Time for my yearly film review.

This year felt transformative in a significant way, both on a personal level and in my approach to film watching.

2017 was a fairly uneven and peculiar year. It was fraught with disappointment, yet wonderful surprises kept popping up along the way, and there were in fact many fabulous gems that I will surely treasure forever.

My 2016 film review.

My 2015 film review.

September 1986. A British band by the name of Iron Maiden release their sixth studio album called Somewhere in Time. I was 11 years old. Not long afterwards, I’d be holding that vinyl in my hands, whilst browsing the shelves of a record store. And ten minutes later, I’d be carrying home the record that would change my life.

Not infrequently, my Portuguese friends wonder why I write in English. Well, the reasoning is simple: I am, first and foremost, a citizen of this planet called Earth and I wish to be understood by as many people in it as possible. Hopefully that won’t sound clichéd or pretentious, because it truly is why I do it.

There’s something intimately magical about putting together a collection of songs for someone special to us. Yet its effectiveness as an expression of our innermost feelings is now so (deeply) understated, that I'm led to believe it may be on its way to become a lost art.

Once in a (very long) while, seemingly out of nowhere, something unique comes to light that shatters all our preconceived notions about what can be achieved in a particular artistic field. Richard Linklater’s latest epic did just that to cinema.

I heard about Interstellar a little over five years ago. It was still a Steven Spielberg project back then, about which very little was known. A science fiction film based on theoretical physicist Kip Thorne’s work, that’s as much as I could gather at the time. And it was enough to make my thoughts fly in anticipation ever since.

I’ll be 40 in about a month. Nothing serious, I feel 25 still. Some would buy a Porsche at this moment, I guess; I decided to start a blog. Not particularly groundbreaking either, but definitely cheaper. Mine’s a mild crisis, you could say.