Movies
The Last of Us (2023-)
After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope.
The story is great, the cinematography is excellent, but what takes the cake is the good chemistry between Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones, Mandalorian) and Bella Ramsey (the badass Lyanna Mormont in Game of Thrones).
Six popcorns and a strong contender for the Movie Vault, but let’s hope HBO won’t axe this as it did with Westworld.
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2023-02-24
Clarkson's Farm (2021-)
Join Jeremy Clarkson on his latest harebrained scheme: owning and managing a farm! The Grand Tour presenter swaps supercars for tractors in what’s sure to be a complete farming success! Or maybe not…
The eagerly awaited second series of Clarkson’s Farm will see new animals and crops; Jeremyโs dealings with the local council as he attempts to diversify his operation with a restaurant; and Kaleb yet again saving the day on numerous occasions. You can expect a deeper insight into another year on Diddly Squat Farm as Jeremy aims to expand his (very) limited agricultural knowledge under the watchful eye of his no-nonsense team; tractor driver Kaleb, stone wall favourite Gerald, advisor โCheerfulโ Charlie, Jeremyโs better-half-turned-farm-shop-keeper Lisa and many more. Get ready for more farming faux pas, as we follow Jeremy & co on their agricultural adventures.
Petrolhead orangutan Jeremy Clarkson traded the fast cars for a slow life in the countryside. The first season was brilliant, now they’re back with tales from a new year. Fantastic show, six popcorns and this might go in the Movie Vault.
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2023-02-19
The White Lotus (2021-2023)
The exploits of various guests and employees of a tropical resort over the span of a week.
Very very good dramedy, keeps the tension very well, while providing a nice story, with good turns. The humour is there, the visuals are fantastic, the acting is fantastic. The music is also fantastic, the score being composed by Cristobal Tapia De Veer.
I just finished Season One and it’s fantastic, it’s a great contender for the Movie Vault and it gets six popcorns.
While the first season stars Murray Bartlett, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Brittany O’Grady, Sydney Sweeney and Steve Zahn, the second Season brings into the spotlight F. Murray Abraham, Michael Imperioli, Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Meghann Fahy, with the excellent appearance of Jennifer Coolidge (Stifler’s Mum โค๏ธ) in both.
Watch the trailers for Season 1 and Season 2 and rejoice that a third (and final) season has been confirmed.
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2023-02-13
You People (2023)
Follows a new couple and their families, who find themselves examining modern love and family dynamics amidst clashing cultures, societal expectations and generational differences.
A black african-american and a jew Jewish person walk into a bar. Or something. It’s a movie about how two people coming from different families, cultures and backgrounds can overcome racism (from one to the other), ignorance and stereotypes. It’s basically a politically-correct Romeo and Juliet, but with more cliches and a happy ending. It has some funny moments, but not even the great trio of Fox Mulder, Elaine Bennes and Eddie Murphy can’t drag this over the water.
Two popcorns, because it’s better that watching paint dry.
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2023-02-02
Weddings, Christenings and Funerals // Nunti, Botezuri, Inmormantari (2022)
What’s it like to try to win a million euros and choose a million troubles? All you have to do is play revenge on festive occasions: weddings, baptisms, funerals.
Standard Romanian comedy, some funny moments, decent jokes that pulled some laughs. 3 popcorns, good on a slow day.
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2023-01-30
Im Westen nichts Neues // All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
A young German soldier’s terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I.
Germany, May 1917. 17-year-old Paul Baumer enthusiastically enlists in the German army and heads off to war. His head is filled with patriotism, honour, visions of heroism and the confidence that Germany will win the war. He soon learns that his impressions of war are far from the reality.
This is your normal war movie: a lot of senseless loss, capturing the horrors of war, the madness of the ones who lead it and the sadness of the ones who fight it. It’s raw, bloody, brutal, and at some points even gross, just as any movie about war should be. It’s a good lesson for the morons who still preach war, especially since there’s war going on not even 500 miles away from where i’m standing.
Good movie, the special effects are great, the music (including the drone sound) is fantastic, the acting is great. All in all, a six popcorns movie, deserving its nine Oscar nominations (Best Movie, Best International Movie, Makeup & Hair, Original Score, Sound, Visual FX, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design)
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2023-01-29
Kaleidoscope (2023)
The story of Kaleidoscope is loosely inspired by real-life events surrounding Hurricane Sandy when $70 billion in bonds went missing from downtown Manhattan.
Very good mini-series starring Giancarlo Esposito, Paz Vega and Tati Gabrielle. The pacing is great, the direction is good, acting is very good and the episodes are nicely written. A nice experiment with this mini-series is that some of the episodes are random for each user, always starting with “Black”, which is just a technical introduction, and ending with “Red”, “Pink” and “White”. Funny enough, the order I got was the same as the order noted on IMDb, Black-Yellow-Green-Blue-Orange-Violet-Red-Pink-White. It doesn’t matter the order of the Y-G-B-O-V episodes, they still make sense as the partially hint at each others.
Nicely done show, five popcorns.
