Revolutionary Road
2008 • Nov 17, 2025
Director
Sam Mendes
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Christopher Fitzgerald
Genre
Drama, Romance
My neighbour knocked on my door during the scene with David Harbour banging Kate Winslet and asked me to turn it down so now I have to move
It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, are in the 'seven year itch' of their marriage; they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of being an actress, and Frank hates his job. One day, April suggests they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life.
Hackers
1995 • Nov 15, 2025
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Director
Iain Softley
Cast
Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford
Genre
Crime, Drama, Romance
Idk how you can go over a 5/5 but this just keeps getting better and better the further we get from the 90s
A young boy is arrested by the U.S. Secret Service for writing a computer virus and is banned from using a computer until his 18th birthday. Years later, he and his new-found friends discover a plot to unleash a dangerous computer virus, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
The Lighthouse
2019 • Nov 15, 2025
Director
Robert Eggers
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe, Valeriia Karaman
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Kinda cool, didn't really get where it was going, don't really understand enough about filmmaking/cinematography to know why this movie couldn't be as dark and pretty looking as it is without being in b&w and 4:3 because I don't like these things. Might be autistic idk. Visually amazing regardless, but I more substance to enjoy it.
Also like that's literally how comic Green Goblin and Norman interact I wonder if Willem was reading that shit again
As the wavering cry of the foghorn fills the air, the taciturn former lumberjack, Ephraim Winslow, and the grizzled lighthouse keeper, Thomas Wake, set foot in a secluded and perpetually grey islet off the coast of late-19th-century New England. For the following four weeks of back-breaking work and unfavourable conditions, the tight-lipped men will have no one else for company except for each other, forced to endure irritating idiosyncrasies, bottled-up resentment, and burgeoning hatred. Then, amid bad omens, a furious and unending squall maroons the pale beacon's keepers in the already inhospitable volcanic rock, paving the way for a prolonged period of feral hunger; excruciating agony; manic isolation, and horrible booze-addled visions. Now, the eerie stranglehold of insanity tightens. Is there an escape from the wall-less prison of the mind?
Helter Skelter
2012 • Nov 14, 2025
Director
Mika Ninagawa
Cast
Erika Sawajiri, Nao Ômori, Shinobu Terajima
Genre
Crime, Drama, Horror
Amazing visuals and music combo but ultimately not very much actually happens and it's too long and the messaging was fairly surface level in the end.
Top star Lilico undergoes multiple cosmetic surgeries to her entire body. As her surgeries show side effect.
Face/Off
1997 • Nov 13, 2025
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Director
John Woo
Cast
John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen
Genre
Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
You know, aside from this being a masterpiece in plot and script and acting and all that, the 4th watch let me really appreciate what a great job Woo does with the action here. It's actually imo his best action work now that I've seen most of his HK movies too.
Just all around amazing stuff honestly.
Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent, is still grieving for his dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his sworn enemy and a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor, however, their fight has knocked out Troy cold. As Archer finally breathes easy over the capture of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor's brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. The solution, a special operation doctor that can cut off people's faces, and can place a person's face onto another person. Archer undergoes one of those surgeries to talk to Pollux. However, Castor Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge on Archer for taking his face. Not only is Troy ruining Archer's mission, but his personal life as well. Archer must stop Troy again. This time, it's personal.
A Better Tomorrow
1986 • Nov 9, 2025
Director
John Woo
Cast
Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
我有自己嘅原則 我就唔想成世俾人襟住嚟打 你以為我好鍾意同人乞咩？ 我衰咗三年 我等一個機會 爭返啖氣 唔係要證明話俾人我威 只係想話俾人聽我唔見咗嘅嘢我就自己攞返
Great action and story and acting and all but the vibes were all over the place until the later sections, and the only available subs are fucking awful. Gimme a fresh edit and translation and I'd probably love this.
This story is the tale of two brothers: one a successful counterfeiter and the younger a fledgling graduate of the HK police academy. The plot revolves around the split when the younger brother learns the other is a criminal and the efforts of the criminal brother to reform. Along the way are plenty of heists, double-crosses, and shoot outs.
Manhunter
1986 • Nov 8, 2025
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen
Genre
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
One of the most visually appealing movies I've ever seen, and paired with a great soundtrack. Probably deserves more but the subject itself isn't all that appealing to me.
Will Graham (William Petersen) is a former F.B.I. Agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly (Kim Greist) and their young son, Kevin (David Seaman). Graham was a "profiler", one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina) to help the F.B.I. catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the "Tooth Fairy" (Tom Noonan), who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), a charismatic, but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will's life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the "Tooth Fairy" will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer for whom Will is looking, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins a relationship with a blind woman (Joan Allen) who is not aware of his double life.
Airheads
1994 • Nov 6, 2025
Director
Michael Lehmann
Cast
Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Music
Imagine telling your friends you finally made it in hollywood and you're starring in a big movie with Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi and Adam Sandler and then they're like omg wow what part did you get and you gotta be like well uh it's not a named character but I'm in the credits as 'Masturbating Rocker'
Three would be rockers Chazz, Rex and Pip, known as The Lone Rangers plan to play their demo on a recording company, but then they're turned down rudely. Then they decide to try the famous rock n' roll radio station, but are not accepted either. Then they decide arm themselves with squirt guns and take the station hostage for not playing their demo. But the three get more than what they have bargained for.
The Untouchables
1987 • Nov 2, 2025
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Good characters good music good script good pacing good action Brian de Palma does it again if you ask me
After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition Agent Eliot Ness attempts to take Capone down, even his best efforts fail due to widespread corruption within the Windy City's police force. Recruiting an elite group of lawmen who won't be swayed by bribes or fear, including Irish-American cop Jimmy Malone, Ness renews his determination to bring Capone to justice.
Survive Style 5+
2004 • Oct 31, 2025
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Director
Gen Sekiguchi
Cast
Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyôko Koizumi
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Somehow have such a hard time convincing people to watch this but conducted a forced viewing yesterday and shit I forget just how good this is
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
Halloween
1978 • Oct 31, 2025
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran
Genre
Horror, Thriller
I know it's Carpenter but idk I just assumed this wouldn't be as good as everyone said but turns out it is
Still does that horror thing where everyone is an idiot though
The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what will happen on October 31st 1978 besides Myers' psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be too late for many people.
God of Gamblers
1989 • Oct 26, 2025
Director
Jing Wong
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, Joey Wang
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Eeeh
That whole middle section of Americanesque slapstick really didn't hit for me and it never really progressed or built on anything other than some slapstick
Cool little ending I guess
Do San (the God of gamblers) is a legendary gambler helped by his supernatural abilities. He undertakes to help a friend pay a debt by beating his friend's advisory at the card table. Despite being assigned a bodyguard Do San has a freak accident which leaves him with partial memory loss and at a mental stage of a child. The small time hustler Knife, his side-kick and his girl friend, being responsible for the accident takes care of the retarded Do San. After some time they discover that he has not lost all of his powers and takes him on a round at the local gambling halls. After being chased by both Knife's loan-shark and enemies closer to the home of Do San, a final showdown at the card tables may take place.
Targets
1968 • Oct 24, 2025
Director
Peter Bogdanovich
Cast
Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
White people really just be doing that shit man
Byron Orlok is an old horror-movie star who feels that he is an anachronism. Compared to real-life violence, his films are tame. Meanwhile, Bobby Thompson goes on a killing spree...
Night of the Living Dead
1968 • Oct 23, 2025
Director
George A. Romero
Cast
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Genre
Horror, Thriller
The characters are great, the ghouls are great and that flesh eating scene is fuckin gruesome, lots to love here, but it dragged a little - probably a symptom of its age.
Barbra and Johnny visit their father's grave in a remote cemetery when they are suddenly set upon by zombies. Barbra manages to get away and takes refuge in what seems to be an abandoned farm house. She is soon joined by Ben who stopped at the house in need of gas. Beset by the walking dead all around them Ben does his best to secure the doors and windows. The news reports are grim however with creatures returning to life everywhere. Barbra and Ben are surprised when they realize there are 5 people hiding out in the basement: Harry, Helen and Karen Cooper; and a young couple, Tom and Judy. Dissensions sets in almost immediately with Harry Cooper wanting to be in charge. As their situation deteriorates, their chances of surviving the night lessen minute by minute.
Sinners
2025 • Oct 23, 2025
Director
Ryan Coogler
Cast
Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Saul Williams
Genre
Action, Drama, Horror
I think when a movie so heavily borrows from one of your favourite movies of all time, it's really hard to watch it without constantly drawing parallels, and that unfortunately left me pretty bored throughout Sinners and just wanting George Clooney to walk in and start swearing.
Fwiw I think this is made really well and looks really cool and the music stuff was cool (I thought that one scene was a waste of such a cool concept though and that guy wasn't even actually playing the guitar come on man) but eh I didn't really enjoy it as a movie.
-0.5 for the half imax too - this shit is so jarring and i don't know why as a director you'd be okay with it. The aspect ratio literally changes mid scene on multiple occasions between cuts.
Also I am NOT RACIST okay
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Sudden Death
1995 • Oct 20, 2025
Director
Peter Hyams
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Of all the Die Hard clones I've seen I think this is the most egregious with regards to just how Die Hard it is (he's called McCord ffs), but hey that makes it plenty entertaining. JCVD has just enough lines to where he's a character but he doesn't have to actually act, and there's actually some fun choreography so fuck it.
Darren McCord takes his two kids to a Pittsburgh Penguins National Hockey League play-off game, unknowing that the sports arena has been taken over by terrorists, who are holding the Vice President of the United States, as well as many other high-ranking officials hostage. Darren later becomes the only one who is aware of the situation. And, the stakes are raised when the terrorists announce that they will blow-up the building at the end of the game. Therefore, Darren must not only subdue the terrorists, but postpone the game and send it to overtime.
Surrogates
2009 • Oct 19, 2025
Director
Jonathan Mostow
Cast
Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
surrogates is an example of what happens when you have a cool concept but the plot, script, setting, acting, music, cinematography and style all suck ass because you blew the entire budget on Bruce Willis
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
The Lost Boys
1987 • Oct 19, 2025
Director
Joel Schumacher
Cast
Jason Patric, Corey Haim, Dianne Wiest
Genre
Comedy, Horror
Wish I saw this as a kid and pretended to be a vampire for 20 years
A mother and her two sons move to a small coast town in California. The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The younger boy makes friends with two other boys who claim to be vampire hunters while the older boy is drawn into the gang of bikers by a beautiful girl. The older boy starts sleeping days and staying out all night while the younger boy starts getting into trouble because of his friends' obsession.
Wedlock
1991 • Oct 19, 2025
Director
Lewis Teague
Cast
Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Advertised as some dystopian sci-fi but it's just exploding collars slapped onto an extremely poorly delivered prison escape thriller
Frank (Rutger Hauer) has been convicted of stealing millions of dollars in diamonds, which have not been recovered. In his unisex prison, each inmate has an unknown partner. When the two are separated by more than one hundred yards, an explosive collar kills both inmates. Frank and his female partner escape and head for the money, but they are hotly pursued by his double-crossing colleagues.
Twins
1988 • Oct 19, 2025
Director
Ivan Reitman
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito, Kelly Preston
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Very cool prequel to Batman & Robin
Julius and Vincent Benedict are the results of an experiment that would allow for the perfect child. Julius was planned and grows to athletic proportions. Vincent is an accident and is somewhat smaller in stature. Vincent is placed in an orphanage while Julius is taken to a South Seas island and raised by philosophers. Vincent becomes the ultimate lowlife and is about to be killed by loan sharks when Julius discovers that he has a brother and begins looking for him.
The Surfer
2024 • Oct 19, 2025
Director
Lorcan Finnegan
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Finn Little, Rahel Romahn
Genre
Thriller
Just go to therapy guys it's not that bad I swear
A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising and pushes him to his breaking point.
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 • Oct 11, 2025
Director
Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein
Cast
Kaitlyn Santa Juana, Teo Briones, Rya Kihlstedt
Genre
Horror, Thriller
A lil +0.5 for that ending
I feel like the older movies really captured the era they were made in and that was always a part of the franchise for me, so obviously there's a whole heap missing here, but for what it is, this was fuckin great.
Upset I didn't watch this in the cinema (I got rejected by like 6 different people what's up with that?) because some of those deaths were fucking incredible
Plagued by a recurring violent nightmare, a college student returns home to find the one person who can break the cycle and save her family from the horrific fate that inevitably awaits them.
Ready or Not
2019 • Oct 11, 2025
Director
Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Cast
Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien
Genre
Action, Comedy, Horror
I need Samara Weaving to bash my head in with an ancestral playing card box
All of us have made certain efforts so our in-laws will like us, but Grace is going to have to give it her all if she wants to fit in with her brand new husband's wealthy dynasty, who require her to follow a brutal tradition: for the bride to try to survive her wedding night while the rest of them hunt her down. The class struggle stuff hits the proverbial fan in this extremely black satire starring a brilliant Samara Weaving and including an uncommonly perverse Andie MacDowell.
Matchstick Men
2003 • Oct 11, 2025
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman, Sam Rockwell
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Drama
This is fucking ass lmao
Starts off strong and gets worse and worse until Ridley Scott chokes all life out of Nic Cage's performance
Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protégé, are swindling these days are "water filtration systems," bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewelry and overseas vacations--which they never collect. These scams net the flim-flam men a few hundred here, another thousand there, which eventually adds up to a lucrative partnership. Roy's private life, however, is not so successful. An obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe with no personal relationships to call his own, Roy is barely hanging on to his wits, and when his idiosyncrasies begin to threaten his criminal productivity he's forced to seek the help of a psychoanalyst just to keep him in working order. While Roy is looking for a quick fix, his therapy begets more than he bargained for: the revelation that he has a teenage daughter--a child whose existence he suspected but never dared confirm. What's more troubling, 14-year-old Angela wants to meet the father she never knew. At first, Angela's appearance disrupts her neurotic father's carefully ordered routine. Soon, however, with his own unique spin on parenthood, Roy begins to enjoy a relationship he never dreamed of having with his daughter. But while he develops paternal feelings for the 14-year-old, she's developing a fascination with Daddy's questionable career.
Thunderbolts*
2025 • Oct 5, 2025
Director
Jake Schreier
Cast
Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Genre
Action, Adventure, Crime
There's some good bits - this is some of the best visual and choreography work in a marvel movie for a long long time, and the movie doesn't drag which is great, and that Avengers theme rendition at the very end is brilliant.
Way more bad though - I hated this for the same reason I thought I would, which is that this is one of those boring, safe and generic Thunderbolts stories they could have gone with. We could have had the green goblin in an iron man suit, venom eating people's arms, and Hawkeye but not shit, but instead we get a bunch of literal whos having their redemption arcs AGAIN. They didn't spend enough time building up Bob (or his relationship with the team) for the ending to really feel appropriate so it just feels like the movie just stops half way through because they had a good hug or something. David Harbour is fucking terrible and unnecessary in all regards here. Some of the worst fake russian accent of all time going on. Undercooked all in all cause it maybe could have been good.
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must go on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
One Battle After Another
2025 • Oct 3, 2025
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson
Cast
Teyana Taylor, Leonardo DiCaprio, Regina Hall
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
A SEMEN DEMON???
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
Cloud Atlas
2012 • Sep 28, 2025
Director
Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Cast
Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A cooler concept than execution. Every story is created too similarly to provide the distance required for the effect of the concept to really work. A story about cyberpunk Seoul shouldn't give you the same feelings as a story about a guy writing a journal on a boat but it does.
A studio exec should've enforced the brain-dead assembling of jigsaw pieces at the end because without it, this is 3 hours of mid without a payoff.
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific, letters from a composer to his lover, a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant, a farce about a publisher in a nursing home;, a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea, and the tale of a tribe living on post-apocalyptic Hawaii far in the future.
Meet Joe Black
1998 • Sep 21, 2025
Director
Martin Brest
Cast
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
This is so fucking funny. Criminal filmmaking. Why is it 3 hours long? Why does everyone keep kissing each other on the lips? Why did Thomas Newman just write 10 variations of the same song and call it a day? Why's there a 2 minute sex scene? WHY DID BRAD PITT DO THE JAMAICAN BIT?
Was fun tho
William Parrish (Sir Anthony Hopkins), media tycoon, loving father, and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the inevitable, by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death enters his home and his life, personified in a man's body: Joe Black (Brad Pitt) has arrived. His intention was to take William with him, but accidentally, Joe's former host and William's beautiful daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on Earth, as well as in Susan, who has no clue with whom she's flirting.
Kickboxer
1989 • Sep 20, 2025
Director
Mark DiSalle, David Worth
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dennis Alexio, Dennis Chan
Genre
Action, Sport, Thriller
It's no Bloodsport but it is fucking good. Has a couple of incredible scenes.
Kurt Sloan is the corner-man for his brother, U.S. kickboxing champion Eric Sloan. When Kurt witnesses his brother become maliciously paralyzed in the ring by Thailand champion Tong Po, Kurt vows revenge. With the help of Xian, a kickboxing trainer who lives in a remote area of Thailand, Kurt trains for the fight of his life.
Bloodsport
1988 • Sep 6, 2025
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Director
Newt Arnold
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres
Genre
Action, Biography, Drama
Yea even better the second time
Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he can't because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While Frank advances, he knows that he may have to face Chong Li, the defending champion, who has killed a few participants.
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992 • Aug 30, 2025
Director
James Foley
Cast
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crazy how good a movie with 2 sets can be when you just get some dudes that can act and a remotely solid script
The real story behind the world of sales. This is a realistic portrayal of what it is to try making a life in high pressure sales with all its highs and lows; promises of fortunes and deliveries of dross. Red-leads and dead-leads are to blame for life's outcomes. Living with "Objection, Rebuttal, Close".
Romeo + Juliet
1996 • Aug 29, 2025
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Director
Baz Luhrmann
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Genre
Drama, Romance
Look I'm really sorry but this shit absolutely slaps
The classic story of Romeo and Juliet, set in a modern-day city of Verona Beach. The Montagues and Capulets are two feuding families, whose children meet and fall in love. They have to hide their love from the world because they know that their parents will not allow them to be together. There are obstacles on the way, like Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, and Romeo's friend Mercutio, and many fights. But although it is set in modern times, it is still the same timeless story of the "star crossed lovers".
