2019-11-11 22:23
What struck me the most in the film "Mr Holmes", shot in 2015 and directed by Bill Condon, is that it has a very simple plot, from a strictly investigative point of view, but it is more inte… Read More
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2019-10-22 11:15
I read PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw when I was about twenty years old: at that age I used to devoure books. I had seen, however, the film MY FAIR LADY, which was none other than the cine… Read More
2019-10-16 00:20
Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old woman who has managed to achieve all her goals. Her marriage is a happy one: she has adult and responsible children and has a profession, that of university… Read More
2019-10-06 16:41
The evening I chose to watch El secreto de sus ojos, I was deeply impressed. I was impressed by its theme: a difficult subject, somehow difficult to deal with. It was about a rape that ended… Read More
2019-10-02 12:38
This story appeared, originally, divided into episodes, in the newspaper Pearson's Weekly, in 1897. It became a novel that same year, after its publication in episodes.It was born from the c… Read More
2019-09-29 06:20
It is 1970 and two men find themselves, alone, sitting at a table in an old bar: one is the owner of the bar, the other is a customer. The customer, who says his name is John, begins to tell… Read More
2019-09-28 09:17
I had decided to watch Aftermath, a film of 2017, as if it were a challenge: I wanted to see if, even this time, Arnold Schwarzenegger would have tried his hand at the usual revenge movie: a… Read More
2019-09-22 14:10
There are two important figures - and I am so passionate about them - in British detective literature: these figures are as famous as Sherlock Holmes was, no doubt. The two detectives I am t… Read More
2019-09-12 19:16
One of my readers asked me to write a post about a more recent film. As a matter of fact there is a fairly recent film, which dates back to last year, and which I really enjoyed. So I want t… Read More
2019-08-31 17:22
I liked it immediately. I believe it was because of the music that introduced it, which is the main soundtrack of the film (the unforgettable Sophisticated Lady, performed by the orchestra o… Read More
2019-08-17 05:42
As I am writing this post, all the news agencies and all the newscasts of the world, even on the internet, are giving the same news: with Peter Fonda one of the last icons of the countercult… Read More
2019-06-08 18:19
I have a positive opinion to express about the 2016 film American Pastoral: a wonderful characterization of Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, here also in his first, impeccable performance as a… Read More
2019-05-19 20:21
It is no coincidence, in a website that deals with Cinema and Literature, a post about "Forbidden Planet": this film, in fact, besides being a cult sci-fi, is also one of the most remarkable… Read More
2019-05-19 03:03
No one is a prophet at home. Very often, indeed, the people who most qualify themselves because of their skills and their potentiality are the ones who receive the worst treatment from their… Read More
2019-05-16 07:29
I heard about her death by chance, watching the television that was broadcasting two of her films simultaneously. Doris Day is gone, and another important icon of the glorious Hollywood of t… Read More
2019-05-12 22:52
Night programming for a film that, for this reason, had the chance to be seen only by those few night owls who could choose to prefer it, if compared to others. And this is what happened wit… Read More
2019-05-11 22:06
In 1985 the German writer Patrick Süskind published the novel Das Parfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörder (Perfume - Story of a murderer), which became a worldwide best seller. After… Read More
2019-05-09 20:45
On principle I loath love movies: I find them treacly, coy, boring: above all, they are based on something that only a few people experience in life: true love. Of course, it can happen to m… Read More
2019-05-08 15:22
I saw his first film at the cinema, the only magical and evocative place where, at that time, a good film could be seen: despite the modern discoveries, the multimedia, the internet, the new… Read More
2019-04-28 09:32
Last night I really enjoyed the movie "In war for love", by the Sicilian actor and director Pierfrancesco Diliberto, well known with the nickname of Pif. I found it a pleasant, amusing film… Read More
2019-04-27 13:42
The Shadow originated in 1930, when radio was the most popular medium in all homes around the world. In United States there was a program called Detective Stories, which presented thriller a… Read More
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