood the German bomb blitz, fought on the beaches and never […]
Read MoreL’Amant Double (AKA The Double Lover) is a flawed, yet at times intriguing, playful and mildly disturbing psychological thriller, with e a high degree of sexual energy. Francois Ozon is one of France’s most interesting filmmakers. For almost two decades now, he has tried his hand […]
Read MoreAtomic Blonde, with its beautiful Berlin set, and especially thanks to the performances of Charlize Theron and James McAvoy, is pretty entertaining and worth the price of admission. Take Jason Bourne, James Bond, La Femme Nikita, Agent Salt and more than a few extracts from the […]
Read MoreTerrence Malick is a reclusive director that shies away from Hollywood limelight (like Vampires from the Sun). On average, he has made a movie every eight years. His first two works, Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) are now considered classic. The latter starred a […]
Read More105 min – Comedy | Drama – 9 June 2011 (Germany) Critics: 50 reviews Metascore: 81/100 (based on 28 reviews from Metacritic.com) Director:Mike Mills Writer:Mike Mills Stars: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent Meet Hal (Christopher Plummer), his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor), and Oliver’s new girlfriend Anna (Melanie Laurent), they […]
Read MoreDespite the hype surrounding The Town, Ben Affleck’s latest work is not a particularly impressive movie. It is a fair and honest bank-robbers movie, and by no means a waste of time, but certainly it is far from unforgettable or an instant classic. “The Town” is Charleston, […]
Read MoreThe Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski’s latest movie is a well-crafted and well-acted thriller adapted from a book by Robert Harris, with a political twist that might even give Gordon Brown an extra shiver on the eve of the general election. The plot involves a former British […]
Read MoreThe 2008 Cohen Borthers’ No country for old men has a fairly straightforward plot: a man, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), while wandering in the desert comes across the scene of a massacre: dead bodies everywhere, stashes of heroine or cocaine in the back of Pick Up […]
Read More20 January, 2008 Not very cautious, with some lust, but a bit lost Ang Lee‘s latest movie, Lust, Caution is probably not one of his best, yet it is worth a trip to the cinema. As always with Lee, the movie is beautifully shot, the acting […]
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