Sorcerer
1977 • Aug 29, 2025
Director
William Friedkin
Cast
Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Genre
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Masterclass on inducing anxiety. None of that Safdie bullshit.
A gangster, a crooked banker, a hit man and an Arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable dynamite (leaking nitroglycerin) up a long and rocky mountain road in order to plug an escalating oil refinery blaze. With their deadly cargo likely to explode at the slightest bump, the four men must put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Underwater
2020 • Aug 28, 2025
Director
William Eubank
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie
Genre
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
The scariest bit of this is that they casted TJ Miller
An unknown, massive earthquake happens in a drilling station in the bottom of the Marianna Trench. A scientific crew must find their way across the ocean floor into another station under the threats of deep pressure, dark water, dangerous deep-sea creatures, and a constant lack of oxygen.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
2025 • Aug 28, 2025
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Cast
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Some insane (in a bad way) editing, horrible shots, scenes jumping all over the place, horrible shots, terrible script, horrible shots, awful nonsense plot and loads of horrible shots btw
No like seriously the first 40 minutes of the movie is exclusively close up shots of faces
Some cool action, cool choreography
Best scenes ruined by horrible sound effects and music and excessive lighting in the wrong places
Give me the same footage and I could make a way better movie I assure you
Hunt and the IMF pursue a dangerous AI called the Entity that's infiltrated global intelligence. With governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, Hunt races to stop it from forever changing the world.
Ocean's Twelve
2004 • Aug 16, 2025
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Director
Steven Soderbergh
Cast
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
Genre
Crime, Thriller
admin he's doing it sideways
They pulled off one of the biggest heists ever and now they have another job to complete. Ocean's Eleven, which consisted off Danny Ocean (Clooney), Rusty Ryan (Pitt) and Linus Caldwell (Damon) and others, all thought they would be able to enjoy their money, but someone has other plans. Terry Benedict (Garcia) is still fuming after losing his money and wants it back. The team now have the job of getting all the money they spent back, or risk being thrown in jail. How are they going to get it all back? By pulling off another amazing plan.
Juror #2
2024 • Aug 9, 2025
Director
Clint Eastwood
Cast
Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Actually really good, just lacks sauce, and that somehow makes it feel like a very long TV show episode instead of a movie. You'd think Clint Eastwood of all people would know how to stop that happening.
Did find myself wanting the next episode though - Hoult is solid in this.
While serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, a family man finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma, one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict or free the wrong killer.
Gladiator II
2024 • Jun 15, 2025
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
A side effect of action movies dying is that there's no actors in their 30s with any strong 'masculine' presence for this kind of role. I think Mescal is an insanely terrible choice and maybe the number one reason this movie is dog, but I can't think of a single person that would be appropriate for the role.
I think the script is actually fine but there's no weight to anything that happens here. It's shot like a TV series. Maybe it's bad editing but idk I don't make movies I just watch them. So many dead inconsequential cuts. Why the fuck do we care about Lucilla's fucking dogs??? Her fucking tablets of Latin? Why do we need a scene of Macrinus 'figuring it out' when it's already clear he knows? Why are the gladiators fighting the mutated apes from Far Cry? Why does that one emperor have syphilis when syphilis wasn't even around in ancient Rome? Why do we even need to know? Why do we need to see Paul sit upright in limbo FOUR TIMES??? Why do we need to see Paul sat with chickens??? It's a fuckin 2hr30 movie because it's filled with dogshit like this.
Most of the cast phoned it in too. Both Pedro Pascal's accent and acting is all over the place. Denzel just looks like he's had enough in half the scenes. Matt Lucas shouldn't be allowed on a set.
Soundtrack is great, horribly utilised. The opening credits have this great theme with these stylised throwback shots and all the music builds up to a shot of fucking grain like ??? That's not how you start a movie.
After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people.
Witness
1985 • Jun 8, 2025
Director
Peter Weir
Cast
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas
Genre
Crime, Drama, Romance
Wait so like, it's Avatar?
An 8 year old Amish boy and his mother are traveling to Philadelphia, on their way to visit the mother's sister. While waiting at the train station, the young boy witnesses a brutal murder inside one of the bathroom stalls. Police detective John Book is assigned to investigate the murder of the man, who was an undercover cop. Soon after, Book finds out that he's in great danger when the culprits know about his investigation and hides out in the Amish community. There, he learns the way of living among the Amish locals, which consists of non-violence and agriculture. Book soon starts a romance with the mother of the little boy, but their romance is forbidden by the Amish standards. But, it's not long before the bad guys find out Book's whereabouts.
Raising Arizona
1987 • May 26, 2025
Director
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson
Genre
Comedy, Crime
Looney Tunes ass movie fr, but there's a real sad tone in the background
Probably would have thought this was kino in the 80s
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
Jackie Brown
1997 • Apr 22, 2025
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Cast
Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
I like my tarantino snappy and in your face. This was just too slow for me and it feels like it's filled with way too much style of Tarantino's influences rather than his own.
It's solid but surprised to hear people think this is his best.
The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the 56-year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicated confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollars from Ordell.
Léon: The Professional
1994 • Apr 19, 2025
Director
Luc Besson
Cast
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
I thought maybe there's something deep about the uncomfortable nonce shit and it'd grt resolved in some way but it just seems like Besson wants wants to justify some noncery by the end of it
Would have and probably should have been a much better movie if we just stuck with the adopted daughter thing
One thing absolutely worth noting is that score from Serra and how someone (I have no idea who made the decision) saw this movie and was like yea I want that metallic clang in GoldenEye and they were so right for it cause watching this I don't hear anything but GoldenEye
After her father, step-mother, step-sister and little brother are killed by her father's employers, the 12-year-old daughter of an abject drug dealer manages to take refuge in the apartment of a professional hitman who at her request teaches her the methods of his job so she can take her revenge on the corrupt DEA agent who ruined her life by killing her beloved brother.
A Working Man
2025 • Apr 18, 2025
Director
David Ayer
Cast
Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, Merab Ninidze
Genre
Action, Thriller
Don't be fooled, this isn't a Statham movie. Anyone could take the role and the end result would be no different. Absolutely soulless dog shit.
Levon Cade left his profession behind to work construction and be a good dad to his daughter. But when a local girl vanishes, he's asked to return to the skills that made him a mythic figure in the shadowy world of counter-terrorism.
Baby John
2024 • Mar 30, 2025
Director
Kalees
Cast
Wamiqa Gabbi, Salman Khan, Keerthy Suresh
Genre
Action, Drama, Thriller
Somehow even worse than Netflix slop
Truly one of the worst movies I've ever seen
Revolves around a DCP who transforms and travels to a different place in order to safeguard his family.
Deva
2025 • Mar 29, 2025
Director
Rosshan Andrrews
Cast
Pooja Hegde, Shahid Kapoor, Meenal Sahu
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Don't really like most Indian movies but my dad put this shit on so I sat through it and it wasn't the worst thing ever but the writing is so fucking lazy honestly and this is some netflix movie ass plot (and one which you figure out is going to happen 10 minutes into the movie)
A brilliant yet rebellious police officer uncovers a web of deceit and betrayal while investigating a high-profile case.
Ley Lines
1999 • Mar 21, 2025
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Kazuki Kitamura, Tomorô Taguchi, Dan Li
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Good way to wrap up the trilogy. Half the insanity of Shinjuku Triad Society with a little bit of tragedy from Rainy Dog puts this in the middle of the other two. Solid watch but cant help but feel like this trilogy lacked something that I cannot explain.
A group of Chinese youths living in Japan struggle to make their way in life and eventually find trouble with the local crime syndicate.
Rainy Dog
1997 • Mar 20, 2025
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Shô Aikawa, Li-Wei Chang, Shih Chang
Genre
Crime, Drama
It's solid, in many ways beautiful and it's definitely full of Miike's cinematography, but definitely lacks some flare and insanity you'd expect from Miike, especially given this is part of a trilogy that contains Shinjuku Triad Society.
A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Lesson of the Evil
2012 • Mar 9, 2025
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Takehiro Hira, Fumi Nikaidô, Shôta Sometani
Genre
Horror, Thriller
There's some comparison to American Psycho and Battle Royale but it really doesn't have any of the tone of either and I don't think it really finds itself at all which is a shame.
Unlike others I liked the pacing though and the progressive revealing and deterioration of Hasumi's character.
A popular high school teacher concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
Shinjuku Triad Society
1995 • Feb 26, 2025
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Kippei Shîna, Tomorô Taguchi, Takeshi Caesar
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Plenty Miike to enjoy here but there's something kinda lacking. I probably would have rated this higher if I hadn't already seen Dead or Alive, which this feels like a prototype version of.
Amidst a Chinese and Japanese mafia war, a lawyer for the Chinese mob finds a rift forming between him and his corrupt police office brother.
Run Lola Run
1998 • Feb 25, 2025
Director
Tom Tykwer
Cast
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
she really do be running
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. Lola has 20 min to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different alternatives may happen depending on some minor event along Lola's run.
Hairpin Circus
1972 • Feb 25, 2025
Director
Kiyoshi Nishimura
Cast
Kiyoshi Misaki, Yûko Enatsu, Kimiko Kasai
Genre
Thriller
Immaculate vibes but not much else. I need my movie to be a movie first and art second.
N/A
Twilight
2008 • Feb 2, 2025
Director
Catherine Hardwicke
Cast
Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
This shit was so fucking funny I can't believe Robert Pattinson<i> </i>created this autistic lead years before Drive
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarries and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she doesn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal.
Blazing Saddles
1974 • Feb 2, 2025
Director
Mel Brooks
Cast
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Genre
Comedy, Western
It's alright, had some good laughs but that 70s humour ain't really for me.
The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar (Harvey Korman), a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor (Mel Brooks). Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff (Cleavon Little) in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
Kraven the Hunter
2024 • Feb 2, 2025
Director
J.C. Chandor
Cast
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ariana DeBose, Fred Hechinger
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Absolutely nobody can hold an accent for more than a minute in this and they don't seem to care about it
That's about the most interesting thing about the movie
Russian immigrant Sergei Kravinoff is on a mission to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.
Fist of the Condor
2023 • Jan 3, 2025
Director
Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Cast
Marko Zaror, Gina Aguad, Eyal Meyer
Genre
Action
Half a movie that doesn't deserve to be half a movie.
There's a buncha flashback training montage shit that just isn't very good and because they included it they delivered half a story. Our big bad never shows and his henchman is half a character.
Shit's ass. Some okay choreography but too much shot skipping for me.
A group of martial artists from around the world search for a book that contains the ancient secrets of how to overcome the limits of the human body.
Rebel Ridge
2024 • Dec 30, 2024
Director
Jeremy Saulnier
Cast
Aaron Pierre, Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Idk it's odd cause it's pretty well made but also it feels very much like a TV show with the pacing and also absolutely nothing fucking happens
Even the finale is hollow and unsatisfying
A former Marine grapples his way through a web of small-town corruption when an attempt to post bail for his cousin escalates into a violent standoff with the local police chief.
Christmas Eve
2015 • Dec 29, 2024
Director
Mitch Davis
Cast
Patrick Stewart, Jon Heder, James Roday Rodriguez
Genre
Comedy
I'm actually pretty sure this could have been decent even with these characters if you just made a better script and shot this better and didn't spend your budget on Patrick Stewart doing 10 lines in front of a green screen
Unfortunately it's absolute dogshit instead
"Christmas Eve" is the dramatic, comedic story of six different groups of New Yorkers who get stuck inside elevators overnight on Christmas Eve. With nowhere to go and no one to interact with but each other, all of them are transformed by the events of their long night together.
A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 • Dec 29, 2024
Director
Michael Sarnoski
Cast
Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff
Genre
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Eh it's basically Harold and Kumar Go To Whitecastle but it's for some shit pizza and also not very good
There's a cat tho so thats +2 stars
A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.
A History of Violence
2005 • Dec 22, 2024
Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Cronenberg really, really, likes showing us Viggo's ass, apparently
Leading a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife and their two children in the small town of Millbrook, Indiana, mild-mannered Tom Stall cherishes his simple, uneventful existence. However, their idyllic lifestyle is shattered when, one night, Tom saves his customers and friends in self-defence, foiling a vicious attempted robbery in his diner by two violent wanted criminals. Now, heralded as a local hero, Tom's life is changed overnight, attracting unwanted attention, and a national media feeding frenzy. Uncomfortable with his newfound celebrity, Tom tries to return to normalcy, only to find himself confronted by a mysterious man who arrives in town believing Tom is the man who wronged him in the past. More and more, as Tom and his family struggle to cope with their new reality and this case of mistaken identity, they have no other choice but to fight back and protect all that they hold dear. But, is there more to Tom than meets the eye? Does he have, indeed, a history of violence?
Friday
1995 • Dec 22, 2024
Director
F. Gary Gray
Cast
Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long
Genre
Comedy, Drama
chris tucker plays some great characters man
It is Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is unemployed, having been fired yesterday. This has lead to trouble with Smokey's (Chris Tucker's) supplier, Big Worm (Faizon Love), who now wants his money, or his product back, or Smokey is a dead man. Then there's Deebo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), the local bully, plus Craig's jealous, psychotic girlfriend, Joi (Paula Jai Parker), and Debbie (Nia Long), the neighbor Craig has a crush on. A lot can happen while lounging around your house on a Friday.
No Image
THE RAT SAGA (Full Series)
2024 • Nov 27, 2024
Truly has you on the edge of the seat wondering "why is he killing this boss?" until the very end. A modern masterpiece.
Crows Zero
2007 • Nov 23, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Shun Oguri, Kyôsuke Yabe, Meisa Kuroki
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
It's a good bit of fun, some Miike style but nothing eccentric unfortunately. Very shonen.
The Suzuran Senior High School for Boys, nicknamed "The School of Crows", is the poorest achieving, most violent school in the country. The students are called "crows" and they band together in factions, battling each other for influence and power. But they all share a common goal, one that has never been reached in the school's history: unification. No one faction has ever reigned supreme. Genji Takiya, a transfer student who attempts to take over Suzuran Boys High School and is mentored by old boy yakuza Katagiri as he faces off against rival Serizawa.
First Love
2019 • Nov 21, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Becky, Bengal, Masayuki Deai
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Very refined for a Miike but as usual, perfectly wacky, funny and entertaining. There's a lot of lock stock in this one but it's equally unique.
Leo is a young boxer, successful but unable to show emotion. He has a fight scheduled and is sure that he will win. Instead, his opponent knocks him out. This triggers a chain of unpleasant events involving drugs, corrupt cops, the Yakuza, a female assassin - and Monica, an escort that he must rescue. It's one hell of a night for Leo.
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 • Nov 17, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Quentin Tarantino
Genre
Action, Western
Kinda surprised to see so many low reviews for this, including from Miike "fans". I thought it was fun as fuck and a perfect Miike example.
Initially I was a bit skeptical about everyone speaking English, and it was kinda odd to start, but it genuinely made this movie way funnier. There's just so much brilliant insanity in this and I love it.
A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth.
Road House
1989 • Nov 17, 2024
Director
Rowdy Herrington
Cast
Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott
Genre
Action, Thriller
Does what it says on the tin man, shit's fun
Serene and laconic, yet powerful and lethal, Dalton is an expert in martial arts and the best professional bouncer in the business. With such a reputation, Dalton is summoned in a small town in Missouri to clean up the sleazy bar called The Double Deuce from the troublemakers who terrorize the customers, without knowing, however, that the villainous local entrepreneur, Brad Wesley, wants things to remain unchanged. As Dalton cleans up the nightclub, and with it, the town from Wesley's hired goons, a deep wound from a knife will inspire a passionate affair with local Dr. Elizabeth "Doc" Clay. Now, the corrupt Wesley has enough reasons to take Dalton out of the way, nevertheless, the bouncer has the final say.
Megalopolis
2024 • Nov 12, 2024
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Cast
Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
That was really difficult to watch. I thought it all clicked and I got it at some point but then it broke down almost immediately. Can't tell if I'm too stupid to see some vision and this movie will suddenly make sense in 10-20 years or if it's pure dogshit.
There's some parts that were pretty amusing but I'm not sure they were meant to be.
Aubrey Plaza said 'cum for me' so there's that I guess?
The city of New Rome faces the duel between Cesar Catilina, a brilliant artist in favor of a Utopian future, and the greedy mayor Franklyn Cicero. Between them is Julia Cicero, with her loyalty divided between her father and her b...
Joker: Folie à Deux
2024 • Oct 31, 2024
Director
Todd Phillips
Cast
Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson
Genre
Drama, Musical, Thriller
I mean going into it I had heard things, it's a musical, he's not really the joker, he gets raped and stops being the joker, etc. etc. so I was thinking eh that's kinda silly but that doesn't stop it from being good, especially after hearing people gave up with the movie just after the 2nd song, but...
It doesn't do very much that it does very well. Phoenix puts on a great performance and like there's some bits where it actually shines - the Mr Puddles bit, and the song and set after Arthur learns Harley is lying are pretty cool, but really, nothing fucking happens in this movie. There's at most 5 scenes of any actual progression and it feels like I've watched such a hollow piece because of that.
I don't really care for any meta 'shitting' on WB or Joker fans or whatever like Tarantino seems to be praising this for - I actually think this could have been really good as a pseudo-musical and I think it's even appropriate for the character they were going for, but at the end of the day it's just a poor version of what it could have been.
Struggling with his dual identity, failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life, Harley Quinn, while incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital.
The Sixth Sense
1999 • Oct 27, 2024
Director
M. Night Shyamalan
Cast
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Finally watched it and yeah it really is good but also I was spoiled but I don't think that really matters that much cause it's made so well but also that bit when he realises is kinda underused maybe but maybe it's right and I just have brainrot and need everything to be a performance idk Bruce is cool in this
Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient (Donnie Wahlberg) . This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy much to the dismay of his wife (Olivia Williams). Cole's mom (Toni Collette) is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems. Crowe is the boy's only hope.
