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  • Wonder (2017) – review

    Wonder, USA/Hong Kong/Canada, 2017. Directed by S. Chbosky, written with S. Conrad and J. Thorne (from the novel by R.J. Palacio). With Jacob Tremblay, Owen Wilson, Julia Roberts, Isabel Vidovic. Original music by M. Zarvos. Length: 113′. Rated: PG. You can’t blend in when you where born to stand out. PLOT The Pullmans are a…

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  • Dune (2021) – recensione

    Dune (2021) – recensione

    Dune, USA/Canada, 2021. Diretto da D. Villeneuve, scritto con J. Spaihts, E. Roth (tratto dal romanzo di Frank Herbert). Con Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Zendaya. Musiche originali di H. Zimmer. Durata: 155′. Rated: PG-13 Sono belli i sogni, ma le cose importanti accadono…

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  • Dune (2021) – review

    Dune (2021) – review

    Dune, USA/Canada, 2021. Directed by D. Villeneuve, written with J. Spaihts, E. Roth (based on the novel by Frank Herbert). With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, Stellan Skarsgård, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Dave Bautista, Zendaya. Original music by H. Zimmer. Length: 155′. Rated: PG-13 Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens…

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  • THE LEISURE SEEKER (2017) – Review

    The Leisure Seeker, Italy/France, 2017. Directed by P. Virzì, written with S. Amidon, F. Archibugi, F. Piccolo (from the novel by M. Zadoorian). With Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland. Original music by C. Virzì. Length: 112′. Rated: R. Ella and John have been married for a lifetime and now both have reached an age where the only…

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  • MUDBOUND (2017) – Review

    MUDBOUND (2017) – Review

    – Mudbound, USA, 2017. Directed by D. Rees, written with V. Williams (from the novel by H. Jordan). With Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blidge, Rob Morgan. Original music by Tamar-Kali. Length: 134′. Rated: R. Mississippi countryside, a farm and two families: these are the ingredients of the story. Both of them have someone off…

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  • THE HOBBIT – THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (2014) – Review

    The Defining Chapter. The Hobbit – The Battle of the Five Armies, USA/New Zealand, 2014. Directed by P. Jackson, written with F. Walsh, P. Boyens and G. del Toro (from the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien). With Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Orlando Bloom, Evangeline Lily, Benedict Cumberbatch. Original music by H. Shore. Length: 164′. Rated: PG-13. Bilbo and his friends…

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  • GENIUS (2016) – Review

    GENIUS (2016) – Review

    Max Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe. Genius, UK/USA, 2016. Directed by M. Grandage, written by J. Logan (from the novel by A. Scott Berg). With Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce. Original music by R. Simonsen. Length: 104′. Rated: PG-13. Maxwell Perkins, editor for one…

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  • HICK (2011) – Review

    HICK (2011) – Review

    Trouble travels together. Hick, USA, 2011. Directed by D. Martini, written by A. Portes. With Chloe Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Blake Lively, Rory Culkin, Alec Baldwin. Original music by L. Campbell. Length: 99′. Rated: R. Luli is a 13-year-old girl living with her always drunk parents in a little town in Nebraska. One day she decides to run away, with the goal of…

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  • JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (2012) – Review

    Believe the impossible. Discover the incredible. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, USA, 2012. Directed by B. Peyton, written by B. & M. Gunn, R. Outten (from the novel by J. Verne). With Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson, Michael Caine, Luis Guzmàn, Vanessa Hudgens. Original music by Andrew Lockington. Length: 94′. Rated: PG. Living with his mother and…

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  • JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (2008) – Review

    Same planet. Different world. Journey to the Centre of the Earth, USA, 2008. Directed by E. Brevig, written by M.D. Weiss, J. Flackett, M. Levin (from the novel by J. Verne). With Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem. Original music by A. Lockington. Length: 93′. Rated: PG. The scientist Trevor Anderson, a vulcanologist, is fighting…

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