Alfonso Cuaròn: Gravity
DVD Video I have it ★★★
Alfonso Cuaròn: Gravity
14 jan 16
Perfect from a purely technical standpoint, with photography and sound deserving of a real applause, in addition to Cuarón's decidedly functional direction. An experimental film more than it appears, it falters in a second half that is implausible and succumbs to a sometimes shallow sentimentalism lacking in pathos. (7)
Annihilator: Alice In Hell
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Annihilator: Alice in Hell
24 dec 14
During the gradual decline of thrash, the Canadians unleash a stratospheric debut. It's got everything: power, melody, songwriting, eclecticism. A masterpiece. (8.5)
Annihilator: Never, neverland
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Annihilator: Never, Neverland
24 dec 14
For me, the true masterpiece of Jeff Waters, even superior to the previous one. A slightly more compact sound, softening the prominence of the bass (so characteristic of AIN) and still great thrash with rocky melodic veins. Tracks like "The Fun Palace," "Stonewall," and the title track remain among the best of 90s thrash. (8.5/9)
Annihilator: Set the world on fire
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Annihilator: Set the World on Fire
24 dec 14
As was fashionable at the time, the Canadians also sweetened their sound, winking at the catchy style popularized by Metallica's "Black Album." Despite this, I really enjoy the album, and it's one of the Annihilator records that I listen to with the most pleasure. (7.5)
  • Harlan
    28 nov 17
    Randall was truly an amazing singer, perhaps one of the best of Annihilator and the best for this type of album.
Annihilator: Carnival Diablos
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Annihilator: Carnival Diablos
25 dec 14
The arrival of Joe Comeau behind the microphone fits perfectly with a sound that regains the thrash ruggedness of their early days. Once again, we are not talking about a work that shifts the balance, but it is probably their best of the "interim period" before the arrival of Dave Padden. A solid and compact album. (7)
Annihilator: Waking The Fury
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Annihilator: Waking the Fury
25 dec 14
Identical speech to that for the previous CD. Enjoyable thrash, but in this case more chewed and "stale." Comeau will be dismissed after this album. Compared to "Carnival Diablos," the level of songwriting drops. (6)
Annihilator: King of the Kill
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Annihilator: King of the Kill
24 dec 14
Jeff Waters does everything on his own. He only has drummer Randy Black by his side. The album flows smoothly, the quality is still good, and the title track is one of the most devastating pieces live. Overall, however, there is a sense of slow decline emerging. (7)
Annihilator: All For You
CD Audio I have it ★★
Annihilator: All for You
25 dec 14
Dave Padden comes in behind the microphone and personally, I don't like it, at least not for this job. It's not that it can be called ugly, but it's a record that tries to mimic a thrash/nu similar to "St. Anger" by Metallica, which has never convinced me, both as a genre and therefore in this album. The AOR-oriented ballad "Holding On" also feels out of place. The rest is listenable, but there's not much of it. (5.5)
Annihilator: Refresh The Demon
CD Audio I have it ★★
Annihilator: Refresh the Demon
24 dec 14
First real misstep. Not-exceptional songwriting, standard heavy/thrash tracks without any notable insights. Nice "The Pastor Of Disaster." Not exactly rubbish, but it doesn't quite make the grade. (5.5)
Annihilator: Remains
CD Audio I have it ★★
Annihilator: Remains
24 dec 14
Interesting electronic experiment. Clearly unsuccessful, but I've never seen it as the garbage that many talk about. Perhaps the most violent of their career. "Sexecution" and "Wind" are successful tracks. (5.5)
Annihilator: Criteria For A Black Widow
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Annihilator: Criteria for a Black Widow
25 dec 14
After the two previous albums that were quite inconclusive, this one brings us back to a band capable of once again blending thrash and heavy with pathos and power. A canonical album that doesn’t excel, but is pleasantly enjoyable. I hear a strong Maiden influence, especially in the guitar choices of the title track. (6.5)
Annihilator: Schizo Deluxe
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Annihilator: Schizo Deluxe
6 jan 15
Discreet, sufficient, but the path they had taken was now one of total futility. (6)
Annihilator: Metal
CD Audio I have it ★
Annihilator: Metal
6 jan 15
The worst thing produced by Waters. A thousand collaborations probably to sell more. An ugly mess, from someone who gave birth to "Alice In Hell." Plasticky, contrived, ugly, lacking ideas, with choruses reminiscent of Foo Fighters. The lowest point for the Canadian band. (3.5)
Annihilator: Annihilator
CD Audio I have it ★★
Annihilator: Annihilator
6 jan 15
Cute "The Trend" and "25 Seconds". The rest is plastic. (5)
Annihilator: Feast
CD Audio I have it ★★
Annihilator: Feast
6 jan 15
One can hope, but in the end, it's the musicians who must understand that for years they have been producing crap. Once again, the triumph of nothingness. A sort of soulless pseudo-thrash that mimics the core bands that are popular among the kids. For me, Annihilator dies here. (5)
