The Bureau (2015-2020) is a five-season French spy thriller action drama series created by Éric Rochant of The Patriots’ fame. Monsieur Rochant seems to be obsessed with the shadow world of secret services, but as far as The Bureau is concerned, this is just a cover, a cover for a sublime love story, more or […]

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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 entertaining with all the non-researched inadvertences. Who is the Archduke of Moldavia? Sometimes I think this is Ritchie’s contribution to nowadays youngsters’ brainwashing. It […]

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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 the book. Doesn’t matter very much because of the two main stars: Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. A bright contribution was provided as well by Arrested […]

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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, clean streets and mountain vistas. The series is created by Moshe Zonder for Israeli public television, not for a private channel, but, […]

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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 TV network owned by Apple Inc, with a backsliding revenue caused by the Covid 19 pandemic (they say), tried to invigorate their subscription base […]

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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’s time enough to reassess the balance. Anyway, for an absurd chain of heists in the Kingdom of Spain, almost […]

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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 profoundly feel that I’ll never do. It happened with Twelve Years a Slave, even when I knew it will win. It was one of those […]

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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 expected Science Fiction movie which is not part of Marvel or DC? Plot Even in the USA, people watch FIFA’s […]

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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 explanations about why a certain movie derailed, or how. So, that can generate a great chance to spoil some future action […]

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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 liked was actually based on another one, released in 2016, and written by a bunch of Italians including Paolo Genovese, who […]

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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 unfortunately, that won’t happen again. Thus I greatly appreciate the persons involved, they exert a great effort from the project’s beginning to its end, […]

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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 campaign started after Feb. 21, 2021, L.A. Times article by Josh Rottenberg and Stacy Perman, achieved its goals in full. In their opening coast-to-coast “monologues”, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler […]

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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 Best motion picture, musical or comedy, and for Best Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy for the SNL alumni, Andy Samberg. This is a […]

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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 Angeles. Presenters will introduce the awards from both locations, in person, and the winners will appear virtually. Presenters include Joaquin […]

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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! Nobody heard of those, I’m sorry. It seems that Armando Iannucci‘s movie is the best of 2018, and of 2017, the […]

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I love Istanbul, as being 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 time, otherwise nothing budged my really deep good feelings. They are logical, subjective, and objective, based on […]

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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 gruesome, or maybe it is. Bloody or not, it’s watchable, you are prepared somehow in advance for the upcoming […]

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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 books whose authors I’ve heard of or I have read before, but also blindly, like in a poker game. I […]

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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 Parasite (2019) dragged international viewers to Korean cinema, but again, it seems that only pure money-making investments are sold on foreign markets. […]

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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. So came the second in 2016, the third in 2017, and eventually the fourth in 2019, a little bit forced if you […]

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Yes, there is no mistake in the title. Taika Waititi‘s Jojo Rabbit was very close to being this year’s Best Picture. Its main challenger was even more unbelievable because it was the Korean Parasite, the actual winner. Which one was the third, can you guess? It was Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Sparkles, […]

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