17 Again
2009 • Oct 17, 2024
Director
Burr Steers
Cast
Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Okay so I was rawdogging the first half of an 11 hour flight and I kind of only saw this cause some guy across the aisle and a couple seats up was watching this but I could tell without a doubt that this was pure dogshit but definitely better than The Kings Man which that guy also watched so there's that I guess also the genre is kind of dogshit movies so I guess its less offensive but it's pretty dogshit fr
At 17 Mike O'Donnell is on top of the world: he's the star of his high school basketball team, is a shoo-in for a college scholarship, and is dating his soul-mate, Scarlet. But at what's supposed to be his big game where a college scout is checking him out, Scarlet reveals that she's pregnant. Mike decides to leave the game and asks Scarlet to marry him, which she does. During their marriage, Mike can only whine about the life he lost because he married her, so she throws him out. When he also loses his job, he returns to the only place he's happy at, his old high school. While looking at his high school photo, a janitor asks him if he wishes he could be 17 again and he says yes. One night while driving he sees the janitor on a bridge ready to jump, and goes after him. When he returns to his friend Ned's house, where he has been staying, he sees that he is 17 again. He decides to take this opportunity to get the life he lost.
Civil War
2024 • Oct 17, 2024
Director
Alex Garland
Cast
Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny
Genre
Action, Thriller
Classic A24 slop where the first hour has a solid draw and is well made and the second half is absolute doggy do. A shame really.
In a dystopian future, four journalists travel across the United States during a nation-wide conflict. While trying to survive, they aim to reach the White House to interview the president before he is overthrown.
The King's Man
2021 • Oct 17, 2024
Director
Matthew Vaughn
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Okay so I was rawdogging the first half of an 11 hour flight and I kind of only saw this cause some guy across the aisle and a couple seats up was watching this but I could tell without a doubt that this was pure dogshit like the kind of movie that so obviously shouldn't exist and yet it does
In the early years of the 20th century, the Kingsman agency is formed to stand against a cabal plotting a war to wipe out millions of people.
Deadpool & Wolverine
2024 • Oct 9, 2024
Director
Shawn Levy
Cast
Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Having followed the disney/fox shitshow a lot of these jokes actually banged but the Ryan Reynolds schtick is super tiring for the most part now. Part of it is that deadpool is meant to be annoying, but he was never annoying to the reader, and in this he definitely is annoying to the viewer. Plot is tertiary so whatever. Solid character choices, some weird bits that just didn't really make much sense but I don't think anyone cares for any of this movie to make sense idk.
Deadpool is offered a place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe by the Time Variance Authority, but instead recruits a variant of Wolverine to save his universe from extinction.
The Happiness of the Katakuris
2001 • Sep 2, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Jesus Christ Takashi Miike is insane but also a genius
A pioneer of a man convinces his family to take advantage of news of a road soon to be built through an area of the country that can be had for next to nothing. He, his aging, but wise father, his loving and loyal wife, along with a slow-to-persuade son and a divorced daughter with toddler in hand who also happens to be the narrator, bravely move out to this new space and open a bed and breakfast. They make the place everything anyone could want, as they have so much time to work on it, since no one is making reservations to stay there. Eventually, the customers come...but each one dies while in their room and the family is trying to get rid of the evidence a.s.a.p so as not to ruin their reputation before they even get up and running. One thing leads to another and the bodies have to be moved.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024 • Sep 1, 2024
Director
Wes Ball
Cast
Owen Teague, Freya Allan, Kevin Durand
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Towards the end of the movie this massive, and I mean MASSIVE fucking moth started aggressively flying into my face so my father and I spent about 20 minutes waving it away and then waiting for it to land somewhere so we could trap and it chuck it out but it was an absolute fucking beast it did not stop flying for like 20 minutes straight and then bro finally landed so I trapped it and then chucked it outside and it was so fucking fast man it instantly came right back inside and then we had to just fuckin wave it away that guy did not want to go outside but he's back in the wild now where he belongs anyway that was the only thing that happened in this movie I'm pretty sure idk idk how anyone can rate this more than a 2 i assure you it is not good
Many years after the reign of Caesar, a young ape goes on a journey that will lead him to question everything he's been taught about the past and make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.
Another Round
2020 • Aug 26, 2024
Director
Thomas Vinterberg
Cast
Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Solid movie, odd unsatisfying ending and I don't think intentionally so
This is how you make a movie feel like you're "peeping in", not by setting the aspect ratio to 4:3
There is a theory that man is born with half a per mille too little. That alcohol in the blood opens the mind to the outside world, problems seem smaller and creativity increases. We know it well; after the first glass of wine, the conversation lifts, the possibilities open up. Martin is a high school teacher. He feels old and tired. His students and their parents want him terminated to increase their average. Encouraged by the per mille theory, Martin and his three colleagues throw themselves into an experiment to maintain a constant alcohol impact in everyday life. If Churchill won World War II in a dense fog of spirits, what could the strong drops do for them and their students? The result is positive in the beginning. Martin's class is in a different way now, and the project is being promoted to a real academic study with the collection of results. Slowly, but surely, the alcohol makes the four friends and their surroundings loosen up. The results are rising, and they really begin to feel life. As the objects go inboard, the experiment progresses for some, and goes off track for others. It becomes clearer and clearer that alcohol can generate great results in world history, but that all daring can also have consequences. The film is described as a fun, touching and thought-provoking drama about friendship, freedom - and alcohol.
Official Secrets
2019 • Aug 26, 2024
Director
Gavin Hood
Cast
Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode
Genre
Biography, Crime, Drama
Only watched for my wife Keira but it was a pretty good watch some of it was a lil over-dramaticised but generally alright init
A morality tale for the 21st century, Official Secrets tells the true story of British Intelligence whistle-blower Katharine Gun who, during the immediate run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, leaked a top secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing smaller, undecided member states into voting for war. At great personal and professional risk, journalist Martin Bright published the leaked document in The Observer newspaper in London, and the story made headlines around the world. Members of the Security Council were outraged and any chance of a UN resolution in favour of war collapsed. But within days, Bush declared he no longer needed UN backing and invaded anyway. As Iraq descended into chaos, Katharine was arrested and charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. Martin faced potential charges too. Their legal battles exposed the highest levels of government in both London and Washington with having manipulated intelligence in order to sell an illegal war.
Silver Linings Playbook
2012 • Aug 24, 2024
Director
David O. Russell
Cast
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
There's so, so much bloat in the middle, but it wraps up alright. Has a lot of choices to make you feel uncomfortable which is kinda cool.
JLaw's character is cool. JLaw not so much.
Was a good watch tho
Against medical advice and without the knowledge of her husband Pat Solatano Sr., caring Dolores Solatano discharges her adult son, Pat Solatano Jr., from a Maryland mental health institution after his minimum eight-month court ordered stint. The condition of the release includes Pat Jr. moving back in with his parents in their Philadelphia home. Although Pat Jr.'s institutionalization was due to him beating up the lover of his wife Nikki, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Nikki has since left him and has received a restraining order against him. Although he is on medication (which he doesn't take because of the way it makes him feel) and has mandatory therapy sessions, Pat Jr. feels like he can manage on the outside solely by healthy living and looking for the "silver linings" in his life. His goals are to get his old job back as a substitute teacher, but more importantly reunite with Nikki. He finds there are certain instances where he doesn't cope well; however, no less so than some others who have never been institutionalized, such as his Philadelphia Eagles obsessed father who has resorted to being a bookie to earn a living, his best friend Ronnie who quietly seethes over the control wielded by his wife Veronica, and Veronica's widowed sister, Tiffany Maxwell, a girl with problems of her own. In their fragile mental states, Pat Jr. and Tiffany embark on a love/hate friendship based primarily on what help the other can provide in achieving their individual goals. But they may reevaluate their goals as their relationship progresses.
Voyagers
2021 • Aug 18, 2024
Director
Neil Burger
Cast
Colin Farrell, Tye Sheridan, Lily-Rose Depp
Genre
Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The thing is, the setting has quite a lot of potential to be at the very least, interesting, but instead we get possibly one of the most boring and generic stories that you could fit into such a setting. They kill off the only actor worth paying in 30 minutes and it truly fucking goes in the bin after that.
Set in the near future, the film chronicles the odyssey of 30 young men and women who are sent deep into space on a multi-generational mission in search of a new home. The mission descends into madness, as the crew reverts to its most primal state, not knowing if the real threat they face is what's outside the ship or who they're becoming inside it.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023 • Jun 17, 2024
Director
Steven Caple Jr.
Cast
Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, Luna Lauren Velez
Genre
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Somehow significantly worse than even I expected. The absolute dogshit trailer doesn't even let you know how truly dogshit this is.
The human parts are dreadful. There's no attempt to reinforce the '94 setting at all. Nobody speaks as if they're from the time. They decided the only thing relevant about the era was that it was before the first Transformers movie, and that the twin towers are still up (which we have 4 shots of, for some reason)
The beasts (maximals is so goofy imagine if they called this rise of the maximals lmaooooo) play next to no role in the movie other than them existing, and for all intents and purposes they're just autobots but goofy looking.
The villain is Galactus but shit. His silver surfer is that evil bloke from The Justice League (this movie is shockingly similar to that one actually).
It's visually disgusting. As much as I hate him, Michael Bay created something pretty cool with the originals - the explosions looked good - the transforms were cool and slick and shiny - the designs felt like car metals and paints. Instead, this movie presents some horrendous looking effects and bots that look more like blender models than multimillion dollar productions. They move horribly, and they sound horrible.
Script is dull. Story is dull and generic, by the books. Characters are horrid (mirage was kinda cool tho but fuck pete davidson). Music sucks.
AND THEY WANT TO MAKE TWO MORE OF THESE????
Set in the 1990s, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will take audiences on an action-packed, globetrotting adventure as the Maximals, Predacons, and Terrorcons join the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on Earth. Noah, a sharp young guy from Brooklyn, and Elena, an ambitious, talented artifact researcher, are swept up in the conflict as Optimus Prime and the Autobots face a terrifying new nemesis bent on their destruction named Scourge.
The Player
1992 • Jun 16, 2024
Director
Robert Altman
Cast
Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Drama
How can you be this meta while also being this good?
Events in the life of a Hollywood studio executive, unfold with the same unrealistic positive coincidences, ultimately culminating to a "happy ending", much like the movie scripts, with which he works day in and out, after he accidentally murders someone.
Monkey Man
2024 • Jun 11, 2024
Director
Dev Patel
Cast
Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Very glad this ended up being about as far away from John Wick as it could be. A good bit of The Raid and Crank in here, with the exact sequencing of a Far Cry game (inappropriate for situation music included).
Solid action movie with a solid setting. Pleasantly surprised.
An anonymous young man unleashes a campaign of vengeance against the corrupt leaders who murdered his mother and continue to systematically victimize the poor and powerless.
Brainstorm
1983 • Jun 4, 2024
Director
Douglas Trumbull
Cast
Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, Louise Fletcher
Genre
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Cool concepts. Entirely dogshit execution. Easy to say that in 2024 when we've exhausted so much scifi maybe but this is genuinely the worst version of what they could have made with this concept.
Final sequence made me feel incredible uncomfortable though I wonder if that's universal or intended cause kinda cool if so but kinda fucked up if not.
Brilliant researchers Lillian Reynolds and Michael Brace have developed a system of recording and playing back actual experiences of people. Once the capability of tapping into "higher brain functions" is added in, and you can actually jump into someone else's head and play back recordings of what he or she was thinking, feeling, seeing, etc., at the time of the recording, the applications of the project quickly spiral out of control. While Michael Brace uses the system to become close again to Karen Brace, his estranged wife who also works on the project, others start abusing it for intense sexual experiences and other logical but morally questionable purposes. The government tries to kick Michael and Lillian off the project once the vast military potential of the technology is discovered. It soon becomes obvious that the government is interested in more than just missile guidance systems. The lab starts producing mind torture recordings and other psychosis inducing material. When one of the researchers dies and tapes the experience of death, Michael is convinced that he must play back this tape to honor the memory of the researcher and to become enlightened. When another researcher dies during playback the tape is locked away and Michael has to fight against his former colleagues and the government lackeys that now run his lab in order to play back and confront the "scariest thing any of us will ever face" - death itself.
Man on Fire
2004 • Jun 1, 2024
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Very good but Tony Scott does that psycho thing again with the editing dear lord
Hard-drinking, burnt-out ex-CIA operative John Creasy has given up on life until he's hired as a bodyguard to protect 9-year-old Pita Ramos. Bit by bit, Creasy begins to reclaim some of his soul, but when Pita is kidnapped, Creasy's fiery rage is finally released and he will stop at nothing to save her as he sets out on a dangerous, revenge-fueled rescue mission.
The Fall Guy
2024 • Jun 1, 2024
Director
David Leitch
Cast
Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Genre
Action, Comedy, Drama
Eh, there was a promising moment early but it all fell really flat and took a really long time falling flatter.
A lot of the cool stuntwork we see at the end looks terrible in the actual movie which is impressively shit so there's something to take away I guess.
A stuntman, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
2023 • May 28, 2024
Director
David F. Sandberg
Cast
Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Truly the sloppiest of the capeslop, expected I guess.
Some of the designs towards the end are kinda okay (not that theyre well executed) but yeah this isn't really a movie, it's very AI script and a by the book process thing.
The film continues the story of teenage Billy Batson who, upon reciting the magic word "SHAZAM!", is transformed into his adult superhero alter ego, Shazam.
Cop Land
1997 • May 27, 2024
Director
James Mangold
Cast
Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Surprisingly good little flick. Not overly ambitious or stylistic which is actually kinda refreshing for the genre. Just good performances by good actors and a solid little plot.
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to become one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him.
Vampire's Kiss
1988 • May 27, 2024
Director
Robert Bierman
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Nic Cage is fuckin incredible
Loneliness really just be doing that to men
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a woman and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his delusions. The woman continues to visit and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
Dr. No
1962 • May 22, 2024
Director
Terence Young
Cast
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Yeah okay it's dated and it's not the best thing ever but actually some of the sets are kinda rad and it's definitely a cool watch
James Bond 007 is Britain's top agent, and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal C.I.A. Agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons", and a trio of assassins, known as "the three blind mice". Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No.
Beast Cops
1998 • May 21, 2024
Director
Gordon Chan, Dante Lam
Cast
Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Michael Wong, Stephanie Che
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Pretty weird but also pretty cool
One of the most universally acclaimed motion pictures in the history of Hong Kong cinema. Acclaimed director Gordon Chan ("Fist Of Legend", "2000 AD", "The Big Heat") dispenses with convention to bring one of the most graphic and insightful action-thrillers of recent years. Ruthlessly realistic, and vivid and unremitting in its uncompromising brutality and honesty, Beast Cops is a visceral and hard-hitting exploration of the dichotomous existence of two cops charged with upholding the law, while balancing on a moral knife-edge. Compelling and controversial, with a breakout performance of startling intensity from leading man Anthony Wong, this raw and enticing action-thriller has mesmerized audiences worldwide with its disturbing examination of the subjective and marginal morality, which inhabits the uncertain and ambiguous world of law enforcement. The graphic intensity of the final reels underpins an unforgettable and harrowing spectacle, which has seldom, if ever, been paralleled in Western cinema.
The Taking of Pelham 123
2009 • May 20, 2024
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Tony Scott with some more absolutely criminal filmmaking, paired with a story full of nonsensical sequences and holes.
Fun watch though Tony Scott never failed on that part.
In early afternoon, four armed men hijack a subway train in Manhattan. They stop on a slight incline, decoupling the first car to let the rest of the train coast back. Their leader is Ryder; he connects by phone with Walter Garber, the dispatcher watching that line. Garber is a supervisor temporarily demoted while being investigated for bribery. Ryder demands $10 million within an hour, or he'll start shooting hostages. He'll deal only with Garber. The mayor okays the payoff, the news of the hostage situation sends the stock market tumbling, and it's unclear what Ryder really wants or if Garber is part of the deal. Will hostages, kidnappers, and negotiators live through this?
Beverly Hills Cop II
1987 • May 19, 2024
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Yeah compared to the first, pretty much everything but the music is a big downgrade, but it's still a good bit of fun.
Three years after the events in Beverly Hills Cop (1984), the street-wise Detroit detective, Axel Foley, invades the posh city once more, after the assassination attempt on Captain Andrew Bogomil. Against the backdrop of a seemingly endless string of violent and well-orchestrated smash-and-grab robberies known as the "Alphabet Crimes", Detectives Billy Rosewood and John Taggart struggle to solve the case; nevertheless, in vain. Now, a lethally beautiful hitwoman linked to an international arms trafficking ring is the mysterious and elusive prime suspect. Can the brazen and sassy Axel and his partners solve this thorny case, too?
Dazed and Confused
1993 • May 15, 2024
Director
Richard Linklater
Cast
Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
Genre
Comedy
Eh it was alright I guess
I'd probably rate a movie like this that was set in the 90s a 5* tho so maybe I just don't vibe with this init
It's the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.
Last Night in Soho
2021 • May 15, 2024
Director
Edgar Wright
Cast
Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith
Genre
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Idk people seem to hate this I thought it was p good until the end which was a lil too goofy even for me
Also yea style over substance but Wright nailed the style for me idk that shit bangs London really do be fucked up like that too I'm seeing ghosts all the time bro
In acclaimed director Edgar Wright's psychological thriller, Eloise, an aspiring fashion designer, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters a dazzling wannabe singer, Sandie. But the glamour is not all it appears to be and the dreams of the past start to crack and splinter into something far darker.
Midnight in Paris
2011 • May 13, 2024
Director
Woody Allen
Cast
Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
It was alright I guess. Lots of Woody Allen jerking himself off in this one.
Does the Bill and Ted thing without being cool or funny about it. It's all a little shallow and unfulfilling when the start leads you to believe it won't be.
Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks he and Inez should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions of the city or the idea that the 1920s were the golden age. When Inez goes off dancing with her friends, Gil takes a walk at midnight and discovers what could be the ultimate source of inspiration for writing. Gil's daily walks at midnight in Paris could take him closer to the heart of the city but further from the woman he's about to marry.
