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I´ve been slowly getting into horror movies for the last six years, and I really consider myself a fan by now, as I think that´s such a mastodontic genre that includes many forgotten little gems between the crap. And little horror movies in recent times have been premiered with more hype and both popular and critical acclaim than Andrés Muschietti´s …

Every now and then, after announcing time and time again that he´s retiring, the talented film director, cinematographer and editor Steven Soderbergh goes back to the spotlight, in what has been a very productive trajectory. Visually skilful, creatively independent and unpredictable, has directed a considerable quantity of movies, starting great and reaching some high points during a career of medium …

Even though my first encounter with his ouvre, The deep blue sea, was a little bit sour, I´ve always appreciated the style, elegance and wisdom of veteran British filmmaker Terence Davies´career, specially after watching his previous movie, the great Sunset Song. I sadly wasn´t able to see in cinemas the movie I´m writing about now: A quiet passion, a biopic about the great …

Even though his trajectory is far from flawless, the french filmmaker Luc Besson is still one of the most imaginative creators working today in the film industry. Producer of numerous franchises and director of cult movies such as Léon or the sci-fi classic The fifth element, the european director still owns a lot of credit today even though some late …

Christopher Nolan is today´s most popular director, with thousands of fans and detractors around the world and being considered the world´s best filmmaker by the audience and a lot of critics. He´s certainly a very good filmmaker, but by far the most overrated, without the greatness of Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson or Scorsese. He´s made some impressive movies, but pretentious, …

With just four full-length feature films to his name, the franco-argentinian filmmaker Gaspar Noé has become one of the most polemic creators of the 21st century. His extreme and hardcore thematics, trippy visuals and violence imagery made a lot of critics angry and gain him a short but faithful legion of followers. Having not seen Enter the void yet, I …

If you speak with any cinema lover born in the eighties, or see any media written by any editors born around that time, most of them will tell you that Danny Boyle is a great director, and that Trainspotting is one of the crucial movies of the nineties. Two statements I partially agree with. The eclectic english is certainly a …

The usual readers of this blog would know really well that I´m a maniac lover of Bong Joon-Ho´s filmography. Not only do I think that the korean director is one of the most underrated filmmakers of this new century, but he´s been able to prove with only a handful of excellent films his skill in mixing genres, making their stories …

Even though their mature filmographies may have had some problems, their personalities make me want to follow the careers of certain undervalued filmmakers of occasional but always interesting body of work. Abel Ferrara is one of them, author several notorious films: from the masterful Bad Liutenant and King of New York to the impressive Pasolini, not forgetting poor works such as 4:44 …