This post will start with the trailer, so you'll know from the beginning of what I'm talking about, especially because usually, I don't make a summary. I used to put sometimes the trailer at the end , but there, at the end, you'll have a short piece of the action I found to be much more important. The Dictator is a 6.5 imdb rated comedy, which I haven't taken seriously until Sacha Baron Cohen spilled some ashes on the "company man" Ryan Seacrest, at the Oscars Gala in February … [Read more...]
Elite Squad 2
Elite Squad 2 (Portuguese: Tropa de Elite 2 – O Inimigo Agora é Outro; literal: Elite Troop 2: Now the Enemy Is Another One) is a 2010 Brazilian film directed and produced by José Padilha, starring Wagner Moura. The other actors appeared somehow in the other film as well, some are new here. It is a sequel of the 2007 movie The Elite Squad. Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is a continuation of the semi-fictional account of the BOPE (Portuguese: Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais), the Special … [Read more...]
Tropa de Elite
Tropa de Elite or Elite Squad, as sounds the English translation, is a Brazilian action movie, one of the best ever made. The international critic is almost for the first time in agreement. It has an 8.0 imdb rate, a very big one. The Elite Squad was an outstanding commercial success, and became a cultural phenomenon in Brazil. The film won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Its sequel, The Elite Squad - The Enemy Within, released in Brazil on October 8, 2010, holds industry … [Read more...]
Killer Elite
This kind of "action" movie thriller is not quite my type, but Dominic Purcell (Linc the Sink), and why not accept, a small curiosity about Robert DeNiro, made me buy it. I wanted to write about this yesterday, but I made some coding mistakes and I worked almost four hours to remedy, so this is the result of a recent rush. I liked the movie, my friends, all of them were good, it implied the British Special Forces, SAS, or at least the subject was inspired from real events and these events … [Read more...]
Nominees and Winners
It was imperative to publish the Academy Awards Nominees, this being this blog's spirit, a blog started as an opinionated expression in contemporary culture, especially the cinema, the seventh art, probably the best form of expression our days. A lot of surprises, some notable absences, but the Academy rules, and it won't be the first time when this pages express a different view regarding the Oscars and the Golden Globes, only for the moment, there will be no views yet. This year's Globes were … [Read more...]
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