Arthur Penn: La caccia
DVD Video I have it ★★★★★
Arthur Penn: La caccia
7 feb 16
The political staff of Penn in a hard-hitting film about the moral hypocrisy of the United States. The actors stand out, and despite the cuts imposed by the production, it remains one of the most poignant snapshots of the time regarding the American nation. (9)
Arthur Penn: Gangster Story
DVD Video I have it ★★★★★
Arthur Penn: La caccia
10 feb 16
A film ahead of its time, both technically and thematically. The echoes of the French Nouvelle Vague are reinterpreted by Penn to tell the epic tale of rebellious and violent new American generations. Before "Easy Rider," New Hollywood is already here. Although it bears the weight of 50 years, it remains a memorable and iconic film. (9)
Arthur Penn: Bersaglio di notte
DVD Video I have it ★★★★
Arthur Penn: Bersaglio di notte
20 feb 16
Penn uses genres again (here the noir) to overturn conventions and stylistic elements. The loser Gene Hackman is a private investigator who suffers like America in the early '70s. An emotionally empty film that gives very little in terms of pathos, but hurts in how it outlines the loneliness and ineptitude of its characters, with an exemplary ending that encapsulates all of this. (8)
Ayreon: Actual Fantasy
CD Audio I have it ★★
Ayreon: Actual Fantasy
19 mar 15
Work I have never loved. Perhaps the one that attracts me the least about the Ayreon project. Slow, cumbersome, lacking in inspiration. Pieces built in the same way, a problem that Lucassen has rarely shown. (5)
Ayreon: The Final Experiment
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Ayreon: The Final Experiment
19 mar 15
Listening to it again after years did not evoke the same emotions, perhaps because I have strayed too far from the genre. Nonetheless, it is a noteworthy debut, the first episode of an interesting reality and one of the most thriving in the prog metal world in recent decades. (7)
  • Dragonstar
    19 mar 15
    I still like it, even though I prefer other albums like In to the Electric Castle and The Human Equation.
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
17 jan 15
The first gasp of what Bruce will be. Perhaps unripe, a little awkward, but already tremendously "his." The beginning of it all could only be this. (8)
Christopher Nolan: Il cavaliere oscuro
DVD Video I have it ★★
Christopher Nolan: Il cavaliere oscuro
14 jan 16
Repetitive direction (circular shots that lack substance), a screenplay full of holes, and an utterly over-the-top pace for a comic book action flick that is nothing but a remake of "Heat," a monumental masterpiece by Mann. I don't love Batman, I don't love superhero movies, but I still can't understand how this film can be idolized... (5)
Christopher Nolan: Interstellar
DVD Video I have it ★
Christopher Nolan: Interstellar
17 jan 16
A supercazzola with holes (black) in the screenplay. Visually well made, it thrives on the usual clichés of the genre and gets lost in a finale of pure comedy (come on, the "fifth dimension of love"...) and excessive length. Besides being unbelievable in various parts, Nolan must necessarily indulge himself, otherwise it almost seems like he can't make a film. Moreover, I don't like his way of using the handheld camera, which sometimes throws the shot off balance. A film that has been stamped with authorship, but has a superficial and lackluster message. (4.5)
Clint Eastwood: American Sniper
DVD Video I have it ★
Clint Eastwood: American Sniper
27 feb 16
A patriotic film to the point of annoyance, happily flaunting what history has defeated, with time jumps that would make Nolan envious and a writing approach that trivializes the most interesting aspect, which is the protagonist's post-Iraq crisis. Eastwood brings out his most Republican and reactionary side, and the film is one of his worst. (4.5)
Colour Haze: Colour Haze
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Colour Haze: Colour Haze
31 jul 13
A bit too drawn out, but psych/stoner as it should be. 8/10
  • ZannaB
    1 aug 13
    It knocked me out for an entire summer, I love this album!
Denis Villenueve: Prisoners
DVD Video I have it ★★★★
Denis Villenueve: Prisoners
14 jan 16
River film about human inability to be rational when it comes to one's loved ones and visceral feelings. A thriller with great visual and emotional impact, but it loses parts of a not-so-convincing script along the way. Important cast, memorable ending. (7.5)
Duncan Jones: Moon
DVD Video I have it ★★★★
Duncan Jones: Moon
4 jan 16
A little gem of science fiction that cost about 5 million. Aside from being shot with grace, and besides Rockwell's great acting performance, it delivers a harsh critique against capitalist society and the serialisation and thus the alienation of the workforce. "We are not clones, we are people." (8)
Graveyard: Innocence & Decadence
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Graveyard: Innocence & Decadence
4 jan 16
The weakest album by the Swedes: ideas are lacking and everything moves sluggishly in a vintage rock that, except for a few flashes, conveys very little. (6)
Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: The Number of the Beast
26 apr 12
Bruce Dickinson brings new ideas and a fuller sound. Songs like "Children of the Damned," "Run to the Hills," "22 Acacia Avenue," "Hallowed Be Thy Name," and the title track are pieces that have rightfully entered the pages of heavy metal history.
