On the last Friday of March everything was the same. No plans to go out, no fancy restaurant dinners, no weekend getaways. The only way to shake up the routine was to make some popcorn and select a movie that would overshadow this massive grey zone in your mind responsive only to everyday boredom or pulsating panic; preferably a movie that would make you laugh your head off or would make you flinch or jerk from even a slight clatter... Sounds like an extract from some dystopic novel, however, it's so much like our Friday night. That's why our list of new March comedy and horror movie releases might look very comforting, especially if we add new animation, too. Mark your favourites and stay
These days there's a massive wave of new writers popping up like mushrooms after the rain. Once a rather rare talented literary phenomenon, now has inverted into the millions of graphomans eager to conquer the hearts and minds of their readers. So how to distinguish the wheat from the chaff and find the true diamonds in this huge pile of debuts? To help with the choice, we offer you 10 best British and Irish debut novelists selected by The Observer, which follows the procedure to distinguish readability and literary merit of debut novels already functioning for seven years. Here is the Top 10 of 2020: Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/26/10-best-debut-novelists-2020-paul-men
All intensive action left for us these days is all on the screen. Finally there's time for Netflix, Sky, Amazon or other TV platforms and their production. There's so much you haven't been able to sit and watch that now perhaps is your opportunity of a life-time. It's difficult to predict how it's going to turn to the new movies that are being released at the moment. New March action and thriller are just a few but the last is always not the least: ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA Plot Synopsis: Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. THE HUNT (release cancelled) Plot Synopsi
With cinema theatres closed around the world, it's turning into a serious drama for all big screens lovers. Especially when it's enhanced by extremely numerous new March entries in drama genre. It's actually raining drama movies in March. So take a look at the new list. Who knows, maybe soon there will be an opportunity to watch your preferred ones at home: HUMAN CAPITAL Plot Synopsis: The lives of two different families collide when their children begin a relationship that leads to a tragic accident. THE WILD GOOSE LAKE Plot Synopsis: A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam. EMPEROR Plot Synopsis: An escaped slave travels north and ha
“A country where nothing ever happens and where nothing ever lasts”. This is how Benito Mussolini had described his homeland exactly a century ago. But he didn’t live up to 2020 to hear about the current apocalyptic happenings in Italy that made the whole nation an infamous brand. Just let’s hope that the second part of Mussolini’s judgment justifies itself. And the sooner the better. Mussolini or Il Duce, as millions of Italians still call him, is like this minor step-brother in the history of fascism, passing all maleficent merits to the primary monster Hitler. If you’re not an Italian, you’ve probably just been introduced to one of the closest allies of Führer while studying history of W
"Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux." Stephen King knows everything about panic but how could he have known in his novel The Stand that there's something very similar we're going to experience in a real life instead of his literary fantasies? When you're in panic, even literary predictions start to count. That's why publishers are already reporting a tremendous boom in sales of old novels telling about fictional epidemics. The above mentioned S. King's The Stand, according to Hodder, the publisher, increased its online sales up to 163% last week as well as ebook sales by 58%. Published in 1978, The Stand tells about a weaponiz
Haruki Murakami once stated: "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." On the other hand, what's so damaging in reading best-selling books popular with mass audience around the globe? Shouldn't we get acquainted with the common thoughts and perceptions and build our own point of view? There's always a book that has been read by someone else, thus don't bother yourselves with other readers, but delve into the plot and meaning instead. If spring encounters you with bare hands, here's our March TOP of new releases: MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell This debut novel is for those who is keen to explore psychological aspe
Berlinale 2020 was really lucky with its timing. Planned to open a week later, it would have probably resulted in an inevitable cancellation due to this year's nightmare - coronavirus. However, it hasn't happened and the Golden Bear for Best Film was sent to Iran. Though it was handed by Jeremy Irons, the head of the international Jury, to the film cast and crew, the Iranian director of There Is No Evil Mohammad Rasoulof wasn't there, as he faces a travel ban and a one-year prison sentence for “spreading propaganda.” There is No Evil, the film directed in secret, focuses on people who carry out executions in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Mohammad Rasoulof isn't the first Iranian director to
