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Here I am with a brand new column dedicated to the new trailers that came out last week. Let's check them out together!

Thor Ragnarok

I loved this trailer. I'm not a fan of Thor as a superhero but I find quite interesting how Marvel has decided to re-brand this film. Thor meets Guardians of the Galaxy. The beat of the 80s dominates this trailer. Thor meets Doctor Strange. The overall aesthetic seems more elaborated. Thor meets Spiderman Homecoming. After Spiderman and Iron Man, here we are with Thor and Hulk. Can't wait.

Brad's Status

I didn't know anything about this film. But I'm really curious to discover a brand new Amazon product.

The Vault

A horror and mainstream version of Good Time with James Franco. Captivating.


What do you think about these new trailers?

Let's talk about: Music Films

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I'm back with three brand-new reviews! Check them out!

I decided to watch this film on a hot Saturday night. It was 10 PM and I needed to watch something not too long. The label music film misled me.

The Music in Me is a 2015 TV film directed by John Bradshaw starring the famous pop star Debbie Gibson. Honestly, I don't even know who she is.

The film attempts to tell the story of a talented middle age musician-singer who gave up her career to help her parents. After a series of events, she will return to her passion helping the church choir. Illness and poor situations will complicate the whole situation.

I didn't enjoy this film for three main reasons. First, the use of music. Music is not the main element of this film, it's just a side feature. In a film named "The Music in me", this should not happen. Second, the use of melodrama.We all enjoy watching melodrama. But, a fake melodrama based on an illness that is so easy to cure is one of the worst things in the world. Third, the love story. They wasted the only thing that they could achieve with this TV format and budget.

The positive side? Amy Forsyth in the role of the homeless Alice. The negative side? A music film without music.

This is how a biopic should be done. Great Balls of Fire! is funny, dramatic, entertaining and rock.

The 1989 film directed Jim Mcbride and starring Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder tells the story of the crazy life of the rock hero Jerry Lee Lewis: from his early career to his scandalous marriage with his 13 years old cousin.

The film succeeds in creating an interesting portrait of the singer because of the balance and mixture of film genres. The film is a comedy because it is exaggerated. It is a drama because of its themes of drugs, failure, and sexual abuse. It is a rock musical because the beat is a narrative element.

The positive side? Rock. The negative side? Extreme exaggeration.

Are you a Bob Dylan fan? Then this the right film for you. Otherwise, you will not understand it.

I'm not there is a 2007 film, first screened at the Cannes Film Festival, directed by Todd Haynes and starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Heath Ledger. The film portrays several aspects of Bob Dylan's life through the storylines of six different characters.

I don't know Bob Dylan very well. Consequently, for me this film was a challenge. I tried to get a general overview of this icon, Nobel prize winner, through this film. On one hand, the film succeds in creating an accurate impression of the song writer. On the other, the film is very slow with a non-linear plot and an artistic cinematogrophy. It's not a film for everyone. But, I think that it's worth spending one afternoon watching it.

The positive side? Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan. The negative side? Non-linear plots.


What do you think? Have you seen this films?

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Let's talk about: Music Films

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After one week I'm back with brand new suggestions for this hot summer!

This 2006 film portrays the real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids.

This is the typical film to watch during a family night while eating pizza and drinking beer. Your old grandparents, your parents and your little siblings will love it in the same way. Dancing scenes and a good Banderas will entertain you for one night. But don't think to preserve this story in an angle of your heart for more than 90 minutes. The show must go on.

The positive side? Jenna Dewan Tatum before her breaking performance in Step Up. The negative side? Stereotypes.

Studio 54 tells the story of a famous 70s NYC nightclub through the eyes of a young employee.

54 is Magic Mike in 1998. This is not a praise. Sex, drugs and 70s songs are a perfect combination for a summer night. Still, the film doesn't work. The screenwriter and the director failed to make us care about the three main characters: a young bartender, an aspirant singer and an owner always high. The only goal that the director achieve was the tale of the club.

The Positive Side?... The Negative Side?...


Have you seen these films? What do you think about them? Let me know!

