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Tornado (2025): When East Meets West in a Slow-Burning Duel

The longstanding romance between westerns and samurai films has yielded some of cinema’s most iconic hybrids from The Magnificent Seven to A Fistful of Dollars. Tornado (2025), the second feature from Scottish director John Maclean, joins this lineage with quiet confidence and striking visual precision. Known for Slow West (2015), Maclean once again proves his deep understanding of the western form, only this time, with the philosophical touch of the Japanese jidaigeki.

Superman (2025): A Hero Larger than Life

Posted on July 23 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Superman is not only the first, but also the pinnacle of all superheroes. Everything we associate with the all-powerful and heroic figure is, in some way, defined by the Son of Krypton. The superhero genre will forever be indebted to Richard Donner’s 1978 film. Superman paved the way for what would become decades of comic book franchises. Now it’s James Gunn’s turn to relaunch the character with Superman (2025). For DC Studios, this film is positioned as the cornerstone of its new cinematic universe.

Hands Over the City: The Power of Corruption

Posted on July 22 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Few films achieve the narrative force that Francesco Rosi accomplishes in Hands Over the City (1963). In Venice, it would win the Golden Lion, and in Italian cinema, it would mark a turning point within the Neorealism movement. The film maintains the essence of Neorealism with its settings in real locations and its commitment to social reality, but it opens a new avenue with a more political, analytical discourse, committed to denouncing power structures. This would become Rosi’s trademark.

F1 (2025): Cinema in High Gear

Posted on July 14 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Cinema’s love affair with car racing is nothing new. While F1 (2025) has ignited the passion of motorsport fans with its stunning action sequences and immersive portrayal of the Formula 1 world, we can look much further back and see that this type of story has long had a place on the big screen. In 1932, the ever-bold Howard Hawks turned James Cagney into a famed race car driver in The Crowd Roars. True to his style, Hawks captured one of the earliest sound films to depict racing with a raw sense of realism, even using actual racetracks for the action scenes.

Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning – The Legend of Ethan Hunt

Posted on July 3 by Hugo Pagan Soto

Don’t be fooled—there’s nothing final about this ending. I can assure you that Mission: Impossible The Final Reckoning (2025) is not the end of this successful franchise. Perhaps it marks the closing of a particular timeline within the Mission: Impossible universe, but the studios will surely find ways to bring Ethan Hunt and his team back. Almost 30 years have passed since the first film in the franchise hit theaters under the direction of Brian De Palma, and now, with the eighth installment, the path is being paved for a generational handover.