‘Site News’ Archives
2009 Stats
The year is just finished, so here are the stats for 2009: Movies: 71 TV Shows: 49 Compared to 2008, there is a slight drop in movies which signifies that I'm settled on around 70. As I said I don't really care about the number of movies, I care more about watching as many movies included in the various "best of 2009" lists at the end of [...]
New Theme
For the past few weeks, this site has been hacked and some files uploaded to it were phishing scams. I tried several times to change password and upgrade Wordpress, but unfortunately they always came back. So I finally asked my webhost to rebuild my account from scratch. Luckily I already made a backup, so I have now restored my previous posts and [...]
Top 10 of 2008
Last years' Top 10 was just about the movies I watched in 2007, but I hadn't watched all 2007 movies by then. This year I've watched many more new movies from 2008, so I'm going to list the top movies released in 2008. But first a mention of 2007 movies I didn't list last time: Lust, Caution Into the Wild Juno 4 months No Country For [...]
2008 Stats
I'm writing these stats one year later (it's now Jan 4th 2010), because I just realized I didn't do last year's stats. Here they are, stats for 2008: Movies: 77 TV Shows: 33 Compared to 2007, there was a huge drop in movies watched. The birth of my second child obviously was a big impact, although the number of TV shows I watched was [...]
No more images
I am a very lazy person, so writing a review of everything I watch/read/use is a miracle for me. I enjoy writing all my reviews, but going out and finding images, cropping them, saving them, uploading them... is too much for me. It got to a point where I would write my reviews on my PC, but wait to post them because I had to get the image ready [...]
Site down
I am upgrading Wordpress, so the site will be down for maintenance. Come back soon! UPDATE: The home page doesn't seem to work. However you can click all different sections in the menu bar, they work fine. I'll try to fix the home page as soon as possible. UPDATE 2: The problem was the recent comments plugin. It does not work at the moment, [...]
New iPhone Section
I've decided to create a new section of this site, entirely dedicated to my iPhone. I've been spending a lot of time on this new device (too much according to my wife), and I have a lot of opinions and knowledge to share. Hopefully this will be useful to all new iPhone users as well. I'll try to modify the main page in the future, but for the [...]
2007 Oscar Wrap
Time to wrap this years Oscars. Of the 5 picture nominees I loved Juno and No Country for Old Men, liked There Will Be Blood, enjoyed Michael Clayton and didn't care for Atonement. Not a bad year, but there wasn't a movie that I really liked with a passion (like Brokeback Mountain or Departed in past years). The ones was passionate about were not [...]
2007 Oscar Picks
The Oscars are coming up this Sunday and I always look forward to them. I still have a few movies to catch up on, but in the meantime here are my personal favorite picks: Best Supporting Actor Casey Affleck Javier Bardem Philip Seymour Hoffman Hal Holbrook Tom Wilkinson I liked Casey Affleck, was underwhelmed by the others, who [...]
Reviewsarama is born
Welcome to my brand new reviews site. This site is a combination of two of my previous blogs about Movie/TV and Comics/Books. Those were hosted for free by excellent blogging platforms, however I always wanted to make customizations that weren't allowed, so now I have my own domain and webhost and I can change anything I want. I tried to divide [...]
2007 Stats
In 2006 I reviewed 91 movies plus 17 TV shows. So my goal for 2007 was to review more than 100 movies. I can say that I trumped that goal. Here are the stats for 2007: Movies: 146 TV shows: 34 I must say that having 35 days off work in March/April really helped me achieve 146 movies, so I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to top that. [...]
Best in 2007
This year I decided to do my own Top Ten of the Year, which is not too difficult, since I have them all on record in this very blog. So, these are the best movies that I watched in 2007, that are less than 5 years old: 1) Once: this is the most recent one, so I might change my mind in a few months. But I just enjoyed this little movie so [...]
Truth
This is a mini telling the story of the super soldier serum development, from a very different perspective. It starts introducing us to 3 characters, all African-American living their own lives in different parts of the USA. Then they are drafted into the military and go to war (WWII). They end up in the same group, and that's when things [...]
Top 10 Asian Movies
Even though I was born and raised in Italy, I was never too fond of Italian movies. Too many T&A comedies and not enough substance. At least on the surface. By the time I started to look for good movies I already left Italy and I couldn't find the good Italian movies even if I wanted to. So the bulk of the movies I watched and like are [...]
Top 10 Nostalgia Movies
I'd like to talk about movies other than the ones I am watching at the moment, so the Top 10 Lists is a good idea to bring older movies that I haven't watched recently into the discussion. So here are the Top 10 Nostalgia Movies, movies that I watched as a kid (up until 12) and I loved so much that I watched many many times. I had no problem [...]
New Header
I finally managed to create a header suited for this blog, and even though it's not very fancy I am happy with it. It contains posters from some of the movies I nominated as my Top 10 in this post. Unfortunately not all 10 fit, but I will change this header in the future. For now I am happy with it. Check it out and let me know what you think.
2006 Stats
2006 was the first full year in which I reviewed every single movie and TV show I watched. I am kind of proud of that. Here are the stats: In 2006 I watched 91 movies and 17 TV shows. 91 is a pretty average number, not even 2 per week. However factor in 17 TV shows, and it's probably more impressive. Actually, these are 17 reviews of TV shows, [...]
RIP Robert Altman
Robert Altman passed away on Monday. He was one of the greatest directors, even though the quality of his movies varied a lot. I haven't watched a lot of his movies, I just never sought them out. By the time I started to become more interested in movies, his output was either reduced or just of not good quality. Here's what I saw: - Popeye [...]
Top 10 Movies
All movie sites have some kind list of their all time favorite movies. I never tried to do that myself, because I would have to remember all the movies I've seen in my life and compare them. That would have been an impossible task. However I came up with a different list: top 10 movies off the top of your head. Basically I sat down and started [...]
New Blog
Today I am starting a new blog, completely dedicated to movie and TV show reviews. I have already imported some movie reviews, and will start to write new ones immediately. Can't wait to have a full archive of movie reviews that I can go back to.