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SLY: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

Posted on October 16, 2023 by Hugo Pagan Soto

I remember when I started writing about cinema. One of those first articles was about my action movie heroes. SLY (2023), the documentary that covers Sylvester Stallone’s film career, made me return to that moment and the motivation that generated that crude writing. Those celluloid heroes that Hollywood spawned were my favorite refuge for years and there I always ran into that Stallone. It is impossible to imagine the history of cinema without Rocky, without Rambo, without Cobra, without Tango, without John Spartan…

Oppenheimer The Destroyer of Worlds

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Oppenheimer is the twelfth feature film in the work of English director Christopher Nolan. A lot has changed since 1998 which saw his debut with Following, a work that has gained a cult status over the years. But Memento (2000) was the film that would put him on the radar of many moviegoers and would open the way for him to the Hollywood industry where Nolan has reaped all his successes ever since.

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One: The Legend of Tom Cruise

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Mission Impossible is a registered trademark, one of the most important franchises in movie history. The adventures of that Ethan Hunt the eternal Tom Cruise, can be compared to those of the legendary James Bond. This saga was inspired by a television series that ran from the mid-60s to the early 70s that came to the big screen at the hands of Brian De Palma in 1996. That first installment is still one of the best movies in the franchise. Now comes Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, the seventh in a saga that has gained new life with the last three proposals.

Exploring the Profound Depths of Au Hasard Balthazar

Posted on July 19, 2023 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Legend has it that the inspiration came from The Idiot. But not just any idiot but the one that Dostoevsky gave birth to. Bresson found his muse reviewing the pages of the classic novel and especially that moment in which Prince Myshkin reflects on the braying of a donkey lying on the ground. From there was born what is today considered one of the masterpieces of cinema, Au Hasard Balthazar. For Robert Bresson, this would be his seventh feature film, as if fate had wanted to wink at the perfection of seven. Movies like A Man Escaped (1956) and Pickpocket (1959) had already put his name in the spotlight.

Unforgiven: Clint Eastwood rides to save the western

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Western is perhaps the most cinematographic genre of all, it was born by and for the big screen. In the bowels of that far west of celluloid, the technique and codes that gave life to the seventh art were cultivated. In it, legends were forged in front of and behind the cameras that will prevail forever as unequivocal synonyms of cinema. Unforgiven (1992) is one of those legends, the film directed by Clint Eastwood came at a time when the genre was not at its best and brought it to life again.