2024-03-23 12:35
The Gentlemen series is roughly based on the 2019 McConaughey movie, but as I figured, the only resemblances are the title and the underground weed growing business. I found it enough enter… Read More
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2023-06-21 09:32
The Old Man is a thriller drama series loosely inspired by Thomas Perry’s homonym novel. Very entertaining considering that the show’s hero is somehow different than the one in… Read More
2022-12-26 12:21
Tehran is a modern-time spy drama thriller set in the Iranian capital, which is made to look better than in other movies. The city is presented in its splendor, with its bright lights, clea… Read More
2022-08-20 09:42
Foundation, one of the most famous science fiction book series of all time, was finally adapted into a television show. At least, that’s what I thought. Apple TV+, a private streaming… Read More
2022-06-02 06:05
When I first read The White Tiger a few years back, I readily gave it five stars on Goodreads, but the real impact was diluted with other happenings around. Now, this 2008 Man Booker Prize-w… Read More
2022-03-20 14:29
It is claimed that La Casa de Papel became at a time, the Netflix most-watched show in a foreign language ever. Hard to believe how they manage to top Squid Game, the Korean show, but there… Read More
2022-02-26 13:38
Looking through the Oscars Best Picture nominations this year, I’m surprised to notice that I watched almost all the mentioned movies. As for the ones I haven’t watched yet, I p… Read More
2021-08-25 16:44
The Tomorrow War is a maximum of five out of ten, no matter what you find on the IMDB. I think I’m usually generous with grades, and this is a sign. What’s wrong with this expec… Read More
2021-07-18 12:25
Yes, dear friends, you read it right. I had to create this new sub-category about movie spoilers here because I found it necessary. Of course, the catch is that I want to offer some explana… Read More
2021-04-27 20:06
A few years ago, I watched Perfect Strangers 2017 (Perfectos desconocidos), a Spanish movie by Alex de la Iglesia, one of my favorite directors. Little I knew at the time that the film I li… Read More
2021-04-26 15:32
The Oscars 2021 were better than others. I always thought that Oscars have to be awarded to movies close to spectacular, and to outstanding performances or deeds. This rarely happens, and u… Read More
2021-03-02 19:32
During the whole week preceding the 78th annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony, the HFPA’s “lack of diversity” within its membership was fiercely exposed. This smearing camp… Read More
2021-02-28 16:45
Palm Springs is a directorial debut for Max Barbakow, otherwise a very fine screenwriter. It is flawless. Unfortunately regarding the Golden Globe nominations, it is listed just for the Bes… Read More
2021-02-27 19:04
Being hosted for the 4th time by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the Golden Globes 2021 Awards will take place both directly and remotely. Fey will be present in New York, and Poehler in Los Ange… Read More
2021-02-20 13:02
In a Rotten Tomatoes list with best comedies of 2018, The Death of Stalin is on #6, after movies like Keep the Change, Bathtubs Over Broadway, Eighth Grade, and Oh Lucy!. That is insane! No… Read More
2021-02-13 17:56
I love Istanbul, as the most beautiful city in the world. Complementary I love Turkey as a whole, and even if in the past I have projected a Dogville vision on her, I felt justified at the… Read More
2021-01-21 18:28
The Yellow Sea is a 2010 South Korean movie written and directed by Na Hong-jin, the one who made his debut in 2008 with a gruesome feature named The Chaser. Not that this one is less grues… Read More
2020-12-21 18:48
I found about The Midnight Library when I voted The Best Book of the Year 2020 on Goodreads, a few weeks ago. It’s actually called the Best Choice Award or something. I have voted for… Read More
2020-12-06 18:56
The Korean cinema is a wanting chapter here on my blog. It seems that the highest-grossing domestic films in South Korea have little to do with the best Korean movies per se. Fortunately Pa… Read More
2020-05-04 20:04
Mr. Robot is another favorite show, premiered online by video on demand, on May 27, 2015. Shortly after that, the first season officially started on USA Network, on June 24, the same year. S… Read More
2020-02-24 15:49
Yes, you’ve read it right. Taika Waititi‘s Jojo Rabbit was that close to being this year’s Best Picture. Its main challenger was even more unbelievable because it was the… Read More
2020-02-08 20:15
There are a few more hours to the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony in 2020, so here, I’m going to present my certain predictions. It was a good year in the cinema and till now, there are… Read More
2020-01-29 16:56
Even if it was not unanimously appreciated, Never Look Away is nevertheless one of the best and also one the most beautiful movies of 2018. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s epic is… Read More
2019-12-01 18:53
Quentin Tarantino‘s Hateful Five was a pretty gruesome movie. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is far from that. Not only it displays some of the hottest stars in Hollywood right now, bu… Read More
2019-11-07 13:47
I don’t attempt for an original review when writing about the magnificent novel 2666 by the Chilean writer, Roberto Bolaño. Even so, I don’t think that this exquisite nov… Read More
