The Silence of the Lambs came out in 1991, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. This is another great Nineties’ classic (like the recently reviewed Braveheart, 1995): everyone has seen it, the character of Hannibal Lecter played by Hopkins is extremely famous, and the movie itself is widely believed to be … More The Silence of the Lambs: Movie Review
Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA, more commonly known with the shorter international title Joint Security Area, is the third film by Korean director Chan-wook Park. Released in 2000, it made him famous all over the world before he made the fantastic trilogy on revenge which began with Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and ended with Sympathy … More Joint Security Area: Movie Review
In Charlie X, the second episode of the first season of TOS, the USS Enterprise has a rendez-vous with the cargo ship Antares (even if afterwards Kirk that it’s a science vessel) to receive on board a 17 years old boy miraculously found alive on a desert planet, Thasus, after his ship had crashed there many years … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E02, Charlie X
Wes Craven has been one of the most important horror directors of the last 50 years. In the Seventies he had a fairly good success with his debut feature The Last House On The Left (1972), shot almost at no cost, and especially with The Hills Have Eyes (1977): both these movies are considered classics of … More Scream: Movies’ Reviews
Cold war (Zimna wojna is the original title) is a 2018 Polish film whose director and screenwriter is Paweł Pawlikowski, who claims to have been inspired by the story of his parents (I hope only remotely). The protagonists are Joanna Kulig playing the femme fatale Zula and Tomasz Kot playing the musician Wiktor Warski. This movie has … More Cold War: Movie Review
The Fog is the third movie directed by John Carpenter and was released two years after his greatest success: Halloween (1978). Although it pertains to the same genre of the latter (horror / thriller), the American director couldn’t have made a more different film. In other words: any other young director would have limited himself to … More The Fog: Movie Review
American Ultra is a 2015 film directed by Nima Nourizadeh and written by Max Landis (son of the great John Landis, who among other things directed the amazing The Blues brothers). The protagonists are Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, and let me add that the movie bombed at the box office. I bought it on … More American Ultra: Movie Review
One thing for sure: Climax, the 2018 film directed by Gaspar Noé, won’t leave you unimpressed. I came out of the cinema stunned, and I think that watching this movie was the closest thing to a (bad) LSD trip I’ve ever had in my life. Assuming that this was the intent of the director, I … More Climax: Movie Review
I finally saw what’s almost unanimously considered an excellent Spanish horror movie: [Rec], the 2007 film directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza (I recently saw Verónica directed by the latter and I must admit that it didn’t impress me) with Manuela Velasco. Long story short, I liked [Rec]! Here’s my two cents on it. … More [Rec]: Movie Review
The Blues brothers is a 1980 film directed by John Landis starring John Belushi and Dan Akroyd. 38 years after its release we can definitively say that it’s a cinema masterpiece, both one of the best comedies ever made and one of the best musicals, if not the best of them all! It is worth … More The Blues brothers: Movie Review
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