Blood of my Blood is a summary of all Marco Bellocchio’s cinema. In this movie we find lots of Bellocchio‘s favourite topics: the figure of the brother who commits suicide (subject also used in Gli Occhi, La Bocca; but he was unhappy with the result), the topic of the two single sisters, his favourite city Bobbio where…
I remember all my summer afternoons spent in front of the TV cheering for the Yellow Machine, for the man who first beat cancer and then started to beat everyone else. So maybe is for these teen memories that The Program glued me to the seat unable to move, to breath and with the heart…
Dr. Robert Laing lives on the 27th floor of a tower block with its own supermarket, its own gym and its own swimming pool. From the first floors where the well-off live, to the top where super rich spend their afternoon between horses kept in the roof-garden and parties; we have the right social order.…
Danny Boyle’s movie closed the 59th London Film Festival as the best icing on the cake ever seen. True; this is a redundant story even on the big screen: Noah Wyle ( E.R.’s Doctor Carter) portrayed Steve Jobs in 1999 in the masterpiece Pirates of Silicon Valley. More recently, in 2013, Ashton Kutcher was Steve…
In a Film Festival focus on gender that opened with Suffraggettes, Sworn Virgin by Italian director Laura Bispuri is for sure a movie that can’t pass unnoticed. Bispuri‘s film (here our interview with her) tells about patriarchal Albanian tradition to ask whether renouncing sex can ever be the path to personal freedom. The movie…
We met two of the main characters from the BBC successful series The Musketeers at LFCC. First, we approached Milady de Winter (Maimie McCoy). She was seat at the table between her on screen husband Athos (Tom Burke) and D’Artagnan (Luke Pasqualino) in the full splendour of her soon mum to be beauty. Despite her…
After the first season (we’ll not do spoilers in this article) a wonder popped into my mind: “How different would have been Peggy and Captain America love story if they continued to live in the same era?” I think a lot, actually. Let’s face it. Peggy Carter has literally kidnapped thousands and thousands of hearts…
July 1985: Marty McFly manages to get Back To The Future after a week stuck in 1955. July 2015, 30 years later Marty McFly and Doc manage to get Back To The New Future, for the excitement of a great numbers of fans, with an amazing reunion at London Film And Comic Con. Over the…
It’s been 19 years since an 18 years-old boy has had the honor to debut on the TV screen alongside to Will Smith. It was the 1995 and, for young teenagers like me who were born in the early ’80s, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was the signal that the study day was over and it…
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