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…
Category: Movies & Entertainment
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…
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….
To copycat a Cat
To Catch a Thief is a 1955 (70 years anniversary this year) thriller by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly. It is the story of an older thief who, after retiring, is forced go back to his former profession because a copycat starts using his modus operandi; as such, he is forced to…
The Mask of the Fox
The Mask of Zorro is a 1998 ‘swashbuckler’ move directed by Martin Campbell and featuring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Now, I don’t expect anyone to have watched the original TV series (I know I watched only snippets here and there) or to have read the books by Johnston McCulley (yes, just like…
The Pirate Groom
The Princess Bride is a 1987 iconic fantasy film, directed by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright (honourable mentions are obviously due to Mandy Patinkin and André the Giant, two of the most charismatics rogues-turned-coprotagonists ever). It is the simple story of two lovers, how they faced the evils of a corrupted ruler…
The devil you’d want to know
We are in the romantic month after all, and considering that last year, for the ‘movie of the month’ column, I skipped it entirely in favour for a return to childhood theme, this time I have three more or less romantic suggestions. So now that you have a clue for the recommendations for March and…
Billy
Let me kick off the new year with a movie that that just reached its 25th anniversary; The Kid was directed by Jon Turteltaub and starred Bruce Willis and Emily Mortimer. The premise puts the main character, a successful, arrogant and stressed image consultant, to confront his past; the past in question, as such, is…