The only film I have seen by Michelangelo Antonioni L’Avventura was ages ago, and I have almost no memory of actually watching it, which is why I was surprised by just how much I disliked the first two-thirds of this movie.
It probably doesn’t help that I can hardly imagine anything more visually and thematically boring than the stock market, but after that tedious start, I was amazed at how much the final third managed to captivate me. He didn’t…

Guadagnino has achievied something incredible here.
He already proved in A bigger Splash, Call me by your name, and later in Queer (the Mexico segments) that he knows how to direct that certain summery, romantic tenderness, a quality I otherwise only find in Eric Rohmer's films. But here, he takes takes this feeling to the extreme while simultaneously infusing the film with a completely new, pulsating energy.
It's ambitious, fast and sexy. Everything a great movie has to be.

Without…

It is quite honestly a shame to give such a well acted and directed series such a bad rating.
The actors, Philipp Kadelbach the director and the camera work are all fantastic, just like in the 1981 version.
Only that that version understood one thing that was left out of this modernization.
If you tell a story about drugs, at a certain moment you reach that point where you can't go back. No matter how beautiful the imagery is, no…

Dune has always been special in my life. When I first read the book I didn't understand anything and it was just an unnecessarily complicated and, in my eyes at the time, boring Star Wars.
Before I started my second read, a few years later, I watched Lynch's 1984 Dune, which confirmed my opinion at the time, even if it was for different reasons. Dune is way too complicated, has too many tropes from other movies and TV, and is…