A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world’s most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that will deeply influence the world economy. One of the guests is a mysterious Italian monk, invited by Daniel Rochè, the director of the International Monetary Fund. He wants the…
Sweet Dreams is the first movie directed by Marco Bellocchio not based on a director’s script. This is the real story of Italian journalist Massimo Gramellini and it’s adapted from Gramellini’s 2012 novel Sweet Dreams, Little One. On screen outstanding actor Valerio Mastandrea is Massimo, while another great Italian actor, Guido Caprino ( Medici: Masters…
Take a inch of Hitchcock, add a sip of Lynch and mix with a tea spoon of Kubrick. This is the perfect recipe for the seductive, enchanting, toxic new Tom Ford-s thriller Nocturnal Animals. Starting from Tony and Susan by Austin Wright, for his second feature after A Single Man, Ford puts together life essential…
Trepass Against Us is the first shy try to talk about Gypsy and traveller community. But when the men in charge are patriarch Brendan Gleeson and his son, on screen, Michael Fassbender well…you actually pretend a little better feature. Even if the two main actors, as patriarch Colby and his son Chad are stunning as…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. It doesn’t matter what is going to happen at the 60th BFI LFF or at any other festival this year; because we have the best movie of the last decade. Daniel Chazelle’s La La Land leaves with only a very big huge assurance: a hail of Oscars coming…
One year after High-Rise starring among the others Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller; Ben Wheatley comes back to the London Film Festival with the Closing Gala movie Free Fire. The cast is, once again, made by the best actors and in this case only one actress, from the year before: Armie…
I don’t like boxing fight so I don’t like movie about boxing fighters too…but after 2 minutes in front of a big screen I was deeply in love already with Bleed For This…and I think that I’d even stop my review here, because if a movie has a power like this, well, to say it…
Oliver Stone’s new movie is based on the story of Edward Snowden, the American analyst who went clear about the abolition of privacy in 2013. The script by Kiera Fitzgerard and Oliver Stone is based on the novels written by Guardian journalist Luke Harding (The Snowdenfiles) and by Anatoly Kucherena (The Time of the Octopus)…
Eric Heisser works on short sci-fi tale Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang to write a script that director Denis Villeneuve shoots as one of the most touching sci-fi movie with the precious help of two amazing stars as Amy Adams ( also at the Festival with Nocturnal Animals) and Jeremy Renner. These are…
A United Kingdom is not just one of the best true love stories ever told but it’s the tale of a too long-forgotten and shameful chapter of British history. Director Amma Asante and screenwriter Guy Hibbert, helped by lead actors Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo are able to present this amazing story in a sharp…
nAfter the Young Victoria starring Emily Blunt, we have an even more younger Victoria coming soon on our tv screens and starring, in the role of the magnificent queen the charming Jenna Coleman ( Doctor Who, Me Before You, Captain America). ITV‘s new drama starts in 1837 when, following the death of her uncle, Victoria is slapped…
Avete mai notato che “quando non siete in una relazione, tutti gli altri sono invece felicemente occupati?” E’ inutile che scuotiate la testa pensando “dici a me?!?! A me non è mai successo…” …ci siete solo voi davanti allo schermo, che sia quello del vostro iPhone, iPad, portatile, Kindle….o qualsiasi altro schermo, perciò provate ad…
Have you ever noticed that “when you’re not in a relationship anyone else is in a happy one?” Don’t shake your head, don’t even try to say “me?!?!, never”….it’s just you and your tablet, iPhone, smartphone…or whatever screen so be honest with yourself and just say …yes, it’s true. Well, it’s with this big doubt…
♦♦♦♦◊ A long journey but the time is finally here; everyone can now watch on the big screen the Cold War drama Despite the Falling Snow by director (and author of the book) Shamim Sarif. The book was published in 2004 and we had out our first news about its adaptation for the big screen…
Abbiamo iniziato a seguire il lungo viaggio che ha portato uno dei romanzi più amati dal pubblico britannico alla sua realizzazione cinematografica nel febbraio del 2014, pochi giorni dopo l’inizio delle riprese a Belgrado. Questo week end, a due anni e due mesi circa di distanza, il pubblico inglese ha finalmente potuto lasciarsi trasportare dalle…
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