Huge budget spy movie, with the same old story where good guys seem bad and bad guys seem good, until it’s the other way around or not. The story is not something to write home about, but the big budget pays off: a lot of action, car chases, explosions and whatnot. Music is decent, cast is great (lmao Billy Bob Thornton still lives), a nice Saturday night watch. Four popcorns.

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Something something dinosaurs, something something Chriss Pratt, something something Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern nostalgia. In terms of actors, it was nice to see Bryce Dallas Howard after losing her shit in Black Mirror: Nosedive.

Storywise, the movie itself is not a masterpiece, but it is a very enjoyable watch. The music is great (Giacchino, duh), the landscapes are breathtaking, the dinosaurs look real. Critics hate this (RT: 30%), so it means it’s a pretty good movie. See for yourself, there’s a lot of action and even more dinosaurs. That’s fun. Four popcorns.

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In this action-packed comedy, Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage, channeling his iconic characters as he’s caught between a superfan (Pedro Pascal) and a CIA agent (Tiffany Haddish).

Such a meta movie, Nicolas Cage plays pretty much himself. If you’ve been tired about the plethora of B-movie in which he played in the last years, this is such a huge breath of fresh air. It’s funny, it’s energetic, it zips along, there isn’t a single dull moment here, you don’t need to be a fan or a critic, this movie is just really worth your time, there’s a ton of great acting for the worst possible scenes ever. I honestly think this is one of the best movies he’s ever made. It’s nice to see him back. Not like he went anywhere. Five popcorns.

PS:

Nicolas Cage thought Javi was the best written character in the movie, so much so he even asked to trade parts, as he thought playing his own biggest fan was more meta than playing himself. It wasn’t until Pedro Pascal was cast that Cage eventually relented.

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Doctor Strange teams up with a mysterious teenage girl from his dreams who can travel across multiverses, to battle multiple threats, including other-universe versions of himself, which threaten to wipe out millions across the multiverse. They seek help from Wanda the Scarlet Witch, Wong and others.

The movie has a pretty linear story, it’s not the best in the MCU, but it’s a very good watch. The music is spot on, and the cast is great. Plus, it has some really nice scary moments, which make it even better.

The movie looks amazing, the special effects are over the top, at some times it looks like they used insane Inception deleted scenes. The multiverse transition scene is absolutely bonkers. The music fight scene is also very very good ♪.

This new movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe brings a lot of Marvel characters around, jumping from universe to universe. We get to see old and new characters, familiar faces and unexpected cameos. Photos below, but they are marked as spoilers, so click at your own risk.

All in all, this is a movie worth seeing in cinemas or a big-ass tv. Five popcorns.

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Top Gear is back with their 32nd series. This is the trio’s sixth series in this format, finally managing to find a perfect formula with Chris Harris, Andrew Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness.

It’s just as good as the original trio’s TV show, the chemistry between them is great. This is not a show about cars, this is a comedy show that sometimes touches vehicles. And this series (all the series’ five episodes have aired) is as good as it was expected, so it gets six popcorns.

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In an alternative version of 1969, the Soviet Union beats the United States to the Moon, and the space race continues on for decades with still grander challenges and goals.

It’s a nice TV series, with a lot of what ifs, using many points of counterfactual history based on real life events.

The story goes on and picks up in the further seasons and pushes the story further in interesting ways. A very good watch. Six popcorns and a rocket 🚀

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Maybe it’s time you questioned the nature of your own reality.

Westworld is back, after more than two years. I assume it’s going to be another season of 7 episodes of plot-building and an eight episode that wraps everything up, blows your mind and makes you re-watch the season again.

The production quality is superb, as always, the music by Ramin Djawadi is once again top notch. Only one episode aired, and I’m intrigued and can’t wait to see the next episodes. 7 popcorns.

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The best Star Trek in a lot of years is not a Star Trek at all. The Orville is a great TV show, a great homage to all sci-fi dramas (like Star Trek TOS and TNG) Seth MacFarlane managing to bring together two immense ideas, blending cosmic challenges, social and personal issues, all these while putting a smile on our faces. The series is putting ordinary people into extraordinary situations and seeing how they respond, but be aware, this is not “Family Guy” in space, and even if the action happens in space, the people are still grounded in the normal daily life, with normal problems. And this is awesome.

After Disney bought 20th Century Something, The Orville moved from Fox to Hulu, to benefit from the platform’s advantages in terms of production scheduling, deadlines, and (most importantly) episode durations, as Seth MacFarlane puts it:

“The biggest difference for me being on Hulu is that I don’t have to tell a story that’s exactly 43 minutes long every week because I have to make room for a certain number of commercials. That’s not how storytelling works — different stories are different lengths, and you start to fall into this cadence where you’re shaving scenes down, you’re cutting things that don’t need to be cut. The best part about being on Hulu is that those moments where you want to linger on an actor’s face because it’s meaningful and it helps to tell the story? You can do that. You have the time; you can be indulgent in that way.”

At the moment, only the first episode is up, it’s very good and it seems that the tone has changed a bit, moving from easy to digest light hearted comedy into a more serious space drama with comedic hints, like a fine wine.

As I said earlier, this is not “Family Guy” in space, and it’s great for what it is. Six popcorns and a space shuttle.

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Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi watches over young Luke Skywalker and evades the Empire’s elite Jedi hunters during his exile on the desert planet Tatooine.

The cinematography looks nice, the series feels like a Star Wars, the set resembles a lot with the one in The Book Of Boba Fett, most likely because the action happens on Tatooine as well.

However, the great stuff ends here, the story is pretty shit, and as someone else said:

The Force Awakens neutered Han Solo, The Last Jedi neutered Luke Skywalker, Boba Fett has been neutered in his own series and now it’s time for the Disney character assassination of Obi-Wan, in the next in the systematic destruction of legacy characters.
But let’s be clear: this is the Reva show. Obi-Wan has been made utterly incompetent to prop up Reva and Leia. The pattern is getting tiresome.

Watchable? Yes. Legendary status? Hell no. Three popcorns and it will be forgotten by Monday.

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This movie is madness. Think Monty Python, but Romanian. It’s filled with intentional errors, (factual errors as well – they have pawn shops, mailboxes, angle grinders and bicycles), obscene product placement, jokes about the Romanian society, patriotic fanatism and others.

It’s dumb, it’s very dumb, it’s so dumb it make a 180º turn, then a 360º, then a 720º one and lands somewhere.

Some of the jokes are very low effort, some are so dry, one can only wonder how on Earth they get to them.

Not sure if this is shit or gold, but it’s a good watch before going to sleep. Four popcorns.

- Voi vedeti ca nu e niciun sacrificat pe altarul lui Zamolxes astazi? O fi ziua mortilor deschise.

- E zi cu lup rosu in calendar!

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I don’t need to say too much about this, as it speaks for itself. The cast is amazing, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel all doing great performances.

The story is very good, keeps you glued to the screen, and the small hints towards the other of Hitchcock’s movies are brilliant. I loved that it focused a lot on Alfred’s relationship with his wife.

Six popcorns, this is a movie that I’ll always enjoy watching.

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Watching the first one two days before the sequel made this movie a treat. There are a ton of mirror shots of the first movie, as a tribute, the action scenes are wonderfully done, especially considering that most of them lack CGI and it’s all camera work. A good movie, a pretty good cast, an goosebumps appearance of Val Kilmer and a pretty good story. Definitely worth seeing in the cinema.

The story itself brings a few twists, but it’s pretty intuitive. However, the movie is very good, and doesn’t feel like a nostalgia money grab.

Final score? Six popcorns and can’t wait to see it at home as well.

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