Review: Coco (2017)
“Remember Me” not only is the name of the song that will be stuck in your head after Coco, but it is also the main theme of the latest beautiful animated film by Pixar. Set […]
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Review: Alias Grace (2017)
[yasr_overall_rating] WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS I have always found first-person narratives more fascinating than regulars third-person one. How can you fully believe what the first-person narrator is telling you? How reliable can he/she be, […]
Review: Lady Bird (2017)
The relationship between mothers and daughters has always been an intriguing one and is the topic of many movies this season, from comedies like A Bad Moms Christmas to dramas like The Florida Project. The one that fully […]
Review: Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare. It’s no mystery, then, why her stories are adapted either for television or for the movies. Murder on the […]
Review: The Florida Project (2017)
Anyone who has been to Walt Disney World in Orlando probably has seen the budget motels in the highway leading up to the Resort. I personally have passed by these motels and never paid too […]
Review: Mindhunter (Season 1)
[yasr_overall_rating] WARNING: THIS POST HAS MILD SPOILERS OF SEASON 1 OF “MINDHUNTER” Understanding the minds of serial killers has been a mystery for many years and it can be a fascinating topic: why do they […]
Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017 has been a year of many movies discussing the origin or “behind the story” of many books/characters. For example, Rebel in the Rye (about J.D. Salinger and The Catcher in the Rye), Goodbye Christopher […]
Review: Una
Adapting a play into a movie is not always easy and the outcomes vary. Plays are designed to have explanatory dialogue, more expression from the performers, and less visual elements, so that the audience can […]
Review: The Big Sick (2017)
Romantic comedies are rare to find these days and are often viewed as “guilty pleasures”, which is completely different from the 90s, when the genre was very popular. Maybe that’s why The Big Sick was […]
Review: Battle of the Sexes (2017)
Women getting paid less than man for the same job is still a very current problem and far from being over. This demand, however, started many decades ago and the discrepancies were even bigger than […]