A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.

The 1998 surrealist psychological thriller stars Sean Gullette as a mathematician who becomes obsessed with searching for patterns in the universe as part of a quest for meaning. Excellent experimental movie with a brilliant soundtrack (Clint Mansell), story, direction (Darren Aronofsky) and acting. Seven popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.

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Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archaeologist in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the iconic “Indiana Jones” franchise, which is directed by James Mangold (“Ford v Ferrari,” “Logan”). Starring along with Ford are Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”), Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”), John Rhys-Davies (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”), Shaunette Renee Wilson (“Black Panther”), Thomas Kretschmann (“Das Boot”), Toby Jones (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”), Boyd Holbrook (“Logan”), Oliver Richters (“Black Widow”), Ethann Isidore (“Mortel”) and Mads Mikkelsen (“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore”). Directed by James Mangold, the film is produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Simon Emanuel, with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas serving as executive producers. John Williams, who has scored each Indy adventure since the original “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in 1981, is once again composing the score.

Classic Indiana Jones, with a lot of punching and car chases, great effects and a Harrison Ford who’s not showing his age. Threee popcorns.

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A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.

The film takes place in October of 1957, when America had plenty to be worried about. Rock ’n’ roll. Television. The bomb. And on the fourth day of that month, the Soviets successfully launched the first manmade satellite, Sputnik, into orbit. The space race had officially begun. The Cold War just got colder. People were unsure about their neighbors, even questioning their friends.

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine, Annie Hughes (voice of Jennifer Aniston) is just worried about putting supper on the table for herself and her nine-year-old son, Hogarth (voice of Eli Marienthal). A single mother holding down a job at the local diner, Annie has her hands full with Hogarth—headstrong and imaginative, always on the lookout for the latest attempted takeover by mutant aliens or subversive invaders.

So when a local fisherman comes into the diner with a tall tale about a huge metal man falling into the sea, the only one to pay him much attention is Hogarth, who sets out exploring to find the enormous robot. What he does find is a 50-foot giant with an insatiable appetite for metal and a childlike curiosity about its new world.

Rumors of everything from an alien invasion to a Russian secret weapon bent on destroying Rockwell soon spread through the small town, prompting the arrival of government agent Kent Mansley (voiced by Christopher McDonald). Keeping one step ahead of Mansley, Hogarth convinces his beatnik friend Dean (voiced by Harry Connick, Jr.) to hide the Iron Giant (voiced by Vin Diesel) in Dean’s junkyard.

But it isn’t long before the rumors turn into paranoia—the situation escalates and the possible destruction of Rockwell looms. Hogarth turns to his friend, the Iron Giant, who ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving the town’s residents from their own fears and prejudices.

Basically a must-see, featuring amazing animations and voice actors and it’s definitely a classic for kids and grownups alike. Six popcorns and goes into the Movie Vault.

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The eruption of an oil well is much needed for the survival of the workers and their families living nearby.

Enter the movie synopsis: It was a desolate place, torrid, filled with abandoned oil wells, entirely covered in dust and melted by the heat. The people living there spoke little. Most had already left the inhospitable place, abandoning the small settlement that just months earlier had been bursting with life. A handful of enthusiastic workers, led by Barcu, an energetic engineer, still remained, drilling desperately in search of oil, the oil that would breathe new life into the entire region and reignite the spark of happiness in the abandoned homes. Things change when a young student comes from Bucharest for an internship. She is drawn to the energy of the young engineer, but her presence will ignite passions in the hearts of the other oil workers as well…

Good movie about the hardships of people working in the oil industry in the first part of the twentieth century. Good pacing, great music, and also marks the debut in cinema of Eva Christian. As a fun fact, some of the scenes were filmed in my hometown.

Update: Marking the directorial debut of Liviu Ciulei, this is also probably one of the most Hitchcock-esque movie made in the Romanian cinematography. I’m still amazed that a masterpiece like this was allowed to be made in Communist Romania. Bump to six popcorns and putting this into the Movie Vault, where it should be. Also adding some HD rip screenshots.

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The thoracic surgeon Evgenia Belyaeva has only one month to prepare for the flight to the International Space Station, where she has to perform surgery on a crew member. Will she be up for the challenge? Can she overcome her fears and insecurities? Will she be able to perform the complicated surgery in zero gravity, and give the cosmonaut a chance to return to Earth alive?

This is a classic space-related drama. Astronaut gets fucked in space, doctor on Earth prepares some austronauts for making the surgery, eventually goes back to space. The acting is nice, the story is good, but what makes this movie a masterpiece is that parts of the movie were shot on the International Space Station, with real cosmonauts as actors, some former cosmonauts having cameo roles and the main protagonist becoming a real cosmonaut, launching to ISS with the Soyuz MS-19 mission. All in all, it’s a very good movie and despite its 2 hours and 45 minutes runtime, it is entertaining enough and it also might be one of the most expensive movies ever made, if you include the rocket and the launch. Also, because of its great cinematography and the location where it was filmed, this is a very beautiful movie to see on a huge TV. Five popcorns and it flies into the Movie Vault.

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An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation. Excellent quirky movie that gets six popcorns.

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A boy, bruised by life, finds his salvation through the love of his dogs

Excellent movie by Luc Besson, thrilling enough, weird enough, with Caleb Landry Jones doing a good role on a character that is similar to DC’s Joker combined with a little bit of John Wick. All in all, a great watch, four popcorns.

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A bunch of guys hang around their college for months after graduation, continuing a life much like the one before graduation.

Great comedy with dramatic elements, or very funny drama. The characters are great, the acting is also great, the dialogues are absolutely bonkers. Five popcorns and it goes into the “best movies of the 90s” box and the Movie Vault too.

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Two characters: old and young; teacher and pupil; man and woman. Four walls within which they conjure intellectualism, relive the profession (journalism), explore politics and discover each other.

I love a movie with a very short cast, a lot of talking and a limited set design. They are usually about ideas and feelings rather than facts and action. It’s an abstract movie where two people discover each other. Five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.

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When the elderly caretaker of a remote morgue discovers the body of a young woman killed during a protest, he embarks on a magical odyssey to give her a proper burial before the militia returns.

An excellent slow burning drama that keeps you at the edge of your seat for the entire duration. It’s sad, it’s emotional, it’s heartfelt, it’s symbolic and it brings the exaggeration of characters and the situational tragicomic to masterpiece levels. Six popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.

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The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

The precursor of the phenomenon TV-series, with a great cast including Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, and introducing the wonderful Gary Burghoff as “Radar” O’Reilly. Six popcorns and it jumps into the Movie Vault, no doubt about it.

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A policewoman (Weisz) risks her job and her own safety to uncover and bring to light a wide-scale, child sex-slave and human-trafficking scandal involving a U.S. military contractor, Democro Corp (a pseudonym for the real world DynCorp) and the United Nations in post-war Bosnia.

This movie is based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal. It has a lot of great stars but this doesn’t make it bad at all, quite the opposite, although it gets a bit strong, which is normal for a war movie. Also, as it’s filmed mostly in Romania because of its similarity with Bosnia, it’s filled with Romanian actors. Four popcorns.

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