The Before saga (Before sunrise, Before sunset and Before midnight) is a trilogy of movies starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. It is the simplest story of two people meeting by chance on a train; this is all you need to create a perfect frame. It is about two different souls whose destiny is intertwined…
Dexter: A sangue freddo
C’è qualcosa di catartico in una seconda fine che arriva dal nulla, a distanza di molto tempo, per dare una conclusione diversa o quantomeno inattesa ad un prodotto che era stato forse dimenticato nei meandri del consumo incessante di serie televisive. A mio avviso questo è il caso di Dexter: New Blood, una serie che…
Happy 2022… with 21
21 is a 2008 “heist” movie starring Kevin Spacey, Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth; it also co-stars Morpheus…ahem, I mean Laurence Fishburne. The plot is laid out openly: to pay his Harvard tuition, a boy-genius gets involved with a group who teaches him to count cards (the probability to get as close to 21 as…
An angel gets his wings
It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 “Christmas” movie, up there along the classics in its genre such as A Christmas Carol, The Grinch and dare I say the first Die Hard (see my other article). Directed by Frank Capra, it stars James Steward and Donna Reed. The movie itself is meant to be wholesome;…
The spiel with Spiegel
The phrase “the original was better” has been thrown around a bit too loosely in recent years. Excluding the philosophical question of what exactly constitutes an “original” and the subsequent dilemma of inspiration vs. plagiarism, we tend to forget a very important thing. In most cases, this comparison is made between two different mediums, in…
Wuthering blood-red heights
Given that for Spooktober I decided to take into consideration a movie that we may call a “posthumously-trashy” horror, for this month I will follow through with a movie that is on the better side of the frightening and nail-biting spectrum. Crimson Peak is referred to as a gothic romance film, but I would dare…
The empathy within the Fruits Basket
I knew the title for it to be somewhat a classic, but I never expected to remain so impressed it. Fruits Basket is a shōjo written and illustrated by Natsuki Takaya, recently re-animated by TMS/8Pan and Funimation. I thought it to be a classic story of high school love and drama, something to put in…
From Transylvania with love
Happy Spooktober to all you Halloween enthusiasts out there! For the movie column of the moth, I decided to stay in theme and analyze a “horror” movie. Now, although the figure of Dracula has had along the years a wide array of representations with great actors (consider for instance Bella Lugosi, Klaus Kinski, Christopher Lee…
Kinda sus
Confessions (Kokuhaku) is a 2010 Japanese movie that unfortunately has passed under the radar on behalf of the western viewers. It is based on the homonymous book written by Kanae Minato. Be however fairly warned that it is a harsh movie and it is not suited for the casual viewer. The premises provides an interesting…
A song of change
This article will cover some aspects of Vivy: Flourite Eye’s Song, an original animation aired recently that in my opinion has and will somewhat ‘fly under the radar’. I will talk about the premises, as they are unveiled in the first episode, but will hence refrain from spoiling anything else; I prefer to concentrate on…