Proof
1991 • May 12, 2024
Director
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Cast
Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe
Genre
Drama, Romance
Tfw no insane psychopath gf
Black comedy about a blind man, Martin, who takes photographs as "proof" that the world really is as others describe it to him. The film explores his antagonistic relationships with Celia, who cleans and cooks for him and habitually rearranges the furniture in the house, and with Andy, a mate he thinks he can trust.
RocknRolla
2008 • May 8, 2024
Director
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Idris Elba
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Yikes. There's plenty of good here, but it's a fucking snore of pacing and this fucking monologuing is BAD instead of stylish like it intends to be. Butler is fine but he sucks as a lead here.
Mainly it sucks because the gang lack any style or character, the big bad lacks any style or character, the other big bad is a non-character, the 'rocknrolla' lacks any style or character. How anyone compares this to Lock Stock or Snatch is beyond me.
Also holy shit the overuse of those double scenes is fucking disgusting.
Lenny Cole, a London mob boss, puts the bite on all local real estate transactions. For substantial fees, he's helping Uri Omovich, a Russian developer. As a sign of good faith, Omovich loans Cole a valuable painting, promptly stolen off Cole's wall. While Cole's men, led by the dependable Archie, look for the canvas, three local petty criminals, the Wild Bunch, steal money from the Russian using inside information from his accountant, the lovely Stella. Meanwhile, a local drug-addled rocker, Johnny Quid, is reported drowned, and his connection to Cole is the key to unraveling the deceits and double crosses of life in the underworld.
The Motel
2005 • May 6, 2024
Director
Michael Kang
Cast
Jeffrey Chyau, Sung Kang, Jade Wu
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Actually does what it does really well. Just doesn't do very much. Definitely worth a watch though. Sung Kang awesome as always.
Thirteen-year-old Ernest Chin lives and works at a sleazy hourly-rate motel on a strip of desolate suburban bi-way. Misunderstood by his family and blindly careening into puberty, Ernest befriends Sam Kim, a self-destructive yet charismatic Korean man who has checked in. Sam teaches the fatherless boy all the rites of manhood.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
2007 • May 4, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Kazuki Kitamura, Shun Shioya, Saeko
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
One of the only good video game adaptations. Though potentially doesn't make any sense on its own, hard for me to tell. Some of the casting is a bit meh, and you know, it fits Takashi Miike so well since the Yakuza franchise is so heavily inspired by him, so a lot of this works nicely together, but I imagine only if you know both of them already.
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike draws inspiration from the popular Playstation 2 title Yakuza for this unhinged tale of underworld violence in Tokyo starring Goro Kishitani and Kazuki Kitamura. It's summertime in Tokyo, and as the temperature rises, two undercover cops stake out a high-profile bank robbery while complaining about the air conditioning. When the masked gunmen make their way into the vault only to find that the Tojo gang's ten-million-yen deposit has mysteriously vanished, an already complicated situation gradually starts to spiral out of control. Meanwhile, in another part of town, psychotic yakuza Goro Majima (Kishitani) strikes out on his own to pay a visit to rival gang leader Kazuma Kiryu (Kitamura) and track down the missing mother of adorable youngster Haruka (Natsuo). It seems that Haruka's mother has some valuable information, and Majima is determined to find her at any cost. Now, as Majima makes his way through the neon-lit streets of Tokyo, Satoru (Shun Shioya) and his girlfriend, Yui (Saeko), embark on a bold robbery spree, and South Korean hitman Park (Yoo Gong) prepares to locate and terminate the thieves who absconded with the Toho gang's money. Later, after Majima and Kiryu engage in a series of fights all across the city, a confrontation at the top of Tokyo's Millennium Tower finds the true criminal mastermind finally stepping out of the shadows.
Primer
2004 • May 3, 2024
Director
Shane Carruth
Cast
Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Nolan can only dream of making anything this cool
Engineers Aaron, Abe, Robert and Phillip are working on an invention, the prototype being built in Aaron's garage. This project is beyond their day jobs. The project truly does belong to Aaron and Abe, as they use all their free time working on it, primarily trying to overcome the many engineering related problems they've encountered. It is during one of his tests with the invention running that Abe discovers that a protein inside the main unit has multiplied much more rapidly than it could in nature. Rather than the invention being a protein super incubator, Abe, using himself as a guinea pig, and a very meticulous one at that, discovers that the invention can be used as a time machine. In his self experiment, Abe was especially careful not to interfere with his own self in that time warp. Abe passes along this discovery to Aaron, who he expects will tell his wife Kara in what is the sanctity of their marriage, but he doesn't want to tell either Robert or Phillip. Much to Abe's surprise, Aaron does not want to tell Kara, it being a sole intellectual property of just the two of them, in the process moving the base of operation to a locked storage unit. Aaron's plan for the two of them is to use the invention to win big in the stock market by knowing through the time travel what has happened in the market. With two thoughts on the matter now instead of just one, Aaron and Abe may hit some logistical and philosophical roadblocks in how to move forward.
The Darjeeling Limited
2007 • Apr 28, 2024
Director
Wes Anderson
Cast
Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Cool but felt like a bit of a waste of being cool and ended up like a bit of nothing instead. So your average Wes Anderson. I'm sure it's all very intentional and deep and I just don't get it.
A year after the accidental death of their father, three brothers -- each suffering from depression - meet for a train trip across India. Francis, the eldest, has organized it. The brothers argue, sulk, resent each other, and fight. The youngest, Jack, estranged from his girlfriend, is attracted to one of the train's attendants. Peter has left his pregnant wife at home, and he buys a venomous snake. After a few days, Francis discloses their surprising and disconcerting destination. Amid foreign surroundings, can the brothers sort out their differences? A funeral, a meditation, a hilltop ritual, and the Bengal Lancer figure in the reconciliation.
Argylle
2024 • Apr 28, 2024
Director
Matthew Vaughn
Cast
Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell
Genre
Action, Comedy, Thriller
Every time I visit my parents my dad puts on some 'top' movie from some streaming service and every single time it is absolutely and inexcusably dogshit.
Unfortunately this was a lot longer, and the cast being good but having terrible performances in a terrible movie is extremely painful and makes this even worse than those other dogshit movies.
The worst tier of CGI usage. Rockwell does an Owen Wilson impression throughout. One of the worst scripts of all time. A plot resembling Total Recall but without any of the interesting bits.
It's beyond dogshit honestly, can't even get away with calling it a bit of fun or anything.
(No shade on my dad though he's just watched a LOT of movie and he's been v unwell past couple of years so he doesn't go out so much so he stays inside and watches streaming service slop which is kinda bad but he seems entertained I guess idk though I'm always very worried but idk guys really idk)
A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes that the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events in real time.
Scarface
1983 • Apr 26, 2024
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer
Genre
Crime, Drama
Oh it's actually good and not just a meme damn
Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
2009 • Apr 26, 2024
Director
Werner Herzog
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Russell M. Haeuser
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
As opposed to the first Bad Lieutenant's commentary of male loneliness, this movie seems to be about insanity. Less redemption arc, more getting promoted for threatening to kill two pensioners.
Equally entertaining though fuck it. Cage is awesome in this.
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
Bad Lieutenant
1992 • Apr 25, 2024
Director
Abel Ferrara
Cast
Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
I was expecting some dirty cop action flick from the cover but damn this shit is raw. I got lots to say but just go watch it.
A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle.
Catch Me If You Can
2002 • Apr 24, 2024
Director
Steven Spielberg
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken
Genre
Biography, Crime, Drama
Why's Spielberg spend half this movie calling women dumb and easily manipulated?
Best part was that clip of Goldfinger now that's a good ass movie.
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
The Fanatic
2019 • Apr 23, 2024
Director
Fred Durst
Cast
John Travolta, Devon Sawa, Ana Golja
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS
The story is inspired by a real-life fan who pursued Limp Bizkit's frontman Fred Durst many years ago, and the screenplay was written by Durst and Dave Bekerman. It follows Moose (played by John Travolta), who gets cheated out of meeting his favorite action hero, Hunter Dunbar (played by Devon Sawa). Moose then hunts down Dunbar to get the celebrity interaction he feels he deserves. Harmless at first, Moose's actions begin to take a dark turn. Against the advice of his friend Leah (Ana Golja), Moose begins to make frequent visits to his hero's private home. As the visits continue to escalate, Dunbar finds himself in increasing danger.
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985 • Apr 20, 2024
Director
William Friedkin
Cast
William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Brilliantly made and pretty unique sequencing. Soundtrack is rad. Story is rad. Visuals are rad. The performances (Dafoe aside) are uhhhhh... alright I guess. Insane ending.
Definitely worth a watch.
Working largely in cases of counterfeiting, LA based Secret Service agent Richie Chance exhibits reckless behavior which according to his longtime and now former partner Jimmy Hart will probably land him in the morgue before he's ready to retire. That need for the thrill manifests itself in his personal life by his love of base jumping. Professionally, it is demonstrated by the fact that he is sextorting a parolee named Ruth Lanier, who feeds him information in return for him not sending her back to prison for some trumped up parole violation. With his new partner John Vukovich, Chance is more determined than ever, based on recent circumstances, to nab known longtime counterfeiter Ric Masters, who is more than willing to use violence against and kill anyone who crosses him. Masters is well aware that the Secret Service is after him. Masters' operation is somewhat outwardly in disarray, with Chance being able to nab his mule, Carl Cody, in the course of moving some of the fake money, and one of his associates, a lawyer named Max Waxman, probably stealing money from him. Partly with information from Ruth, Chance is trying to find and exploit the weaknesses in Masters' operation. To accomplish his goal, Chance takes more and more unethical and illegal measures, which may be problematic for Vukovich, who comes from a family of police officers who are sworn to uphold the law.
The Crow
1994 • Apr 19, 2024
Director
Alex Proyas
Cast
Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
This is so fucking rad. Impeccable script.
A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
Dogma
1999 • Apr 17, 2024
Director
Kevin Smith
Cast
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Absurd and bizarre but the first half of this is fuckin incredible. The script, the style, the characters, it's just so fucking good. And then it kinda gets a bit boring and then it has a really shit end that kinda makes you forget that it was ever good. Pretty disappointing but so worth watching for the good shit.
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.
Moon
2009 • Apr 17, 2024
Director
Duncan Jones
Cast
Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Feel like this had the potential to be incredible - the visuals (I mean not the CG, that stank), the music, the way it's shot and sequenced - all really cool and the first half of the movie got me really hoping for something amazing... And then it kinda just does what it does, and there's nothing really new as a viewer for a LONG time. I'm not saying a movie can't just be what it is, but it ended up making this feel shallow to me. Sam Rockwell also just kinda bored me, I'm not getting what people are talking about in their reviews on here. Even JCVD did a better job of playing himself twice.
Also cannot forgive wasting Matt Berry - he would have been a way cooler robot. Actually he would have been a way cooler lead. Double Berry. Someone should fund that.
Sam Bell has a three year contract to work for Lunar Industries. For the contract's entire duration, he is the sole employee based at their lunar station. His primary job responsibility is to harvest and periodically rocket back to Earth supplies of helium-3, the current clean and abundant fuel used on Earth. There is no direct communication link available between the lunar station and Earth, so his only direct real-time interaction is with GERTY, the intelligent computer whose function is to attend to his day to day needs. With such little human contact and all of it indirect, he feels that three years is far too long to be so isolated; he knows he is beginning to hallucinate as the end of his three years approaches. All he wants is to return to Earth to be with his wife Tess and their infant daughter Eve, who was born just prior to his leaving for this job. With two weeks to go, he gets into an accident at one of the mechanical harvesters and is rendered unconscious. Injured, he awakens back at the station in the infirmary, he assumes assisted by GERTY. GERTY tells him that a rescue team named Eliza will come to the station to clean up the aftermath of the accident. After his recuperation, he takes an unauthorized trip back to the broken harvester, where he makes an unexpected discovery. Because of his find, he begins to doubt his sanity, then his true identity, then the company and GERTY's willingness to do what is best for him. Because of his resulting beliefs, his sole mission becomes how to get back to Earth on his own.
True Lies
1994 • Apr 15, 2024
Director
James Cameron
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold
Genre
Action, Comedy, Thriller
The action in this movie is incredible, and some of the sequences are cool, but holy shit this sucks. This feels way more like a parody movie than a comedy action movie (this isn't a good thing, I don't care) and there's really no excuse for it - Beverley Hills Cop, Police Story and Big Trouble in Little China came out a DECADE before this garbage and managed to be perfect examples.
Also it's really fucking long for what it is and it's because it's full of redundant, boring, drawn out scenes (Cameron becomes a master of these later in his career of course).
Arnie is horribly abused in this, Cameron asks him to put on his 'family man movie's Arnie instead of action movie and it just doesn't seem fitting (and considering none of the later Arnie movies give him a script like this, seems like people agree).
I think the worst part for me is that there was a really good Arnie action movie here and it's a giant turd instead.
Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) leads a double life. At work he is a government agent with a license to do just about anything, while at home he pretends to be a dull computer salesman. He is on the trail of stolen nuclear weapons that are in the hands of fanatic terrorists when something more important comes up. Harry finds his wife is seeing another man (Bill Paxton) because she needs some adventure in her life. Harry decides to give it to her, juggling pursuit of terrorists on one hand and an adventure for his wife on the other while showing he can Tango all at once.
Dream Scenario
2023 • Apr 14, 2024
Director
Kristoffer Borgli
Cast
Lily Bird, Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
This was really cool until it really wasn't. Ended up feeling like a movie with a banksy 'phone bad' type of message instead of just trying to be a good movie with a good story to tell.
An ordinary family man finds his life turned upside down when strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams.
Open Your Eyes
1997 • Apr 14, 2024
Director
Alejandro Amenábar
Cast
Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
I was wondering if I would love this as much as I love Vanilla Sky and I think I do. It gives the game away a little sooner than Vanilla Sky which I wasn't too happy about, and I just really enjoy watching Cruise in Vanilla Sky, but everything else is kinda better here.
Somehow, even knowing how this ends, the ending still hit just as hard as Vanilla Sky did for me.
A once handsome playboy, César finds himself in a mental facility and he can't remember why. All he can remember is meeting the love of his life for one day, and then getting into a car accident which left his face horribly disfigured. But the pain of becoming physically undesirable may help him to find the truth.
Casino
1995 • Apr 13, 2024
Director
Martin Scorsese
Cast
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
Genre
Crime, Drama
I like the performances, I liked the way it was shot when things were happening, and I loved the suits, but holy shit this was a fucking boring experience. 1hr20 of narration over what's essentially an intro, boring ass 'and then and then and then' script and sequencing, everything playing out exactly as you'd expect. It fucking sucks.
This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas--it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970s and '80s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw--Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
Rumble in the Bronx
1995 • Apr 13, 2024
Director
Stanley Tong
Cast
Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
After seeing Jackie ADR a 'wow' three times in the opening 2 minutes I was a little concerned, and yeah, it could possibly come across as an incredibly stale goofy 90s action movie... But fuck it, watching this was a blast. Some of Jackie's coolest stunt work, some excellent sequences, and some gags that actually made me burst out laughing.
Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. Meanwhile, one of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head. Blinded by greed, his involvement draws his gang, the kid, Keong, and the whole neighborhood into a deadly crossfire. When the lazy cops fail to successfully resolve matters, Keong takes things into his own hands. Needless to say, much spectacular kung-fu and outrageous action sequences follow....
River's Edge
1986 • Apr 12, 2024
Director
Tim Hunter
Cast
Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye
Genre
Crime, Drama
There's a really cool movie here and then there's Crispin Glover doing uh... something... also in this movie. Really liked the bits that he wasn't in. It's a little light I guess but the vibes are there.
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Reactions vary, as Layne is intent on protecting Samson and smuggling him out of the state, while others think it's best to go to the police. Matt's tough little brother also finds out about the body and no one knows quite how the police will learn about the murder or who will be blamed for it.
Southland Tales
2006 • Apr 9, 2024
Director
Richard Kelly
Cast
Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The fourth dimension...will collapse upon itself... You stupid bitch
Have no idea what the fuck I just watched if I'm honest, don't know whether it was good, bad, whether it made sense or not, whether any of this is intentional or an accident, but fuck it, I watched the whole thing and it was at the very least, interesting enough to keep me watching, and interesting enough to make me wonder all of the above
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
The Butterfly Effect
2004 • Apr 7, 2024
Director
Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Cast
Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
It's genuinely dogshit and I can't believe people told me to watch this but also kinda fun dogshit
As a child, Evan Treborn was afflicted with blackouts where he would be in one place one minute and then another the next, remembering absolutely nothing in-between. Now all grown up and in college, he decides to read from an old journal he wrote to remember stuff that might have happened in the in-between, and suddenly finds himself back at a certain point in his life. He realizes that those blackouts he had were actually empty spaces of time he had to fill up later in life. Attempting to use this ability to undo unpleasant past events, Evan starts to find that every time he goes back and tries to fix things, he ends up making everything worse. How can he prevent more tragedies from happening and save the one girl he ever loved, Kayleigh (Amy Smart)?
Lars and the Real Girl
2007 • Apr 7, 2024
Director
Craig Gillespie
Cast
Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
About as good as it could be, though felt like it could have dug a lil deeper more aggressively. Sometimes it's nice for a movie not to be so in your face but I finished the movie feeling like I wanted more out of it.
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved.
Strange Days
1995 • Apr 6, 2024
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis
Genre
Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Love almost everything about this but... that plot sequencing is real rough, and that "twist" at the end of the movie would have been more of a twist had it not happened. Also why Fiennes I don't understand surely you had hundreds of American choices to pick from. Also it probably would have been a better 1hr50 movie vs the 2hr30 movie it is.
In 1999, Los Angeles is racial war zone with the army and LSPD and SWAT officers fighting Afro-American people. The former cop Lenny Nero is a dealer of illegal recording in CDs that gives the memories and sensations of the recorder to the user. He buys the recordings from the supplier Tick; he misses his former mistress Faith, who was a hooker and now is a singer; his best friend is the private eye Max Peltier and the limousine driver Lornette 'Mace' Mason, who has unrequited love for him. Two days before the turn of the century, the black rapper Jeriko One is murdered. The hooker Iris seeks Lenny out but there is an incident and they do not talk to each other. However she drops a recording into Lenny's car while he unsuccessfully tries to meet Faith at a night-club. However her boyfriend Philo Gant does not let them talk. When Lenny learns that Iris was sadistically raped and killed, he gets involved in a sick scheme and discovers dirty hidden secrets.
