In 1999, the world discovered M. Night Shyamalan with one of his greatest successes: The Sixth Sense. I guess everybody has seen this movie already, and it’s hard to write something new, or just interesting about it, but I’ll try! Here’s the plot in two words: Cole (Haley Joel Osment) is a child who thinks … More The Sixth Sense: Movie Review
The Bone Collector is a 1999 film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on a novel by Jeffery Deaver. The film is so Nineties… The structure and atmosphere are copied from movies like Seven (1995) and The Silence of the Lambs (1991). The movie is full of genre and period clichés such as the character … More The Bone Collector: Movie Review
The Visit (2015) represented a return to shape for M. Night Shyamalan who, after a series of missteps (above all, After Earth with Will Smith and son in 2013), had seen a drop in the interest of critics and audiences for his works. Personally, I am quite pleased that this return to a quality production … More The Visit: Movie Review
Widows is the latest film directed by Steve McQueen, the same director of Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), and 12 years a slave (2013). I went to the cinema with great expectations, also because of the cast which includes, among others, Cynthia Erivo (immensely good in Bad times at El Royale), Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Daniel … More Widows: 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
The village is a 2004 film directed by the beloved/hated M. Night Shyamalan. He’s a very controversial director: after the unanimously well-received The Sixth Sense (1998), he was celebrated as the next Spielberg. Then his films featuring surprise endings began to wear out, and perhaps The village is considered the beginning of his artistic decline. … More The Village: Movie Review
Primal fear is a 1996 movie marking a double debut, both for the director Gregory Hoblit and for the great actor Edward Norton. Also, it’s one of the few films in which Richard Gere, the protagonist, seems a good actor! I recently bought it on DVD, I watched it, and I surely recommend it! Let me … More Primal Fear: Movie Review
Paul Verhoeven is a very eclectic director who between the late Eighties and the late Nineties made three science fiction / over the top action films that deserve to be seen: Robocop (1987), Total Recall (1990), and Starship Troopers (1997). None of the three is a no brainer. In Robocop there is an allegory with … More Total Recall: Movie Review
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