Jul 14Ya viene mi libro en NFT¿Por qué la tardanza? En resumen: porque esta es la primera vez que se publica un libro NFT como este. Cuando mi editor Ismael Gomez García de Editorial Ferragosto y yo decidimos lanzar mi novela Quién te manda como un NFT, investigamos todas las plataformas de NFT para ver cuál sería la mejor para hacerlo. …Espanol4 min read
Jul 14My NFT Book Is ComingWhat’s taking so long? Léelo en español Short answer: an NFT book like this has never been done before. When my editor Ismael Gomez García from Editorial Ferragosto and I decided to publish my novel Quién te manda as an NFT, we researched all the NFT platforms to see which would be the best one to launch it. …Nft3 min read
Jan 2Member-only2021: The Year in MoviesIt’s all a blur… I have only written two reviews since last January thanks to a combination of pandemic ennui and the fact that I just don’t think that watching a movie at home has the same effect as watching it in a theater. I watched many streaming movies that…Movie Review6 min read
Dec 29, 2021Member-onlyDon’t Look UpAll the stars are in this movie I read an article about how the movie business is in such a dismal state that for any movie to succeed, casting one or two big stars is no longer enough. Now they have to hire entire galaxies of A-listers for a movie…Movies4 min read
Dec 26, 2021Member-onlyWest Side StoryWho says? Who knows? If there is a director with a kinetic style who could bring back this musical, it is Steven Spielberg, but sitting through two hours and a half of this tepid update, I wished they’d just made a version with the music and the original choreography by…West Side Story4 min read
Jan 26, 2021Member-onlyThe White TigerMove over, Slumdog Millionaire. This is the real deal. Ramin Bahrani's sprawling tale of a poor young Indian man who rises to become an entrepreneur is an epic saga of inequality, poverty, and corruption. Adapted from the Man Booker Prize-winning novel by Aravind Adiga, it is not your typical feel-good…Film Reviews4 min read
Jan 5, 2021Member-onlyBest and Worst of 2020Last year sucked for movies just as it did for everything else I will always prefer a big screen in the dark with strangers instead of my living room but we had no choice. 2020 was a sad, bizarre year in which we had to watch movies at home. I…Movies3 min read
Dec 6, 2020Member-onlyMankThey do make them like they used to The timing of the release of Mank on Netflix could not be more poignant. A movie about the writing of Citizen Kane, which some consider the greatest American movie ever made, if not the greatest movie of all time, Mank comes at…Hollywood7 min read
Oct 26, 2020Member-onlyBorat Subsequent MoviefilmJagshemash Plus 1 Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat is now so well known that Americans recognize him on the street so it is increasingly difficult for him to pull stunts. His kind of semi-documentary humor is not an easy premise to sustain but as Baron Cohen demonstrates, there will always…Film Reviews5 min read
Oct 19, 2020Member-onlyThe Trial Of The Chicago SevenThose were the days Aaron Sorkin writes highly entertaining “message” movies. The Trial Of The Chicago Seven is a timely and spirited cri de coeur about civil disobedience. It represents in a courtroom the two sides of America that are, as in those days, at loggerheads today. That is, the…Film Reviews4 min read