Survive Style 5+
2004 • Apr 5, 2024
Director
Gen Sekiguchi
Cast
Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Kyôko Koizumi
Genre
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Somehow have such a hard time convincing people to watch this but conducted a forced viewing yesterday and shit I forget just how good this is
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one and other eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
Project A
1983 • Apr 4, 2024
Director
Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Cast
Jackie Chan, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Biao Yuen
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
Great choreography, sets and costumes, but it's a little <i>too</i> slapstick for me - and while Young Master was similar in that, it felt a little more bareable in that setting than this one. In some ways you could see some prototype of Jackie's later movies here, but to me it feels like exactly that. Surprised this is so well regarded really.
In late 19th Century Hong Kong the British may rule the land, but the pirates rule the waters. Reluctantly, the Coast Guard is given money to fight these pirates, but the pirates themselves have many contacts (that is, bribed officials) in the government, and seek to thwart the Coast Guard's efforts to eliminate them. One Coast Guard officer is Dragon Ma, who is determined that his beloved Coast Guard will not be made fools of.
King of New York
1990 • Apr 3, 2024
Director
Abel Ferrara
Cast
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne
Genre
Crime, Thriller
Idk I found this so visually cool and interesting (aside from a couple of long shots of absolutely nothing, like yeah, this dude is on medication man I get it, what's the point in this shot?) but they're visuals to an absolute dogshit story, supported by an MC that's inconsistent and not satisfying to me. Fishburne and his character are probably the highlight outside of the visuals, though there's some cool performances I guess.
After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he's going to give away the money he'll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren't the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.
Green Street Hooligans
2005 • Apr 2, 2024
Director
Lexi Alexander
Cast
Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani
Genre
Crime, Drama, Sport
The movie takes a subculture that everyone outside it absolutely detests and tries to give it a human story, but instead makes you just hate it even more.
It's well made in parts but the casting is goofy and the movie tries to not be goofy when it is in fact very goofy. Shakey fight cam definitely sucks in this too.
Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve. He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete. Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.' Initially afraid of the violence, Matt soon ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends - but as events roll on, suspicion, shocking revelations and unsettled scores combine to a devastating climax where London's most fierce football rivals - Millwall and West Ham United - are set to go head to head.
Infernal Affairs
2002 • Apr 1, 2024
Director
Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Cast
Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Oh man I wish I watched this before The Departed but there you go. I think most things here are "better" - the pacing, the shots, the setting, some other bits - but the characters felt a bit too refined for me (which is obviously the cultural difference between the two movies)
Though we don't have to pick one over the other and both are rad and you should watch them both
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
Dark City
1998 • Apr 1, 2024
Director
Alex Proyas
Cast
Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
Genre
Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
There's a lot to talk about but this is awesome. There's a lot of everything else you'll be more familiar with - The Matrix (insane how similar that first 5 minutes, even the sounds I always attributed to the Matrix were here first), Total Recall, Truman Show - but the neo noir spin is cool and the visual aesthetic here is great, you really feel this shit is dark.
It's a bleak movie through to the end.
Why's it not better than movies like The Matrix or Total Recall? It never embraces how it's actually very goofy. Even the goofiest part takes itself incredibly seriously and that kinda spoiled it a little.
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.
Red Cliff II
2009 • Mar 30, 2024
Director
John Woo
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Needed more Zhou Yun fighting off like 600 dudes
In this sequel to Red Cliff, Chancellor Cao Cao convinces Emperor Xian of the Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Shu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic battle.
Red Cliff
2008 • Mar 29, 2024
Director
John Woo
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Still has Woo written all over it, but about as restrained as it needs to be for a RotTK movie. A solid part one and a 2hr30 movie that doesn't drag at all. I wonder if a lot of my enjoyment comes from already knowing these characters and setting but I do so it's fine.
It's no Dynasty Warriors 3 though.
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.
Con Air
1997 • Mar 29, 2024
Director
Simon West
Cast
Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
There's the obvious but there's also something completely rad about how this movie is made like the fucking pan into Nic's face as he smiles, the Michael Bay explosions, the buscemi segments, the dives and rolls, idk man it's just rad.
Cameron Poe, a highly decorated Army Ranger, comes home to Alabama to his wife Tricia, only to run into a few drunken regulars at the bar where she works. Cameron accidentally kills one of the drunks, and is sent to a federal penitentiary for involuntary manslaughter for seven years. He becomes eligible for parole and can now go home to his wife and daughter. Unfortunately, Cameron has to share a prison airplane with some of the country's most dangerous criminals, who take control of the plane and are now planning to escape the country. Cameron has to find a way to stop them while playing along. Meanwhile, United States Marshal Vince Larkin is trying to help Cameron get free and stop the criminals, led by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom.
Donnie Darko
2001 • Mar 25, 2024
Director
Richard Kelly
Cast
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Yo what the fuck
Donnie Darko doesn't get along too well with his family, his teachers, and his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him. He has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, a large bunny which only Donnie can see. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events.
The Fog
1980 • Mar 25, 2024
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Genre
Horror, Thriller
It's cool and the execution of this fog thing is great but overall the whole thing as a movie is kinda whatever. Also just kinda wished the movie had a lead. I've seen some good movies without one, but this felt like it needed one.
Against the backdrop of spine-chilling stories of drowned mariners and a 100-year-old shipwreck lying on the bottom of the sea, the peaceful coastal town of Antonio Bay, California is making preparations to celebrate its centennial. However--as strange supernatural occurrences blemish the festivities--a dense fog starts to shroud the seaside town, leading to unaccountable disappearances. A century ago, a hideous crime was committed by the town's elders. Now, the restless dead have returned for revenge. Is there something evil lurking in the fog?
Kingdom of Heaven
2005 • Mar 24, 2024
Director
Ridley Scott
Cast
Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
eva green
It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages -- the world-shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem, he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds. Destiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. Revealing himself as Balian's father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. In Jerusalem at that moment--between the Second and Third Crusades--a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military restraint of the legendary Muslim leader Saladin Ayubi. But Baldwin's days are numbered, and strains of fanaticism, greed, and jealousy among the Crusaders threaten to shatter the truce. King Baldwin's vision of peace--a kingdom of heaven--is shared by a handful of knights, including Godfrey of Ibelin, who swear to uphold it with their lives and honor. As Godfrey passes his sword to his son, he also passes on that sacred oath: to protect the helpless, safeguard the peace, and work toward harmony between religions and cultures, so that a kingdom of heaven can flourish on earth. Balian takes the sword and steps into history.
8MM
1999 • Mar 23, 2024
Director
Joel Schumacher
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
It's not really that bad, it's just very unfulfilling. Like this movie could have gone a little deeper in any of the directions it explored and been far better, but instead it feels like a PoC.
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye.
Predestination
2014 • Mar 23, 2024
Director
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Cast
Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor
Genre
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Lol
Lmao even
PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
The Adjustment Bureau
2011 • Mar 18, 2024
Director
George Nolfi
Cast
Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Lisa Thoreson
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Is it good? Idk
Did I enjoy it? Absolutely
Also Thomas Newman with another absolute BANGER of a soundtrack this man has never missed in his life.
Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him and realizes he wants something else. To get it, he must pursue across, under and through the streets of modern-day New York the only woman he's ever loved. On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Matt Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt), a woman like none he's ever known. But just as he realizes he's falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself, the men of The Adjustment Bureau, who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path... or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her.
Ransom
1996 • Mar 18, 2024
Director
Ron Howard
Cast
Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, Rene Russo
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Exactly what it says on the tin
Tom Mullen is a millionaire, he built his fortune by working hard. Along the way he learned how to play the game. He has a great family. One day his son is kidnapped. He is willing to pay the ransom but decides to call in the FBI, who manages to go into his home secretly. When he goes to make the drop something goes wrong. The kidnapper calls him again and reschedules it. On the way Mullen decides not to go and appears on TV saying that the ransom he was going to give to the kidnapper is now a bounty on the kidnapper.
Next
2007 • Mar 17, 2024
Director
Lee Tamahori
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
This is so fucking funny I just wish it ended just 5 minutes sooner.
Whoever decided Nic Cage should be the lead got it so right but unfortunately it feels like the people making this only really understood what to do with this movie when it was too late and there was only 20 minutes of movie left to make (yes I am aware this is not how filmmaking works).
Possessing the extraordinary ability to see precisely two minutes into the future, the low-profile Las Vegas stage magician, Cris Johnson, has managed to keep his unusual skill under the radar. However, Johnson's rare talent has caught the attention of the tough counter-terrorism FBI agent, Callie Ferris, who intends to use the illusionist's unfailing charisma to thwart the murderous plans of a ruthless group of Russian terrorists. Now, a stolen nuclear device threatens to level California, as Cris' beautiful girlfriend, Liz, is being used by the criminals to gain added leverage. Can Cris save both the hostage and the city of Los Angeles with his peculiar gift?
Madame Web
2024 • Mar 17, 2024
Director
S.J. Clarkson
Cast
Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced
Genre
Action, Thriller
I'm not saying it's not complete dogshit, because it is, but this is what your average Netflix movie looks like to me and it looks like people are just dogpiling on this shit while going ahead and watching things that are far more poorly made.
Also no, this movie is not like Next (2007) nor the PKD story it's based on. It's conceptually dogshit. The writing is dogshit. The characters are dogshit. The relationship to the actual comic character is extremely weak, so don't expect much of that either.
Forced to confront her past, Cassandra Webb, a Manhattan paramedic that may have clairvoyant abilities, forms a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures, if they can survive their threatening present.
The Matrix Resurrections
2021 • Mar 16, 2024
Director
Lana Wachowski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi
To call this cinema is offensive, and the arrogance to think any of this was worth 2hrs30 is equally offensive. I don't really like this recent throwback cinema fad but at least Top Gun Maverick can exist as a movie in its own right - instead, this felt like some awful fanfic creation, and that's not just in the writing - pretty much everything here feels stale and soulless.
There's this dogshit meta bit about how this is all a soulless forced production by WB, as if that would make it somehow not be exactly that, but it is. Or maybe it was an apology for making such absolute dogshit from Lana and saying 'its not my fault I swear'. I guess the whole movie is just some stupid message about how we're all really stupid actually which is fine except the movie part of the movie is complete fuckin garbage.
Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
Dune: Part Two
2024 • Mar 15, 2024
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
PAAUUULLLL
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONNNEEEEE
IT WAS SAID THAT YOU WOULD DESTROY THE FOREIGNERS
NOT JOIN THEM
Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad'dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he's witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe.
Air Force One
1997 • Mar 10, 2024
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Cast
Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Soulless Die Hard on a plane. Full of awful USAUSAUSA while never addressing the terrorist villain's valid anti-american arguments. Sets that are built with such varying size that nobody would ever believe any of this was on a plane. Frequently awful visuals. Harrison Ford doesn't seem to give too much of a shit about being in this movie either.
There's some moments of good tension but otherwise it's just shit.
Also Russians don't talk like that, it's so incredibly low effort getting western actors to incorrectly scream 'davay' and mispronounce блять.
The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA's new "Zero-tolerance" policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President's official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. The terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise...
Déjà Vu
2006 • Mar 10, 2024
Director
Carlos Alberto Gomes
Cast
Joana Rão Gomes, Catarina Vieira, Miguel Vieira
Genre
Short, Horror
Needed an extra act where he fucks up (again) but you actually see it and see him sprinkle a couple extra clues in because without that it's kinda just like hey I'm gonna guess what I fucked up last time but the guesses don't really make sense and the whole movie is kinda unfinished also holy shit Tony Scott STOP putting piss filter on everything in the 2000s
N/A
Dune
2021 • Mar 8, 2024
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Lmao can't believe they just ripped off star wars so blatantly like that they even got an emperor and a chosen one lmao come on
A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, "Dune" tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Drunken Master II
1994 • Mar 8, 2024
Director
Chia-Liang Liu, Jackie Chan
Cast
Jackie Chan, Ho-Sung Pak, Lung Ti
Genre
Action, Comedy
Eh, the sequences are genuinely incredible but everything else in this is just worse than the first one. The goofiness isn't done well or at least, hasn't aged well, and the plot is just kinda bad on its own, unlike the first.
So yeah that's 3*s for some action sequences but they're actually that good.
Returning home with his father after a shopping expedition, Wong Fei-Hong is unwittingly caught up in the battle between foreigners who wish to export ancient Chinese artifacts and loyalists who don't want the pieces to leave the country. Fei-Hong has learned a style of fighting called "Drunken Boxing", which makes him a dangerous person to cross. Unfortunately, his father is opposed to his engaging in any kind of fighting, let alone drunken boxing. Consequently, Fei-Hong not only has to fight against the foreigners, but he must overcome his father's antagonism as well.
Road to Perdition
2002 • Mar 7, 2024
Director
Sam Mendes
Cast
Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Out of what I'd normally find a dull plot and a setting that doesn't interest me, Mendes and Thomas Newman create something that kept me glued to the screen and enjoying everything about this.
Newman's score is incredible as usual and Mendes let's him fill the movie with it and it's so good because of it.
1931. Mike Sullivan and Connor Rooney are two henchmen of elderly downstate IL-based Irish-American mobster John Rooney, Connor's father. In many respects, John treats Mike more as his son, who he raised as his own after Mike was orphaned, than the volatile Connor, who nonetheless sees himself as the heir apparent to the family business. One evening, Mike's eldest son, twelve year old Michael Sullivan Jr., who has no idea what his father does for a living, witnesses Connor and his father gun down an associate and his men, the situation gone wrong initiated from an action by Connor. Caught witnessing the incident, Michael is sworn to secrecy about what he saw. Regardless, Connor, not wanting any loose ends, makes an attempt to kill Mike, his wife and their two sons. Mike and the surviving members of his family know that they need to go on the run as Connor, who has gone into hiding, will be protected through mob loyalty, especially by John, who cannot turn on his own flesh and blood. Still, Mike has to figure out a way for retribution for what Connor did, while still protecting him and his family, not only from Connor, but from John and his fellow associates. Through it all, Mike wants those in his family that had no say in what he chose as a living, to have some redemption for their eternal souls.
Army of Darkness
1992 • Mar 6, 2024
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
Genre
Comedy, Horror
This is conceptually so cool and if I saw a storyboard of this I'd probably think it was gonna be a masterpiece but... It's just kinda whatever...
Really don't get why they didn't follow directly from the end of Evil Dead II either cause I felt like that was such a cool set up but idk
Ash is transported with his car to 1,300 A.D., where he is captured by Lord Arthur and turned slave with Duke Henry the Red and a couple of his men. When Ash is thrown into a pit, he defeats two monsters and wins respect of Arthur's army and vassals. The Wiseman points Ash as The Chosen One that will retrieve the Necronomicon but Ash is only interested in returning home. When he learns that the only way to return to his time is using the Necronomicon, Ash decides to travel to the unholy land of the Deadites. The Wiseman advises that he must say the words "Klaatu Barada Nikto" to safely get the evil book. However, Ash forgets the last word and an army of the dead resurrects to attack Arthur fortress and recover the Necronomicon. The battle between the living and the dead is about to start and the support of Henry the Red is the only way to help Ash and Arthur to defeat the army of darkness.
Ichi the Killer
2001 • Mar 4, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori, Shin'ya Tsukamoto
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
It's cool and all, that insane Takashi Miike style I saw in Dead or Alive/2 is in full force but also like... It's just not as good
Insane characters in an insane world is far less interesting than when only one part is insane
When a Yakuza boss named Anjo disappears with 300 million yen, his chief henchman, a sadomasochistic man named Kakihara, and the rest of his mob goons go looking for him. After capturing and torturing a rival Yakuza member looking for answers, they soon realize they have the wrong man and begin looking for the man named Jijii who tipped them off in the first place. Soon enough Kakihara and his men encounter Ichi, a psychotic, sexually-repressed young man with amazing martial arts abilities and blades that come out of his shoes. One by one Ichi takes out members of the Yakuza and all the while Kakihara intensifies his pursuit of Ichi and Ichi's controller Jijii. What will happen as the final showdown happens between the tortured and ultra-violent Ichi and the pain-craving Kakihara?
Thunderbolt
1995 • Mar 4, 2024
Director
Gordon Chan
Cast
Jackie Chan, Anita Yuen, Michael Wong
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
I mean there's so many cool things here but it's absolutely ruined by the speed-ups and slow downs which are horribly abused in this. There's literally a 5fps fight scene and then massive parts of the final race are needlessly and horribly sped up.
Still, it's enjoyable.
Jackie plays Foh, an expert mechanic who has returned from Japan after a master course at Mitsubishi Motors. He runs a small business in Hong Kong along with his father and two sisters. In his spare time, he also helps the police out by checking cars that have been illegally upgraded. One night, psychotic street racing driver Warner Krugerman, aka Cougar, speeds past Foh and the cops. Foh gets into a car and stops Cougar heroically. Cougar lands in jail, but breaks out eventually. He gets revenge on Foh by trashing his business and kidnapping his sisters. The only way Foh can get his sisters back is by racing cougar in Japan. He now must retrain himself in race car driving so he can be at his best to race Cougar.
Evil Dead II
1987 • Mar 3, 2024
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
Genre
Comedy, Horror
Groovy.
Ashley Williams travels to a secluded cabin in the woods with his girlfriend Linda where they find a tape recording of a professor and a book of evil. This unleashes a bunch of evil spirits that constantly terrorize Ash. Meanwhile a journalist comes to the area to study the book of evil. Ash and her end up having to survive this swarm of evil until morning comes.
A Simple Plan
1998 • Mar 1, 2024
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Idk I just found the characters too dull to enjoy this movie. You know where everything is going way too early and then it just kinda plays out. The performances are fine but I just don't like the characters.
Also it's so unpleasantly tame for a Raimi, especially when there's so much room to make it insane.
I think this is a better made movie than Boyle's Shallow Grave but the characters made that far more enjoyable to me (but still shit).
