Reviews

Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015)

Director: J.J. Abrams Starring: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Adam Driver, Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy “Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in The Force.”   After 32 years from the last Star Wars movie, chronologically speaking, we can finally watch the continuation of the epic battle between The Rebels and The Empire. All the fans around the world were eager for a new movie, a new Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)

    Director: Richard Marquand    Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Ian McDiarmid     Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy “When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be. The Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned” – Yoda   The last movie from the original trilogy ends, perfectly, an incredible and epic story. In this episode, the main characters will Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Home Alone (1990)

Director: Chris Columbus Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern Genre: Comedy, Family “I made my family disappear.”   One of the most memorable Christmas movies, “Home Alone”, delighted me every year around the winter holidays. But I think I’m not the only one, especially in my homeland, Romania, where one of the biggest TV channel broadcast all “Home Alone” movies in December. For Romanians, this movie is like “It’s a Wonderful Life” for Americans, Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Director: Irvin Kershner Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy “You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land, and the ship.” – Yoda   After 3 years of waiting, all the fans around the world were overjoyed to watch the second movie from the trilogy, which is called “The Empire Strikes Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Annie Hall (1977)

Director: Woody Allen     Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts     Genre: Comedy, Romance “A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark”   After over a month, with a lot of exams at university, I finally managed to watch a movie: Annie Hall (1977), a Woody Allen’s classic Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)

Director: George Lucas Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”   One of the greatest masterpieces of science fiction movies and also of the cinematography, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977), blaze a path of the movies with a lot of special effects and created one of the biggest movie universes of all time. Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Morbid Stories (2019)

Director: Asif Akbar, Will Devokees, Clint Kelly, Ashley Mei, Mick Thomas Starring: Courtney Akbar, Luke Gregory Crosby, Tim O’Hearn, Jocelyne Daugherty, Will Devokees Genre: Horror I know Halloween passed by and Christmas is near, but I want to talk about a horror movie, a short and low-budget horror movie. Morbid Stories is an anthology with 5 separate stories with a length between 10 and 20 minutes, which covers almost every theme of a horror movie, Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Director: Tim Burton      Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci      Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery „The horseman was a Hessian mercenary sent to the shores by German princes to keep Americans under the yoke of England. But unlike his compatriots, who came for money, the horseman came for love of carnage.”  There are only a few days until Halloween, a celebration of Celtic origin dating back hundreds of years, which is very popular in Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Erased (2016)

         Director: Tamohiko Ito Starring: Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Aoi Yuki Genre: Anime, Drama, Fantasy “Believing in someone. That’s a weird phrase, isn’t it? After all, if you truly believed in a person, you wouldn’t need to say, “I believe you. It’s like saying, “I believe in air.” I don’t mean to say that “believing in something” is like a lie. “Believing” is really a term of hope of wanting to believe”  This is Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

    Director: Nora Ephron     Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan     Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance “It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together, and I knew it. I knew it the first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I’d ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out Read more…

By Mihnea Dubei, ago