E’ arrivata su Netflix la seconda stagione di The Politician che vede, come protagonista, la star di Broadway Ben Platt nei panni dell’arrivista Payton Hobart. Nata dall’idea dell’autore di serie di successo come Glee e Hollywood, Ryan Murphy, la nuova stagione di The Politician inizia con Georgina Hobart (un’incantevole Gwyneth Paltrow) fresca di divorzio, attivista…
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In occasione del 59° Festival della Televisione di Montecarlo lo scorso giugno, gli attori e i produttori della serie evento firmata Sky Atlantic Das Boot ci hanno regalto un’ora del loro tempo per raccontarci aneddoti, sorprese e misteri sulla prima e sulla seconda stagione (in onda da stasera su Sky Atlantic) di Das Boot. Eccovi…
13 arriva all sua ultima stagione e ci verrebbe da aggiungere un per fortuna. Sì, perché nonostante la battaglia sociale, anzi le battaglie, affrontate sin dalla prima stagione, la serie si ritrova a dover fare i conti con una scelta troppo ardua: affrontare i grandi problemi della società americana (cosa che fa in maniera eccellente…
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Enemy Lines è il nuovo film che vede come protagonista l’amato Chuck Bass di Gossip Girl Ed Westwick. La premiere avrebbe dovuto tenersi a Los Angeles lo scorso weekend; ma, la situazione di emergenza in cui tutto il mondo si trova in questo momento, ne ha impedito lo svolgimento. Enemy Lines è quindi stato reso…
“Tanto tuonò che piovve”. Alla fine è arrivata! Dopo anni di annunci, falsi allarmi, teorie del complotto e profezie Maya, la nostra pandemia ha smesso di fare la preziosa e si è concessa a noi, trascinandoci nel disordine e recludendoci in casa, alla stregua di ergastolani Netflix-muniti. Se però è vero che la clausura può…
“La poesia deve avere in sé qualcosa che è barbaro, immenso e selvaggio” scriveva intorno alla metà del ‘700 il filosofo francese Denis Diderot, ed è difficile immaginare qualcosa di più barbaro, immenso e selvaggio di ciò che affiora nel nuovo lavoro di Pierpaolo Capovilla (membro storico di band come One Dimensional Man, Buñuel e…
Modernità e tradizione si mescolano in “Ordinary Man”, l’ultima fatica discografica di Ozzy Osbourne, che esce a dieci anni di distanza dal non indimenticabile “Scream”. Anche questa volta Ozzy rinuncia alla chitarra di Zakk Wylde per fare spazio a quella di Andrew Watt (qui in duplice veste di chitarrista e produttore), accompagnata dal basso di…
The Presidential Campaign of 2016, where the aggressive communication of candidate Donald Trump drew a line with the past, is followed from the point of view of Fox News newsroom, a right-wing headquarter headed by the unapologetic and paranoid Roger Ailes (John Lithgow). However, Trump critic Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) has to face a fierce…
6 April, 1917. Two soldiers, Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) have to deliver a message to the troops on the front line before they fall in a trap long planned by the German army. If they fail, it will be a bloodshed. And Blake‘s brother is among the soldiers unaware of the risk.…
CINEMA Best Motion Picture – Drama: 1917 by Sam Mendes Best Motion Picture – Comedy : Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino Best Director: Sam Mendes for 1917 Best Actor – Drama: Joaquin Phoenix for Joker Best Actor – Comedy: Taron Egerton for Rocketman Best Actress – Drama: Renee Zellweger for Judy…
After the visionary “The Tale of Tales” which explored the collection of fables by Giambattista Basile, Matteo Garrone returns to the roots of Italian fantasy novels and adapts Carlo Collodi’s “Pinocchio”, the universally known story of a puppet becoming alive and living a long sort of moral adventures. “Pinocchio” has never been an easy task…
It’s a fall instead of a rise. It’s the Dark Side winning against the Force. It’s the worst ending you could have expected to come from a saga which has been a watershed in the History of Cinema since its inception in 1977, now brutally ending in one of his weakest episodes which, alas, it…
The cardinal of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, writes to Pope Benedict XVI asking for the possibility to resign after years of ministry and a deep personal crisis. Bergoglio, who previously in the past clashed with the strongly conservative Joseph Ratzinger, is invited to join him in the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. The…
There was a certain amount of curiosity when this new Tv-series based on the popular graphic novel by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore (who never wants to take credit every time his works are adapted for the big or small screen). “Watchmen” has been, since its release in 1986, the epitome of the polarizing contrasts…
Living his final years in a nursing home, Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) recalls his tumultuous life. Starting as a truck driver, he befriends criminal Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and becomes the chief bodyguard’s of questionable Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Frank will be the silent and ruthless witness of years of corruption, bribes…
Franz Jagerstatter is a devoted Christian who lives in a small village in Austrian Alps with his family. When Austria is annexed to Hitler’s Germany and his representatives begin to appear in the village, poisoning its atmosphere and pushing towards the Naxist doctrine, Franz decides to take a stand against it. His behaviour will cost…
Soon before William Shakespeare’s death, a new star rose in English theater. This star was a bit more gruesome with a focus on the passion of his audience for blood, over-drama and violence. His name was John Webster. Rebecca Frecknall brings back on the stage of Almeida Theatre one of his most important plays, “The…
A gothic manor, a wealthy family meeting and suddenly a death. When the old patriarch and successful crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) commits suicide, the variegated (and spoiled) court of relatives had to deal with a surprising will and the arrival of detective Benoit Blanc (a funny Daniel Craig, successfully dusting James Bond shade…
From Australia, a country which always reserved peculiar surprises and watersheds to the history of cinema, comes an unusual black comedy which is also the directorial debut of actress Mirrah Foulkes. Set in an imaginary English town called Seaside (which is surrounded by a huge and deep forest with no sight of sea at all)…
In 2008, British actor Robert Pattinson, after a small but pivotal role in the “Harry Potter” movies, became the new romantic sensation thanks to Edward Cullen, the vampire of the “Twilight” saga. Ten years later, teenage-faced Timothee Chalamet, moved and enchanted the audiences and awards committees (including the Academy) with his unforgettable turn as Elio…
