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SQUAD 36 Review: Olivier Marchal´s latest action thriller lands in Netflix with a potential that doesn’t go full throttle.

A crime thriller directed by veteran director Oliver Marchal, based on a novel by Michel Tourscher titled “Flics Requiem,” Novel that was initially conceived as a sequel to Marchal’s film, “36 Quai des Orfevres.” The film follows Antoine Cerda (Victor Belmondo), a police officer with unorthodox methods, who investigates the death of some colleagues, stumbling upon a network of police corruption that he will try to uncover. The cast is led by Victor Belmondo, grandson of the legendary Jean-Paul Belmondo. The heir to such an illustrious film surname holds his own well as the protagonist, although comparisons to his grandfather are odious and unfair. Because who could live up to someone as unique and unrepeatable as the protagonist of gems like “The Professional” or “Breathless?” Exactly, no one… Not even his grandson, who bears a strong physical resemblance to the star. Squad 36 has a powerful start with good action […]

In Memoriam: ALAIN DELON (1935-2024)

Mike Garcia

Still from Blazing Sun (Plein soleil, 1960) The passing of Alain Delon, symbolizes the slowly fading of an era of cinema that will no longer return, however, there´s no need of mourning, because in the magic of cinema, Delon will forever be young and beautiful in the more than 100 credits that he left behind his back throughout almost six decades of work… Alain Delon was born November 8th, 1935 in Sceaux, France, after a problematic childhoold where he developed an unruly behaviourdue the lack of attention of his divorced parent, he was expelled of school several times and at the age of 17, the future French cinema icon enrolled in te French Navy, serving as paratrooper during 1953 to 1954 fighting to maintain the French Indochina, before being dishonourably discharged for theft… Nobody is perfect, folks. On his return to France he had to do some odd jobs to […]