2019-10-16 20:22
I was in Turkey when Breaking Bad started airing on CNBC-e, in original, subtitled. This was the only channel with such features, and I was glad it exists and bought distribution rights for… Read More
2019-09-16 09:16
The most praised of them all, the highest-rated, the dearest (how else), Avengers Endgame is also the last one, I hope. This 8.6 (still) IMDb rated nonsense is now on #35 in Top 250 list on… Read More
2019-09-04 13:09
Not only that I haven’t filled this category lately, but I also haven’t published much lately. Long time no see, that’s true. This blog is now in the middle of major chang… Read More
2019-08-05 11:43
Dhoom 3 is an Indian adventure flick which crowns a pretty successful series starring supercop Jai Dixit with his colleague Ali. With this post I officially inaugurate the new subcategory I… Read More
2019-06-02 15:31
You know how every online guru says that you have to publish to your blog regularly, often, and consistent if you want to have meaning. This wisdom translates “if you want to improve… Read More
2019-05-08 21:02
I have been subjective in choosing these movies to put on the following culinary list, but I have to confess that it wasn’t very hard. There isn’t much to choose from, and a sea… Read More
2019-02-13 21:04
The Wife is a movie matched to finally win Glenn Close her Oscar after six nominations, in spite of the Academy’s habit to rarely reward a real performance against any trend of the mo… Read More
2019-02-07 14:26
Do you know what a Green Book is? As unbelievable as it may seem, it’s a “touristic guide” with all the places the colored people could lodge and have their meals in the B… Read More
2019-02-05 20:16
If by producing Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian May and Roger Taylor wanted to crown the process of canonizing Freddie Mercury started with the Tribute concert immediately after his death, they su… Read More
2019-01-31 17:01
I have finally had the opportunity to watch Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, and I was left with somehow a bitter taste. It was not because the movie is bad, far from that, but it is lef… Read More
2019-01-27 20:00
Under the Silver Lake is a weird movie, but it is not unwatchable. On the contrary, it is somehow very esthetic. Andrew Garfield is also very good in this type of role. When I say it’… Read More
2019-01-26 20:34
Goodbye, Google Plus! I say it now, with two months in advance, just in case. We can’t be sure of these two months either, who knows what will happen tomorrow and the mastodon decides… Read More
2019-01-25 21:01
2019’s Oscar Nominations Announcement took place on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The 91st Oscars will air live on ABC on Sunday, February 24, 2019. GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis note… Read More
2019-01-20 15:17
I usually don’t appreciate a vampire movie with the undead walking freely during the daytime. Byzantium vampires are that different from the classic ones; they don’t sleep in co… Read More
2019-01-17 12:59
The Golden Globes 2019 Awards’ ceremony was this year at its 76th edition. Here are the nominees and winners, a simple list without comments. Unfortunately I couldn’t watch all… Read More
2019-01-05 13:21
Anthony Bourdain, a celebrity chef who was also a writer, was known to the public especially from these two TV shows: No Reservations and Parts Unknown. He is a CIA alumnus, a former hard-w… Read More
2019-01-03 20:20
Before watching the 2018 version of Papillon, where a Scorpio is played yet by another Aries, I was very excited. I imagined a modern vision of this rich and adventurous book, with an advan… Read More
2019-01-02 18:25
With WordPress 5.0 and up, the classic editor (TinyMCE) will be replaced with something newer and maybe easier, named Gutenberg (after the publisher who introduced printing in Europe). The… Read More
2018-12-30 19:35
After watching both cinematic sequels to Jack Reacher, I felt compelled to finally start reading the originals. Unfortunately, the first novel in the series was also too sick to make me con… Read More
2018-09-26 15:02
The soft spoilers are not actually spoilers, they are only some thoughts of mine regarding certain novels put on screen, by that resulting in a different outcome. Anyway, between two creati… Read More
2018-09-16 16:06
The Deep Web documentary has the following subtitle: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road. It deals about the Silk Road website and the illegal arrest of his alleged owner. What is… Read More
2018-09-11 19:10
Ghostwritten is David Mitchell’s debut novel and it is a heck of a read. It is the best book I’ve read in years, and as I already stated when reviewing number9dream, it reminds… Read More
2018-09-04 19:19
Barry Levinson’s Envy, is one of the future cult movies, believe me. I don’t understand why it is so overrated, but I hope that this will change when people will start to think… Read More
2018-09-01 18:56
I have just finished reading Number9Dream, David Mitchell’s second novel. I have enjoyed it so much that I’ve immediately started reading his first one, Ghostwritten, which I ho… Read More
2018-08-26 13:48
In seven Rotten Tomatoes’ “top critics” who have undergone to critic Jeruzalem, only two of them didn’t trash it. I don’t usually enjoy the horror genre, but t… Read More
