Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

The Lambert family temporarily deceive themselves that the father of the family is who he claims to be.

'Insidious: Chapter 2' continues where the first film left off, with a shocking cliffhanger. And yet it seems that death is not permanent in the Insidious universe. The second part is a much desired follow-up, made with roughly the same style and ideas, and it lacks the stylistic freshness felt with the first. But is still worth seeing.

Director:  James Wan     

With: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey,  Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Steve Coulter

Rating: 7/10

Insidious (2010)

The son of a desperate family gets stuck in the spirit world in his dreama, and a psychic who's familiar to the father comes to help.

'Insidious' is a horror film from the new horror movement, where big investments are finally risked on a genre mocked for far too long. With good acting, with clumsy but efficient and perfectly timed horror effects, Insidious gave birth to an acclaimed franchise and (along with The Conjuring) to a wave of higher level horror films that no longer have to copy Asian originals (like The Ring , The Grudge, Pulse and many others).

Director:  James Wan     

With: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson

Rating: 9/10

Fargo (2014– ): Season 2 (2015)

A naive couple causes a war between 2 mafia families after a car accident in which the son of one of the families loses his life.

Season 2 of 'Fargo' follows the same recipe as the first, and presents as true he story of a mafia war in the 70s. Somewhat harsher and more merciless than the previous one, season 2 deserves attention for the interesting characters (the main police guy being one, as usual), the lack of predictability (in the sense of a predictability that's less vague than "everyone will die") and the connection with the characters from the first (if you don't pay attention to the names, the connection won't be obvious from the beginning).

Director:  Randall Einhorn, Adam Arkin and others

Production:  FX   

Creator:  Noah Hawley   

Duration:  the second season of 4, with 10 episodes (53 minutes each)   

With: Kirsten Dunst, Patrick Wilson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, Ted Danson, Cristin Milioti, Jeffrey Donovan, Bokeem Woodbine, Brad Garrett, Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Michael Hogan, Zahn McClarnon, Angus Sampson, Adam Arkin

Rating: 8/10