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Iron Maiden
26 apr 12
They are my favorite band, they have been with me for so many long years and continue to do so, albeit less consistently than some time ago. Their debut album is an absolute gem for songwriting, expressiveness, speed, and the quality of each track. A monstrous debut destined to launch them into the Olympus of the greatest of all time. A treasure to cherish, venerate, and pass on, like something precious and untouchable.
Iron Maiden: Killers
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Killers
26 apr 12
The maidenian epic continues with a second work that is a worthy successor to the first, although with fewer highlights and slightly lower quality. The rightful farewell of Paul Di Anno.
Iron Maiden: Piece of mind
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind
2 may 12
Another masterpiece by the Maiden: the sound becomes more epic, and tracks like "Where Eagles Dare," "Revelations," and "To Tame a Land" prove it. A perfect album, heartfelt, the embodiment of heavy metal, the real one...
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Powerslave
2 may 12
Fifth center out of five. The "emblem" album of Iron Maiden: power, melody, epicness, technique. Everything that is asked of classic metal. And "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is one of the highest compositional peaks in the entire world of metal.
Iron Maiden: Somewhere In Time
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Somewhere in Time
2 may 12
At the time, it was heavily criticized. Then it became one of their most beloved albums, perhaps because its "innovative" charge was understood with the inclusion of synthesizers and a much more futuristic and less "primitive" atmosphere. "Wasted years," "Heaven can wait," "Stranger in a strange land," and the concluding "Alexander the great" are absolute gems.
Iron Maiden: No prayer for the dying
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Iron Maiden: No Prayer for the Dying
2 may 12
Sooner or later, the "wrong" album had to arrive. Adrian Smith's departure is felt in terms of songwriting. Janick Gers will take some time to assert his characteristics, which will come to the fore especially in the period following the reunion. Although it is not an album that holds up against everything that came before it, it still contains some good tracks: among them, the title track, "Tailgunner," "The Assassin," and "Mother Russia."
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
2 may 12
As far as I'm concerned, this is the most successful album by Iron Maiden. There is an underlying mysticism and a "suffering" that I have never perceived in their other works. Perhaps this comes from being the only concept album of their career. "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" has an artistic and expressive maturity that makes it unique and original in their long career. The title track is the Bible of heavy metal.
Iron Maiden: Fear Of The Dark
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Iron Maiden: Fear of the Dark
2 may 12
The same applies to "No prayer for the dying." After the golden period, ideas become scarce and the quality level declines. You start to notice fatigue, and Dickinson's departure is the result of a complex moment. A sufficient product that has the title track as its peak, as well as one of the most well-known highlights of the Maiden.
Iron Maiden: The X Factor
CD Audio I have it ★★★★
Iron Maiden: The X Factor
16 aug 12
I still believe that with Dickinson on vocals this would have been one of Maiden's best albums. For the first time, doom and "oppression" elements emerge, reminiscent of "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son": the final result isn't the same (also due to the not-so-great qualities of Blaze Bayley), but this is an album that deserves to be reevaluated. "Sign of the Cross" is the best, absolutely included in a hypothetical top five of Maiden.
  • Karter4
    16 aug 12
    I agree with what you said. If Harris had brought Paul back for this album...
  • Meco
    17 aug 12
    Can you tell me why metalheads, and only them, use the word "platter" as a synonym for "album"?
Isis: Panopticon
CD Audio I have it ★★★★★
Isis: Panopticon
22 feb 15
The true masterpiece of the band. The album where the sludge, hardcore, and post-rock influences blend the best. An extraordinary flow of apocalyptic, celestial, monstrous atmospheres. Every note in the right place and at the right time. One of the best releases in the metal scene of the entire 2000s decade. (9)
Isis: Celestial
CD Audio I have it ★★★
Isis: Celestial
4 feb 15
The first whimper of the sludge monster Isis. It’s an album that already contains everything stylistically that the band will carry forward into the future. However, it still lacks that eclecticism they will find later on, just as the classic post-rock openings are less convincing than they will become. That said, it’s still a debut that, despite its apparent confusion, already has the distinctive traits of Isis. "Gentle Time" is a standout track. (7)
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