Film reviews in English– category –

Conventional biopic for an unconventional black swing singer The legendary Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, spent much of her career being adored by fans across the globe, all while the Federal Department o...

Branagh’s Amarcord amid The Troubles Leaving his ‘Poirot with a soul’ behind (see review below), this time K. Branagh walks down his own memory lane, departing sunny Egypt to get back ‘home’ in rainy 1969 Belfast, when The Troubles reall...

because you could see the real enemy: dystopian slapstick comedy not to miss (Non guardare in alto) perchè potreste vedere il vero nemico: distopica commedia slapstick da non perdere Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), an astron...

Branagh’s Poirot: a detective with a soul Death on the Nile is quintessential Agatha Christie: exotic location, a bunch of characters from different social classes in an enclosed space – a boat on the Nile -, all of them with a moti...

Storytelling with gusto in Ridley Scott’s medieval epic The Last Duel is a film … set in the midst of the Hundred Years War that explores the ubiquitous power of men, the frailty of justice and the strength and courage of one w...

His name was Bond, James Bond For the very last time, in No Time to Die Daniel Craig shows us his handsome Shrek face: this is his announced last performance as 007 in this 25-film-long franchise (the word we use in movies...

Back to glamorous Swinging London, with a touch of horror attached In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling...

: And Then There Were None revisited A mix of whodunit, horror, humour and social commitment, a movie worth watching – 3/5 stars As the different protagonists, introduced in the film incipit, arrive in an apparent seaside ...

“April is the cruellest month” is the opening verse of ‘The Wasteland’ by T.S. Eliot, a land that remains dry, rotten and dead without spring’s rebirth and resurrection. April 6,1917 is indeed the cruellest day, as we physicall...

Perry Mason 2020, TV series, season 1, 8 episodes, Sky Atlantic on-demand/box set. As soon as we decided to start an English language film review section for our school, cinemas closed down. Not to give up hope, let’s try again with new ...