At the cinema : The Mummy

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Here is my new review:

While I was watching this film, I asked myself: what are the good premises to create a new cinematic universe? Originality, continuity and a good love story. The Mummy, directed by Alex Kurtzman, fails all these fundamental premises to set up the Universal Dark Universe. 

At the beginning of the film, an ancient princess is awakened from her crypt beneath the desert, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

The main problem of this film is that the screenwriter and the director haven't added nothing new to the old films about the Mummy that we all know. Probably, they thought that having a female mummy was enough. It wasn't.

Tom Cruise. He's not the right choice for this role. If this is a Dark Universe, then the genre of all the films should be the horror. This is an action movie. No suspense, no shivers. It's more Mission Impossible meets Indiana Jones. There is not continuity to the roots of the classic monster films. Such a waste.

I don't know how to call the relationship between these two, but this is not a love story. The two actors have no chemistry at all and their lines are terrible. The romantic turn of the ending is one of the worst things you will see at the cinema this summer.

Was it necessary? The introduction of Dr. Jekyll does not make any sense in the storyline. This is the first film of a whole universe. We don't want to know everything because we still don't care about the characters.

Overall, for me, this film was a complete waste.

What do you think?

Let's talk about: Music Films

Hello, everyone!

Here I am with a brand new column! It's summer and I think we all deserve to be entertained by nice music films while we sip an iced green tea!

Here my suggestions:

The film follows the adventures of Chili Palmer, a disenchanted film producer who tries the music industry. He meets and romances a widow of a music executive on the way and he also deals with LA gangsters. 

Be Cool (2005), directed by F. Gary Gray, is a collective film. The audience can enjoy this film also just trying to identify the actors behind each character. Believe me, this is not a great film, but it's entertaining. I think that in some way it offers a reflection about the music industry that it is not so granted. 

The positive side? Uma Thurman and John Travolta together after Pulp Fiction. The negative side? The happy ending. 

This film follows the story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids. 

I know, we have heard this story a thousand of times. Still, it's a story with good feelings, good music and an amazing Meryl Streep. I think that this story is in some way the "first" of its genre, it was directed by Wes Craven in 1999.  So why don't go back in time to re-discover an underestimated cult? 

The positive side? A fantastic Michael Angarano when he was young. The negative side? The fast ending. 

Have you seen any of these films? What do you think?

Review- Alice through the looking glass

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Here is my new review! Check it out!

I had the opportunity to re-watch Alice through the looking glass last week. I remember that when last year it came out people used the words "flop" and "terrible" to describe it. Although I'm aware that this sequel it only has commercial purposes, I enjoyed it.

Here is the plot: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to help the Mad Hatter.

What I liked most of the whole film is the idea of the story. Of course, the screenplay is not perfect. There are vague dialogues and too many explanations, but for the first time, there is an attempt of developing an original story for a famous fairy-tale. Alice is an excellent female character, a good model for rebel children.

Then, I appreciated the development of the relationship between the Mad-Hatter and Alice. Everything that Alice does for the mad-hatter makes sense. The audience really cares about these two characters.

I also found interesting the idea of using the Time as the enemy in this Alice's adventure: Alice is becoming a woman in real life and her attempts to trick the Time in Wonderland just makes her realise of who she is and of who is becoming. This is not only a film for children because it proposes a beautiful reflection about life in the adult world.

From an aesthetic point of view, the film is not original like the first episode. No Burton, no mad settings. Still, I think that the new director found a good balance between classical Disney colours and a Burtonian atmosphere.

What do you think?

Review- Breaking Dance

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Honestly, I have not much to say. Breaking Dance is just an ugly film. It could have been called Step Up infinity and nothing would have changed. It is not even that kid of ugly films like Dirty Dancing when at least after you see it you can reflect on something. This film has no qualities at all. 

The plot is very easy: She wants to be a star. He is her best friend. She meets a manger. She looses her friendshisps and dances to get them back. They kiss. 

Why did I watch it? Masochism. Seriously, not even the choreographies were good!!  

Please, avoid this film like if it was a plague!