Miss Sloane is probably the best movie produced in 2016 that I have had the pleasure to watch. Excepting a nudge for Jessica Chastain at the Golden Globes 2017, for Best Female in a Drama, this exceptional political thriller went almost unnoticed by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). A real pity, because as much as I like Emma Stone in almost all the movies she plays, she didn't deserve the recent Oscar she got. Something went fishy this year at the Oscars, reason that … [Read more...]
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game is a 2014 thriller directed by Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay by Graham Moore based on the biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges. [source of all pictures: imdb.com] The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, a very apt fellow, who started to work for the British Ministry of War during World War II, leading a team of crypt analysts in the challenge to solve the Enigma code. They have been in the possession of such a specimen and they tried to … [Read more...]