Arte e Intrattenimento

OK, I’ve watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. And I feel the need to talk about it. To tell the truth, at a rough guess it would seem that everyone who saw the film in cinemas yesterday (the cinema in my town was full: every screening, all day long) is feeling the same. Since I unlocked … Read more

The Bear has just ended. A complex story. Painful. Thrilling. Probably the most accomplished cooking series in recent history (or, who knows, ever). That is also why, on reflection, it is full of the iconic moments the Berzattos’ adventures have left us with. It could hardly be otherwise, with such an extraordinary story. Just think … Read more

Curry Barker wrote the screenplay for Obsession while working in a coffee shop.He was 26 at the time. No agent, no development deal, no executive producer watching his back. What he did have was a story, a camera and a clear idea of what today’s audiences wanted to see at the cinema. Dialogue that made … Read more

Three books for three different ways of reading organisations. One on the structure of strategy. One on positioning as a choice of field. One on the ability to observe before intervening. In July, things slow down. Or at least, we try. Which is also why it is the perfect month to switch off the computer … Read more

Prima ancora che uscisse il primo capitolo, internet lo aveva già bollato come pessimo prodotto, e assunto a meme. Due anni dopo ha vinto il premio più importante del settore, e si prepara all’anime. La reputazione non si decide al lancio. On 13 September 2023, six days before the first chapter was published, an X … Read more

The fifth instalment of everyone’s favourite thirty-year saga could have simply lived on nostalgia. Instead, on 19 June 2026 Toy Story 5, the fifth instalment of the Pixar saga and the studio’s thirty-first feature film, was released, and its plot is built around an antagonist that is not a rival toy. Not a cruel child. … Read more

The MCU is over.People are tired of superheroes.Spider-Man ran out of things to say after Raimi. All true. And yet Spider-Man never wears thin, and Brand New Day has just recorded the second-biggest opening in cinema history. Mind you, though: the question is not why it worked, but why Spider-Man always works. An immortal hero … Read more

On 15 July 2026, Wang Jibing won a prestigious literary prize. In the days that followed, however, he was back pedalling with his backpack on as if nothing had happened. And it is a harsh image, certainly. Terrible, perhaps, and even, in its own way, violent. Yet there is tenderness in this scene. Especially if … Read more