by zEke
It has been a while since the last time Michael Douglas managed to catch my attention. The last time might have been with his performance in traffic (2000), even though he was just one more among a neverending cast. After that, he has tried to relaunch his career with comedies to forget like [...]
by zEke
The suggestive title everyone is talking about. Or should I say the brilliant performance everyone is talking about? Paul Thomas Anderson’s there will be blood is his very own free adaptation of the Upton Sinclair’s novel oil (1927) about the early days of the American oil business. And I probably should not say adaptation [...]
by zEke
the nines. I take a deep breath. I don’t even know how to start. Certainly a movie difficult to label, which a priori is neither good nor bad. A movie that made its debut at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and became later a minor cult classic for some, despite its limited theatrical release.
The [...]
by zEke
Once again Tim Burton. Once again a musical. This time, though, with real actors. And among them, once again, Johnny Depp. And it has been already six the collaborations between the Gothic filmmaker and the idiosyncratic performer. They dare now to reinvent the Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical of the same title, a [...]
