An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Great crime/road movie starring a very young Martin Sheen (could have sworn it’s one of his kids), along Sissy Spacek (Carrie). The music is great, the pacing is excellent, and this little gem of a movie is not for everyone, but should be watched by most, being one of the best movies by Terrence Malick (The Vessel). Five popcorns.

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Ex-GI Nick Blake gets involved in a scheme to fleece a rich, young widow, but finds himself falling for her, much to the displeasure of his racketeer cohorts.

Jean Negulesco continues his classic run of forties film noirs with this tale of a con artist who falls for the mark he is trying to fleece. The great John Garfield commands the screen as grifter Nick Blake, who returns to New York after the war, only to find heartache and betrayal. Heading west, Nick hooks up with fellow con men Pop (Walter Brennan) and Doc (George Coulouris), who need a Romeo to sweep recently widowed Gladys Halvorsen (Geraldine Fitzgerald) off her feet and out of her sizable inheritance. But it’s Nick who starts falling, and now that he wants out of the scam, will that fall turn into a dive? Or will Gladys pay the price for Nick’s change of heart? Garfield is his usual astonishing self, it’s Fitzgerald who proves a revelation, as she stabs at the heart of noir’s darkness by perfectly impersonating pure innocence. Faye Emerson plays the fatale, as Nick’s sultry ex. Five popcorns for a movie probably just as good as Casablanca.

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Set during a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship takes a twisted turn when Rebecca reveals a dark secret — throwing Eileen onto a sinister path.

It’s a slow-burning thriller, but it’s got enough action and funny moments to keep you hooked to the screen. Anne Hathaway does a really great role, and so does Thomasin McKenzie. Five stars for a good quick watch.

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An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.

British crime movie starring Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren, under the direction of John Mackenzie. While released in 1980, it still holds a 70s vibe and it’s a decent (albeit boring) British gangster movie. Three popcorns.

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David vs. Goliath tale about everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (the video game store) into the world’s hottest company.

Great movie about the people behind the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021, and how other people’s life was changed by that particular event. Five popcorns.

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Oliver Stone’s epic film which follows the real-life events of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is a monumental movie event.

This movie, altough named JFK, is about the District Attorney Jim Garrison who investigated the murder of Kennedy, being one of the most important person seeking the truth about what happened in Dallas in November 22, 1963. Directed by Oliver Stone, the movie is a very long 3 hours and 10 minutes, but it’s packed with a lot of exposition, storytelling and conspiracies. Its cast is filled with huge names in bigger or smaller roles and every second of the movie is a treat for the eye and the brain. Six popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.

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Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

Based on the book that created the 1964 Fail Safe movie, this is a live play with absolutely great actors. The story is very good on its own, the acting is excellent, the cinematography and the direction are brilliant. Six popcorns and it jumps into the Movie Vault, next to its predecessor.

It seems that 36 years after the original movie, the world still needed to be taught about the dangers of nuclear warfare. Another 24 years later, today, the lesson is still not learned.

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A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.

One of the reference movies of the 90s, this is a movie that keeps you engaged for its entire duration, the chemistry between Neo Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock is fantastic, and they deliver a great thriller with a lot of comedy moments. Six popcorns for one of the must -see movies of the 90s and it drives fast into the Movie Vault.

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A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American ‘Vindicator’ bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.

This is a great Cold War movie. It’s released in the same year as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and it’s like it’s more serious counterpart. Treating the same issue, the first moments of what can be an all-out thermo-nuclear war, the movie directed by Sidney Lumet takes a more direct and serious note on foreign policy, internal affairs and war in a world that used to revolve around two super-powers. The movie is filled with brilliant famous actors put in greatly-written roles.

Today the world power is no longer divided by the Iron Curtain, but the lessons of Failsafe have yet to be learned.

In a nuclear war, everyone loses.

Six popcorns and flies into the Movie Vault.

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A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

This movie is told to be a cinematic orgasm. Slow burning story unfolding mixed with static cinematic shots, revealing real portions of the every day life of his realistic characters. Over-pretentious crap to self-stroke the artistic egos of critics.

While it feels that nothing noteworthy is happening, the story slowly progresses towards something darker, that is not poetic, nor artistic.

The story is about a bored family going to the extreme and starting to do dumb shit. There’s an act that goes on for about 25 minutes where they just destroy things. I can understand the metaphor of leaving everything behind, but 3 minutes of flushing money down the toilet is dumb.

While I understand the “artistic” part, it feels like it’s been pushed to extreme and I can understand where the Romanian movies take their inspiration from.

Two popcorns, because while this is not a bad movie, it’s not one I can recommend to anyone, unless they like to be tortured.

Oh, and this is the first movie of a trilogy and seeing this made me want to skip the other two. I’ll just read a summary somewhere.

PS: And no, this is not based on a real story, the myth was created by Haneke making vague references to discovering the story in a news article.

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A son’s letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father’s evening into a thriller he did not ask for.

A good short movie about writing bad things about the party or the Supreme Leader. Circling around comedy, drama and tragedy, the movie is an excellent quick watch about life on the edge in uncertain times.

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The very popular Romanian series continues, this time with a police comedy. Ionica is mistaken for a drug dealer and arrested, and his friends try to discover and uncover the truth.

Trying to capitalize on the success of the previous movies, the studio went for the comic police comedy, but lacks vision, freshness and falls very short of expectations. I initially forgot that this even existed, and altough it has a very good cast, the writing is sub par and the fact that it lacks the visionary direction of Nicolae Corjos (the director of the previous movies) can be seen and felt. Socrates is gone, Isosceles is a joke, the movie has nothing to do with the original movies, except being placed in the same universe and continuing (badly) the stories of a few of the characters. One popcorn and it’s one you can skip. Not even Gheorghe Dinica can save this one. We can just pretend that this doesn’t exist.

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