Category Archives: Cinema and TV

With a very pressing, very American style of storytelling, the documentary The Social Dilemma gets straight to the crux of the issue it is aims to address. Tristan Harris opens with a very poignant phrase: "If the service is free, you are the product." Professor Shoshana Zuboff (author of the book The Age of Surveillance…

I must admit: I never expected to learn anything about education from a cartoon. And instead, to my surprise, during the period of isolation caused by Covid, it happened. I'm talking about Bing, one of the most popular and beloved in the 6 and under age group. Bing is an English animated series produced by…

Halloween is over. Nevertheless, apart of this occasion when playful horror is even good business, the horror has become omnipresent. Considering the countless number of movies, TV series -not to mention the video games- we can see the increasing number of people, especially teenagers, who are more and more attracted to horror works and “consume”…

Orientaserie, available online since few months, is a new TV recommendation and orientation website, which helps us to choose in the great sea of TV series. Orientaserie is particularly addressed to parents and educators. It wants to be an agile, documented and reliable consultation tool on a world in which teenagers spend a good part…

When Maleficent came out (a 2014 Disney movie directed by Robert Stromberg), someone conjectured that the kiss with which Maleficent awakened Princess Aurora - fallen into a perennial sleep, after pricking her finger with the needle of a haunted spinning wheel - was a sign of the director’s sympathies to the LGBT world. It was…

The Oscar awards have always provided a reliable measurement of world cinema trends and and professionals’ preferences, albeit of unavoidable polemics which helps making profitable noise for the movie industry. The Oscars greatly influence the viewers choices, as well. In 2019, Hollywood honored movies focused on accepting diversity and fighting prejudice. One of these that…

In the last years, the film industry has seen the birth of a new protagonist: Netflix. The American platform, initially born as a modern video rental shop, is at the forefront today in the production of TV series and films. Here is a brief history. The company was set up in 1997 in Los Gatos,…

Once the first and extraordinarily successful season is over, everything is ready for the sequel to My brilliant friend, the TV series based on the novel of the same title by Elena Ferrante, the world-famous Italian writer. The story tells of the friendship between two girls, first teenagers and later on women who live in…

Faced with a wide choice it is very easy to get lost, especially if you do not have clear criteria that help you look for what you want and decide amongst the different possibilities. This is also true when we look into the vast landscape of the cinema: the offer is so grand, that we…

It’s written “talent show,” but it’s read "moment of fame." The ingredients are always the same: a television format that works, some fight in the studio, a beautiful face that pierces the screen and a small presumed talent, and for some months success is guaranteed. Then time passes, the drawer of dreams recloses and the…