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three stories in one good movie (film: Nocturnal Animals – Tom Ford, 2016)

‘Nocturnal Animals‘ (2016) directed and written by Tom Ford (adaptation of a novel by Austin Wright) is one of the smartest, best written and well executed films of the last decade, a film that I watched with great delay. I … Continue reading

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a boring western (Film: The Sisters Brothers – Jacques Audiard, 2018)

I find rather funny the debates about ‘what was better – the book or the film inspired by the book?’. It’s like comparing apples and oranges in my opinion. Literature and cinema are different arts, they use different means to … Continue reading

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predictable end of watch despite interesting film making (Film: End of Watch – Jake Gyllenhaal, 2012)

The fact that David Ayer is both the sole author of the script and the director of ‘End of Watch’ is quite interesting. If two different individuals would have written the script and directed the movie, respectively, I could have … Continue reading

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If All Goes Wrong … (Film: Life – Jake Gyllenhaal, 2017)

The once very popular Murphy’s Law was stating ‘Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.’ The practical application of the saying into the space horror genre seems to be director Daniel Espinosa‘s Life. What if the worst assumptions and … Continue reading

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news scavengers (Film: Nightcrawler – Jake Gyllenhaal, 2014)

It’s really amazing that ‘Nightcrawler‘ is the first directing achievement of Dan Gilroy – whose record only includes a few scripts (one of the Bourne series movies among them). It’s a real catchy, witty, brutal and realistic story about the … Continue reading

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Film: Source Code (Jake Gyllenhaal, 2011)

Source Code is a rare kind of a film nowadays. A techno-thriller with brains and soul. No easy task, but apparently not a first for director Duncan Jones whose previous film Moon (which I did not see yet) has a … Continue reading

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