Gold Digger is the new ITV STUDIO six-part series starring The Punisher star Ben Barnes ( Westworld, Sons of Liberty, By The Gun, Jackie and Ryan, The Words, Killing Bono, Dorian Grey, The Chronicles of Narnia) and Julian Ormond (Witches of East End, Marilyn). We met Ben Barnes this summer at the Montecarlo Television Festival; it…
After their successful two-years duet as Queen Elizabeth II and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Claire Foy and Matt Smith are back as a couple struggling with issues (of a much more commoner kind) in the play “Lungs” written by Duncan MacMillan. While queuing at Ikea, couple M and W start to question about the possibility…
A few words of passion as I had the chance, last week, to attend a special 50th anniversary screening of Sergio Leone’s masterpiece “Once Upon A Time In The West”. I got my ticket as I never watched this movie on a big screen (I repeat, on a big screen) before and I wanted to…
Tom is a superstar because he is “super at being a star”. That’s what he says in the first lines of his monologue. But what’s the truth behind Tom? And, most of all, is he really a star? What about his life, his personal relationships, his loves, his work and… the conversations on his mobile?…
A short premise: as this movie needs to be enjoyed without knowing the details of its plot, we will just say what is officially out. This “origins” story of Gotham City’s arch-villain and Batman nemesis creates something we have never seen before, telling the story of broken comedian Arthur Fleck and his life in a…
Aged 46, Hollywood legend Judy Garland, the former girl who enchanted an entire generation singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” in “The Wizard of Oz”, is broke and devastated by abuse of alcohol and pills. She accepts to go to London, invited by theatre mogul Bernard Delfont, for a series of concerts. Here she will followed…
Every season has “that” movie which, in a time of disenchantment and depression, make you leave the cinema with a sense of tearful happiness and relief. Last year was “Green Book”, ten years ago “Le Concert” and this year this special award goes to this incredible true story (or actual lie, as said in the…
Montecarlo Television Festival, we meet with two of the leading actors of the new BBC series World On Fire.They’re enjoying their first time in Monte Carlo even if Jonah Hauer King is stuck with a leg cast. They are so sweet and kind and pure and lovely you can’t help yourself from that feeling that…
He states many times that he hates to be called an “artist”, leaving this title to the likes of Fellini, Antonioni and Fritz Lang (who he interviewed and it’s one of the funniest bits of the doc). You probably will never see a director taking the aura of myth from his work like William Friedkin…
Q: What do you love about this show? C: How there are so many new stories put inside the episode every time. People want to see what happens outside of the hospital. And we love our story. We are so flattered that the writers and David chose to give us this story. N: And it’s…
NCIS season 17 from September 24th
If you are born between the end of the 50s and the 80s, for sure David Tomlinson meant something for you. May he be the funny villain of “The Love Bug”, the improbable magician Emelius Brown in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks” or, in his most iconic role, the absent Mister Banks of “Mary Poppins”, David Tomlinson…
Malik Bader’s new crime -thriller is a well-staged movie made of smart choices but easily forgettable. Liam Hemsworth is Moe Diamond (really?!) a Manhattan diamond jeweler and a money launderer. By his side, there is Skunk, aka Bobby Santos (Emory Cohen Brooklyn, The OA). They move money for Skunk‘s uncle Nestor ( Zlatko Buric…
In 1995, it was released a movie which at the time was quite panned by the critics (apart from Roger Ebert who included it in his Top 10 of the year) and almost destroyed the career of Kathryn Bigelow, who then went to become the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director, fourteen…
Two years after the successful “Chapter One”, the saga of Pennywise, the diabolic entity in the shape of a clown murdering young children in Derry, and of the group of children who fought him back, returns with the second installment from the more-than-1000 pages novel by Master of Horror Stephen King. Did they nail it?…
After an homophobic rant against a journalist, distressed Olympic champion Matthias Le Goff has the chance to atone (and have the possibility to take part to further qualifying competitions) having some social services withing the gay community. He then becomes the trainer of a water-pool team “The Shiny Shrimps” whose talent in coreography is inversely…
Waiting for Billions season 5 we had an amusing chat at the 59th Monte-Carlo Television Festival with Paul Giamatti aka Charles “Chuck” Rhoades. Q: Let’s start with the twist… PG: Oh…it’s crazy, isn’t it?!?! I can imagine the shock when you saw it happening. They told me about it so I saw it coming… Q:…
Solo perché non conosciamo qualcosa, non significa che non vogliamo conoscerlo: Sea Wall/A Life
La cosa più grande che tu possa imparare è amare e lasciarti amare: Moulin Rouge! Il Musical sbarca a Broadway ed è uno Spettacolo Spettacolare.
I have many personal rites. One of them is to rewatch every summer “Jaws” by Steven Spielberg. Not only because it is a great and scary action movie which, in time, well-deserved its classic status. But also because its multi-layered approach allows us viewers to discover and be entertained every time by single aspects. And…
