Let us start the year with a classic, a real ‘page-turner’ but for movies, one that in 2024 celebrates its 30-year anniversary. The Pagemaster is a hybrid between live-action and animation starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd with the voices of Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy and many others. It is a dive into…
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Zombie-19 pandemic
Quick question: did you ever hear any of your friends just saying point blank “Man, I miss the lockdown period/COVID”? Afterwards they usually proceed to explain that obviously they don’t mean the full two years, but just a month or two – working from home, unwinding , getting some rest in. Just imagine how distorted…
A five star story
Stardust is a 2007 fantasy movie starring Claire Danes, Charlie Cox and Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by Matthew Vaughn. There is not much to be said about the movie: the plot is simple yet perfectly fluid and functional and the fantasy and fantastical elements, such as magic and witches, feel on point. The lore is appealing…
Under the olive tree
So anyway, there I was, taking the not-so-midnight – it was more like the ten fifty-five – not as much a train rather than a bus, and not as much as taking me anywhere rather than taking me to Athens. Did I just fashion that build-up to misleadingly quote Journey’s Don’t stop believing? Yes, yes…
Virtual Beauty
Belle – also known as Ryu to Sobakasu no Hime (which translates to The Dragon and the Freckled Princess) – is an animation movie that premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It is one of those movies that in my opinion passed under the radars and deserves some praise. While the movie could be…
Mythical
“I am the lord of darkness. I require the solace of the shadows and the dark of the night. Sunshine is my destroyer; all this shall change. Tonight the sun sets forever. There shall never be another dawn“ I should not have to introduce this movie: it is somewhat of a classic, a cult really,…
The Journey experience
Journey is a 2012 videogame developed by Thatgamecompany that perfectly demonstrates how a game can deliver so much more than what we would normally expect. The story, although simplistic, is not ever narrated, in fact there is no such thing as voice acting; furthermore, although being a two or three hour long gaming experience, one…
Destruction person
This article follows the trend of summer “light movies” and since we are chaining together actors, and given that the last one was Tango and Cash, I will propose a movie with Sylvester Stallone. Demolition man is an action-movie with dystopian elements starring Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock and Wesley Snipes; given that it came out…
The third gate of Baldur
Well, with so many people writing and talking about Baldur’s Gate 3, it would seem a bit pointless to add to this trend, but…here we are, after 80 hours of gameplay, to talk about some things and rant about others. I won’t spend time however discussing the plot and your ‘build your own suicide squad’…
Waltz and Currency
Given that last time, for the movie of the month column, I gave you two examples of mindless action movies featuring Kurt Russell, I thought I would follow the trend with the same actor. After all, it is summer, so I would assume that deep ontological and thought-provoking themes would be out of the question;…