On Wednesday, October 19, in the evening, the Senate, with a majority on the right, said no to the inclusion of the right to abortion and contraception in the basic law. A bad sign for women’s rights. The symbol could have been strong and proportionate to the excitement aroused throughout the French political class by […]
Day: October 21, 2022
‘One year, one night’: The farce of memory
After surviving the attacks on the Bataclan theater in Paris on November 13, 2015, Ramón González wrote the nonfiction book ‘Paz, amor y Death metal’, the literary testimony of the mark he left on his life and memory that night. With this base, Isaki Lacuesta writes (together with Isa Campo and Fran Araújo) and directs […]
A Star Is Born: How Kim Kardashian Became the Marilyn Monroe of Our Time
“To love Kim Kardashian is to have a complete lack of pleasure,” wrote all the glossy publications in 2013. True, a year after these statements, Vogue, which had ignored the existence of the Kardashian family for almost 10 years, came out in a Lanvin wedding dress with Kanye West and his bride Kim on the […]
Justin Timberlake shares rare images of Jessica Biel on their wedding anniversary
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are one of the most beautiful couples in Hollywood. For the first time, rumors about a famous romance appeared in 2007, and already in 2012 the couple officially married. The couple celebrated their wedding anniversary yesterday. Justin shared the photos he shared with Jessica on his blog and wrote these […]
“The five devils”: days of a future past
One of the most attractive figures of the current generation of French directors is Léa Mysius. At 33 he is a screenwriter of projects by famous directors such as Arnaud Desplechin (with ‘The ghosts of Ismaël’ and ‘Roubaix, une lumière’), Jacques Audiard (‘Paris, 13th arrondissement’), Stefano Savona (“La Samuni family” ) or Claire Denis (“Stars […]
“Lilo, my crocodile friend” is Paddington’s American cousin, for better or for worse
Movies about children who befriend an animal, monster, or fantastic creature are a genre of their own. ‘The Iron Giant’, ‘A Monster Comes to Find Me’, ‘A Monster Comes to Find Me’, ‘My Friend the Giant’ … The list goes on and on and grows every year with new additions. The latest to join this […]
From “Batman” to “The Incredibles”: 10 origin movies of essential superheroes
We have lost count of the number of films released in recent years willing to introduce us to the origin story of a superhero or female superhero. And that’s normal. Let’s talk about one of the few film genres that has proven infallible when it comes to bringing mass audiences to cinemas of cinema, surviving […]
‘The skin of the drum’: spies from the Vatican
Despite his long career and recognized as one of the best contemporary authors in the Spanish language, The truth is that Arturo Pérez-Reverte, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy since 2003, hasn’t had much luck with the film adaptations of his works. Despite laudable attempts such as those of Agustín Díaz Yanes with ‘Oro’ […]
‘Unicorn Wars’: The beast that ends up devouring itself
In 2015, although it arrived in Spanish commercial theaters in 2017, the illustrator and director of short films Alberto Vázquez amazed with a powerful debut film, ‘Psiconautas, los niños Olvidados’, which he signed with Pedro Rivero and which was based on the short film ‘Birdboy’ and the graphic novel of the same name by Vázquez […]
‘The color of the sky’: Journey to Lake Lucerne
The famous songwriter and composer Léo Ferré, in one of the great songs, ‘Avec le temps’, when he sang about heartbreak, left a series of stanzas which, after all, describe very well ‘El color del cielo’Joan-Marc Zapata’s first work: “With time, yes, everything goes away. You forget your face, you forget your voice. When your […]