Sometimes Vampires Suck. Sometimes they say Let Me In. They never shine, they never walk in daylight and definitively they don't procreate, like they did in the last Twilight Saga series Part One, beside that. So, there will be a part two as well. It is not amazing how such a non-film can be pushed out to this amazing kind of success. The Moneymakers play with the already brainwashed kids of our times and transform every nonsense into a great source of wealth, in the detriment of culture, of … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2012
George Clooney Again, With an Oscar Nomination
The Ides of March is another film made by George Clooney, and it was launched in 2011 by Sony Pictures Entertainment. It got a 7.4 imdb rate the moment I'm writing this post. A good political movie, actually a very good one. It's nominated for an Oscar for the Best Writing for an Adapted Screenplay, on which the screenwriters are George Clooney again, Grant Heslov, and Beau Willimon (the play writer of "Farragut North", the 2008 play used as inspiring platform for the film). Idus Martii … [Read more...]
Killer Elite
This kind of "action" movie thriller is not quite my type, but Dominic Purcell (Linc the Sink), and why not accept, a small curiosity about Robert DeNiro, made me buy it. I wanted to write about this yesterday, but I made some coding mistakes and I worked almost four hours to remedy, so this is the result of a recent rush. I liked the movie, my friends, all of them were good, it implied the British Special Forces, SAS, or at least the subject was inspired from real events and these events … [Read more...]
56 Movies or, The Year 2008 in Cinema
It seems year 2008 is my favorite year regarding movie production, in the new millennium so far. It is the year of The Dark Knight (8.9) and Slumdog Millionaire (8.2). It is the year of Twilight, the iconic start of a successful saga in a genre I thought was "made up" for a special category of kids, the "Young Adult" genre. Anyway, that was the time when I have heard for the first time of them. I know, Sarah Michelle Gellar already made Buffy the Vampire Slayer famous on American Television … [Read more...]