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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/film/2025/sep/17/one-battle-after-another-review-paul-thomas-andersons-thrillingly…

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 juke joints, a couple of violent gangsterish black tough guys: all the attractive …

R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone … R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di batterti, chiama l’ispettore Ortega al telefono … https://youtu.be/0SY2PPnIZg4

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…

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…

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.

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…

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,…