Paulo Seabra

This is a classic movie to me. Not just because it's a classic movie for everyone else, but also because it's a movie that I first hated, then I didn't like but I saw its merits, and then that I loved and it easily became one of my all-time favorites. But that's just my style, initially hating something that I then come to love. What's funny about it is that there seems to be a similar thing happening with the movie itself, as in the initial perception of it isn't quite what the movie really is. You need to dig a little bit, and the more you dig the more the movie's inner nature is revealed. Or at least that's how I see things now, because The Exorcist is one of those movies that people sometimes find boring and funny, which is its own weird perception, or else they find it horrifying and brutal, which is the perception I have come to disagree with the most. Not just about the movie but about the book as well, which is a must-read for any fans of the m...

I don't watch many movies nowadays. Long gone are those lazy college days when I'd watch five or six movies in a row, and would easily reach a hundred or more over a summer. Now I'll just watch whatever comes up and catches my eye. A fairly recent example of that was Speak No Evil, a movie so gripping and methodical that it gradually changed me from a decided skeptic watching it just because it looked alright, all the way to an instant fan, apologist and preacher. It starts slow and it moves slow, which is something quite daring for a modern horror movie to do, but even more so when it spans a relatively brief ninety-seven minutes. I for one am always impressed by movies like that, movies that know what they want to accomplish and do so comfortably in a short runtime, and still manage to find plenty of time to breathe in between. In some sense it could alienate viewers, and I believe it has, at least judging by some of the ha...

There are many a-great films out there, most of which have already been found and given their due respect since time immemorial. But some other great films are sadly forgotten by history, they aren't so commonly featured in fancy articles and intellectual discussions, they are just lost somewhere along the bends of an ever-changing river... So it's a very good thing indeed that this wasn't the case with the film I wanna talk about today. Because anyone with a shred of common sense in his reptilian brain will know that Anaconda from 1997 is objectively one of the greatest films in the history of cinema, in fact I'd go so far as to say it could easily have been directed by Snakely Kubrick, and it's not even a question of mere opinion. Well, it is but you'll have the wrong one if you disagree with me on this. In any case, I will try my best to explain and praise this colossal film, though due to its highly complex nature, I'll inevitably come up short. And its...