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Digger (2026) by A.G. Iñárritu – film review
A satire on greed, pollution, climate change and dirty consciousness worth seeing CLICK VIDEO TO LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE A new movie from the Oscar-winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu is always an event, raising expectati... -
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Sinners, 2005 – (video review)
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My 25th 9/11 – Bye-bye Miss American Pie: the day Democracy died
Hero and villain: who is who? LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE (4.21 min.) It is one of those few days that you don’t forget: everyone knows what they were doing when the planes hit the World Trade Center, on that clear sunny day that made TV imag... -
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The Death of Robin Hood (2026)- film review
Old outlaw in the wilderness: gloom revisionist tale of a hero who was no hero https://youtu.be/tlSDDuWxO_0?si=L-MR21clr46XAjvn Spoiler: Robin Hood is going to die. In bluntly titled drama The Death of Robin Hood, that might be exactly w... -
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The Odyssey (2026) – film review
Epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis: enough to call it a masterpiece? https://youtu.be/Sk6LZrA2JSQ?si=HIUUQp8_y8DKnRwL LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: I strangely agree with Peter Bradshaw's review - Nolan goes god-tier with breathtaki... -
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America’s 250th celebrations: My Favorite American Ballads – performed
My cover/live versions of some of the ballads that shaped the country's ambiguous history My personal (in progress) contribution and performance to 250 years of American popular culture, songs 'that shaped us', written and/or performed b... -
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Il codice filmico: tra immagini e parole
Authentic material da sfruttare come approfondimento linguistico. (La Bacca di Lauro n. 72/2026, periodico dell'università UteMo) Come per la musica, i film clip in originale sono utili per introdurre argomenti di attualità, prospettive ... -
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Il linguaggio musicale: emozioni o virtuosismi?
Mentre il gap tra musica e letteratura è oggi ormai superato, rimane quello della lingua. Ma il terzo incomodo offre una splendida opportunità per la didattica: quella di usare le canzoni d’autore come parte dello studio della lingua. -
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One film after another: 2025-26 review collection
Sinners (video review) Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction https://www.theguardian.com/fi... -
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Review collection 2024-25
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film)#Plot Post Great Depression age, Deep South location, Delta Blues and Devil's music, Blacks vs KKK Whites in segregation milieu, magic, voodoo and supernatural elements, Black pride and ju...