Napoleon (2023)

Movies I've Watched in 2024 [COMPLETED] (225 movies items)

"Watched on: August 6th, 2024. Despite the idiotic reviews for this film, I thought it was pretty damn good. "

Predicting the Winners of the 2024 Oscars (20 movies items)

"And the Nominees are... *Barbie- Jacqueline Durran *Killers of the Flower Moon- Jacqueline West *Napoleon- Janty Yates and David Crossman *Oppenheimer- Ellen Mirojnick *Poor Things- Holly Waddington And the Oscar goes to... This is one of the toughest picks of the night. Poor Things won the BAFTA and a Costume Designers' Guild Award, as is a dazzling technical feat. Barbie was a behemoth here though, and has been tipped for this category since July (it also won a CDG award). This came down "

An average movie

“To be honest, I lost faith in Ridley Scott a while back but the guy keeps coming up with some projects which do sound so interesting so he still manages to peak my interest every time again. At least, until I watch the actual end-result and this movie was a perfect example. Indeed, to have Scott directing a massive historical epic about Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix, easily one of the best actors at work nowadays, did sound so awesome. Anyway, I finally watched the damned thing and, well, it was another typical Scott feature, I'm afraid. Indeed, while Stanley Kubrick had been working on this subject for at least a decade but didn't manage to make his movie, it took Ridley Scott only 3 years between announcing that it would be his next project and actually delivering it (it took also only 6” read more

2024 Oscar Nomination Predictions (20 movies items)

"1.MaestroProbable winner. 2.Poor ThingsCould pull an upset. 3.OppenheimerProbably the most at-risk of it's "locks", it's still very likely. BP players do well here, and there's a lot of subtle work throughout (and the prosthetics later). 4.GoldaThere are so many delightful options for these last two slots that it pains me to go with the bog standard "famous actor plays historical person" picks. While I could see voters being a bit apprehensive to wade into the Israel/Gaza stuff, Golda fits th"

Gli amici del Fantacinema - Secondo semestre 2023 (33 movies items)

"14 pt. "