Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution, the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese’s style.

Time. Is. On. My. Side.

A brilliant late-90s thrilles with a young Denzel Washington, starring next to John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, James Gandolfini, Elias Koteas and Embeth Davidtz. This is definitely a classic and should be watched. Six popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault. I have known about this movie for a lot of time, but never got to watching it until now, during OCC 2025 on my PowerBook G4.

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The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.

A solid Romanian/German co-production, a road movie and a coming-of-age movie, all together blended and mashed up. Of course it ends bad for some characters, showing the futility of trying to resist the methods of a regime, regardless if it’s a communist, or capitalist one, showing how for The State, the individual si nothing but currency, a means to an end, an asset. There’s a lot of fine (and not-so-fine) irony in this movie, and it has the objective of showing you that it doesn’t matter how far you run, every place has its political regime that wants something from you. Five popcorns for a solid movie that goes into the Movie Vault. Thanks once again to Andrei, for his recommendation.

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A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. It takes Frodo, puts him into a coming-of-age drama that’s (in my opinion) better (and definitely more realistic) than Lord of The Rings. It also stars Charlie Hunnam in one of his earliest and best roles ever. The pacing is great, the music is absolutely fantastic (Terence Jay’s One Blood is an all-time favourite). Strong, visceral, gut-wrenching, mixing the heartfelt moments with fistfights.

Re-watched during OCC 2025 on my PowerBook G4.

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Five strangers get lost in a crypt and, after meeting the mysterious Crypt Keeper, receive visions of how they will die.

Good 70s mystery thriller, with good suspense and interesting turn of events inside each segment, a movie definitely worth watching. Five popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault.

Watched during OCC 2025 on my PowerBook G4.

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A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other’s most-hated person.

This is a movie that needs no introduction. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, it tells the story of two strangers who meet on a train, one of whom is a psychopath who suggests that they “exchange” murders so that neither will be caught. In a class of his own, Hitchcock delivers drama, tension, terror and intense moments while using new technologies back in the day, including double exposures and other things. This is not only a good movie, it’s one of the best that Hitchcock made and maybe of all time, and it was lovely to see this gem again after so many years. Seven popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault.

Re-watched during OCC 2025 on my PowerBook G4.

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Cat is a solitary animal, but as its home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat populated by various species, and will have to team up with them despite their differences.

Oh. My. God. If “show, don’t tell” is one of the best narrative techniques, this movie surely makes great use of it. There’s absolutely no dialogue, yet the movie is filled with all sorts of communication,, giving characters depth and personality. Without saying a single word, this movie tells a great story of survival, friendship and overcoming hardships in a world slowly falling apart. It will make you sad and happy, fill you with awe and appreciate every second of it. The storytelling is fantastic, the music is solid and perfectly complements an animation that is vibrant and filled with energy. Seven popcorns and it goes into the Movie Vault. PS: I never thought I’d be bawling because of a lemur.

Bonus trivia:

• The entire movie has been created and rendered only using the free and open-source software Blender.
• The team was very adamant in getting all of the “voices” to be done by real animals, so they recorded real animals for the movie.
• Because the budget of the film was so tight, there are no deleted scenes from the film. Every scene produced is in the final cut of the movie.
• The drawing of Cat from inside the house was drawn by director Gints Zilbalodis. It was the only concept art he ever made for the film, since everything else was modeled directly in Blender to save time.

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After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island’s animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.

Absolutely delicious movie about a robot interacting with animals and the other way around. Funny, quirky, heartfelt and just generally awesome. Five popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault.

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It’s not a loop, it’s a countdown: Alba is trapped in her weekend, forced to relive it over and over again, but each repetition gets a bit shorter.

Also known as “The Incredible Shrinking Weekend”, this is not your average time loop movie. Although the weekend keeps repeating itself, and it gets stranger with every loop. Four popcorns for a good heartfelt movie. It also features one of the best cinematic contextual techniques I’ve seen in a movie, which makes it go into the Movie Vault.

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When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

A great road movie where the protagonist goes on a trip across the country and across his life. Brilliantly written, excellently acted, one of the best movies of all time. Funny at times, heart-shattering in others, it’s a masterpiece that everyone should watch. Six popcorns and rides into the Movie Vault.

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A successful lawman’s plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona, are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating.

This is an A-lister megablockbuster. Released in the second Golden Age of Western movies (including here Unforgiven, Dances with Wolves, Legends of the Fall, Maverick, and even Back to the Future III), this is definitely one of the best movies focused on the story of Wyatt Earp (magnificently played by Kurt Russell). Also starring Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Jason Priestley, Stephen Lang, Thomas Haden Church, Michael Rooker, Billy Zane, even Terry O’Quinn having a role. The action is so gripping, I didn’t even realize when the first hour passed. Brilliant movie and definitely one to have in your library. Six popcorns for a masterpiece that rides into the Movie Vault.

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In the season, Seong Gi-hun and the players fight for survival in ever-deadlier games. In-ho welcomes the VIPs while his brother Jun-ho continues the search for the island, unaware of a traitor in their midst.

Annoyingly many subplots make this show seem very unfocused, by the third episode I started to skip ahead here and there, as some scenes were fairly meh. The games have some amount of logic but fall apart in believability very fast, the characters swinging their decisions at every step. We have a secret society which resembles Eyes Wide Shut, some undercover exfiltration operation, some “let’s find an island, but actually we kinda don’t want to”, and screaming. A lot of screaming. Also the characters that are speaking in English having their voices very badly dubbed is actually annoying. Two popcorns for the Squid Screaming Game and thank God there will not be a fourth season.

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Four horror and science fiction segments, directed by four famous directors, each of them being a new version of a classic story from Rod Serling’s landmark television series.

While not a bad selection of segments, it unfortunately remakes some of the most popular episodes of the 60s and this is why it falls flat. The ideas are good, the stories are gripping, but it’s not someting to re-watch a lot. Four popcorns, but mostly because the underlying material was brilliant.

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