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Sinners, 2005 – (video review)
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Film reviews in English


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 what one is programmed to expect but, in this often intriguing revisionist tale, … -
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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 breathtaking epic of men, monsters and moral metamorphosis – The Guardian – but, in my opi…
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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 images perfectly clear. It was one of those days that changed the course of history…. -
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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 by American singer/songwriters – according to Trump, all illegal communist and im… -
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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 storiche e qualche elemento della grammatica filmica. Soprattutto, sono authenti…
Libri, musica: recensioni
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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 by American singer/songwriters – according to Trump, all illegal communist and im… -
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Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)by Jean-Claude Izzo
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… -
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Dylan 80
Homage to Bob Dylan – the man in me. Omaggio a Bob Dylan – l’uomo in me. I don’t know how it happened, we were just kids, late teenagers attending high school, running wild in the early seventies still roaring with the rebelliousness and the political fights of the previous decade. As for the Folk Revival in the US,…