2018-08-23 19:14
First Lee Child novel, Killing Floor, was unexpectedly gory, not to mention the one in a million coincidences that took place. Very catchy, captivating, you find in the first two pages that… Read More
2018-08-19 15:33
The Acid House is a 1998 Scottish three parts movie made by Paul McGuigan. I have been excited to watch another Irvine Welsh material, after Trainspotting one and Part Two, and of course Fi… Read More
2018-08-13 16:03
America’s Got Talent upgraded its position in my preferences list, out passing Saturday Night Live by far. Lorne Michael’s guys seem to be still in awe regarding Trump’s v… Read More
2018-07-05 16:53
In The Equalizer 2’s wake, the sequel to be released on July 20, 2018, I felt compelled to review this action thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua, a genre’s specialist. After mov… Read More
2018-05-24 13:32
Outstanding debut by Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is a glimpse in a quirky mind, one less understood at the time, but highly famed, no matter what. I never liked the color specification referr… Read More
2018-05-14 20:52
I wish the difference between Mad Men and Caprica to be that Caprica had meaning and Mad Men was just time filling, otherwise, in both shows almost everyone smokes, drinks and frakks (to us… Read More
2018-05-02 09:23
The Salesman (Forushande in Farsi, in original) is an outstanding and mesmerizing Iranian movie released in 2016. I think I like the word mesmerizing. This movie won the Oscar for the Forei… Read More
2018-04-24 10:58
This post used to have 10 great novels. You never know when you adapt a novel if the movie will be better than the book. Some following novels were thought to become great movies. The proje… Read More
2018-04-23 10:54
It was impossible for the weak and superficial so-called critics to not make a parallel between Call Me by Your Name and Ang Lee‘s Broken Mountain, and with this information, I reveal… Read More
2018-04-21 14:15
Den of Thieves is a very entertaining heist movie made recently by Christian Gudergast. A perfect action/crime/drama/thriller one needs to watch twice to be able to connect all the dots. Th… Read More
2018-04-14 16:19
There are famous persons in this world who weren’t famous from the beginning, they have worked for their status and they achieved a certain degree of respect from their peers. Not all… Read More
2018-04-13 15:40
These three inter-related movies are funny fantasy movies I liked myself. It is obviously a subjective opinion, it is based on my taste which is not as out of place as it sometimes seems. T… Read More
2018-03-31 16:35
The Disaster Artist is a movie directed by James Franco. He played Tommy Wiseau, the weird self-made producer, director, and writer of the cult movie The Room. His brother, Dave Franco, pla… Read More
2018-03-25 12:01
Origin is the last installment in Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, the fifth, to be more precise. In my humble opinion, it’s also his best to date, best in the series, the bes… Read More
2018-03-23 13:23
A Prophet is what can be called a “prison movie”. In his genre, it’s one of the best I’ve ever watched. It was released in 2009 and has been nominated for Best Forei… Read More
2018-03-18 18:53
Sadness across India when Sridevi, one of the biggest names in Hindi/Tamil/Telugu/Malayalam/Kannada cinema passes away after an accidental drowning in a bathtub at her suite booked at Jumei… Read More
2018-03-07 18:01
You don’t have to be a small business with a limited marketing budget and a smaller following, in order to have an Instagram Business Account! You can set up one even if you are a blo… Read More
2018-03-05 12:21
The following list of Oscar winners and nominees at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony in 2018 is presented here in the same order it appeared on CNN’s website. I have completed it wher… Read More
2018-03-04 17:44
I am happy for the movies and the nominees. This post is about my Oscar predictions with some comments. Tonight we will find out who are the winners this year. Incredibly, amazingly, there… Read More
2018-02-27 12:05
Frances Ha is a sensitive and positive movie which proves that if you believe in yourself, you can overcome the malice and the surrounding egoism. It is a black and white masterpiece, satir… Read More
2018-01-09 15:03
This is a book which never was a priority for me to read. Maybe you know that The Dark Fields is called now Limitless after the movie apparently inspired by it. What I have never understood… Read More
2018-01-08 11:58
I used to think that the Golden Globes are less rated than the Oscars. I was wrong. I said somewhere, maybe on my Romanian blog, many years ago, that these awards are voted by intellectuals… Read More
2018-01-06 17:33
Sometime in November 2017, Twitter doubled the number of characters allowed to appear in a “post”. I haven’t written yet about it because a lot of others did and the same… Read More
2017-12-06 16:25
Easy Money is a Swedish, German and Danish co-production from 2010, with a lot of soul. I have watched it with less surprise, knowing that in the Scandinavian Peninsula they prize the small… Read More
2017-12-04 20:05
I wrote about Instagram in a previous Social Media post and not in the most favorable terms. It is now the moment to share with you some of my experience there. A few months ago I had the u… Read More
2017-11-13 18:03
