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The more I read about the New Wave of Romanian Directors the more curious I get about their movies, so do not be surprised that I found this...

A Fost sau n-a Fost? (12:08 East of Bucharest)

Is not that I’ve been avoiding this film, is that I have been delaying watching it as it seemed like another movie where they add a little l...

Feast of Love

Recently the L’Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma announced the nominations for these awards and here they are for some categories. B...

33rd César Awards

The Berlinale’s film programme is divided into six sections: Competition, Panorama, International Forum of New Cinema, Generation, Perspekti...

58th Berlin International Film Festival

On January 12th this festival will begin and will screen 95 films, documentaries and shorts during one week in Bilbao and another week in B...

5th Zinegoak08

Yesterday they announced the awards winners and here are some of the honored feature films. The Grand Jury Prize : Dramatic was presented to...

2008 Sundance Film Festival Awards Winners

Yesterday I watched the live telecast of the 2008 SAG awards and well it was kind of boring and with unpleasant surprises like Cate Blanchet...

14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners

Another impressive Romanian movie that will keep you in the edge of your seat feeling a profound anguish and perhaps some disbelief. But the...

Moartea Domnului Lăzărescu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu)

Absolutely agree with Nicole Kidman, she shouldn’t play villains and it is regrettable that she decided to please Philip Pullman (trilogy wr...

The Golden Compass

Very, very Burtonesque and magnificent. Yes even I found it great. There is a lot of gore and red blood –this should have been named there w...

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

I was going to write that this movie is a hard to watch film but no, it is not. When you know the end then it is hard, but it is not until t...

In The Valley of Elah

Since I’m still very upset with the Oscar non-nomination of this movie and because I do agree that this is a movie that HAS to be seen by ma...

4 months, 3 weeks and 2 Days

Feel like sharing with you the poster of the 80 Years of Best Picture Winners (not to be confused with the official poster which is in the n...

80th Academy Awards News

This Marc Foster film based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini tells a very emotional tale about Amir, a well-to-do boy from K...

The Kite Runner

Hypnotic. Emotionally Hypnotic. What a fabulous movie, unbelievably extraordinary and outstanding. This is a unique experience than not ofte...

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly).

I’m a fan of law stories thanks to my John Grisham and other writers addiction , so perhaps I have read too many law stories to find this on...

Michael Clayton

Just finished watching the live broadcast of the Oscar Nominations and there are some surprises like Laura Linney for Best Actress. Also saw...

80th Academy Award Nominations

Yesterday the award winners were announced and here they are. Best Picture: You, the Living / Du levande Best Director: Roy Andersson for Yo...

2007 Guldbagge Award Winners

Really old movies Fukujusô (Pheasant’s Eyes), Jirô Kawate, Japan, 1935 (could this film be the very first lesbian interest Japanese film??)...

My Wish List

I believe is a good movie that shows us Autism in a highly operational form with a good performance by Sigourney Weaver as Linda Freeman. Al...

Snow Cake

Well, now I know why someone told me that this movie was good and yes it is perhaps the best vampire movie I have ever seen, but then I have...

Vampire Diary

Premiered at the 2007 San Sebastian Film Festival this Michael Radford movie is quite attention grabber that will keep you very interested i...

Flawless

One of my friends noticed here that I liked Ellen Page performance in Juno and suggested that I see this movie. So I did. Here we have a you...

Hard Candy

I think I was expecting another 300 but have to say that is not at all. I liked 300 special effects and they truly marveled me, but here the...

Beowulf

Today they announced the nominations and here they are for the main categories. FILM AMERICAN GANGSTER – Brian Grazer/Ridley Scott ATONEMENT...

2008 BAFTA