End of Days is a 1999 film directed by Peter Hyams starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. There’s also Gabriel Byrne in it, which is the reason that prompted me to rewatch it after seeing Hereditary (2018), also starring Gabriel Byrne. Was it a good idea? I could have done better things, of course, but I must admit … More End of Days: Movie Review
Rashomon is a film directed by Akira Kurosawa which was released in 1950 and was awarded in a multitude of western film festivals, so much so that the film is considered to have single-handedly projected Japanese cinema on the international market. Rashomon is epic to say the least and it’s very modern. It had, and … More Rashomon: Movie Review
I finally managed to watch Collateral, Michael Mann’s 2004 film (here’s why it took me a while)! Michael Mann knows how to shoot action movies and he’s also one of the few experienced directors who really embraced the digital technology. In fact, Collateral is his first attempt to give life to a new style instead … More Collateral: Movie Review
Người vợ ba (The Third Wife is the title for the international market) is the debut film by Vietnamese director Ash Mayfair. Released in 2018, it features the young Nguyen Phuong Tra My playing a 14-year-old girl named May who becomes the third wife of the wealthy landlord Hung (Long Le Vu). The story is … More The Third Wife: Movie Review
Parasite (original title: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho (which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival) and it’s spectacular like all the movies directed by this man. End of the review, please go and see it. I could really end my review here since all I can do … More Parasite: Movie Review
The Descent is a 2005 British film directed by Neil Marshall with six female protagonists: Shauna MacDonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring and Nora-Jane Noone. I think that this is one of the best horror films released in the last twenty years and I love Neil Marshall as a director (he also … More The Descent: Movie Review
Down By Law is a 1986 movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The protagonists are two musicians, Tom Waits and John Lurie, together with an amazing Roberto Benigni probably at the peak of his career as a comedian. This is for me the first great movie by Jarmusch, the first funny comedy that works … More Down By Law: Movie Review
Let me be frank: I love Casablanca, the film directed by Michael Curtiz and released in 1942 starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid. I’ve seen it multiple times, and each time the ending makes me cry and I find all its plot twists still exciting. Everything is amazing: its fervent anti-Nazism, the perfectly constructed … More Casablanca: Movie Review
The Mission is a film directed by Roland Joffé (and by now I’ve seen two movies made by this director: this one and Vatel reviewed here) with Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro as protagonists. Released in 1986, it won several awards and was considered a success. Has it aged well? No, it hasn’t, at least in … More The Mission: Movie Review
I’ve always enjoyed the work of British director Danny Boyle. Despite being somewhat discontinuous, he has directed some truly remarkable films such as Trainspotting which made him famous in 1996, and has already won an Oscar with Slumdog Millionaire (2008), which in total received eight Academy awards. But in my opinion his best movies include Trainspotting, … More 28 Days Later: Movie Review
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