The Coen brothers are now among the most highly regarded directors in Hollywood also thanks due to their second film: Raising Arizona, released in 1987. It’s a bright and surreal comedy that’s an early statement of what was to come from the two brothers who demonstrated here that they already knew how to write a … More Raising Arizona: Movie Review
Years ago, I disintegrated the Murder by Death VHS because I couldn’t stop watching it and re-watching it. Now I finally bought it on DVD and I re-watched it yet another time after so many years and I laughed a lot and I found it as brilliant as I remembered it as a kid. But … More Murder by Death: Movie Review
Parasite (original title: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho (which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival) and it’s spectacular like all the movies directed by this man. End of the review, please go and see it. I could really end my review here since all I can do … More Parasite: Movie Review
Jim Abrahams and the Zucker brothers broke into the movie business in 1980 with the amazing Airplane!, a brilliant and hilarious comedy that explored the comic side of the disaster movies that were so fashionable in the seventies (such as the four films of the Airport saga released in 1970, 1974, 1977 and 1979). I … More Top Secret!: Movie Review
What happens when a screenwriter who usually writes crap like Con Air (1997), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) or, more recently, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), works on a script close to his life experience? Well, nice movies can come out of it, for a change. And this is the case of Scott Rosenberg, … More Beautiful Girls: Movie Review
Young Frankenstein is a film directed by Mel Brooks and released in 1974 with Gene Wilder as the protagonist. I think that it’s one of the best comedies ever made and, probably, also the best film by the American director. This is a perfect parody of a classic Frankenstein movie which, if you think about it, is also one … More Young Frankenstein: Movie Review
I had been waiting for this movie for such a long time! I entered the cinema with my extremely high expectations for The Dead Don’t Die by Jim Jarmusch. I must admit that these expectations were somewhat reduced because I read a number of unflattering reviews published in the blogosphere in these weeks, but anyway, … More The Dead Don’t Die: Movie Review
The last film of the Cornetto trilogy by Edgar Wright is The World’s End which was released in 2013. In Shaun Of The Dead (2004) the Cornetto was red (strawberry flavor) to symbolize the blood of the zombies. In Hot Fuzz (2007) it was vanilla with a blue wrap, the color of the police. Here it’s a mint-flavored … More The World’s End: Movie Review
Hot Fuzz is the second film of the Cornetto trilogy directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Released in 2007, three years after the first film, Shaun of the Dead, and six years before the third and final film, The World’s End, it was a box office hit with $80 million … More Hot Fuzz: Movie Review
Shaun Of The Dead (a title reminding that of Dawn Of The Dead by George Romero) is a 2004 horror comedy directed by Edgar Wright. The English director directed his first low-budget movie, A Fistful Of Fingers, in 1995. Then he worked for a few years on TV shows (particularly noteworthy is the Spaced series, 1999) … More Shaun Of The Dead: Movie Review
