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 Pérez 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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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 — and with it his life — 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 Ruben’s experience to vividly recreate his journey into a rarely examined world. Five popcorns and jumps into the Movie Vault.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Ruxx is a modern drama about relationships and the young generation in Romania, living in a country caught between the past and the future. The series focuses on the titular character, Rux (Raluca Aprodu), who tries to balance her demanding career, working for a large real estate developer in Bucharest, with the other priorities in her life: financially supporting her family and having a long-distance relationship. Rux tries to leave Romania and go to Los Angeles, but life has other plans for her and she is drawn into her boss’s biggest project: his wife’s election campaign for mayor of Bucharest.

The series’ writing is not that good, with half-Romanian half-English dialogue, poor and inconsistent decisions. This feels like a corporate made TV show. The acting is fairly decent, but what is actually good about this show is the soundtrack. A ton of great songs from Romanian artists, which makes this show be a 3 popcorn instead of one, and you can find it on a Spotify playlist.

Maybe the fact that it ended after one season is not that bad, after all.

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Two municipal workers, depressed in a bar, spontaneously joke about being able to rob a bank van, in order to sound big. Trouble starts when their plan is taken at face value by a mobster, who threatens them to actually do the heist.

Excellent mini series of six episodes about an Eastern-European corruption-driven apparent absurd rendition of the Italian Job and the hidden motivation behind it for the participating parties. All in all, it’s an excellent drama+comedy. Five popcorns and I think it’s a strong container for the Movie Vault.

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B.D. la munte și la mare (Brigada Diverse 3) 1972, este al treilea film din mini-serialul Brigada Diverse, un mini-serial de comedie în care se regăsesc mari actori ca: Toma Caragiu, Jean Constantin, Dem Rădulescu, Iurie Darie, Sebastian Papaiani, Puiu Călinescu. Ultima parte (din păcate) a capodoperei cinematografice B.D, cel mai bun film românesc de comedie din toate timpurile, având parte de o distribuție de excepție și o interpretare magistrală.

Tovarășii din “Brigada Diverse” dejoacă planurile “bandiților internaționali” care activează pe teritoriul patriei noastre, incercand prin zona litoralului sa introduca droguri (prafuri pentru mama-mare), cât și în munți de unde sustrag icoane de o valoare inestimabilă. Gogu, Patraulea și Trandafir sunt atrași în cursă de domnul Vasilescò, care le promite contracte în străinătate (Londra, Paris, Tokio…) și cad din nou în mâinile Miliției, deși sunt niște simpli intermediari sau mai bine zis, doar comis-voiajori; a doua jumătate a filmului conține de altfel cele mai bune 20 de minute ale cinematografiei românești, umorul autentic ce rezultă din comicul de situație, dar mai ales prin cel de caracter, realizat prin interpretarea strălucită a celor trei actori fiind savurat de mii de telespectatori și după mai bine de 40 de ani.

The third comedy of the Brigada Diverse series is probably one of the best comedies out there. Seven popcorns as well, and it goes into the Movie Vault, next to the predecessors. Couldn’t find a trailer, so there’s the full movie in the youtube link.

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