Tag Archives: Matt Damon

the destroyer of worlds (film: Oppenheimer – Christopher Nolan, 2023)

Posted on July 26, 2023 by admin

It’s only the middle of summer and we are almost half a year before the Academy nominations, but I think we already have one of the serious contenders for collecting many of the 2024 awards in Christopher Nolan‘s ‘Oppenheimer‘. It’s … Continue reading →

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small is the future (film: Downsizing – Alexander Payne, 2017)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by admin

Whenever I have a hard time to categorize a film in a certain genre, the reasons can be very good or very bad. Sometimes it’s one of those original and inventive films that escapes the patterns imposed by film critics. … Continue reading →

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an old story, different points of view (film: The Last Duel – Ridley Scott, 2021)

Posted on November 16, 2021 by admin

Ridley Scott is almost 84 years old, but age does not seem to diminish his ambitions or his film-making appetite. ‘The Last Duel‘ proves once again that the English-born director is one of those cinematic forces that manages to make … Continue reading →

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the price of the life of a soldier (film: The Monuments Men – George Clooney, 2014)

Posted on April 8, 2021 by admin

The story in ‘The Monuments Men‘ directed by George Clooney and released on screens in 2014 is worth telling. In the last year of World War II, a small group of Allied soldiers, most of them experts in the arts, … Continue reading →

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action … action … action (Film: Jason Bourne – Matt Damon, 2016)

Posted on August 5, 2016 by admin

Each summer brings to the screens a fair amount of films which aim pleasing especially the family crowds but never or seldom make it to the list of awards of the year or just to the list of the films … Continue reading →

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techno-survival (Film: ‘The Martian’ – Ridely Scott, 2015)

Posted on December 29, 2015 by admin

I expect something special when I go to a film by Ridley Scott . In his long and remarkable career Scott approached many genres from space horror to historical sagas, from road movies to gangster comedies and succeeded exceptionally well … Continue reading →

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Zero or Infinity (Film: The Zero Theorem – Terry Gilliam, 2013)

Posted on October 4, 2014 by admin

‘The Zero Theorem’ is directed by Terry Gilliam, a highly original creator and an explorer of the future, which he already described in rather dark colors in several memorable films like ‘Brazil’ and ‘Twelve Monkeys’. His other principal title of … Continue reading →

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chaotic (Film: Contagion – Steven Soderbergh, 2011)

Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin

Having seen a few weeks ago Side Effects I was reflecting that maybe Steven Soderbergh would not necessarily do a bad thing taking a break from directing. Well, I had not seen ‘Contagion’ yet, one of his previous movies. To … Continue reading →

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‘It is not for you to decide …’ (Film: Green Zone – Matt Dimon, 2010)

Posted on January 19, 2013 by admin

It is seldom that Hollywood gets it right when it comes to describing the realities of the world we live in, and especially when the relation between the American policies and the rest of the world are concerned. Director Paul … Continue reading →

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Chairman is another of His names (Film: The Adjustment Bureau – Matt Damon, 2011)

Posted on October 7, 2012 by admin

The Adjustment Bureau starts like an election year movie. As we are in 2012 this may be the right time for such films, but it quickly quits that path to go into a direction that I personally find even more … Continue reading →

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