Movies
Secret Invasion (2023)
Fury and Talos try to stop the Skrulls who have infiltrated the highest spheres of the Marvel Universe.
Something something green aliens, something something shape-shifters, something something annihilation. Snoozefest, poor Samuel L. Jackson got tired. Three popcorns
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2023-07-26
Star Trek - The Original Series - Pilot - The Cage (1966)
Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.
“The Cage” is the first pilot episode of the American television series Star Trek. It was completed on January 22, 1965 (with a copyright date of 1964). The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler. It was rejected by NBC in February 1965, and the network ordered another pilot episode, which became “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. “The Cage” was first released to the public on VHS in 1986, with a special introduction by Gene Roddenberry, and was not broadcast on television in its complete form until 1988. It’s a good thing this episode wasn’t lost to the archives, how it usually happens and we can enjoy it in all its greatness. Six popcorns for the first installment of the what would become the great Star Trek universe.
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2023-07-26
Fly Away Home (1996)
A father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.
Fly Away Home dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training Canada geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993 through his program “Operation Migration.” The film is also based on the experience of Dr. William J.L. Sladen, a British-born zoologist and adventurer, who aided Lishman with the migration. A great uplifting movie for the entire family, gets five popcorns and flies into the Movie Vault.
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2023-07-25
Persischstunden // Persian Lessons (2020)
A young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language.
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles (Nahuel Pรฉrez Biscayart) is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch (Lars Eidinger), who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of “Farsi” every day and teaching them to Koch. The particular relationship between the two men sparks the jealousy of other prisoners and SS guards towards Gilles. And while the suspicions of Koch grow every day, Gilles understands that he will not be able to keep his secret very long…
Six popcorns and jumps into the movie vault.
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2023-07-24
Sound of Metal (2019)
A heavy metal drummer’s life is turned upside down when he begins to lose his hearing and he must confront a future filled with silence.
During a series of adrenaline-fueled one-night gigs, itinerant punk-metal drummer Ruben (Riz Ahmed) begins to experience intermittent hearing loss. When a specialist tells him his condition will rapidly worsen, he thinks his music career โ and with it his life โ is over. His bandmate and girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke) checks the recovering heroin addict into a secluded sober house for the deaf in hopes it will prevent a relapse and help him learn to adapt to his new situation. But after being welcomed into a community that accepts him just as he is, Ruben has to choose between his equilibrium and the drive to reclaim the life he once knew. Utilizing startling, innovative sound design techniques, director Darius Marder takes audiences inside Rubenโs experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world. Five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.
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2023-07-23
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.
This movie was made by a totally different production team, and it shows. It lacks some of the charm and personality of its predecessor that turned it into a cult classic, but it does deliver a good amount of satire and fun on its own, so it gets a solid five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault next to the first part.
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2023-07-23
Fritz the Cat (1972)
A hypocritical swinging college student cat raises hell in a satiric vision of various elements on the 1960s.
It may not always have a point, but the movie has one fun segment after another with little breathing room. Sometimes unnecessarily shocking, sometimes surprisingly inspired, but always quick on its feet. It’s a lot more than the notorious cartoon porn it’s been labeled as, it’s a fun journey through the deprived New York of the 60’s. It’s some kind of Animal Farm, but less British. Five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.
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2023-07-23
Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious “Axe Gang” while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
This movie is over the top, greatly paced, with a ton of funny moments and absurd situations. Although it’s marketed as Action/Fantasy/Comedy, it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen. Six popcorns and it uleaps into the Movie Vault
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2023-07-20
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
A good thriller about a paranoid taxi driver and the secrets he uncovers. It’s got Mel Gibson in his prime and Julia Roberts looking the best she ever did. Five popcorns.
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2023-07-20
WarGames (1983)
A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III.
David is a high school student with a talent for computers and gaming. His harmless intentions of hacking into the computer system to play a new unreleased video game result in a threat of a real nuclear war, after he un-intentionally connnects to a military supercomputer. An American thriller about the fear of a nuclear war from the early 1980’s, very well made and a cult classic. Five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.
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2023-07-20
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Convicted felon Nikita isn’t going to jail; she’s given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.
Written and directed by Luc Besson, this is the movie that started his big boy career and put him on the map of renowned cinema-makers. It tells the story of a disturbed girl, a rough coal and her transformatiotion into a diamond. Sharp, ruthless, efficient. The movie is pretty slow paced in the begining, but it ramps up and becomes one of the best movies made by Besson. This is so good Americans remade this (Point of No Return in 1993, with Bridget Fonda), and spun off two TV series that successfully ran, one in 1997-2001 (starring Peta Wilson and Roy Dupuis), as well as one in 2010-2013 (starring Maggie Q). Five popcorns for this cult classic.
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2023-07-16
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful.
Great ending to MCUs third phase[…] WAIT, IT’S PHASE FIVE ALREADY? Marvel seems to roll these movies faster than anyone can count, and after the end of the Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy are the only that keep pushing the MCU universe forward. The pacing is good, the jokes are pretty okay, and it’s all in all a good popcorn movie. Indie Sundance-sucker critis will be all boo and whatever, but it’s a good movie. It’s got funsies, biig badabooms and cute fun characters. Five popcorns. I am Groot.