Exam is a 2009 released British alternative reality mystery movie, written and directed by Stuart Hazeldine. It's needless to mention that this is considered one of the great mind blowing movies of the last decade. Without spoiling it (as you already know), I'm going to say a few words of this separate reality. Why separate? It's somewhere in the future, but it could be today or ten years ago as well. Some details are revealed one by one, without being extremely useful. Not at all. It is a … [Read more...]
Divergent
Divergent is the first movie in an young-adult dystopian series, created on the model of Hunger Games. Great success, and quite enjoyable, comparative with that absurd Hunger Games. I have to say that I couldn't bring myself to watch the sequels. They have no logic. But this post is about Divergent, not Hunger Games. This is a movie made after the first volume of Divergent trilogy, which is a series of young adult science fiction adventure novels by Veronica Roth. The trilogy consists of … [Read more...]
The Circle by Dave Eggers, a Book About Unity
Dave Eggers is my new hero. I enjoy his writing more than a lot of other things, lately, more than any Dan Brown, for sample. I'm going to speak my mind about Inferno, last Brown's ultra best selling novel, in a future post on this category. Here, I'm gonna praise Mr. Eggers, for his recent The Circle. I have started his 2012 published novel, A Hologram for the King, which determined me to post immediately. Actually I have finished it in the same day, so I have only one word to say about, it: … [Read more...]