Barry Levinson's Envy, is one of the future cult movies, believe me. I don't understand why it is so overrated, but I hope that this will change when people will start to think with their heads, not with the subliminal advertising for Twilight or Wonder Woman. An obvious example is Envy, by Barry Levinson which has after many years come to a 4.8 out of ten on imdb. Is it maybe because watchers don't like Jack Black, or, worse, Ben Stiller? I know that Roger Ebert didn't gulp Ben Stiller for … [Read more...]
Movies
Movies of all kind from an artistic point of view, reviews or opinions.
JeruZalem – A Decent Horror from Israel
In seven Rotten Tomatoes' "top critics" who have undergone to critic Jeruzalem, only two of them didn't trash it. I don't usually enjoy the horror genre, but there are some exceptions. This is a goreless horror, and it's somehow brilliant. I don't understand the low reaction and more than that, I don't understand the low rating the movie achieved. It may be incorrect to define the IMDB voters as retarded because I'm one of them and everyone is "free" to think and have different opinions. I'm … [Read more...]
Paul McGuigan’s The Acid House – Irvine Welsh at Its Weirdest
The Acid House is a 1998 Scottish three parts movie made by Paul McGuigan. I have been excited to watch another Irvine Welsh material, after Trainspotting one and Part Two, and of course Filth. I'm not repressing my disappointment. It was fine, all right, but it was too much. [source of all pics: imdb.com] The Acid House Plots? I can't figure the plots here, there are three pieces, three stories, all happening in sordid Scottish neighborhoods in unnamed Scottish cities. There's … [Read more...]
The Equalizer, an Action-Thriller Masterpiece from 2014
In The Equalizer 2's wake, the sequel to be released on July 20, 2018, I felt compelled to review this action thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, a genre's specialist. After movies like Training Day (2001), starring Denzel Washington as well, Olympus Has Fallen (2013), and Southpaw (2015), to name just a few, Fuqua is well-established as a very talented director. He is also a producer and an actor, so, the package is almost complete. Antoine Fuqua doesn't need to write his own scripts because … [Read more...]
Basquiat, a Lightning Genius in the New York’s Eighties
Outstanding debut by Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is a glimpse in a quirky mind, one less understood at the time, but highly famed, no matter what. I never liked the color specification referring at Jean-Michel Basquiat as the most famous American black painter of all times. Some of this is also diluted somehow in the movie as well, in fictional interviews, with fictional characters, fictional happenings and dialogues. [source for both pics: imdb.com] Basquiat - Plot Here, Basquiat is … [Read more...]
Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman, an Awarded Iranian Drama
The Salesman (Forushande in Farsi, in original) is an outstanding and mesmerizing Iranian movie released in 2016. I think I like the word mesmerizing. This movie won the Oscar for the Foreign Language Movie in 2017, a controversial year with weak movies. The Salesman came up like the oil in water. As a reminder, 2017 was the year I haven't published my Oscar winners because of movies like Moonlight, La La Land, 20th Century Women... On top of that, the circus at the ceremony, the … [Read more...]
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