Holy shit that last sequence is so bad and nonsensical I gotta drop the rating even more
Three diverse characters, for the most part intellectually challenged, find a deserted plane with a bag full of millions of dollars inside. They devise a simple plan to keep the money if no-one claims it. Ofcourse, nothing turns out simple...
The Evil Dead
1981 • Feb 29, 2024
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor
Genre
Horror
I gotta stop eating during the horror movies
Five college students take time off to spend a peaceful vacation in a remote cabin. A book and audio tape is discovered, and its evil is found to be powerful once the incantations are read out loud. The friends find themselves helpless to stop the evil as it takes them one by one, with only one survivor left with the evil dead and desperately tries to fight to live until morning.
Memento
2000 • Feb 28, 2024
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Genre
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Why doesn't this guy just buy a PDA man
Also why did he go to room 9 that doesn't make any sense Nolan is a hack
Also yeah super cool conceptually and it's done really well and all that but like... Once you're actually there watching it, it's just kind of whatever. It even had a Nolan ending that I didn't absolutely hate but it doesn't redeem the previous hour or so of mid.
Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.
Mayhem
2017 • Feb 28, 2024
Director
Joe Lynch
Cast
Steven Yeun, Samara Weaving, Steven Brand
Genre
Action, Comedy, Horror
Probably one of the best trash movies I've ever seen? Also I need Samara Weaving to smash my head in with a hammer.
Mayhem tells the story of a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Cho (Yeun) is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.
Shallow Grave
1994 • Feb 26, 2024
Director
Danny Boyle
Cast
Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Danny Boyle is a master at making such incredibly boring movies out of excellent footage. The last 10 minutes were alright I guess.
Three friends in Edinburgh, Scotland, interview and select a new flatmate. He's hardly moved in than they discover him dead in his room. An ethical dilemma ensues when they discover that he possessed a large amount of cash. Things get worse as the men whose money it was search for it, and the three friends start to turn on each other.
Eastern Promises
2007 • Feb 25, 2024
Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
It's such a neat and tidy London drama that I would never have expected Cronenberg to go for, but it's actually really good and made really well.
Only thing that always bugs me is that, although the cast is great, once again nobody here sounds very convincingly Russian, because you know, none of them are.
THIS SUMMARY CONTAINS SPOILERS. - In London, the Russian pregnant teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her baby only. The Russian descendant midwife Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's diary written in Russian language in her belongings and decided to find her family to deliver the baby, she brings the diary home and ask her uncle Stepan to translate the document. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon inside the diary and she visits the old man trying to find a lead to contact Tatiana's family. When she mentions the existence of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the document. However, Stepan translates part of the diary and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to work as prostitute in a brothel of their own. Further, Semyon is the dangerous boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her family. Meanwhile, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin gets close to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal organization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby.
12 Monkeys
1995 • Feb 25, 2024
Director
Terry Gilliam
Cast
Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
Genre
Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
This is so cool
James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035, can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating plague. The virus has wiped out most of the Earth's population and the remainder live underground because the air is poisonous. Returning to the year 1990, six years before the start of the plague, Cole is soon imprisoned in a psychiatric facility because his warnings sound like mad ravings. There he meets a scientist named Dr. Kathryn Railly and Jeffrey Goines, the mad son of an eminent virologist. Cole is returned by the authorities to the year 2035, and finally ends up at his intended destination in 1996. He kidnaps Dr. Railly in order to enlist her help in his quest. Cole discovers graffiti by an apparent animal rights group called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, but as he delves into the mystery, he hears voices, loses his bearings, and doubts his own sanity. He must figure out if Goines, who seems to be a raving lunatic, holds the key to the puzzle.
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
2000 • Feb 23, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Noriko Aota
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Simultaneously insane, beautiful and awesome, much like the first Dead or Alive, but not in the same ways at all. You gotta watch it.
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Eraser
1996 • Feb 22, 2024
Director
Chuck Russell
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vanessa Williams, James Caan
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
It's weird because there are some absolutely incredible scenes in this movie, things that would only be done in the 90s, and I'm glad I've seen them, but that's like a total of 20 minutes tops. The rest of this movie is stale as shit. Nothing terribly offensive just incredibly stale. Didn't really hold my attention but maybe my brain is just fried today idk
U.S. Marshal deputy John Kruger is one of the toughest Marshals, his methods are to "Erase" The identities of his witnesses he is assigned to protect. Meanwhile, a woman named Lee Cullen who works for a corporation named Cyrez performed an undercover job for the FBI to unveil a top secret weapon which uses an electromagnetic pulse to dispatch targets. Cyrez discovered this about Lee and are now out to kill her, Kruger's job is now to protect Lee so she can testify against Cyrez. But, when Kruger was assigned to perform a job with another Marshal named Robert Deguerin, he discovers that Deguerin is behind some kind of scam that will involve the EM Gun, which will change hands to a Russian criminal if Kruger does not stop them, Kruger must not only protect Lee's life but his own.
Defending Your Life
1991 • Feb 22, 2024
Director
Albert Brooks
Cast
Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Idk I like a lot of this but it also has that 90s family movie coat of paint which ruins any depth
Just after being killed in a car crash, Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a waiting area for the newly deceased. While there, one must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears. Daniel meets Julia in an afterlife comedy club, and falls in love with her. Julia seems to have what it takes to move to the 'next stage' of existence, but Daniel's worried he'll be sent back - and lose the one person he loves so much.
Home for the Holidays
1995 • Feb 21, 2024
Director
Jodie Foster
Cast
Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr.
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
It's a little weird but I actually quite enjoyed the thing until the last 10 minutes where they ruined the whole movie
Also sorry but gay rdj is still just rdj being rdj
After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.
Trees Lounge
1996 • Feb 19, 2024
Director
Steve Buscemi
Cast
Steve Buscemi, Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Idk man I enjoyed the vibes and all that but nothing else was particularly engaging. Was a bit like watching a TV show idk.
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives, full of the colorful eccentrics one finds in such places, like the estranged husband, or the old boozer drinking himself to death. He drunkenly wanders through his life, still in love with his ex, desperate for some sort of meaning beyond the bar, some sort of meaning to his life.
RoboCop
1987 • Feb 18, 2024
Director
Paul Verhoeven
Cast
Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy
Genre
Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
It's solid. I guess having seen the 35 years of things that followed, this feels a little lacking? Idk
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
GoldenEye
1995 • Feb 18, 2024
REWATCH
Director
Martin Campbell
Cast
Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Hate to do it but it simply is not as good as I remember
Has some of the best individual bond scenes but eeeeh idk man
When a deadly satellite weapon system falls into the wrong hands, only Agent James Bond 007 (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from certain disaster. Armed with his licence to kill, Bond races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for "GoldenEye", an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward Earth. But 007 is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: a mastermind motivated by years of simmering hatred. Bond also squares off against Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
Princess Mononoke
1997 • Feb 17, 2024
Director
Hayao Miyazaki
Cast
Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Was alright I guess. Feels worse as the sum of its components - there's a lot to like at times but idk it didn't really hit for me.
I can play the title theme on violin though isn't that cool guys?
While protecting his village from rampaging boar-god/demon, a confident young warrior, Ashitaka, is stricken by a deadly curse. To save his life, he must journey to the forests of the west. Once there, he's embroiled in a fierce campaign that humans were waging on the forest. The ambitious Lady Eboshi and her loyal clan use their guns against the gods of the forest and a brave young woman, Princess Mononoke, who was raised by a wolf-god. Ashitaka sees the good in both sides and tries to stem the flood of blood. This is met by animosity by both sides as they each see him as supporting the enemy.
The Big Short
2015 • Feb 17, 2024
Director
Adam McKay
Cast
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling
Genre
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Well made, entertaining and as bleak as what really happened.
As a movie though, I feel like Vice was better put together, and I guess it should be, given it followed this.
Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history. The banks believe that Burry is a crackpot and therefore are confident in that they will win the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and, as an investor believes he too can cash in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum, an idealist who is fed up with the corruption in the financial industry. Baum and his associates, who work at an arms length under Morgan Stanley, decide to join forces with Vennett despite not totally trusting him. In addition to Burry's information, they further believe that most of the mortgages are overrated by the bond agencies, with the banks collating all the sub-prime mortgages under AAA packages. Charlie Geller and Jamie Shipley, who are minor players in a $30 million start-up garage company called Brownfield, get a hold of Vennett's prospectus on the matter. Wanting in on the action but not having the official clout to play, they decide to call an old "friend", retired investment banker Ben Rickert, to help out. All three of these groups work on the premise that the banks are stupid and don't know what's going on, while for them to win, the general economy has to lose, which means the suffering of the general investor who trusts the financial institutions. That latter aspect may not sit well with Baum. Some of these assumptions may be incorrect and may be far more manipulative than they could have ever imagined, which in turn may throw curves into the process.
Gattaca
1997 • Feb 15, 2024
Director
Andrew Niccol
Cast
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Found this very unexpected of a 90s sci-fi. There's very little little cheese or goofiness - maybe because the sci-fi part is essentially a coat of paint over a movie about class. A good one sure but you know, a bit more than a coat of paint would be nice too.
In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. With professional advice, Vincent learns to deceive DNA and urine sample testing. Just when he is finally scheduled for a space mission, his program director is killed and the police begin an investigation, jeopardizing his secret.
Miami Vice
2006 • Feb 14, 2024
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Oh man I was preparing to shit all over this but from the 1hr30 mark it all really popped off for me and I can appreciate the slog of the previous hour far more. Opening was solid too.
Love the absolutely insane music choices even if in 2024.
Was expecting to find some of the camerawork pretentious but nah it's sick.
Ricardo Tubbs is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born Intel analyst Trudy, as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett [to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally, he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until - while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group - he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one - especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.
Samurai Cop
1991 • Feb 10, 2024
Director
Amir Shervan
Cast
Robert Z'Dar, Mathew Karedas, Janis Farley
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
I mean, I had some good laughs but come on guys an episode of Baywatch would scratch the same itch without being quite so terrible
As the brutal Japanese gang known as the Katana gradually spreads its tentacles throughout sunny Los Angeles, controlling everything from drugs and gambling to prostitution, no one is safe to walk the streets. To deal with the problem, the Los Angeles Police Department enlists the help of an expert: Detective Joe Marshall, an avid Japanophile trained in the way of the sword and the ancient Bushido code of conduct. As a result, protected by the unbreakable code of silence of the feared Yakuza, Katana boss Fuji Fujiyama and his lethal right-hand man Yamashita wage war on anyone who stands in their way. Joe and his new partner, Officer Frank Washington have no other choice but to bring out the big guns. Can Samurai Cop put an end to Fujiyama's reign of terror?
Hard Boiled
1992 • Feb 9, 2024
Director
John Woo
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Sun-Kwan Mo
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Yeah it's pretty great, but it's no Face/Off
Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly.
The Killer
1989 • Feb 9, 2024
Director
John Woo
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
I mean, it's no Face/Off
A Hong Kong hitman accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help her regain her sight but he needs to complete one more hit first. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape: someone wants him dead. Meanwhile a resourceful, unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail.
Domino
2005 • Feb 7, 2024
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramírez
Genre
Action, Biography, Crime
There's probably a movie here somewhere.
I would have much preferred it if it was just my wife (Keira) and Lucy Liu talking to each other in a room for 2 hours honestly.
The daughter of an actor father and a social-climber mother, Domino Harvey, bored with her life, decides to join the team of Ed Moseby and becomes a bounty hunter. But she gets in trouble when the Mafia's money is stolen from an armored truck, while Moseby and his crew are participating in a reality show produced by Mark Heiss. The situation gets out of control when the sons of a rival mobster are kidnapped while the FBI is monitoring two gangs of mobsters.
The Banshees of Inisherin
2022 • Feb 6, 2024
Director
Martin McDonagh
Cast
Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon
Genre
Comedy, Drama
As good as it is, have to drop the rating because that soundtrack very nearly ruins it for me. It's not good nor interesting, the motif is poop and (maybe intentionally but idk if that makes it good) it doesn't match the vibe of what you're watching.
Beautiful otherwise though
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Fist of Legend
1994 • Feb 5, 2024
Director
Gordon Chan
Cast
Jet Li, Shinobu Nakayama, Siu-Ho Chin
Genre
Action, Drama
Not much say. It's not trying to be a lot but it's damn good at what it is.
Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in fact military occupation- after reading about the death of his kung-fu master Huo Yuan Jia in a fight against the Japanese champion Ryuichi Akutagawa. While overcoming suspicion and ambition within the kungfu school, Chen exhumes his master to prove Hou's defeat was the result of poisoning. Both nationalities make the case a test of honor, so Chinese and Japanese pride are at stake when it culminates in Chen's final epic duel against the ruthless, undefeated Japanese general Fujita.
Dragon
2011 • Feb 4, 2024
Director
Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Cast
Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tang Wei
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
First half actually feels like a pretty cool cop v antihero western and then they kinda throw in some extra plot and it's essentially a different movie and that movie kinda sucked.
There's also a lot of modern western filmmaking influence which doesn't work/sucks here and that's just a shame more than anything else.
A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him.
Blackhat
2015 • Feb 3, 2024
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis, Tang Wei
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Eeeeh this is a mess of a movie. There's actually something pretty great hidden somewhere in here but somehow, although I expected my complaints would be about the casting or the story, they're surprisingly with Mann's choices of scenes to give time to. There's so much needless bloat here that absolutely kills the pacing and interrupts any kind of thrill or sense of urgency this movie was supposed to give.
It should have felt like watching an episode of 24 but instead it falls very flat.
The good shit is good of course, it's Michael Mann init.
Also please get better tech advisors before you make a hacking movie dear lord comments do not get compiled my guy.
Nick Hathaway, an extremely talented hacker who has gone astray, finds his way out of a 15 year prison sentence when parts of a computer code he once wrote during his youth appears in a malware that triggered a terrorist attack in a nuclear power plant in China. This opportunity will reunite him with an old friend but will also put him in the middle of a power game between the American and Chinese government as well as an arch villain hacker whose identity he has to find if he wants to keep his freedom and his life.
Rounders
1998 • Feb 2, 2024
Director
John Dahl
Cast
Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol
Genre
Crime, Drama
Still coming to terms with Malkovich's terrible 'russian' accent but it was perfectly good movie
John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from cards, devoting his attentions to his law studies and his live-in girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol), who's concerned when Mike's former gambling buddy Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison. She has good reason to worry, since it takes Worm only a matter of minutes to draw Mike back into poker action. When she learns Mike has returned to the poker clubs, she moves out, and Mike begins to lose interest in his studies. Worm has a prison debt, and the threatening Grama (Michael Rispoli) wants the money. Mike not only indulges the irresponsible Worm, he gets involved in Worm's debts. When Grama demands $15,000 on a five-day deadline, the two buddies go into high gear with a non-stop, no-sleep gambling binge that spirals downward toward an ultimate confrontation with Teddy KGB.
Chef
2014 • Feb 1, 2024
Director
Jon Favreau
Cast
Jon Favreau, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
I could tell you in depth about how this is horribly editted, has a mess of a sound mix, is paced worse than a netflix series, or I could tell you about how the story is about an absent father who decides to bring his child into his awful high stress workplace instead of being able to manage his time, but honestly it looks like people watch a movie like this and disregard everything but performance. In which case it'd probably be far more enjoyable I guess idk man
Carl Casper is an acclaimed chef with a family life that seems as decaying as his artistic freedom. Those frustrations boil over into a raucous viral-videoed public confrontation against a restaurant critic who panned his cooking of food that his boss ordered him to make against his instincts. Now with his career ruined, Carl's ex-wife offers an unorthodox solution in Miami: refit an old food truck to offer quality cooking on his own terms. Now with his young son, Percy, and old colleague, Martin, helping, Carl takes a working trip across America with that truck to rediscover his gastronomic passion. With Percy's tech savvy and Martin's enthusiasm, Carl finds that he is creating a traveling sensation on the way home. In doing so, Carl discovers he is serving up more than simply food, but also a deeper connection with his life and his family that is truly delicious in its own way.
The Beekeeper
2024 • Jan 31, 2024
Director
David Ayer
Cast
Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Bobby Naderi
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Good fun a solid Statham. Perfect level of insanity, could do with a little more Statham beating people up instead of poorly rendered explosions but you know.
Very concerning to see 'ripoff John Wick' type comments also, as if this hasn't been Jason's role and genre since 2002. You guys gotta watch more movies man.
A former operative of a powerful organization embarks on a brutal campaign for vengeance.
A Scanner Darkly
2006 • Jan 29, 2024
Director
Richard Linklater
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr.
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Crime
It's so close to being so good but that fucking animation does not look good and it's covering so much acting that happens in the face idk I don't really know why they went for it (I mean I get why I terms of im12andthisisdeep but I don't get why when you're making a freaking movie that people are going to watch but I guess maybe that's what art is all about idk man)
In a totalitarian society in a near future, the undercover detective Bob Arctor is working with a small time group of drug users trying to reach the big distributors of a brain-damaging drug called Substance D. His assignment is promoted by the recovery center New Path Corporation, and when Bob begins to lose his own identity and have schizophrenic behavior, he is submitted to tests to check his mental conditions.
10 Things I Hate About You
1999 • Jan 28, 2024
Director
Gil Junger
Cast
Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Thank you Bones
Adapted from William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," 10 Things I Hate About You starts off with Cameron, new student at Padua High, sitting in the office of the quirky guidance counselor Ms. Perky. He is then shown around the school by Michael, who will become his best friend. During his tour is when Cameron first sees Bianca Stratford, a beautiful sophomore with one problem: she isn't allowed to date. And neither is her "shrew" sister, Katarina, a senior who loves indie rock and feminist prose and hates conformity. But Kat and Bianca's father alters his house rule: now, Bianca can date... as long as Kat has a date, too. Now, in order for Cameron to date Bianca, he has to find someone to date Kat. So Michael helps him enlist the help of pretty-boy/jerk/model Joey Donner, tricking him into thinking that *he* will get to take Bianca out if he pays someone to take out Kat. His choice: Patrick Verona, a bad-boy with a mysterious reputation--some say he ate a live duck once, others that he lit a state trooper on fire, and even more claim that he had a brief porn career. Will Patrick win Kat's heart? Will Cameron win Bianca's? Or will everything hit the fan...?
