WRITINGS

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 what one is programmed to expect but, in this often intriguing revisionist tale, …

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 breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis – The Guardian – but, in my opi…

Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a bruising encounter between two celebrated historical figures who could, theoretically, have run into each other; it is adapted by director Matt Brown from a…

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 images perfectly clear. It was one of those days that changed the course of history….

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 by American singer/songwriters – according to Trump, all illegal communist and im…

Letteratura, musica e lingua inglese: un terzetto ben intonato (La Bacca di Lauro n. 72/2026, periodico dell’università UteMo) (…) La musica è emozione, “amplificatore di segnali”, e quando è virtuosismo è fine a sé stessa,vana estetica. Come il sonetto, la canzone d’autore è breve e semplice, ma proprio per quest…

Strangers on a Train (P. Highsmith) –Pietro il lettone – Tre camere a Manhattan – La neve era sporca (G. Simenon) – Lo sguardo di Sofia. Storia di una famiglia (Claudio Gavioli) – The Hollow Man (John Dickson Carr) – Nightshade (Michael Connelly) – The Redbreast (Jo Nesbo) – Il pasato è un morto senza cadavere (Anto…

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 by American singer/songwriters – according to Trump, all illegal communist and im…

Listen to the review: A shocking wonderful surprise. A pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo My rating: 5 of 5 stars A shocking wonderful surprise. This novel is a pitch-black noir, darker than the classic ones, in the Mediterranean sunshine. Th…