Category: Movies / Series
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019) – A review.
“One of the chief joys of the time travel subgenre is strictly mechanical: it’s all about the ways nonlinear characters let creators deconstruct a…
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Netflix’s Roman Empire Season 3: The Mad Emperor
I have already talked about this interesting and well-researched historical series on the Roman Empire, which devoted the first season to Emperor Commodus (you…
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018). A review.
I was since the beginning not that keen to watch this movie, for a fairly good reason. Having researched the historical period and the…
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The autopsy of Jane Doe (2016). A review.
This relatively unknown movie, right now available on Netflix, was a pleasant surprise for many reasons -the first being that it is not what…
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Knightfall (2017-). Historical fantasy at its best and worst.
I had just finished watching the first series of Knightfall (now on Netflix) when I heard History Channel renewed it for a second season.…
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As Above So Below. A review.
I have always been especially passionated about movies that take place below the surface -be them underground or in the middle of the ocean.…
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Underrated Horror Movies. A list.
… to be fair, while I found the idea simply great, I was not the one to actually prepare this list I am talking…
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Ghoul (and what you’d like to know)
GHOUL, the Indian horror mini-series, just premiered on Netflix last week (24th August 2018) and the net is already buzzing. What is all the fuss…
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Roman Empire: Master of Rome (…yet more history in your fiction)
I have already said in another post: Roman Empire: Reign of Blood, the Netflix original series that narrates the events of Emperor Commodus’s reign, was one…
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The Rift. The Dark Side of the Moon (2016). A review.
On paper, this movie checked all my boxes for a good one: it is about space missions (a satellite crash); it is SF horror…
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Avengers: Infinity War (2018). A non-spoiler review.
I went to see it over the weekend. The hype about this movie was incredible and I decided I want to have a go…
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The Ritual (2017). A review.
I’ve heard (and read) a lot of good reviews of this movie, so I’ve decided to give it a shot. After all, it’s British…
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Sacrifice (2016). A review.
It’s a (well-known) fact -at least for friends&neighbours- that I binge-watch pretty much all horror Netflix and Amazon Prime dare to put online. Horror movies…
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Triangle (2009). A review.
If you stumble upon Triangle (I don’t think you’re going to search for it. At least, I didn’t, because I’ve never heard of it…
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Everest (2015). A review
I found out about Everest (a 2015 British-American biographical adventure movie, directed and co-produced by Baltasar Kormákur) by chance when browsing Netflix’s adventure section. As…
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Altered Carbon: The Trailer
You remember Altered Carbon, right? It’s the amazing book by Richard K. Morgan that redefined the whole concept of cyberpunk in XXI century, together…
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Post-Blade Runner 2049. Review(s)
[Disclaimer: spoilers, in the second part of this post only. I’ll warn you later on up to where it is safe to read if…
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Getting ready for Blade Runner 2049
…and here we are: finally! The most awaited movie of the year is out next week, and the early reviews are glowing. “A gigantic spectacle…
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(More) historical fiction. Forthcoming reviews
In the last six months, for a series of reasons I’ll talk about in a future post, I’ve been watching a lot of historical…
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A lost opportunity: Helix.
In case you have never heard of it, Helix is an American SF/ thriller TV series aired by Syfy. The plot: a team of…
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Dorian Gray (2009). A review.
The Picture of Dorian Gray has been since its publication in 1890 a popular, albeit controversial, subject, and its cultural influence long-lasting, certainly more…
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The Rezort (2016) – yet another zombie movie. A review.
Since I’ve got my Netflix subscription a couple of years ago, the amount of horror I watch has been steadily growing, simply because it’s…
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Blade Runner 2049. Not (yet) a review.
… simply because the movie is going to premiere on 6 October 2017 and I’ll need to wait until that day. But I make…
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Historical Fiction from the Renaissance – The Tudors
I have just finished watching Showtime’s historical series The Tudors (now entirely on Netflix), and I have to say I have mixed feelings about it.…