The 2018 Oscars came and went, a bit later than the normal scheduling of late February. The 3 hours and 53 minutes long ceremony, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel for the second year running, awarded its famous statuettes to the […]
The word ‘movie’ has its origin in the syntagma ‘moving picture’, also known as ‘motion picture’, which accurately, if rather simplistically described what an ensemble of successive pictures would be called. In the beginning, films implied motion, but no […]
Another one of the big ceremonies has come and gone – the BAFTA Awards took place on Sunday, 18 February 2018 in London, UK. This meant that, for once, us Europeans could watch a winter season award without having […]
The first month of the year has come and gone. Whether or not it passed quickly depends on the intensity of one’s activity during the initial 31 days of the year. And while January does indeed have the habit […]
People will never agree with each other – it’s a fact. Their tastes, experiences, levels of education, attention spans and temporary factors that affect the enjoyment one can get from a film all impact their perception of a given […]
Star Wars Episode I was the first film – animations excluded – that I distinctly remember watching at the cinema, with my dad. It came out in 1999, 16 years after the Original Trilogy had concluded with Return of […]