This post will start with the trailer, so you’ll know from the beginning of what I’m talking about, especially because usually, I don’t make a summary. I used to put sometimes the trailer at the end , but there, at the end, you’ll have a short piece of the action I found to be much more important. The Dictator is a 6.5 imdb rated comedy, which I haven’t taken seriously until Sacha Baron Cohen spilled some ashes on the “company man” Ryan Seacrest, at the Oscars Gala in February 2012, months before the film release. I like Baron Cohen a lot, I fully appreciated Borat, but Gaddafi was dead for not too long at the moment the movie prepared it’s launch for May, the same year, and I was mistaken or maybe I only misjudged it for something to cheap. It was completely wrong to do so, even if I had some other important stuff to do at that time. Whatever the feelings about Sacha Baron Cohen (he didn’t make the [...]
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Cannes Film Festival 2013
Today, The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann's adaptation based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, will open the sixty sixth film festival of Cannes. In an interview, Leonardo DiCaprio, who stars in the movie, said: "Every time I go to Cannes, it feels like I'm entering the helicopter scene in La Dolce Vita. It's an insane experience. The entire town is turned into a red carpet. Every hotel is a premiere. But at the same time, it is the mecca for the world to celebrate film-making and bold film-making." [source] Steven Spielberg, the great producer, director and scriptwriter will preside this year over the eight members of his Jury. Eight international film celebrities, will help him select the winners: Vidya Balan (Indian actress), Christoph Waltz (Austrian Actor), Lynne Ramsay (British scriptwriter/director/producer), Cristian Mungiu (Romanian scriptwriter/director/producer), Naomi Kawase (Japanese director), Ang Lee (Taiwanese director/producer/scriptwriter), Nicole Kidman … [Read More...]
Motion Picture
Pineapple Express
In 2008 I was in some place where I used to be so busy every day, that I couldn't watch too many movies at once. This one, Pineapple Express slipped from the bundle, mostly that I was a fan of nobody from the movie at the time, and thinking that this is the team who brought Superbad to be a "hit" (great words, too great) was not an advantage at all. So, I considered Superbad a bad joke. I like comedies, I always liked them. Anyway, I wasn't a fan of Seth Rogen either, and I profoundly disliked James Franco. In time, I discovered that Rogen isn't so bad after all, he has a standard of playing the obvious "Jewish Guy" all the time, and he can be good at it. James Franco captured my whole attention after Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, when I was extremely impressed with the movie and acting all together. Gary Cole, "Nighthawk" Killian, wasn't a trump for the movie, so the others didn't count. I was inspired and I gave it another try, and it wasn't that bad. In time, there's five years, I … [Read More...]
Art
The Lost Symbol
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The Shadows
5 Reasons to Avoid Conspirationist Ardor
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Travel
Cyprus, the Half-European Island
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Life
Author Rank? What For?
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Blogging
Google Reader Will Shut Down
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Social Media
The New Face of Google Plus
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