Since the weather is finally getting warmer, it’s high time (and apparently high noon) to put a western on the movie-of-the-month column. In fact, to make it even more special, let’s go the full mile and put in a full trio, the so called Dollar Trilogy, undoubtedly Sergio Leone’s masterpiece. We are hence considering A…
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Loose and Happy Feet
It’s been quite a while since I haven’t covered a musical for this column, and since Footloose reached it’s 40th year anniversary, it would seem like an opportune moment. This might be bending the term ‘musical’, since there is no actual singing on behalf of the actors’ part, but it is considered such, so we’re…
A door to the galaxies
So, here’s another cult movie that this year celebrates its 30th year anniversary, a movie that in today’s context I would describe as what happens to history channels after normal broadcasting hours. Anyway, if you have been living a world deprived of any contact with science fiction, then you might not have heard of it,…
The G.I. Joe Chip
This movie will end the triad of “dive into childhood nostalgia” – just a last gem to unlock a core memory from way back when; so let’s jump back to 1998 with Small Soldiers by Joe Dante, another movie about toys coming to life. Instead of a magical cupboard, this time it is about a…
The Indian, the child and the cupboard
This is to continue the dive back into nostalgia with the movie-of-the-month-column – so let me start this introduction differently: A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, when children still played with toys and did not watch YouTube videos about Minecraft our story takes place. Sorry, maybe children still do play with…
Paging the Master
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…
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…
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,…
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…