Freelance
2023 • Jan 27, 2024
Director
Pierre Morel
Cast
John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba
Genre
Action, Comedy
I often forget just how shitty a movie can be
An ex-special forces operative takes a job to provide security for a journalist as she interviews a dictator, but when a military coup breaks out in the middle of the interview, they are forced to escape into the jungle.
End of Days
1999 • Jan 27, 2024
Director
Peter Hyams
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney
Genre
Action, Fantasy, Horror
There's a really great movie somewhere inside here that's about Arnie being Arnie and 1v1ing Satan and his powers with the power of will, explosions and firearms. Unfortunately that's about 30minutes of the movie and the rest of it is absolute incoherent nonsense about having sex with a teenager to limp bizkit to open a portal to hell or something idk
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. If he bears her child between 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year's Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane, who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter.
47 Ronin
2013 • Jan 23, 2024
Director
Carl Rinsch
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kô Shibasaki
Genre
Action, Drama, Fantasy
Yeah it's boring but it's really not THAT bad. Certainly no worse than, say, a 2023 Marvel movie.
It feels like the biggest issue is just the wank pacing which highlights all the bad parts of the movie. Make the movie 90 minutes and tidy up some of the script (and also you know, have the Japanese speak in Japanese), and it's probably a very enjoyable movie.
While hunting in the forest, Lord Asano of Ako and his samurai find a young half-breed and take him with them to live in the castle. Several years later, Lord Asano holds a tournament to welcome the Shogun to Ako. The night after the tournament, Lord Asano is bewitched into hurting Lord Kira of Nagato, and is punished into committing seppuku by the Shogun. Realizing that it was a Lord Kira's evil plot, the samurais and the half-breed sets out for revenge against the Shogun's order.
Chain Reaction
1996 • Jan 23, 2024
Director
Andrew Davis
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
Genre
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
I mean it's not really that offensive it's just kinda like a boring Fugitive idk
Eddie Kasalivich, an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, works as a technician for a scientific team that discovers an alternative, low-cost, pollution-free fuel source. Eddie and Lilly were involved in the research that was done at this first lab. The first lab was sabotaged and it exploded. One of the chief scientists is murdered during the attack and the sabotage of the lab, Eddie and physicist Lily Sinclair are framed for it and have to flee for their lives, with the FBI, CIA and other involved parties in close pursuit. Paul Shannon, Eddies mentor, is the director of a secret CIA contractor which - unknown to Eddie - has commercial interests in the lab equipment. Eddie and Lily flee police, FBI and CIA secret contractors but Lily winds getting captured and is driven to the underground experimental lab. Eddie follows Lily to this not yet fully working lab and quickly gets it working since it needed two different frequencies for the energy to get produced and Eddie has kept that in his head. As soon as Eddie arrives at a different location but with the same lab that can geneater hydrogen energy with a safer layout than the first location, Eddie dials in those two frequencies and the clean burning fire that lights up the hydrogen coming away from the water in the tank begin's burning. There is one problem, Eddie has to find a way to share the years of research leading up to the successful discovery with thousands of scientists and get out of the underground laboratory alive. Executives of the company that is secretly working for the CIA are interested in getting those frequencies so they can eliminate Eddie and Lily because they knew too much.Eddie designed everything to happen in such a way that if the secret cia contractor would let Eddie and Lily exit freely with no executions that he would hand over the two frequencies. But if the contractor would not, the lab equipment be shut off, and the lab computers would be shut off. Things quickly escalate but Eddie and Lilly are able to stay alive through the end of the movie, but there are surprises involving several who die at the climax, and what their dying words are.
The Dead Zone
1983 • Jan 21, 2024
Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
It's cool and made in an interesting enough way to keep you up watching and guessing what happens or even what's going on, but all around it's just kinda mid.
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
Desperado
1995 • Jan 20, 2024
REWATCH
Director
Robert Rodriguez
Cast
Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Yep, still incredible
Director Robert Rodriguez picks up where his successful independent debut El Mariachi left off with this slam-bang South of the Border action saga. Bucho (Joaquim DeAlmeida) is a wealthy but casually bloodthirsty drug kingpin who rules a seedy Mexican border town. Bucho and his men make the mistake of angering El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), a former musician who now carries an arsenal in his guitar case. Bucho was responsible for the death of El Mariachi's girlfriend and put a bullet through his fretting hand, making him unable to play the guitar. Bent on revenge, the musician-turned-killing machine arrives in town to put Bucho out of business, though he finds few allies except for Carolina (Salma Hayek), who runs a bookstore that doesn't seem to attract many readers. Desperado features supporting performances from Cheech Marin as a cynical bartender, Steve Buscemi as the cantina patron who sets up the story, and Quentin Tarantino as a man with a really terrible joke to tell.
Pusher
1996 • Jan 20, 2024
Director
Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast
Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk
Genre
Crime, Thriller
Anxiety inducing without resorting to the garbage and forced safdie approach
That's how you do it
Frank is a drug pusher on the roll until he makes a huge deal with dope that he hasn't paid for and he gets busted by the police. He manages to dump the dope in a nearby lake but he owes his supplier a lot of money (not a nice guy to owe money to). Now we follow Frank in his quest to raise money in the underworld of Copenhagen.
Christine
1983 • Jan 19, 2024
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
Genre
Horror, Thriller
Those effects were straight fire
In 1957, in Detroit, a red Plymouth Fury is built and is the cause of two accidents, one of them fatal, still in the assembly line. Twenty-one years later, the outcast and bullied nerd Arnold "Arnie" Cunningham is getting a ride with his best and only friend Dennis Guilder and he sees the wrecked car for sale in a garden. Arnie immediately falls in love with the car. The car was given the name Christine by its first owner. He brings the car to a repair shop of the despicable Will Darnell and works hard to restore the classic car. While he works in the restoration, he changes his personality to a cocky teenager and he dates the most beautiful girl in the high-school, Leigh Cabot. Soon Arnie becomes selfish and jealous of the supernatural Christine that kills everyone that is a threat to them.
Mars Attacks!
1996 • Jan 19, 2024
Director
Tim Burton
Cast
Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker
Genre
Comedy, Sci-Fi
Eh
It is a normal day for everyone, until President of the United States James Dale (Jack Nicholson) announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do they really want to destroy all of humanity?
Beyond the Darkness
1979 • Jan 18, 2024
Director
Joe D'Amato
Cast
Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi
Genre
Horror
After influencing one of my favourite songs I thought I'd check this one out. Was kind of expecting some tale of romance between the dude and his deceased wife but I'm not really sure what I ended up getting. Maybe a semi at that one part I guess?
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out and disposes of a series of young maidens, trying to find the right replacement for her, and the disapproving housekeeper helps him with the disposals.
Drunken Master
1978 • Jan 17, 2024
Director
Yuen Woo-Ping
Cast
Jackie Chan, Siu-Tin Yuen, Jeong-lee Hwang
Genre
Action, Comedy
Solid bit of fun. Made me laugh plenty too.
The father of Wong Fei-hong, who has been attempting to teach his son kung-fu, but has found him too disobedient to teach and decides to send him off to his uncle, a cruel and torturous master of the 8-Drunken Genii kung-fu. After much suffering the son comes back to rescue the father from an assassin.
The Rock
1996 • Jan 15, 2024
Director
Michael Bay
Cast
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
It's a good time but holy shit if this was directed by anyone else it would be so much better.
There's the usual Michael Baysplosions and awful cameras but the use of music in this movie is possibly the worst I've ever seen in my life. Not only is the soundtrack fucking dreadful but it's fucking LOUD and constant. There's so many great scenes that are ruined by this shit. Why the fuck does every scene even need music? It turns it into a fucking children's TV show.
Now I could be like hey maybe I just don't get Michael Bay's incredible vision but it doesn't fucking matter because it's SHIT, FUCK Michael Bay
Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington, D.C., is a biochemist who works for the F.B.I. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from F.B.I. Director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francisco's Alcatraz Island has been taken hostage, along with eighty-one tourists, by Marine General Francis Xavier Hummel who, for years, has been protesting the government's refusal to pay benefits to families of war veterans who died during covert military operations. The death of his wife Barbara on March 9, 1995 drove General Hummel over the edge, and now he's holding hostages in order to get his point across. Stanley is needed because General Hummel has stolen some VX gas warheads and has announced that he will launch them onto San Francisco unless his demands are met. Stanley knows how to disarm the bombs, but he needs someone who knows Alcatraz well enough to get him inside. That man is former British Intelligence Agent John Patrick Mason, who has been in prison for the past thirty years without a trial because he was accused of stealing the private files of J. Edgar Hoover. In 1962, John became the only inmate ever to escape from Alcatraz, and he stayed out of Alcatraz long enough to father a daughter named Jade Angelou. Despite his extreme hatred of the F.B.I., John agrees to help Stanley. When John and Stanley are sent into Alcatraz with a Navy S.E.A.L. team, General Hummel's men kill the entire S.E.A.L. team, leaving Stanley and John to work on their own to rescue the hostages.
Bulletproof Monk
2003 • Jan 14, 2024
Director
Paul Hunter
Cast
Chow Yun-Fat, Seann William Scott, Jaime King
Genre
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
No unfortunately it actually is that bad
For 60 years a mysterious monk with no name has zigzagged the globe to protect an ancient scroll - a scroll that holds the key to unlimited power. Now the Monk must look for a new scrollkeeper. Kar is an unlikely candidate, a streetwise young man whose only interest is himself. But when he inadvertently saves the Bulletproof Monk from capture, the two become partners in a scheme to save the world from the scroll's most avid pursuer. Packed with spectacular special effects and martial arts action, the Monk, Kar, and a sexy Russian mob princess called Bad Girl must struggle to find, face, and fight the ultimate enemy.
Good Will Hunting
1997 • Jan 14, 2024
Director
Gus Van Sant
Cast
Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Genre
Drama, Romance
Oh
A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.
Blow Out
1981 • Jan 13, 2024
Director
Brian De Palma
Cast
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Idk what to say about the movie other than kino but also Trovolta is fuckin great in this
The only sloppy thing about it is the music which feels out of place and sometimes just boring but I guess it was fine in 81 idk I ain't that old
This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.
Saltburn
2023 • Jan 13, 2024
Director
Emerald Fennell
Cast
Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike
Genre
Drama, Thriller
It's... It's just boring man
Feels far more suited to being a TV series since it drags on like one
Everyone does a great job though so at least it's watchable? Idk
Also it being 4:3 is really fucking shitty and the justification for it being 4:3 is really fucking silly
A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.
The Quick and the Dead
1995 • Jan 12, 2024
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe
Genre
Action, Drama, Romance
I need Sharon Stone to shoot out my kneecaps
Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, acknowledging Cort as one of the best, is determined to alter this line of thinking ... even if it gets someone killed ...
Double Impact
1991 • Jan 11, 2024
Director
Sheldon Lettich
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Geoffrey Lewis, Alonna Shaw
Genre
Action, Crime
Easily the worst of the JCVDs I've seen
There's two points where the twins being twins has any impact whatsoever and none of it is particularly cool or interesting.
Rest of the movie feels low budget action I guess, very little HK kino here.
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
Godzilla Minus One
2023 • Jan 10, 2024
Director
Takashi Yamazaki
Cast
Minami Hamabe, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Sakura Andô
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Oh shit
A kamikaze pilot plagued by survivor's guilt seeks redemption when a giant monster he failed to kill is transformed by radiation from atomic bomb tests and lays siege to post-war Japan.
Super Dark Times
2017 • Jan 9, 2024
Director
Kevin Phillips
Cast
Owen Campbell, Charlie Tahan, Elizabeth Cappuccino
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Watch it blind
Very good
A harrowing but meticulously observed look at teenage lives in the era prior to the Columbine High School massacre.
The Living Daylights
1987 • Jan 8, 2024
Director
John Glen
Cast
Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Really solid bond movie, but the pacing is a bit wank for my destroyed brain, and nothing is particularly stand-out here (but everything is really good).
Some good laughs and a great soundtrack too, very enjoyable.
James Bond 007's mission is to firstly, organise the defection of a top Soviet general. When the general is re-captured, Bond heads off to find why an ally of General Koskov was sent to murder him. Bond's mission continues to take him to Afghanistan, where he must confront an arms dealer known as Brad Whitaker. Everything eventually reveals its self to Bond.
Silent Trigger
1996 • Jan 7, 2024
Director
Russell Mulcahy
Cast
Dolph Lundgren, Gina Bellman, Conrad Dunn
Genre
Action, Drama, Thriller
I don't think I've ever seen a movie combine terrible visuals and terrible sound design in this way before. Truly an accomplishment.
Action superstar Dolph Lundgren (Universal Soldier) delivers big-screen entertainment in the adventure thriller that's loaded with special effects and hard-hitting action...SILENT TRIGGER! Lundgren plays a top political assassin who's teamed with a sexy female counterpart (gorgeous Gina Bellman) to gun down a target. But when emotions begin to cloud his thoughts, it sets off an explosive series of events leading to the ultimate climax of kill or be killed! From the director of Highlander and The Shadow, SILENT TRIGGER is action -packed entertainment that'll blow you away!
Dead or Alive
1999 • Jan 6, 2024
Director
Takashi Miike
Cast
Shô Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi, Renji Ishibashi
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
Absolute insanity
Without a home and feeling no obligation to Japanese society or Yakuza, Ryuichi (Takeuchi Riki) and his small group decide to make their own place by trying to take over the Shinjuku underworld and the drug trade from Taiwan. As they plan an all-out-assault on the remaining Chinese and Japanese mafia kings, only Detective Jojima (Aikawa Sho) stands between them and complete domination.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
2023 • Jan 5, 2024
Director
Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic, Pierre Leduc
Cast
Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Everyone kept saying this was alright so I thought yeah why not but goddamn it fucking sucks not even the animation is any good, some of these renders are genuinely unfinished and Peach's voice (the only voice remotely fitting) isn't properly synced, it's awful
Who is this movie even for? Kids don't know who the fuck mario is and trying to watch this as an adult is just painful
Disclaimer: I hate Nintendo with a passion
Brooklyn plumbers Mario and Luigi are warped to the magical Mushroom Kingdom, and Mario must team up with Princess Peach, Toad, and Donkey Kong to save Luigi from the evil Bowser.
Ghosts of Mars
2001 • Jan 4, 2024
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier
Genre
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Carpenter, Statham, Ice Cube, Anthrax, Buckethead, Vai
This is what kino is all about fellas
200 years in the future a Martian police unit is dispatched to transport a dangerous prisoner from a mining outpost back to justice. But when the team arrives they find the town deserted and some of the inhabitants possessed by the former inhabitants of the planet.
Broken Arrow
1996 • Jan 3, 2024
Director
John Woo
Cast
John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Eeeeeh yeah idk about that one Mr Woo
"Broken Arrow" is the term used to describe a nuclear device that has been lost. In this movie, two nuclear missiles are stolen by rogue US pilot Deakins, but hot on his trail is his co-pilot Hale and a Park Ranger, Terry. The action takes place in Utah's canyon country; a high stakes game of cat and mouse.
The Menu
2022 • Jan 2, 2024
Director
Mark Mylod
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult
Genre
Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A little conflicted on it
Like it's great and it holds you the whole time and it's a cool concept and it's done really well and all but it's just like uhhh... Not enough? Like we def skipped some courses here I swear
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Logan Lucky
2017 • Jan 1, 2024
Director
Steven Soderbergh
Cast
Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Good bit of fun. Shame they did the 'well actually this happened and we didn't show it to you hehehe' kinda ruined it
When Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum) gets fired, he convinces his brother Clyde (Adam Driver) and sister Mellie (Riley Keough) to help him rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR Race. But they will need the help of Joe Bang (Daniel Craig), a convicted safe-cracker who is currently doing time. All they have to do is break Joe out, blow the racetrack vault, get away with the cash, return Joe to prison, and get Jimmy to his daughter's beauty pageant on time. What could possibly go wrong? Well, there is the Logan family curse .
The Legend of Zorro
2005 • Dec 31, 2023
Director
Martin Campbell
Cast
Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell
Genre
Action, Adventure, Drama
Still fun I guess
Bandares is rad
In 1850--against the backdrop of political unrest, as the scheming Jacob McGivens tries to stop California from joining the Union--the mysterious black-caped masked swordsman, Alejandro de la Vega, aka Zorro, finds himself in an unavoidable predicament. Having spent almost a decade protecting his people and fighting injustice, Alejandro's wife, Elena, insists that he gives up the black mask, and become a true father to their eight-year-old son, Joaquin. However, when Elena leaves him for the French count, Armand, it becomes evident that the conceited aristocrat is up to no good. Can Zorro, the legendary defender of the innocent, save both his marriage and the country?
The Jungle Book
2016 • Dec 31, 2023
Director
Jon Favreau
Cast
Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
Genre
Animation, Action, Adventure
Caught a bit of this today (originally watched the whole thing a couple years ago) and was reminded how much of a bland mix Favreau+Disney are. Christopher Walken and Ben Kingsley are great but they're kind of the only good parts of the movie.
Living among the wolves in the jungle, young man cub Mowgli quickly learns to live life among his wolf pack and all the animals that inhabit the jungle, but when the villainous tiger Shere Khan threatens Mowgli's life, black panther Bagheera offers to take Mowgli to a nearby man village where he will be safe from the tiger's wrath. Along the way, Mowgli gets tangled up in a series of encounters with a sly snake named Kaa, a swimmingly ruthless gigantopithecus named King Louie and a lazy bear named Baloo, who quickly becomes his guide to the 'bear necessities' of life.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022 • Dec 31, 2023
Director
Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson
Cast
Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Drama
Cute. McGregor is great. The animation and style is beautiful. My main issue was just that I am soulless and didn't vibe with the story init.
Also like why is Cate Blanchett voicing a monkey that has no lines?
A dark, twisted retelling of the famous Carlo Collodi fairy tale about the wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. When Pinocchio comes to life, he turns out not to be that nice of a boy, creating mischief and playing mean tricks. He eventually learns a few lessons.
