From the director of Amelie, this is a really nice quirky sci-fi/fantasy comedy. The jokes are hilarious, the acting is so over the top at some points, it’s brilliant. Also the droids are super fun. A lightweight comedy, with a great world design, nice cyberpunk vibes, and it’s fun watch if you like absurd, quirky, funny movies.

Also, do yourself a favor, and watch it with the original French voices and with subtitles, because the English dubbing sucks.

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Really good comedy-drama. The characters are well written, the actors are really good at making you root for them. Has its ups and downs, but all in all is a movie that everyone must see, must feel and must understand.

Later edit: I’ve seen that this movie has got some Oscar Nominations, even becoming the first film with some disabled performers being nominated. I think they’re well deserved.

Whenever I think of Dune, I remember the insanely great miniseries done by the Sci-Fi Channel (known since 2009 as Syfy, ew, wtf). If you haven’t seen them, I strongly suggest to look them up: Dune (2000) and Children of Dune (2003), starring Alec Newman, James MacAvoy, Susan Sarandon, Julie Cox, William Hurt, Daniela Amavia and Alice Krige.

So going to the cinema with these in mind, I left the theater thinking:

Don’t get me wrong, Villneuve’s Dune is a well-made movie. Insane budget, great cast, but something didn’t click. It’s a chemistry thing, I guess. The only thing that’s more bland than the sands of Arakkis are most of the performances: Timmy Chandelier was a sub-par Paul Atreides, Rebecca Ferguson barely looked old enough to be his porn step-sister, Jason Momoa’s fight scene was cool, but far from a decent Duncan Idaho. The other A-list performers were meh as well (lol Zendaya). I’ve seen this movie a few months before writing this review, and I swear there’s no performance worth mentioning.

It’s a great looking film, the money thrown at it really seem to work, but it landed a bit sideways. The fact that it’s also one half of the first story also made it bland, because in general it looks like we’ve been watching a two and a half hour trailer. Hope they’ll make it back somehow in the second movie, but this is a movie I’m not eager to re-watch.

Later edit: I’ve seen that this movie has got an Oscar Nomination for best picture. It’s nice to see a sci-fi pop in that list, but I don’t think it has a chance of winning.

Later later edit (2024): I’ve just seen this on 4K with some friends and it’s not actually bad. It still has some big disappointments if you compare it to the other versions, but as a stand-alone version, it’s a very good and entertaining watch. I’m happy this is made and brought more people to the Dune universe, so it gets a bump to four popcorns.

Very funny lightweight comedy about some rich kids with no direction in life that are tricked by their father that they’ve lost all their money. It’s a classic comedy story about spoiled heirs of wealthy families, that fail to grow up. The cast is nice, the acting itself is good, even if the story is not very credible at some points. But it doesn’t matter, as it’s a nice evening fun comedy, not a documentary. Four popcorns.

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Dark comedy, suspense and unbelievable plot twist. Plus very very fun humour, long time since I’ve seen such a good parody, binged it in half a night. Six popcorns.

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Very good drama about the story of Brandon Teena. A movie about trying to fit in while trying to be yourself, about life, love, and hate.

Very funny French comedy about a German detachment stuck in a French town back during the Second World War, and the way the villagers try to live in harmony with the occupants. French comedy at its finest, very fun to watch.

Released in 2005, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is still one of the best looking animations ever made. Even if you don’t like the genre, the story is really nice, the choreography of the fighting scenes is amazing, the highway chase is absolutely superb. One of the two things that really make this movie stand out is the incredible attention to detail, especially on the textures, everything has depth and feels almost real, you swear you can reach out in your screen and touch that world. The second legendary part is the soundtrack, Nobuo Uematsu throwing classical music, techno and hard rock together and blending them in his well-known style.

Below you can see the trailer, two songs from the soundrack and a shit ton of screenshots, because this movie looks so damn good even after 17 years. Also yes, I gave it 6 🍿 out of 5. It’s that good.

The Chase of Highway

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Advent: One-Winged Angel

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Season 3 of this great TV show started to air recently, with episodes appearing weekly. It’s a well paced series, led by Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connelly and Sean Bean, who is not dead, at least not yet. Drama, politics, betrayal, survival, all these on Snowpiercer, one thousand one cars long. Or more. Or less.

Season 3

Season 3 picks up with Layton and his inner circle commanding a small 10-car “pirate train” in search of Melanie and a possible warm location to restart civilization. Back on Snowpiercer, Mr. Wilford is consolidating power, awaiting Layton’s return.

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The accountant turned mobster and his family are up at it again. Season 4 (the last) is out. But don’t get your hopes up just yet. The season is divided into two parts: 7 episodes released on January 21, 2022, and the other 6 sometime later, hopefully this year. Series trailer below, season 4 trailer is under it.

Season 4 Teaser below

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From the director of Moon, Source Code and Warcraft, this is a cyberpunk-coloured film-noire-paced mystery movie set in future Berlin that is pretty good for a late Sunday evening. Nice performances by Alexander Skarsgård and Paul Rudd, really nice world design (some flying cars, yay!), and a nice mix of futuristic and retro stuff. Also mad lads, they had the Russian mobster guy (Maksim) to be played by Gilbert Owuor (so different than the Russian stereotype). I also loved the Moon references and the money gag

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Nice fast-paced thriller, has a few twists, a good take on a future that never was, but isn’t that unlikely anyway. It’s a solid movie, with a good soundtrack, and it belongs on the same level with similar titles from the second part of the 90s, like “Dark City” and “The Crow”.

I see the world opening up and swallowing us all.