12 Angry Men is a 1957 “courtroom drama” movie with Henry Fonda. Simply put it is the story of a trial where an eighteen-year-old is accused of murdering his father and the twelve members of the jury must discuss his case. If they deliberate that he is innocent, then he is set free, if proven…
Shelter
A distanza di alcuni anni da quando ho scoperto questo piccolo capolavoro, mi è capitato di ritrovarlo tra i vecchi preferiti e ho deciso di scriverci qualcosa in merito perché considero che vale veramente la pena. Sono sei minuti di video, quindi se decidete di leggere quest’articolo vi consiglio prima di guardarlo (trovate il link…
Wait until PitchBlack
Wait until dark is a 1967 movie adaptation of the homonymous play by Frederick Knott; it stars Audrey Hepburn as the protagonist. The premises is quite simple: a carrier that is transporting heroin wants to start selling it on her own and hands the doll (the MacGuffin inside which the drugs are hidden) to an…
Hashtag Balance
Equilibrium is a 2002 science-fiction action movie with heavy influences from classic dystopias such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451; there is even some criticism concerning the fact that it is a mere knockoff of its predecessors. It is true that the dystopian world depicted in Equilibrium has some of the traditional tropes present in the…
Jeepers, that’s a leopard!
Today, for the good-old-classic-movies column, I am recommending Bringing up Baby, a 1936 romcom with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn (no family ties with Audrey, I googled it). Cary Grant portrays a clumsy head-in-the-clouds paleontologist who is to marry a frigid unromantic woman; she wants him to continue his important work with “no distractions and…
And we will always have Casablanca
I will not bore you by summarizing the accomplishments of the actors of Casablanca; Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman need no introduction. I will not even ramble on about what the impact of a movie made in 1942 had in its days considering it also depicted some hardships of the Second World War. The narrative…
E noi avremmo sempre Casablanca
Non vi annoierò con i dettagli biografici degli attori o del registra di questo grande classico; Humphrey Bogart e Ingrid Bergman non hanno bisogno di introduzioni. Inoltre, non mi dilungherò sull’impatto che ha avuto un film del 1942 e che raffigura anche alcune delle dure realtà vissute durante quel periodo. La cornice narrativa è molto…
Such stuff as dreams are made of…
Now that the first season has ended, here are my thoughts on Star Trek: Picard, and I will say right off the bat that I liked it. I don’t consider myself a hardcore Star Trek fan but I do have a strong appreciation for the franchise since it did leave its mark; it has been…
A proposito del prospettivismo
Per quanto il titolo dell’articolo potrebbe fuorviare e far pensare che sto per spigare un concetto filosofico o una nozione cervellotica, non cerchiamo di raccontarci frottole; sappiamo che non sono così profondo da potermi permettere certi lussi. Ho da condividere solamente alcune considerazioni riguardanti un argomento che mi è sempre piaciuto, una concetto che ho…
I don’t want this game to end
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about the upcoming series Star Trek: Picard and expressed my concern in regards to what the final product would be. On the same note, now I am afraid to continue the series since I hope they will not botch the hard work they did on the…