The Road to El Dorado (2000) is an animation musical movie that this very year reaches its 25th anniversary. I wanted to go back to some of the older animations and see how they compared with more recent ones – mainly in terms of entertainment. Since I remembered El Dorado as being quite good, I…
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Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go…?!?
So…recently Ninja Gaiden 4 came out; when I first saw the trailer and discovered that Ryu was not the protagonist I was a bit worried for the series, so I just had to play it to see if my premonitions were on point or not. I played through the fourth installment, clocking out at about…
What Flowers may Bloom
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Kaoru hana wa rin to saku) is a manga by Saka Mikami that started to be serialized back in 2021. Given that recently it received an anime adaptation, it just so happen to pass under my radar and I’m here to talk about it. It is, once again, a…
The 28th trilogy
Given that it is time for Halloween, this month’s movie column as such is thematically dedicated to horror, but with a bit of a spin. The trilogy of 28 (28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later) could be considered in fact a horror saga, but with a different pacing than what one…
Re-makes, re-boots and re-brands
It seems that in recent years the cinematographic world – thinking especially of the Hollywoodian gears – is suffering more and more from a lack of originality. More than half of the new movies are either sequels, prequels, reboots, reenvisionings or whatever other brand that the cashgrabing market uses to pray on the nostalgia factor…
Snatch a Toro by the diamond
Snatch is a 2000 crime/dark-humour comedy directed by Guy Ritchie; in Ritchie’s fashion it has an all-star cast of actors, names such as Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro, Jason Statham, Dennis Farina and Vinnie Jones (who by the way had a pretty good year and start to his career). His first movie was Lock and…
.hack.exe
What does ‘modern’ Sherlock, Lara Croft and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo all have in common? Well, they technically starred in a movie together. Hackers is a 1995 movie directed by Iain Softley, starring blonde Jonny Lee Miller, short-hair Angelina Jolie and quirky Matthew Lillard. It is yet again a movie that in 2025 reached its 30-year…
Thank you for vaping
Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 black comedy directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart – happy 20 years anniversary. It is satirical, it is clever, twistedly funny and probably not a movie that will be appreciated by everyone; the way it cuts into the hypocrisies of society is probably not for everyone’s…
Scissor salad
Anime is not only a Japanese thing anymore! Although they certainly still dominate a huge part of the market, in recent years more and more Asian countries have been giving their fair share within the animated medium. It is not only the case of famous manhwas that later received an anime adaptation either, as Solo…
A fast and furious minute
Gone in 60 Seconds is an action car-heist movie from 2000, directed by Dominic Sena and yet another title that this year hits its 25th anniversary. The premise is basic, a retired car thief has to get back into action and steal fifty high-end cars to protect his younger brother from a big bad villain….