Call of the Night is a manga written and illustrated by Kotoyama; it premiered in 2019 and just recently, at the end of January, ended after 200 chapters. It is a peculiar piece of work and in my opinion, it is hard to confine to a single genre: it is much about growth as it…
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…
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,…
Nr. 100 – 5 anni di Blogdan
La faccio semplice: oggi – 1 ottobre 2023 – il mio blog compie cinque anni, calcolato da quando è stato pubblicato il primo articolo (2018) che ho repostato ieri. Inoltre ho ‘manipolato’ la faccenda in modo tale da far sì che questo fosse l’articolo numero 100, e questo l’ho fatto perché…beh, perché ho una sana…
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…