And here’s the first double episode in the history of Star Trek: The menagerie! And let me say that it couldn’t have been a better one because the story is compelling and well developed and it also gives a broad view of the concept of Federation, of space exploration and of Starfleet. Of course everything … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E11-E12, The Menagerie
Costume movies and historic dramas are always popular and this year is no exception. For example, today I could go to my favorite cinema in town and choose among Josie Rourke’s Mary Queen of Scots, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite, and Marc Dugain’s L’échange des princesses. Instead, I decided to watch a 2000 film on DVD: … More Vatel: Movie Review
Tom Shone is a film critic who, after publishing two retrospectives on Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen respectively, has written a third one about the great Quentin Tarantino (released in the United States in late 2017). The book is a beautiful object of more than 250 pages of giant format of fine quality and it … More Tarantino: A retrospective (book review)
And here’s another episode with a mad scientist! After What are little girls made of? in which the good Dr. Korby had transferred himself into the body of an android and was dreaming of replacing humanity with a bunch of robots, in Dagger of the mind there’s a psychiatrist who for no reason at all … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E09, Dagger Of The Mind
I’m almost certain of it: Big Trouble in Little China is the first film by John Carpenter that I saw and adored (for the record, it was released in 1986). So it wasn’t Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), nor Halloween (1978), nor The Fog (1980), not even Vampires (1998)… My first memory of Jack Burton and … More Big Trouble in Little China: Movie Review
After writing about The Terminator, the great film by James Cameron released in 1984, how can I not write about its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment day released seven years later and directed by the same director? It’s yet another exceptional film, something that shouldn’t surprise anyone since James Cameron had already proved himself capable of making … More Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Movie Review
I’ll tell you right away: I really enjoyed Miri, the eighth episode of the first season of TOS. It has glimpses of The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price (released in 1964, two years before Star Trek began), of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (that would be released two years after Miri came … More Star Trek: TOS – S01E08, Miri (English)
Everyone is talking about it and at the end I also went to see The Favourite, currently nominated for 10 Oscars. Made with a relatively modest budget ($15 million), its director is the good Yorgos Lanthimos (among other things, he directed The Lobster in 2015) and it stars three exceptional actresses: Rachel Weisz (recently seen … More The Favourite: Movie Review
Border is a Swedish movie directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff. It’s now gaining some popularity possibly thanks to its Oscar nomination for the best makeup. I saw it at the cinema a few days ago and it has impacted me a lot, I enjoyed it, but I have no … More Border: Movie Review
And for the 250th time I have watched Halloween, the 1978 film directed by John Carpenter and starring Jamie Lee Curtis (she was 19 year old at that time!!!). This should already say something about what I think of the movie: it’s an incredible unrivaled masterpiece that should be watched and re-watched all the time. I … More John Carpenter’s Halloween: Movie Review
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