A gray heron once told me that all gray herons are liars. So, is that the truth or a lie? Tokyo, II World War. …

If you’re not careful, you’re going to die a lonely old queen. It’s one morning in the 1940s, a young boy named Leonard Bernstein is woken up by a phone call: he will replace Bruno Walter as director of the New York Philharmonic where he achieved his first success as…

I’ve spent the past seven years travelling the world, perfecting my craft. You see I’m something of a magician, inventor, and chocolate maker. So quiet up, and listen down. Nope. Scratch that, reverse it. Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) is a young sailor who actually has a very different purpose in…

2023/12/03

Life is like a hen house ladder. Shitty and short. 1971, Christmas. Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), the most hated teacher in the school both by the students and by the other teachers, including the principal, receives the thankless task of remaining in the educational structure during the Christmas holidays, with…

2023/11/30

A movie full of silence 20 years after John Woo’s last American production, Paycheck (2003), and 23 years after his last box office success, Mission Impossible 2 (2000), the Hong Kong director returns to direct in the Western hemisphere using a script firmly focused on on some American stereotypes to…

2023/11/26

Stick to your plan. Anticipate, don’t improvise. Trust no one. Never yield an advantage. Fight only the battle you’re paid to fight. A man sits in what appears to be some sort of office. He does nothing, apart from training physically, and talking with his mind, giving himself rules to…