Foxcatcher, my friends, is a very dark movie from the beginning. It started very somber, continued in this note and had a terrible finale. I'm not very fond of biographical movies because when you know the persons involved, there is no more surprise. You watch the technique, the play, the talent, maybe. [source for all pictures: imdb.com] Foxcatcher is not nominated for Best Picture this year, but it determined another three important nominations, the Best Actor for Steve Carell, who … [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...]
Oscars Nominations 2015
I'm not doing like last year, when I published innumerable posts on nominees and awards, Golden Globe, SAG, Independent Films, etc. Just the Golden Globes and the Oscars, just to be more practical, especially that I don't want to comment too much, since I haven't watched yet all the movies. Anyway, among the actors, I have to salute a few new names nominated this year for the Oscars. Unfortunately, no Leo this year. I have a feeling that next year he will won the Best Actor for sure, with one … [Read more...]
Top 100 StarMeter 2014
Here are the 100 stars who consistently ranked the highest on the IMDb weekly STARmeter chart throughout 2014. IMDb STARmeter rankings are based on the actual page views of IMDb’s more than 200 million unique monthly visitors. I want to publish this because I did it every year, and I think last year I put a wrong list, just because I haven't waited the official Top 100 to be published. My last year Top was the imdb STARmeter on January 3'rd. The surprise this year is that Top 10 is exclusively … [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...]
Spread
"Spread", directed by David Mackenzie, is a movie I wanted to present earlier, maybe after Holidays. I've seen it ... years ago, when Ashton Kutcher was still married with Demi Moore phenomenon. It is a movie about nothing. You know, I'm sometimes reviewing movies with no sense, but very popular at the time of their release. I have had a few more fresh, and really more educational movies to write of before this one, but some aspects of it attracted me at this very moment. [source: … [Read more...]
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