What happens when a screenwriter who usually writes crap like Con Air (1997), Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) or, more recently, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), works on a script close to his life experience? Well, nice movies can come out of it, for a change. And this is the case of Scott Rosenberg, … More Beautiful Girls: 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
Space seed is a thrilling episode. I got excited as soon as the name Botany Bay was revealed, of course, because I immediately made the connection with Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982)! The fantastic film directed by Nicholas Meyer is the direct sequel to this excellent episode of the first season of … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E22, Space Seed
Stand By Me isn’t just a catchy song by Ben E. King. It is also a magnificent movie directed by Rob Reiner in 1986 inspired by a story written by Stephen King. And this is the movie I’m writing about now, so… here it is! The premise that I want to make is that I … More Stand By Me: Movie Review
The goonies (goonies having the double meaning of losers and also inhabitants of the Goon docks of the city of Astoria, Oregon) is a real cult movie. Don’t believe me? Just go to the part of Twitter talking about cinema and you’ll find a lot of love for this 1985 movie directed by Richard Donner! … More The Goonies: Movie Review
And here we are with the first reference to Shakespeare within Star Trek, which is so important in basically all the incarnations of the brand. For example, think about that masterpiece of Star Trek VI: The undiscovered country and about the various occasions in The next generation in which we say Shakespearean interpretations by Data, … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E13, The Conscience Of The King
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
Akira, the animated film written and directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo which came out in 1988, is still impressive for its incredible strength and its amazing technical department. It doesn’t look 30 years old at all! In Akira we see a post-World War III world in which the Japanese society is sick and corrupt and violence reigns … More Akira: Movie Review
After I don’t know how many years I re-watched E.T. the extra-terrestrial, the legendary Steven Spielberg movie which came out in 1982 (the same year in which a much more evil extra-terrestrial came out, that is John Carpenter’s The Thing!). Do you remember the plot of E.T.? A U.F.O. is on Earth to do some research, … More E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Movie Review
Isle of Dogs is the last movie by director Wes Anderson, and it’s his second stop motion animation film after Fantastic Mr. Fox of 2009. I saw it last night at the theater and I found him very entertaining and at the same time clever. It’s suitable both for adults and for children. Why? I’ll … More Isle of Dogs: Movie Review
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