English Vinglish is an amazing Indian movie (the second presented here) released in 2012. It has now a 7.9 imdb rate out of ten with over 25k votes, which made the movie virtually accountab… Read More
2017-10-19 08:31
Not long ago, just two years ago, actually, I’ve heard for the first time of Facebook Authorship. Being familiar with what was once Google Authorship, I haven’t been very impres… Read More
2017-10-12 10:03
What a pleasant surprise I had while watching the Norwegian crime/thriller/drama Headhunters, “Hodejegerne” in original! It is a 2011 Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany co-product… Read More
2017-10-11 20:50
HootSuite, my favorite Social Media dashboard by far, is actually a greedy shark like all the others. Starting to become less and less cool not very long ago, now blew it up altogether. I&r&helli…Read More
2017-10-05 03:57
Young Frankenstein is a classic iconic comedy produced and directed by Mel Brooks in 1974. It is loosely based on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s novel, “Frankenstein”. If y… Read More
2017-10-04 13:48
Boys in the Trees is an Australian horror-ish fantasy drama about teen friendship in a town with an irrelevant importance name. This is the debut feature of a very promising filmmaker, the… Read More
2017-10-02 18:52
Equity is a movie about women in finance. Shrewdness, ambition and lack of scruples is what one has to possess in order to make more money than one needs. It can be considered “femini… Read More
2017-09-17 12:12
To own your blog is an imperative. I still wonder how’s possible to convince the uninformed people that in order to credibly succeed in being representative online, one needs a websit… Read More
2017-09-16 17:52
They had to do it, Wonder Woman is a symbol proving in an hypothetical way what one of the strongest and insulting currents today claims, that men are useless, or better said, a strong woma… Read More
2017-09-14 16:47
Someone from Google Plus discreetly announced in a blog post a few weeks ago, that they will remove the share counters from their Google Plus sharing buttons, (including the third party API… Read More
2017-09-05 17:07
A Dark Song is a horror Irish drama released in 2016. It benefited by an incredibly good critic from both professionals and public, as it will receive from me as well. In this movie, the ou… Read More
2017-09-04 14:16
I have never liked a movie review, or, by the way, any review which uncovers the plot in the first sentences. Actually, I quite hate these sort of reviews. I like to be surprised by a film… Read More
2017-07-25 12:45
Going in Style is so incredibly weak and predictable at the same time, that one can think it’s just a mockery. I have started from the image below, which doesn’t have a connecti… Read More
2017-07-06 19:19
I don’t think I have ever watched a super production more stupid and senseless than The Fate of the Furious. It is full of stars and it’s so empty, so illogical and so futile, i… Read More
2017-07-05 16:38
Roger Moore, the second great James Bond (if we don’t consider Lazenby), is the first of them who actually died. He left us on 23 May, 2017. We can say he was old enough to let cancer… Read More
2017-06-19 20:41
One of my favorite TV shows, America’s Got Talent, just started its 12thy season, on May 30, on NBC. One Million Dollars has to be won by the one chosen from the public at home. The f… Read More
2017-06-12 13:17
Our Brand is Crisis, a movie released in 2015, is about politics and the dirty game of winning a Presidential election. It’s happening in Bolivia, the former Spanish territory exploit… Read More
2017-06-11 15:21
I don’t see another actor better than Viggo Mortensen as Captain Fantastic. This is almost a flawless educational movie. If you judge people on their political views, you can have a v… Read More
2017-06-01 11:07
I fell in love with Instagram, another platform where people show pictures to the masses. What is awesome and different from Google Plus, which with all its pretended complexity seems to be… Read More
2017-05-31 11:15
Hands of Stone, released in 2016, is another exceptional movie I have recently watched. It is about the life of Roberto Duran, the Panamanian box champion, a living legend. Unfortunately I… Read More
2017-05-18 15:17
They are actors without an Oscar even if they deserved an award unlike other peers. There is no particular order to them. These actors and actresses were nominated at least for a Best Suppo… Read More
2017-05-09 12:24
Despite a few rough critics it encountered from some purists (especially of Indian origin), The Mountain Shadow, a sequel grandiosely written by the talented Gregory David Roberts, is as ca… Read More
2017-05-06 13:07
Oscars 2017 awards ceremony was by far a very embarrassing and disputable show, even if the actual weirdness started much earlier. Yes, dear friends, it was more absurd than this year&rsquo&helli…Read More
2017-04-12 18:32
Focus captured my attention especially because of its atypical approach. It is a mixture of romance, action, comedy, crime and drama, very entertainingly supported by the main characters. I… Read More
2017-04-10 14:54
Miss Sloane is probably the best movie produced in 2016 that I have had the pleasure to watch. Excepting a nudge for Jessica Chastain at the Golden Globes 2017, for Best Female in a Drama… Read More
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