Be warned in advance that the 2026 monthly cinematographic column will have some serious hard hitters, all being in their respective anniversary. To start things off with a bang I decided on a story about knights and woes, a beautiful tale that has, in fact, just reached its 25th anniversary. A Knight’s Tale is a…
Category: Movies & Entertainment
2 Hard 2 Christmas
The year started off with a movie starring Bruce Willis, so it might as well end with one, and since I have already memed on the fact that the first Die Hard can be considered a ‘Christmas movie’, I am here to argue the same thing about Die Hard 2. It was directed by Renny…
The ecstasy of Gold
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…
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…
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…