Cinema and Popcorn

Personally, I think 2023 was a year for the cinema history books. Overall, there were a LOT of good movies. It was a year of many great directors' comeback - Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Greta Gerwig, Todd Haynes, Alexander Payne, Yorgos Lanthimos, Hayao Miyazaki, Jonathan Glazer or Ava DuVernay - and each one have presented us some of their best works so far. Still, there were a lot of less estabilished names that also brought some unique pieces of cinema - from Celine Song to A.V. Rockwell and Chloe Domont, just to name a few - wich made 2023 even more interesting.  From big names in the industry to bright new voices in cinema, here I am to present you those I consider to be the 10 Best Movies of 2023. Special mention to Chloe Domont's Fair Play, which I dropped from #10 after watching Society of the Snow - I loved the whole movie and its subject has stayed with me since the first watch that I feel "unthankful" not having it making my personal T...

With the announcement of the TIFF lineup, I believe it's time to look at the current state of the race according to what each big distributor has on its plate. Of course there will be movies without a distributor that will be picked during Fall film festival season that are not being considered here (like Elliot Page's starring vehicle Close to You, Kristin Scott Thomas directorial debut North Star or Michel Franco's Memory) and they might actually shake the Oscar predictions of Oscar predictions folks. The thing is... with the recent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, I believe this year's early releases might actually benefit from the lack of promotional campaigns (specially from actors, which always boost the movies' profiles). Let's not forget this is a war against the billion-dollar studio-system and not against the independent/auteur films A24 Past Lives :  After winning rave reviews in Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival (where it was in...

Genre: Comedy; Drama; Sci-fi. Director: Wes Anderson Writer: Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Jeffrey Wright, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Rupert Friend, Maya Hawke, Jake Ryan, Steve Carell, Hong Chau, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Tony Revolori, Jeff Goldblum & Margot Robbie I named Asteroid City one of my most antecipated films for 2023 and when I went to watch it, I must confess I was afraid I was too hyped. In the end, it was not the movie I was expecting - it was different, but in a good way. It took me a couple of days to think about the movie and understand the deep meaning of many of its elements. For those who expect a funny, light and stylish only film, they will find a movie that's also extremely melancholic, that deals with the heavy themes of grief, isolation, artistic frustration and the need for closure and to move on... all in p...

It's only April, but it's time to make the very first (blind) Oscar predictions. The 76th edition of Cannes Film Festival marks the start of the award-playing movies of this year's award season - the event takes place from May 16th to 27th, 2023 - and it is expected to show the world the new works from Martin Scorsese ( Killers of the Flower Moon ) (not official yet), Wes Anderson ( Asteroid City ) or the Johnny Depp starring vehicle Jeanne Du Barry (the selected movie for the Opening Night).  Still, Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and Berlinale have already launched some award-deserving features that include A Thousand and One (the Sundance champion), Ben Affleck's Air or the latest A24 drama Past Lives - all three received widespread critical acclaim! Other much antecipated movies will only be released by the Fall film festival season (or even Christmas season), but I believe Oppenheimer , Dune: Part II , the musical adaptation of The Color Purple or Universal'...