Movie reviews

In early 1997, Speed ​​2 was in production. Fox studio is financing the project. The film team, starting with the director, Jan de Bont, is enthusiastic. Fox invested nearly $150 million in the budget. Even if Keanu Reeves did not reprise his role, Sandra Bullock is there and we are convinced that the film will be a success. Only …

Do filmmakers who make bad films realize that they are making a mistake? Read More »

Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010)—about a tortured-minded police officer’s investigation into a mysterious hospital—was filmed entirely under cloudy skies. The bad weather gets worse as we get deeper into the plot. It only changes at the end of the film, when the sun appears during the final scene. Far from being a purely aesthetic choice to …

What famous films have lighting that seems purely aesthetic but actually has deep meaning? Read More »