And here’s another episode with a mad scientist! After What are little girls made of? in which the good Dr. Korby had transferred himself into the body of an android and was dreaming of replacing humanity with a bunch of robots, in Dagger of the mind there’s a psychiatrist who for no reason at all … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E09, Dagger Of The Mind
In 1995 Mel Gibson came out with Braveheart, of which he was both director and protagonist. Since his debut behind the camera had been the anonymous The Man Without a Face, released two years earlier, it was hard to know what to expect from an epic movie about the life of William Wallace, one of … More Braveheart: Movie Review
For the sake of precision: I watched Michael Haneke’s 2007 Funny games, not Michael Haneke’s 1997 Funny games. It shouldn’t make much of a difference, since the former is a shot-by-shot remake of the latter, but it’s better to understand each other from the beginning. So I enjoyed the performances of Naomi Watts and Tim … More Funny Games: 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
In 1994 Roman Polanski directed Death and the Maiden, a three-actors (Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Stuart Wilson) film adaptation of a 1990 play written by Ariel Dorfman. The film is about a very tough topic, the dictatorships in Latin America, is incredibly powerful, and is impeccably directed and acted. Even though it’s not a … More Death And The Maiden: Movie Review
