Categorie: film review
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Movie Marathon: Apocalypto (2006)
Synopsis: In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice…
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Michael Mann Movie Marathon: Heat (1995) rewatch
Synopsis: Neil McCauley leads a group of professional bank robbers, taking down major scores around LA. However after their latest heist goes terribly wrong and ends up in homicide, Det. Vincent Hannah finds a clue and becomes obsessed with the case determined to stop McCauley’s crew. Hannah and McCauley are competing against each other in…
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Michael Mann Movie Marathon: Ali (2001)
Synopsis: Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his…
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Movie Marathon: A Monster calls (2016)
Synopsis: The monster does not come walking often. This time it comes to Conor, and it asks for the one thing Conor cannot bring himself to do. Tell the truth. This is a very touching story about a boy who feels very damaged, guilty and mostly angry. He struggles at school with bullies, and pity…
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Movie Marathon: Zillion (2022)
Synopsis: Zillion tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the country’s biggest disco ever. In an age when ‘the sky was the limit’, in a universe where sex & drugs, techno and most of all loads of money circulate freely, the protagonists go is search of fame and kicks, alongside respect and…
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Movie Marathon: X (2022)
Synopsis: Set in 1979, adult movie actors and a small film crew arrive to a farmhouse occupied by an elderly couple in the desolate Texas countryside to film an adult movie. As the day shifts to night, the visitors slowly realize that they are not safe, and are being targeted by a nearby enemy. Review:…
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On TV: Stephen King’s The Stand Mini-series (2020)
Synopsis: After the mass destruction caused by a man-made virus called “Captain Trips,” a false messiah emerges, possessing incredible powers and hell-bent on ruling the remaining human society. It’s up to a group of people to traverse the post-apocalyptic wasteland to stop him and his army. Review: In 1994 Mick Garris already adapted the book…
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Movie Marathon: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Synopsis: In this dark reimagining of the classic tale, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio brings the titular boy to life unlike any other film before. With the help of his conscience Sebastian J. Cricket, and his father Geppetto, Pinocchio will learn what it is to be human, and see the world’s many paradoxes of life; all…
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Movie Marathon: Beast (2022)
Synopsis: A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator. Review: This is not the first movie about a rogue lion… There’s a Dutch movie called ‘Prooi’ (Prey) and then there’s the 2007 movie (also) called Prey (with…
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Movie Marathon: The Black Phone (2022)
Synopsis: Finney Blake is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of no use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are…
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