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2023-01-25
A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story (2022)
A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story is a 2020 documentary film directed by Francisco Macri and starring Fernando Alonso, Jackie Stewart and Mika Hรคkkinen. The premise revolves around Juan Manuel Fangio in the 1950s, and how he won five championships driving for four different carmakers in the F1 circuit.
Maybe not the best documentary out there, but presents the most important moments in the life of Fangio, and adds up with interviews from modern World Champions, like Fernando Alonso, Nico Rosberg, as well as former Champions, like Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi, Jackie Stewart, but also features testimonies of persons that knew and raced Fangio.
All in all, a strong documentary about a legend. Five popcorns.
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2023-01-24
Teambuilding (2022)
A frothy comedy about life in the corporation, about the challenges of building a career and those of consolidating and motivating a team. The film, a satire of corporate life, reveals the events of a team building in which the robotic corporativism unleash themselves and unleash themselves by showing their human side.
OMG, I can’t believe I forgot to write about this. It’s stupid, rude, vulgar, and half of the movie are swear words or butts. Or, you know, like in real life. The movie is actually funny, it’s not going to be a classic or whatever, but it’s a good way to spend an hour and a half on a rainy day. The acting is not top notch, the writing is half-good, and the soundtrack is mostly trap (which I don’t like). However, it somehow works, it’s not a Nolan complex movie, it’s not Monty Python absurd comedy, it’s just a simply fun movie.
I’d give this two popcorns on a good day, but the fact that it pissed of so many pretentious cunts trying to bash it, even if it’s a half-decent comedy makes me give it 4 stars. Fuck it, maybe I’ll even throw it in
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2023-01-21
That '90s Show (2023-)
Now it’s 1995, Leia Forman is visiting her grandparents for the summer where she bonds with a new generation of Point Place, WI, kids under the watchful eye of Kitty and the stern glare of Red.
While it benefits a lot from the cameo appearances of the original teenagers, the main lifting of the series is the grandparents couple of Red and Kitty. The show is pretty light, it’s pretty funny and it tries to blend the “Disney Channel” comedy for the youngsters with some elements of That ’70s Show. Some people already are review-bombing this without seeing. Or maybe these fellas forgot about That ’80s Show. Anyway, this is a pretty quick watch, 10 episodes at 30-ish minutes each and packs a lot of fun and I don’t think it’s wasted time. Four popcorns and a bottle of 90s Coca-Cola.
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2023-01-21
Red Cliff (2008)
Legendary action-cinema master John Woo and international superstar Tony Leung reunite for the first time since the 1992 classic HARD BOILED in RED CLIFF, the epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. RED CLIFF opens as power hungry Prime Minister-turned-General Cao Cao (Zhang Fengyi) seeks permission from the Han dynasty Emperor to organize a southward-bound mission designed to crush the two troublesome warlords who stand in his way, Liu Bei (You Yong) and Sun Quan (Chang Chen). As the expedition gets underway, Cao Cao’s troops rain destruction on Liu Bei’s army, forcing him into retreat. Liu Bei’s military strategist Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) knows that the rebels’ only hope for survival is to form an alliance with rival warlord Sun Quan, and reaches out to Sun Quan’s trusted advisor, war hero Zhou Yu (Tony Leung). Vastly outnumbered by Cao Cao’s brutal, fast-approaching army, the warlords band together to mount a heroic campaign unrivaled in history that changes the face of China forever. A massive hit in Asia and the most expensive Asian film production of all time, RED CLIFF is a breathtaking war epic that marks the triumphant return of John Woo.
This is a great history movie, based on the legendary battle in 208 that marked the end of the Han Dynasty. The setting is great, the movie uses a ton of extras and is generally very pleasing to the eye. The story, as Woo himself said, is only about 50% factual, but it’s still gripping enough to hold you close to the chair for a whopping four hours and 37 minutes. Five stars for an excellent movie.
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2023-01-19
Moonfall (2022)
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit and sends it hurtling on a collision course toward earth.
The master of catastrophe blockbusters, Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow), is back with another cookie-cutter movie: space bad happens, hero is not believed and sent to the gutter, some years later space bad happens again, everyone comes back to hero. So basically this is ID4 with better special effects, with still resilient palm trees, more conspiracy theory and, of course, ALIENS!
The cinematography is great, the story is kinda predictable, all the classic cliches are there (estranged father-son, daddy rebuilding old car/bike/something for ungrateful kid, end of the world which comes in 3 months, but actually weeks, but actually the day after tomorrow, the dramatic inspiring speech, the whole thing). I thought the flying, warp-speed, panorama roof Lexus product placement was cute, but Kaspersky? Heh. “What would Elon do” and “Ludicrous Mode”? Ayy LMAO. Apparently the flight from New York to Aspen takes a cut (a few minutes? something like that), and after the all the disasters that took place, cell phones and satellite phones still get reception.
It looks beautiful, the visual effects are well done (just like in any Emmerich movie), the music is okay, the acting is decent, but the story is … something. All in all, this gets two popcorns because the world can end and/or saved so many times before it becomes a re-heated primordial soup.