The BFI London Film Festival opens its 12 days with a British masterpiece by Norwegian director Morten Tyldum about the Bletchley Park – Enigma cracking mission during the Second World War. Benedict Cumberbatch (who, just two days after the closing of the festival, had the honor of seeing his statue exhibited in the famous museum…
After the romantic One Day, Lone Scherfig arrives at the Toronto International Film Festival ready to impress the audience with the appetizing The Riot Club (watch the trailer). Based on Laura Wade play Posh, the movie tells the story of the young Oxford members of an elite student dining society. As the movie’s poster says…
After The Fault in Our Stars, is another teen-movie (adaptation of the novel for young adults If I Stay, born from the pen of Gayle Forman) to tear tears at the cinema. Mia (Chloe Grace Moretz) is shy, she is “someone” just in the room with her only love..her cello. But this is Mia before…
Melbourne, 10 years after a “collapse”: no civil order, the only currency is the American dollar, streets are populated by soldiers and citizens crucified; the scenery is wild and the guns lay down the rules. In a bar, located in a worthy road of a post-apocalyptic scenario, Eric (Guy Pearce) is robbed of his car…
Sport is like a book of short stories. Some are stories that make us laugh, cry, pray and dream. Fairy tales that leave us with a happy ending, as it is doing in these very last days the story of Michael Schumacher, or the victory against cancer of champions such as the Spanish national goalkeeper Iker…
A terrific cast brings on TV one of the greater movies of the year: The Normal Heart. Directed by Ryan Murphy (Glee show running) it’s a message of intolerance and fear but, most of all, it’s a heartbroken and moving story about the struggles to fight a battle that no one has any interest in seeing through to the…
It was screened last week, at the Riverside Studios in London, the British war movies The Patrol (watch the trailer). During the special evening, were present at the screening the director Tom Petch, the editor Luke Deverill and the actors Owain Arthur (One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal Haymarket) and Nav Sidhu (How…
Fare, see the trailer, is an English short movie produced by Kettlefish. The film was screened in competition at the London Independent Film Festival 2014,here our live, in the category Horror Short. Filmed mainly in the south east of London in Bermondsey, Tower Bridge and the Southwark beaches Fare is the story of Dominic (Romeo and Juliet…
In 2006 Mike Flanagan directed the short movie Oculus: The Man with the Plan; now it’s time to give more space and a turning point in Tim Russell’s story with the exciting new horror Oculus (click for the trailer), soon in theaters. In 2002 the Russell family moved into a new house and, to celebrate, they diecided…
What can I say, Marvel still exceeds itself. The Amazing Spider-Man 2, as already said at the World première in London (here our live service) the producer is really a movie that pleases everyone. And, what to say, about Andrew Garfield? Well he is amazing both on screen and in real life. Just as Peter Parker…
The new British horror movie The Quiet Ones (our previous article here) is an homage to the vintage films of the 1970s. Produced by Hammer (The Woman in Black with Daniel Radcliffe) and with the presence of Jared Harris (Mad Men) and with the new Hunger Games star Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Snow White and the Huntsman) the…
The la-di-da movie Noah (here the live from the Uk première) by Darren Aronofsky, while leaving the religious controversies outside of judgment, it’s not fully convincing. Despite all the words spent in the last few months about a different story from the biblical one, in reality there is nothing strikingly new in the Aronofsky’s movie. The director, before…
Hard times for Loki. Who would have thought that the most beloved villain, one day, would have been a worthy opponent to want to win the crown? Is that The Winter Soldier has from his past worthy of the best villains (who would dare to challenge Chuck Bass?!?), and a new Marvel project very innovative…
Sunday evening has become in the last few years a fix appointment for fans of television series related to justice and law enforcement. The battle between cable dramas and network dramas is tight but, in terms of quality the first ones are for sure the winner. To make the exception that proves the rule is…
After 33 years from Franco Zeffirelli‘s adaptation, the novel by Scott Spencer is now been redressed by Gossip Girl‘s producers. Unlike his first cinema version, Shana Feste‘s Endless Love is more a re-writing of Spencer’s story than an adaptation. The first love with a capital A, that passion that rips the heart out and makes…
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