All Forms of Art

  I have to admit something before I start: I spent a surprisingly large part of The Fantastic Four: First Steps waiting for it to end. I was so bored! And that became increasingly frustrating because The Fantastic Four: First Steps contains almost everything a superhero movie needs to be exciting. There are superheroes, space travel, a giant cosmic entity, an alien civilization, the fate of a planet, a family expecting a child, moral dilemmas, and enormous CGI battles. And yet, somehow, the film's biggest problem is that very little of it feels surprising. The First Family Is Already Famous The film begins with an interesting idea: the Fantastic Four are already established. They aren't struggling to discover their powers. They aren't trying to convince people that superheroes exist. They aren't even particularly mysterious. They are celebrities. They have already saved the world. People know who they are. They live together, work together, and have become a kind...

  After the disappointment with House of the Dragon , it took me a while to decide to check this one.  But I've got to tell you: there is something wonderfully refreshing about  A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms . Forget the political intrigues and fights for the throne; this show brings Westeros down to the ground. There are no armies marching across continents. No enormous castles dominating every scene. No great political chessboard where every move potentially changes the fate of the world. Instead, we follow a hedge knight and his young squire. They travel, eat, argue, get into trouble, and try to survive. And somehow, through these two relatively insignificant people, the series makes Westeros feel more human than it has in a long time. Seeing the Other Side of Westeros One of the things I enjoyed most about A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is seeing a Westeros that is poor, messy, and occasionally quite funny. This isn't the Westeros of the royal family. It is...

House of the Dragon never really worked for me. I know. It has everything a Game of Thrones fan could supposedly ask for: dragons, political schemes, betrayals, beautiful costumes, impressive visuals and, of course, Westeros. And yet, despite all of that, I never developed the same emotional connection to it that I had with Game of Thrones . And it made me wonder: why? Perhaps part of the problem is that Game of Thrones asked us to invest so much in its world before we even understood how much that investment would matter. From the beginning, Westeros felt enormous. There were countless characters, families, alliances, rivalries and histories to remember. It demanded an investment from the audience, not only in understanding the world but in becoming emotionally attached to the people living in it. By the time we reached the end, these characters weren't simply characters anymore. We knew them. We had watched them grow, fail, betray each other, suffer, and change. So when Ho...

The Witcher was introduced by many as the new Game of Thrones . Sorry to disappoint, but not even close. It is an interesting story, intricate, dark, and violent. It seems to have everything, but in the end, it has so little.  One of the lessons they failed to learn from GoT was the best way to introduce the characters and places. If you are not familiar with the books or the video games, you’ll feel like you are jumping into a fairly complex world, with no idea of what is happening. The reviews are very controversial. Understandable. It all depends on the expectations you had. It is a mediocre show, not as bad as some expected, but definitely not that good either. A world of magic The Witcher  presents us with a fantasy world with lots of potential.  And that’s it. The constant back-and-forth and the differences in how time passes for each character are tiring. Yet, somehow, there is something that keeps you clicking on the next episode...

Steven Spielberg  is always a promise of quality, and Ready Player One does not disappoint. At first sight, you could say it is the perfect film for gamers and lovers of new technologies. But it is more than that.  The center of the action is the virtual world called OASIS. A fantastic universe, full of hidden secrets and clues left behind from its late creator. The people who discover all of them will change their future forever (or perhaps the future of the whole world). I was a bit uneasy about the movie when I first heard about it, but it was definitely better than I expected. The Story We follow Wade (Tye Sheridan), a teenage boy obsessed with finding out the secrets hiding on OASIS. Wade’s unusual - to say the least - home and extremely poor neighborhood would be enough for a plot, yet it is just a detail throughout the movie. The perfect detail. Wade is not the only one obsessed with this virtual world, an escape for most people from their...