During the whole week preceding the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the HFPA's "lack of diversity" within its membership was fiercely exposed. This smearing campaign started after Feb. 21, 2021, L.A. Times article by Josh Rottenberg and Stacy Perman, achieved its goals in full. In their opening coast-to-coast "monologues", Tina Fey and Amy Poehler both addressed this controversy: "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is made up of around ninety international non-black journalists" … [Read more...]
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Movies of all kind from an artistic point of view, reviews or opinions.
Palm Springs 2020 Should Win the 78th Golden Globe Awards
Palm Springs is a directorial debut for Max Barbakow, otherwise a very fine screenwriter. It is flawless. Unfortunately regarding the Golden Globe nominations, it is listed just for the Best motion picture, musical or comedy, and for Best Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy for the SNL alumni, Andy Samberg. This is a fantasy-comedy-mystery-romance with a witty screenplay and out of the ordinary. I don't want any spoiler here in my short sort of review, with my deepest regrets, because … [Read more...]
The Golden Globes 2021 Awards Will Operate as a Hybrid
Being hosted for the 4th time by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Golden Globes 2021 Awards will take place both directly and remotely. Fey will be present in New York, and Poehler in Los Angeles. Presenters will introduce the awards from both locations, in person, and the winners will appear virtually. Presenters include Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Kristen Wiig. Interesting. The winners will make virtual speeches from wherever they are at the time of the ceremony. … [Read more...]
The Death of Stalin, One of the Best Comedies of 2017
In a Rotten Tomatoes list with best comedies of 2018, The Death of Stalin is on #6, after movies like Keep the Change, Bathtubs Over Broadway, Eighth Grade, and Oh Lucy!. That is insane! Nobody heard of those, I'm sorry. It seems that Armando Iannucci's movie is the best of 2018, and of 2017, the official released year. It is said that all the best comedies contain serious messages. Now The Death of Stalin is a satire and a comedy which is advisable to be considered as such. Seriously? There's … [Read more...]
The Yellow Sea 2010 Is an Amazing Korean Crime Drama
The Yellow Sea is a 2010 South Korean movie written and directed by Na Hong-jin, the one who made his debut in 2008 with a gruesome feature named The Chaser. Not that this one is less gruesome, or maybe it is. Bloody or not, it's watchable, you are prepared somehow in advance for the upcoming violence, so this is not a horror movie. As I already mentioned in a previous post, this is a surprise first review in this category. I should have started with a more classical piece like Chan-wook Park's … [Read more...]
New Sub-Category on RodolfoGrimaldi.com: Korean Cinema
The Korean cinema is a wanting chapter here on my blog. It seems that the highest-grossing domestic films in South Korea have little to do with the best Korean movies per se. Fortunately Parasite (2019) dragged international viewers to Korean cinema, but again, it seems that only pure money-making investments are sold on foreign markets. Too bad, because Korean cinema has a flavor of its own, different from what the Hollywood fan was stuffed with over the years. Why Marvel movies are so popular? … [Read more...]
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