Breaking the First Directive by interfering with the natural development of a civilization is never a good idea. And if you violate it to develop a culture inspired by the National Socialist movement of Adolf Hitler, it’s even worse! This is exactly what happens in Patterns of Force, in which the USS Enterprise reaches the … More Star Trek: TOS – S02E21, Patterns of Force
At long last, the Klingons! Here come perhaps the most iconic aliens of the whole Star Trek Universe, though, come to think of it, this is probably true only thanks to the films with the crew led by Captain Kirk and the series The Next Generation. In any case, Errand Of Mercy expands the mythology once again … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E26, Errand Of Mercy
Son of Saul (Saul fia is the original title) is the first film as director of László Nemes, Hungarian, who in 2015 unexpectedly won tons of awards including the Grand prix at Cannes and the Oscar for best foreign language film. The theme of the movie is the holocaust and the director treats it in … More Son Of Saul: Movie Review
I finally made it! I watched a movie that is considered, and rightly so, a real cult classic: Dan O’Bannon’s The Return of the Living Dead, 1984. The name of the director is linked to two fantastic movies that I adore: Alien (1979), of which he wrote a screenplay used in almost its entirety by … More The Return of the Living Dead: Movie Review
The Blues brothers is a 1980 film directed by John Landis starring John Belushi and Dan Akroyd. 38 years after its release we can definitively say that it’s a cinema masterpiece, both one of the best comedies ever made and one of the best musicals, if not the best of them all! It is worth … More The Blues brothers: Movie Review
A few days after I saw The pianist by Roman Polanski I watched Schindler’s list, the 1993 movie directed by Steven Spielberg. It was interesting to see these two films one after the other for the partial story overlap, with Nazi-occupied Warsaw and the Polish Jews locked up in its ghetto. I even think that … More Schindler’s List: Movie Review
I admit it: I hadn’t seen this 2002 movie directed by Roman Polanski, a director that I greatly admire (for example, I wrote about his Death and the maiden here). I finally saw The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody, and it left me speechless. The movie tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jewish … More The Pianist: Movie Review
Ebbene sì: non avevo visto né sapevo nulla di questo film del 2002 di Roman Polanski, regista che mi piace un sacco (per esempio, ho scritto del suo Death and the Maiden qui). Ho rimediato recentemente, e la visione di The Pianist (Il pianista), con Adrien Brody come protagonista, mi ha lasciato a bocca aperta. … More The Pianist: recensione del film
Die Welle (The Wave) is a 2008 German movie directed by Dennis Gansel. It takes inspiration from the book with the same title written by Tod Strasser (1981), which in turn is based on the short story Take as Directed (1976, later released in 1981 with the title The Third Wave) by Ron Jones, who … More The Wave: Movie Review
Falling down is a 1993 film directed by Joel Schumacher starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall. I saw the movie a few times when I was an adolescent and I more or less classified it as a fun/not serious movie: funny for the crazy moments of Michael Douglas and nothing more. But I just saw … More Falling Down: Movie Review
