dimarts, 12 de gener del 2021

honour, season 1


Interesting theme, dull storytelling 

By: IMDB-BaronVonKolisch 

 30 September 2020 

Keeley Hawes normally makes decent career choices, but this time her radar let her down badly. Despite her own best efforts ... and she does give a credible, emotional performance ... just about everything else was a washout. 
No fast paced action, no twists, and no moments of tension. 
It was just very dull. Some may argue that a true story deserves to be shown with an air of realism, and that police work is mostly mundane. 
Well in that case, get the real Inspector Caroline Goode to contribute to a documentary-style presentation and skip the drama aspect completely. 
 Most viewers tune in for something that is cinematic and memorable. 
This wasn't. 
6.8/10


 

 

VIDEO - HONOUR, Season 1 - 2020 - 7/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10535076/

dilluns, 11 de gener del 2021

a christmas carol, season 1


Dark gothic and very different 

By: IMDB-peterrichboy 

24 December 2019 

I fully understand this will not be for everyone. Dickens lovers may not approve but I really enjoyed it. We all know the story of how a miserly businessman Is visited from his deceased partner and then the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future and while the names remain the same the story is very different from previous adaptations of Dickens Christmas classic. Set in the traditional Victorian London it's an extremely dark at times scary piece but never fails to keep you gripped. Guy Pierce is brilliant as Scrouge and the support cast lead by the ever reliable Stephen Grahame are all terrific. Give it a go and judge for yourself. 8/10

 

 

VIDEO - A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Season 1 - 2019 - 8/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7686464/

dissabte, 9 de gener del 2021

hit, season 1


¡Ya era hora! 

Por: Filmaffinity-Petricor 

09/10/2020 24 

Pues sí, ya iba siendo hora de que alguien tuviera las santas narices de tocar los problemas de los adolescentes en la actualidad, ¡que no son pocos ni livianos! Los móviles, el vandalismo, la pornografía, el bullying, las drogas... todo está aquí, y creo que no se dejan nada. "Son enfermos", dice HIT, y razón no le falta; este es el gran problema de nuestra juventud, que ni ellos ni sus propios padres lo saben, o no lo quieren admitir. La problemática viene desde la más tierna infancia, cuando a los chavales se le da todo a cambio de nada, cuando se intercambia el afecto por lo material, cuando la falta de respeto se convierte en una gracieta. Por eso HIT habla de que los adolescentes son un espejo; ojo, que eso no quita que entre ellos haya auténticos psicópatas, y que, al fin y al cabo, sean, como dice HIT, los patògenos causantes de la infección; hay que erradicarlos, claro está, pero al mismo tiempo hay que ser conscientes de que la batalla está perdida desde el principio: los smartphones "son armas de destrucción masiva", y cualquier adolescente tiene uno en la mano. En el apartado técnico, la dirección y el guión están, en líneas generales, por encima de las interpretaciones (basta con ver la reunión con los padres del segundo capítulo), sin desmerecer, sobre todo, el buen trabajo de Daniel Grao (HIT) y Olaya Caldera (Ester); aunque hay que reconocer que los chavales crecen como actores/actrices cada capítulo. Volviendo al principio de la crítica, podría extenderme más, pero para eso ya tengo mi Podcast en ivoox,Tú te lo pierdes si no lo escuchas, y un programa dedicado exclusivamente a HIT. Enhorabuena a TVE por la decisión de emitir esta serie, y ojalá sea para largo.

 

VIDEO HIT, Season 1 2020 8 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11519748/

divendres, 8 de gener del 2021

rialto - gay film festival



A Very fine film 

By: IMDB-jromanbaker 

13/07/2020 

This is a modern tragedy that reminded me of Buchner's ' Wozzeck ' and Thomas Mann's ' Death in Venice '. A 46 year old man is at the end of his tether, and all around him are strangers in his family who do not know him, and strangers outside of him who deprive him of the only job he has ever had. He loves only an inaccessible youth and like Aschenbach in ' Death in Venice ' he sees him as the embodiment of beauty, when the youth is all too pathetically human. The film is anything but rough in its direction, and the acting is superb. It is not an easy film to watch, but then the finest works of art are ( and should be ) challenging and difficult. The music underlines this and rarely has music been so well used. There is a scene in mud fields that moved me a lot and the music in that scene was excellent and added to the ' Wozzeck ' feel I had throughout the film. It had echoes of Alban Berg who put the Buchner play to music and made it one of the greatest and hardest Opera's to watch and bear. But like all works that work at the highest level ' Rialto ' left me with a gift, and that is the gift of further understanding mankind, and the complexities of being human, plus the extremities of abuse that are inflicted constantly on us as human beings. Rialto was that part of Venice where Aschenbach stayed in ' Death in Venice '. A painful but necessary gem that validates the art of film supremely. 


 

VIDEO - RIALTO - Gay film festival - 2019 - 8/10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8818842/

diumenge, 3 de gener del 2021

from zero to i love you - gay film festival


Love, lust, or commitment 

By: IMDB-chong_an 

27/05/2019 

Pete, a single black man, has an affair with Jack, a married white man. Pete's father, a lawyer, is upset that Pete is dating a married man for the 4th time, and urges Pete to commit and settle down. Meanwhile, Jack has had homosexual episodes since his teens, married the prettiest girl in his class, had 2 kids, and both Jack and his wife have successful careers. Regardless of his behavior, Jack confesses to his counselor that he doesn't want to be gay or bisexual. While Pete and Jack declare their love for each other, will Jack finally divorce his wife, and will Pete be willing to wait for the divorce? I saw this at the Inside Out LGBT festival, and the Q+A answered a puzzle I was having. The story was set in the present - Jack's brother-in-law warns Jack against leaving an electronic footprint by texting or sending "dick pics", and Jack's lawyer jokes about his "1st divorce", given that same-sex marriage is now legal. But the "don't want to be gay" attitude seemed to be from an earlier period. It turns out that the inspiration for this film came from the writer / director's experiences earlier in life, before he became too old to play Pete himself. OK, I understand, but it still means I give it a mixed review.

 

 

VIDEO - FROM ZERO TO I LOVE YOU - Gay film festival - 2019 - 7 /10 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3110634/

il secolo dei giganti. galatea, l'incontro


Uns contes inèdits al voltant de les tres figures màximes del renaixement italià, Leonardo, Michelangelo i Raffaello, tota ficció, sempre, però amb aquell incert de què allò que explica l'autor hi hagués molt bé pogut ser degut a la immensa informació que hi ha d'aquells tres genis universals. 

 Escrit en un italià culte, però senzill d'entendre sense ser rebuscat i ple de paraules de fa cinc-cents anys.

 

 

LLIBRE - IL SECOLO DEI GIGANTI. GALATEA, L'INCONTRO - 2020 - 8/10 - Antonio Forcellino