The Bureau (2015-2020) is a five-season French spy thriller action drama series created by Éric Rochant of The Patriots’ fame. Monsieur Rochant seems to be obsessed with the shadow world of secret services, but as far as The Bureau is concerned, this … [Read More...]
Books
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Is a Goodreads Winner in Fiction
I found about The Midnight Library when I voted The Best Book of the Year 2020 on Goodreads, a few weeks ago. It's actually called the Best Choice Award or something. I have voted for books whose authors I've heard of or I have read before, but also blindly, like in a poker game. I didn't fill all … [Read More...]
TV
The Bureau Is by Far the Best Spy Thriller TV Series of All Times
The Bureau (2015-2020) is a five-season French spy thriller action drama series created by Éric Rochant of The Patriots’ fame. Monsieur Rochant seems to be obsessed with the shadow world of secret services, but as far as The Bureau is concerned, this is just a cover, a cover for a sublime love … [Read More...]
Blogging
The 10,000 Petty Things That Annoy You When You Are Really Busy to Improve Alexa Rank
You know how every online guru says that you have to publish to your blog regularly, often, and consistent if you want to have meaning. This wisdom translates "if you want to improve your Alexa Rank". Improving your Alexa Rank shows the world you have good traffic on your website, these attracting … [Read More...]
Life
My Beautiful Turkey, a Lucid Love With or Without Erdoğan
I love Istanbul, as being the most beautiful city in the world. Complementary I love Turkey as a whole, and even if in the past I have projected a Dogville vision on her, I felt justified at the time, otherwise nothing budged my really deep good feelings. They are logical, subjective, and objective, … [Read More...]
Movies
The White Tiger 2021, a Man Booker Prize Adaptation
When I first read The White Tiger a few years back, I readily gave it five stars on Goodreads, but the real impact was diluted with other happenings around. Now, this 2008 Man Booker Prize-winning novel has been adapted to a pretty accurate movie. I have also wondered which of these two to review … [Read More...]
Social Media
Goodbye Google Plus, the Beautiful, the Ambitious, and the Treacherous
Goodbye, Google Plus! I say it now, with two months in advance, just in case. We can't be sure of these two months either, who knows what will happen tomorrow and the mastodon decides to haste the shutdown. I am taking out now, all my links sending to my Google Plus profile and "business pages". I'm … [Read More...]
Pills
Movie Spoilers With the Best Intentions – A new category
Yes, dear friends, you read it right. I had to create this new sub-category about movie spoilers here because I found it necessary. Of course, the catch is that I want to offer some explanations about … [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 … [Read More...]
Long Time No See
Not only that I haven't filled this category lately, but I also haven't published much lately. Long time no see, that's true. This blog is now in the middle of major changes. My life is in the middle … [Read More...]
Travel
Belém – The City of Mango Trees from the Equator – A Story
Belem is the capital of Para, an Equatorial Brazilian State, with a population of almost two million in its metropolitan area. I have been there on a trip from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, where I joined a ship bound to Belem for teak and mahogany, bought by a French contractor. Numerous strikes made us stay for almost three months. I liked it even if I know that the guy who chartered our ship wasn't that happy. One rents the ship with a daily fare which varies according to its capacity. Ours was … [Read More...]
The Shadows
Conspiracies Busted – A New Task for Science?
I have noticed that livescience.com as an online publication is more and more preoccupied at unveiling conspiracies based on various scientists theories. Something like if a certain thing isn't white, it must be black. Someone said that he discovered a formula to prove that a conspiracy is founded or not. I believe that if you prove something, that thing ceases to remain a conspiracy (as a sum of information hidden from the public), it purely becomes a fact. [source: … [Read More...]