Office space is a 1999 black comedy, directed by Mike Judge (the same one that would later direct Idiocracy) and featuring Ron Livingstone with several co-stars such as Jennifer Aniston and John C. McGinley. The movie begins by depicting the soul-sucking and demoralizing day of a white-collar employee; the work environment makes the main character…
Year: 2023
Admiral, reach for the stars
This article is about Star Trek: Picard, my thoughts and especially my feelings for one of the few series that managed to surprise me in recent years; that is no small feat in itself. Quite possibly the second season felt a bit lacklustre, but when dealing with Q and time paradoxes, it was to be…
The quirky fil rouge
This is a bit of a tie-in article. Given that I have a Youtube channel that is called Be a quirky writer, you can understand why the blog has a similar name. Recently I did a video about Waterworld for the Haunted Shores 2023 online conference. The theme was “Aquatic Surfaces & Depths” and I…
Dredging through memories
In an era where most triple-A game companies are not concerned with delivering a good product but rather prefer to just perfecting a formula for a standardized gaming experience that will in turn make them money, where would a gamer search for something more? I found myself more and more invested in smaller indie companies…
History of the World, Part-II-ally bad
It has been more than 40 years since History of the World Part I came out in 1981; this movie has somewhat of a deserved cult following, representing one of the many masterpieces in the career of beloved movie director Mel Brooks. It had his trademark comedy, his type of quips and sketches; now, with…
…but some prefer it steamy
Some like it hot is a 1959 comedy directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe (and no, it’s not the one with the white dress scene). Sincerely I do not have much to say about this movie: it’s simply hilarious. The story is about two jazz players who have…
La storia di un libro
Dato che recentemente è uscito il secondo libro di una saga che a dir la verità avevo iniziato a scrivere molto tempo fa, volevo approfittarne per condividere quella che si potrebbe considerare la sua storia (non tanto quanto concerne la trama, ma più quello che ne è stato lo sviluppo). Per fare ciò bisogna tornare…
Incongruent plot points
I have one or two issues; well to be fair I have quite a few of them but these one in particular are about the latest episode of The Mandalorian. A bit of a rant, some personal thoughts and some spoilers; read at your discretion. Now I consider myself a big enough Star Wars fan,…
More awkward than life
Stranger than fiction is what I would call a slice-of-life movie, one where a character starts hearing his life being narrated by an omniscient voice as if he would be the protagonist of a novel; he ultimately succeeds in meeting with his creator. Directed by Marc Forster in 2006, it stars Will Ferrell and Emma…
Of androids and men
There are several significant differences between robots and androids: while the former tend to be conceived only as mechanized (sometimes humanoid) constructs with specific functions and no capabilities for emotions, the later tend to be more advanced (thinking for instance about A.I.). We might think of androids as a new stage in technological evolution, constructs…