Why do Mexican directors keep winning the Oscar’s Best Director award?

“This name I can say” said Guillermo del Toro when opening the result for Best Director last night. Everyone knew this meant that his friend, Alfonso Cuarón, was going to take home his 2nd Oscar for Best Director. He was to give The New Mexican Cinema its fifth win in the past six years. Several … Continue reading Why do Mexican directors keep winning the Oscar’s Best Director award?

America’s gloomy vices painted through a not so ‘vice’-president’s choices

  Adam McKay is known for The Big Short (2015), a depiction of the financial world but mostly for his SNL scripts. Today he goes further with Vice putting his outrageous comedy into a docudrama that, as a French girl clueless about the American political history, felt like a copy of 'American Politics for Dummies'. McKay tells us … Continue reading America’s gloomy vices painted through a not so ‘vice’-president’s choices