I decided to write a review for an older movie since this film made me delve into the history of Derby County and turned me into a fan of both the team and Michael Sheen. Now that I’ve confessed my subjectivity, I’ll try to be as objective as I can. The Damned United (2009), directed by Tom Hooper and based
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I believe that, with the rise of Irish cinema after the ’90s, Alan Parker’s “The Commitments” stands out as one of the most characteristic films. Set in the gritty, working-class neighborhoods of Dublin, the movie introduces us to Jimmy Rabbitte, an ambitious young music enthusiast with a vision: to bring soul music to Dublin by forming the “world’s hardest working
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I’m not the biggest short movie fan, so I wanted something special to make my first short movie post. “Roy” wasn’t chosen by chance; I consider David Bradley as one of greatest actors, with roles ranging from drama (“Broadchurch”) to action (“The Strain”). Supplementary, the Oscar winning duo of Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton (for the short film “Silent Child”)
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I had the luck to see Donato Rotunno’s “Io sto bene” in a online screening. I was curious as to what I would see since there were nearly no records on the net for this film. Sadly, a Luxembourgian production is not very attractive, even if “Io sto Bene” is the official submission of the country in Oscars Awards. Sadly
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On a theoretical level, when Jean Durjardin and Adèle Haenel star in the same movie, the movie could be a major box-office success, at least in France. The truth is that Deerskin, written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, was a quite unoticed movie, since it was mainly part of some international festival including the Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes Film Festival. However,
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Many years before Night Manager (2016) and The Undoing (2020), Susanne Bier directed Efter Brylluppet, most well known with the english title After the Wedding. The movie had such a great success that an american version with Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore and was released in 2019. The story is about Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), a manager of an orphanage in
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