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Notes: To be honest, it is a seriously obscure feature but since it was Baz Luhrmann’s directing debut, I was quite eager to check it out. In fact, if I recall it correctly, I actually bumped into this DVD when I was at the supermarket. Anyway, I thought it was a decent watch. To be honest, ballroom dancing wasn’t really my thing (my wife was however rather glad that the movie was dealing with this topic) but you have to give Baz Luhrmann some credit for making a fairly entertaining feature about a rather tedious topic (at least, as far, as I’m concerned). For this directing debut, Luhrmann didn’t have some big stars at his disposal but it was maybe a good thing as it made the characters more believable. Anyway, it might not be a huge masterpiece, I thought it was pretty neat nonetheless.
“To be honest, I gave some slack to the 3rd movie from this franchise but, unfortunately, this final installment turned out to be even weaker, I'm afraid. Seriously, I was actually bored throughout most of the duration. Where should I start? First of all, most of the running time was about a missio” read more
“I’m not really sure if this movie is famous abroad but, in France, it is pretty much a cult-classic. Anyway, I remember very well when this movie came out and I even went to see it in the movie theater with my buddies when it was released. Back in those days, Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci w” read more
Notes: Robert Altman is considered by many as one of the best American directors that ever lived. On top of that, the guy had also an amazingly prolific career, making more than 30 movies in less than 35 years and, to be honest, even though I have managed to watch most of his recent work, I still have to check most of his older movies. Anyway, after all this time, this flick is and remains my favorite movie directed by this master. It seems to be a little bit forgotten nowadays but I think it’s a shame because it is actually an amazing and quite spellbinding thriller. Indeed, the directing was pretty impressive and the story was just quite mesmerizing and sometimes even pretty funny. Basically, Altman had troubles with the Hollywood studio system in the 70's after some of his films lost money despite the critical praise they received. He still continued to work outside the studios in the late 70's and throughout the 80's, often doing small-budget projects to keep his career alive and this movie was pretty much his comeback to making films in Hollywood. Eventually, since it was a massive critical success, it launched a new successful phase for this director, a phase which lasted until the end of his career.
“A couple of years ago, my wife bought me a book written by Jo Nesbø, it was one of these thrillers starring Harry Hole. Eventually, even though I didn’t expect much about it, I thought it was pretty good and I even ended up reading a 2nd book about Harry Hole for which, by the way, they will soon” read more
“Obviously, this movie was nothing really amazing but I have to admit that it always been one of my guilty pleasures. Indeed, for some reasons, I actually saw the damned thing in the movie theater when it was released, I must have been something like 12 years old at the time, and since I was just a k” read more
“A long time ago, when I was a student, I spent a year in Cambridge and, when I was there, I had the pleasure to follow a course about film history. The goal with this course was to start from the very beginning and go slowly up to the 80’s, if I’m not mistaken. So, this was the first movie we ha” read more
Notes: It seems hard to believe but, for many many years, Quentin Tarantino was actually struggling to make his first feature. Eventually, after many failures, he came out with this and the rest was history. I remember when this movie came out, there was a huge buzz surrounding this flick. Anyway, it had a huge impact and it is rightfully consider one of the best directing debut ever made. In my opinion, it is actually Tarantino's best movie and, as a matter of fact, I do think that he just went downhill from there. Indeed, it is his best because Tarantino couldn't do everything he wanted and he couldn't go on and on in his egotrip that has became most of his recent features. I mean, limited in space, time and money, he produced his best work and there is here some amazing writing, directing and acting in there. Harvey Keitel makes a tremendous come-back here but the rest of the cast (Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Tarantino himself) were just as amazing and they all provided some tremendous performances. 
“To be honest, I find it rather difficult to judge this movie. Indeed, on one hand, it was easily better than the last 4 directing efforts from this director (but it wasn’t something really difficult to pull). On the other hand, it was still nothing really amazing though. First of all, Shyamalan we” read more
“Already 10 years ago, Sarah Pollen delivered with 'Away from her' a really impressive directing debut so when she was coming up with a follow-up, of course, I was quite eager to check it out. Eventually, it didn't make much waves when it was released and I think it was barely noticed at the the time” read more
“Next year, Disney will come up with another live-action version of this classic tale but the French have already released their own version in the mean time.Well, even though it was visually pretty neat, I was actually rather bored by the damned thing. I don’t know, maybe it was because it was jus” read more
![La Belle et la Bête [No English subtitle]](https://lthumb.lisimg.com/278/7758278.jpg?width=90&sharpen=true "La Belle et la Bête [No English subtitle]")
“I already saw this movie but since it was a while back, I was really eager to check it out again. Well, it must be one of the biggest cult-classics released since the beginning of this millennium, even if some viewers really didn’t care for the damned thing at all. I have to admit it, it is actual” read more
Notes: First of all, I have to point out that, even though I have seen many movies written by David Mamet or based on his work (about 19 if I’m not mistaken) , I can’t say I have really been blown by his stuff. This movie must be however the exception. Indeed, it was based on his Pulitzer prize winning drama and the whole thing was simply just spellbinding to behold. Indeed, the concept was in fact pretty simple and the whole idea was to have a bunch of great actors put together delivering some of the best dialogues ever written. To make things even more intriguing, it all took place in a really realistic and rather mundane spot, a real estate office, and the fact that I have absolutely no feeling whatsoever for this kind of profession made the whole thing even more spellbinding to me. In this messed little world, you’re either a winner or a massive loser and you would just need a couple of failures to become another black sheep.
“I had already seen this movie, even in the movie theater when it was released, but since I had it on DVD, I thought I might as well check it out again. Back then, in the 90’s, when John Woo finally made the move to Hollywood, many expected that he would make some amazing action flicks but, unfortu” read more
