Cinema'n More

Hamnet (2025) Chloé Zhao has always been one of my favorite filmmakers. With " Nomadland"  she completely won me over. A simple visual approach that contained a universal cynicism and solitude. One of those films far ahead of the Academy Awards that still managed to break through the mainstream barrier and win a large number of statuettes. A decaying journey in search of the inner self. " Hamnet" had intrigued me from the very beginning. Putting Shakespeare’s work aside for a moment, it had all the right ingredients to draw me in. An excellent cast (led by two Irish giants like Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley), a director I adore, and a fascinating setting. Moreover, months ago I was already hearing whispers from the far West calling the film an incredible emotional masterpiece made of tears and heartbreak. Well, what can I say, I have rarely felt more misled. The story has a strange structure. It feels like a work built in sealed compartments: the first portion, he...

  Marty Supreme (2025) What a fucking cannon, my friends. What a fucking lethal cannon.  Marty Supreme is a monumental cinematic work and without a doubt the film that crowns Timothée Chalamet as one of the greatest actors in Hollywood. After the colossal piece of shit that Uncut Gems was (which, to me, remains one of the most confusing and overrated films in the history of cinema), I was terrified of the moment Josh and Benny Safdie would get their hands on a camera again. Later on, I found out about their professional split and that made me curious and, in a way, reassured. With this 2025 film directed solely by Josh, I have to take it back. The direction is insane, sharp, with extremely tight framing that wants to focus ONLY on the characters and nothing else, especially on the character of Marty Mauser. And what a character, Jesus Christ. What a fucking piece of shit. Not because the acting isn’t adequate (we’ll get to that in a moment), but because he is genuinely a colos...

28 Years Later: The Bone Tample (2026) Holy fucking shit, this is how you make a goddamn sequel. I had hated Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later” under so many aspects. For the forced, overly mannered direction. For the cinematography shot with the iPhone 15 Pro, but also with insanely expensive anamorphic lenses that made the budget skyrocket. For a story written like ass and a staging (both CGI and directing choices) that was genuinely questionable.  Here…here we’re witnessing the return of Christ, or rather, the Devil himself. The story picks up shortly after the end of the previous film, but you can immediately feel a huge difference and a completely different “texture”.  They actually use a proper cinematic photographic setup, not some mid-20th-century Berlin experimental piece like Boyle did for absolutely no fucking reason. Here the image is pure Cinema, and so is the story. Alex Garland comes back to his senses and writes a brutal, insanely violent (sometimes even too much) ...

One Battle After Another (2025) Finally back on the blog and I’m doing it with a bang, finally managing to find the time to review this PTA film, seen several months ago by now! People online, right after its release, wouldn’t talk about anything else and kept praising this title, calling it Paul’s “Citizen Kane”, which pissed me off because everyone knows that the real crown jewel of the director is “Phantom Thread”. But whatever, people always have to exaggerate. Curious, I go to Melzo and watch it in 70 mm. I was curious, yes, but only up to a point. Anderson is notoriously a total genius as well as one of the best American directors of all time, so why be so surprised. Another great film was the bare minimum I expected. Well then, what to say after seeing it: I was happy, very, very, a lot, quite a bit, but with some clarifications and some small doubts that are anything but negligible. It really is a great film. Well packaged and well presented to the audience. However, among the ...

    28 Days Later (2025) The trailer for this film fooled everyone a little, but I think I'm among the MOST disappointed of all. This is truly ass.
Not only is it a joke, but personally, it's a poorly executed joke. $60 million to make a movie with an iPhone, which, look closely, you can tell from a mile away was made with an iPhone. The premise was pretty cool, and from the first chaotic minutes, it seemed like everything was going well, but then the film really got going, and what I found myself facing shocked me. Terrible production, banal direction, and rather dated stylistic choices. Often, shots were out of focus, or the camera movements were shaky, or the cinematography was "not cinematic," rather homemade. I was still giving the whole thing the benefit of the doubt.  This benefit was lost in the "return to the village" sequence, where elementary-school CGI, coupled with crappy, overly-maneuverable direction (with those fucking Northern Lights that yo...

  Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  (2025) I have always been a fan of Tom, and consequently also of the Mission Impossible saga, dear to the actor for more than 20 years. Despite this, I have to admit that I have not seen every single film. I am sure as hell that I have seen the last 4 or 5 and the 3 most recent ones (counting this), so Fallout and Dead Reckoning I saw them all in the theater. And yet, it was the first time that I went to the cinema not perfectly "aware" and prepared for the idea that it was the last film of such an important and long-lasting saga. I enter the theater, also with my grandmother who is a mega fan of Tom (I must have taken after her) and what passes before my eyes over the course of 2 hours and 50 minutes is a breathtaking blockbuster that perfectly closes a legendary saga. I have read many criticisms online, mostly born from the open ending that many say is "not very satisfactory" or from some choices in the script that made...