AKA
2023 • Dec 31, 2023
Director
Morgan S. Dalibert
Cast
Alban Lenoir, Éric Cantona, Thibault de Montalembert
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Attempts to join up 4 types of movie we've all seen before while accomplishing 0 of their goals. Your average netflix slop, french brand.
I wrote ^ before the ending and I must just add looooooool they have a fucking wrap up montage set to a piano cover of Hurt ajjajahajahhaahhwjwosjakakak jesus fuck
A steely special ops agent finds his morality put to the test when he infiltrates a crime syndicate and unexpectedly bonds with the boss's young son.
The Young Master
1980 • Dec 29, 2023
Director
Jackie Chan
Cast
Jackie Chan, Pai Wei, Biao Yuen
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
It's no Police Story but idk it was cute I guess I would have enjoyed the cool 30 minute 1v1 on top of a mountain more without the cheesy 70s comedy but when Mars kicks in it's kinda rad except when it ends in a weird wrestling move and the bad guy turns into a very obvious ragdoll
After failing his fellow students in a Lion Dance competition, Dragon (Jackie Chan) is sent away from his school in disgrace, on the condition that he must find his errant brother. Much martial arts mayhem and mistaken-identity silliness ensue.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
2009 • Dec 28, 2023
Director
Wes Anderson
Cast
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
I still think the other Wes Anderson movies I've seen are absolute wank but this was really good, style included.
This is the story of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wild ways of hen heckling, turkey taking, and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one more raid" on the three nastiest, meanest farmers that are Walter Boggis (Robin Hurlstone), Nathan Bunce (Hugo Guinness), and Franklin Bean (Sir Michael Gambon). It is a tale of crossing the line of family responsibilities and midnight adventure and the friendships and awakenings of this country life that is inhabited by Fantastic Mr. Fox and his friends.
Paycheck
2003 • Dec 28, 2023
Director
John Woo
Cast
Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman
Genre
Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Probably the weakest Woo movie I've seen but honestly it's still fucking good. The concept is rad the way it's revealed is rad the action is rad the shots are rad the goofy zooms and flashing are rad the comedy of it all is rad BUT holy fucking shit Ben Affleck absolutely RUINS this movie. He's boring as shit to watch and his lack of anything on his face just makes you so much less engaged with the movie.
If it was Travolta instead of Affleck this'd be a solid 4.5
Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is 2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8 figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed some act of treason and murder. It's while he is in custody that he escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he is being pursued by Rethrick's people.
Love Actually
2003 • Dec 26, 2023
Director
Richard Curtis
Cast
Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kino actually
Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's (Bill Nighy's) Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around", which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it, much to his manager Joe's (Gregor Fisher's) chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to happiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's (Liam Neeson's) wife has just died, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet (Keira Knightley) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark (Andrew Lincoln) hates Juliet, but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet, as he is in love with Peter. Jamie (Colin Firth), a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France following catching his latest girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) in an indiscretion. Jamie ends up spending much time in France with Aurelia (Lúcia Moniz), the Portuguese woman hired as the housekeeper. The question becomes not only if they can communicate their day-to-day needs with each other as she speaks no English, he speaks no Portuguese, and neither speaks French very well, but communicate what seems to be their increasing mutual attraction to each other. Sarah (Laura Linney) has been in love with her co-worker Karl (Rodrigo Santoro) for the two years they have worked together, this attraction about which everyone in their workplace knows. Sarah has to decide if she can be forward enough to express this love directly to Karl, especially in light of what has been her personal priority of dealing with a family issue. Harry (Alan Rickman) and Karen (Dame Emma Thompson) have been in a stable long term marriage. His new assistant Mia (Heike Makatsch) drops hints to him that she would like them to be romantically involved. Harry has to decide whether to fall to the temptation, especially considering being married to a perceptive wife. Single and relatively young David (Hugh Grant) is the newly elected Prime Minister. At 10 Downing Street, he is attracted to one of the new household servants, Natalie (Martine McCutcheon), but isn't sure what to do about it seeing as to their respective positions, the probable public scrutiny, and an incident involving the visiting U.S. President (Billy Bob Thornton). Socially unaware Colin Frissell (Kris Marshall) believes that the lack of romantic love in his life is all the fault of standoffish British women. As such, he decides to take decisive albeit somewhat unusual geographic action. And John (Martin Freeman) and Judy (Joanna Page) are movie body doubles. They can communicate with each other straightforwardly while they are simulating sex filming a movie, but they may not be able to translate the feelings behind that simulation in real-life to each other.
The Killer
2023 • Dec 26, 2023
Director
David Fincher
Cast
Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell
Genre
Action, Adventure, Crime
It's obviously stylish and mildly amusing in the sense of 'its like when I fucked up while playing hitman', and Fassbender plays this redditor hitman well but also it's just kinda... Nothing
Probably would enjoy it more if it wasn't a Fincher though
Solitary, cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, a killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. Yet, the longer he waits, the more he thinks he's losing his mind, if not his cool.
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022 • Dec 26, 2023
Director
James Cameron
Cast
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver
Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Holy shit this is so fucking boring there is a solid 2hours of visual showcase, about 30minutes of terrible plot and that leaves the last 10mins for anything actually worth watching
Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Guns Akimbo
2019 • Dec 25, 2023
Director
Jason Howden
Cast
Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Radcliffe carries fucking HARD. Interesting modern take on Running Man I guess but it's a big miss on the attempt to do what Crank did and if you miss on that kinda style it ends up real rough.
Miles is stuck in a dead-end programming job. Still in love with his ex-girlfriend Nova, he spends his waking hours between pining for her and scouring the internet as a social-justice troll, cowardly leaving anonymous insults to those who post objectionable content online. Meanwhile a cyber-gang, called Skizm, is running an ultra-violent game across his city, in which violent criminals fight to the death for the entertainment of an online audience of millions. Miles feels safe and secure insulting the sick audience of this game, but soon finds himself abducted and thrust into the game, forced to fight with an insane, gun-crazed, escaped lunatic. His only tools, but also his biggest handicap, are the two huge pistols that have been literally bolted onto his hands. Initially, Miles' lifetime of running from his problems pays off as he - barely - manages to elude his seemingly unstoppable opponent, but when Nova's life is threatened unless he takes an active part in the game, he must finally stop running and overcome his fears to fight for the girl he loves.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
2023 • Dec 23, 2023
Director
Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears
Cast
Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Nicolas Cantu
Genre
Animation, Action, Adventure
Surprisingly pretty good given my expectations going into it. The animation and style ends up actually being good (unlike the trailer) and despite the cast you're not thinking of characters as their VAs which is nice. Trent Reznor on the soundtrack is always cool and the other music wasn't awful. Surprisingly wasn't pretty minimal on the cringe too.
However, it's so incredibly far from the source that this is hardly a TMNT movie. You could replace the turtles with a couple characters from one of the Marvel mutant teen teams and it'd be the same movie. You can even keep all the anti mutant shit in. Jackie's splinter might be good but it's just not really splinter. They even fucked his origins. Same with April. I get that they can't just retell the same stories over and over again but if you're using the source, use the source man.
The Turtle brothers work to earn the love of New York City while facing down an army of mutants.
The Cable Guy
1996 • Dec 22, 2023
Director
Ben Stiller
Cast
Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Yea uh this didn't age so well man
Steven Kovak has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend. Steven has a new apartment, and decides to slip the cable guy (Chip) $50 for free cable. Steven then fakes an interest in Chip's line of work. However Chip takes this to heart trying to become Steven's best bud. When Steven no longer wants to be Chips friend the man who can do it all goes on an all out assault to ruin Steven's life. In the backdrop is the delicate sub-plot of the trial of a former kid star for murdering his brother.
Home Alone
1990 • Dec 17, 2023
Director
Chris Columbus
Cast
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Genre
Comedy, Family
Could have just taken the toppings off the pizza and avoided this entire fiasco also you have knives in the kitchen u stupid little shit if you're fine with setting people on fire you should be fine with stabbing them also ??? the phone lines work after all???? but he doesn't call the cops when he knows these guys are coming to rob him??? and the parents don't keep like retrying the phone in case the lines are back???
Shit sucks honestly made me mad
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) and was sent to his room, which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin, who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice.
Phenomenon
1996 • Nov 11, 2023
Director
Jon Turteltaub
Cast
John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker
Genre
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Cute movie
John Travolta plays George Malley, who owns the local auto repair shop in a small California town. After celebrating his birthday with friends at the local bar/hang-out, George heads for home. He pauses to watch a strange light in the sky, then collapses for a few seconds in the middle of the deserted street. In the days and weeks that follow, George finds his IQ and consciousness expanding dramatically, and develops telekinetic abilities. Despite his attempts to explain what has happened to him, with just a very few exceptions, most of the local townspeople treat the "new" George as a freak. His state of isolation becomes even more pronounced when his new-found abilities allow him to correctly predict an earthquake, and outside authorities become interested in what's happened to him.
Demolition Man
1993 • Nov 9, 2023
Director
Marco Brambilla
Cast
Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
This movie fucking slaps and Wesley Snipes is fucking incredible in it
Frozen in 1996, Simon Phoenix, a convicted crime lord, is revived for a parole hearing well into the 21st century. Revived into a society free from crime, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. John Spartan, the police officer who captured Phoenix in 1996, has also been cryogenically frozen, this time for a crime he did not commit. In 2032, the former cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara have merged into peaceful, utopian San Angeles. Unable to stop him with their non-violent solutions, the police release Spartan to help recapture Phoenix. Now after 36 years, Spartan has to adapt himself to the future society he has no knowledge about.
The Birdcage
1996 • Oct 1, 2023
Director
Mike Nichols
Cast
Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, Gene Hackman
Genre
Comedy
Damn Robin Williams looks rad in every single outfit in this movie
Armand Goldman owns a popular drag nightclub in South Miami Beach. His long-time lover, Albert, stars there as Starina. "Their" son Val (actually Armand's by his one heterosexual fling, twenty years before) comes home to announce his engagement to Barbara Keeley, daughter of Kevin Keeley, US Senator, and co-founder of the Committee for Moral Order. The Senator and family descend upon South Beach to meet Val, his father and "mother." What ensues is comic chaos.
Leaving Las Vegas
1995 • Oct 1, 2023
Director
Mike Figgis
Cast
Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands
Genre
Drama, Romance
It's a cool movie and it's got some really cool scenes and a lot of the shots are done well but there's just like a solid 40 unnecessary minutes of a kind of tension builder that doesn't really do much for me other than bore me. Worth a watch but eh
Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Sanderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.
Thief
1981 • Sep 24, 2023
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
?
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After having spent many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of life--including a nice home, a wife, and kids. As soon as he is able to assemble the pieces of this collage, by means of his chosen profession, he intends to retire and become a model citizen. In an effort to accelerate this process, he signs on to take down a huge score for a big-time gangster. Unfortunately, Frank's obsession for his version of the American Dream allows him to overlook his natural wariness and mistrust, when making the deal for his final job. He is thus ensnared and robbed of his freedom, his independence, and, ultimately, his dream.
No Image
Extraction 2
2023 • Sep 22, 2023
Director
N/A
Cast
N/A
Genre
N/A
It's like a condensed summary of non-quippy generic action movies.
Sound design was rad tho even the stabs were meaty
Some of the sequences were kinda sick too but shaky cam is always shitty
N/A
Blade
1998 • Sep 11, 2023
REWATCH
Director
Stephen Norrington
Cast
Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson
Genre
Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Still iconic
In a world where vampires walk the earth, Blade has a goal. His goal is to rid the world of all vampire evil. When Blade witnesses a vampire bite Dr. Karen Jenson, he fights away the beast and takes Jenson back to his hideout. Here, alongside Abraham Whistler, Blade attempts to help heal Jenson. The vampire Quinn who was attacked by Blade, reports back to his master Deacon Frost, who is planning a huge surprise for the human population.
Meg 2: The Trench
2023 • Sep 11, 2023
Director
Ben Wheatley
Cast
Jason Statham, Jing Wu, Shuya Sophia Cai
Genre
Action, Adventure, Horror
Kinda ruined by the trailer which is basically a condensed version of the whole movie, both in terms of tone and just literally what happens in the order of it happening. Second half of the movie kinda banged though I enjoyed it. Some rough editing but you know it's a bit of fun init.
A research team's journey into the depths of the ocean turns into chaos when a mining operation forces them into a battle for survival, facing off against Megalodons and relentless environmental marauders.
Hard Target
1993 • Aug 28, 2023
Director
John Woo
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
Honestly it's terrible as a movie but there are just some scenes that I need everyone to see because they're so fucking good and the last 30minutes are rad I guess
Natasha Binder comes to New Orleans looking for her father, who has gone missing. In doing so, she meets a very hard man called Chance. He helps her find out that her father was killed by an organisation who sell the opportunity to hunt human prey. They are taking advantage of a police strike in New Orleans. Will the Muscles from Brussels win through?
Bloodsport
1988 • Aug 28, 2023
Director
Newt Arnold
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Donald Gibb, Leah Ayres
Genre
Action, Biography, Drama
Yea even better the second time
Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by Tanaka to participate in the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts tournament, where participants are seriously injured, even killed. Frank decides to go despite being told by his superiors in the army that he can't because they need him. Two army officers are sent to get him and the trail leads to Hong Kong but Frank eludes them. While Frank advances, he knows that he may have to face Chong Li, the defending champion, who has killed a few participants.
Fireworks
1997 • Aug 27, 2023
Director
Takeshi Kitano
Cast
Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Ôsugi
Genre
Crime, Drama, Romance
Idk man holy shit it's a fuckin masterpiece
Nishi, a police detective, has had to deal with a series of emotionally devastating events over the recent past. His only child, then preschool age, died two years ago. His wife, currently in the hospital, has been diagnosed with a terminal case of leukemia. And he develops a case of guilt when his colleague Horibe, during a stakeout which Nishi himself was supposed to be on but who, on Horibe's suggestion, was visiting his wife in the hospital instead at the time, gets shot point blank. That guilt is only exacerbated when Horibe, who as a result becomes paraplegic, is abandoned by his wife and child, with Horibe himself at a loss with what to do with his life as being a police was his sole identity. As a means to cope, Nishi becomes increasingly reckless, which affects the way he does his police work. That recklessness extends to his personal life when his wife's doctor recommends that she go home, Nishi, in the process, borrowing money from the yakuza to make ends meet. That recklessness also leads to him taking matters into his own hands as he tries to make his and his wife's life together, for however long it will last, a series of small yet special moments.
True Romance
1993 • Aug 26, 2023
Director
Tony Scott
Cast
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper
Genre
Crime, Drama, Romance
Am I fuckin insane or is this movie just like... directed wrong? Like I get what the intention is but it's a waste of writing to do that with it? Maybe I'm just insane though idk I just really want to hallucinate Elvis (okay not Elvis idk who it is) and have him tell me to commit murder
Also why the fuck is Christians face so wide in like 80% of the shots???
In Detroit, Clarence Worley goes to the movie theater alone on the day of his birthday to watch some movies. The gorgeous Alabama Whitman accidentally drops her popcorn on Clarence and they watch the movie together. Later they go to a diner for pie, and end up having a one night stand. In the morning, Alabama confesses that she is a call-girl hired to spend the night with him, but she has fallen in love with him. In the morning they get married and Clarence goes to the club where she worked to bring her some clothes. However, her pimp Drexl Spivey and his partner beat up Clarence and he reacts by killing them both. Clarence asks for Alabama's suitcase with her clothes and the other girls mistakenly give another one with cocaine. When Clarence discovers the mistake, he decides to travel with Alabama to the house of his friend, the aspiring actor Dick Ritchie, to sell the drug and travel to Mexico. He visits his father Clifford Worley and gives his address to him. But the Sicilian Mafia is the owner of the drug and a group of killers are sent to hunt down Clarnece and Alabama.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 • Aug 24, 2023
Director
Tom Shadyac
Cast
Jim Carrey, Courteney Cox, Sean Young
Genre
Comedy
rad
To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal animal. When a football team's mascot (a dolphin) is stolen just before the Superbowl, Ace Ventura is put on the case. Now, who would want to steal a dolphin, and why?
Tetris
2023 • Aug 20, 2023
Director
Jon S. Baird
Cast
Taron Egerton, Mara Huf, Miles Barrow
Genre
Biography, Drama, History
Idk it was alright, felt like it dragged on a bit for no real reason in these nonsense 'ussr bad' scenes like yea we know man relax and you know this isn't even the 'true' part about the story so it's like ???
Also can we stop glorifying businessmen over artists? I guess it does suit Apple though
Video game designer Henk Rogers seeks to secure global rights for Tetris (1984), leading to tense negotiations in the Soviet Union, involving creators, government, and corporate intrigues.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023 • Aug 8, 2023
Director
James Gunn
Cast
Chris Pratt, Chukwudi Iwuji, Bradley Cooper
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
It's mainly entertaining but god what a fucking mess. Feels like it was directed by 4 different people with entirely different views on what the movie should be, ends up feeling all over the place and they can't even keep characters feeling consistent with themselves.
Also who the fuck is Pete lmfao where did this come from?
Also why the fuck does the aspect ratio keep changing?
Also these people literally have fucking 80s MV tier gold paint on????
Also absolutely awful when movies fucking shove obvious things down your throat like we fuckin get it we don't need to revisit Rocket's flashbacks visually to know why he goes back like ??? This is ridiculous
Idk it just didn't hit.
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.
Heat
1995 • Jul 30, 2023
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
I mean it's awesome but not as awesome as I had previously been led to believe also when the tunnel went white I was fuckin howling what the fuck
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending....
Barbie
2023 • Jul 22, 2023
Director
Greta Gerwig
Cast
Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Dudes rock.
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the outside world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among regular humans.
Oppenheimer
2023 • Jul 22, 2023
Director
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Genre
Biography, Drama, History
First things first - 70mm IMAX is rad, but barely any of Oppenheimer is actually in IMAX aspect ratio - the vast majority of scenes are (I think) 2.35:1 and the selection of scenes that are in IMAX genuinely feels random. There'll be two scenes that chronologically follow each other and one will be in IMAX and the next won't be. I didn't feel any vision behind the choices. Goofy ass shit.
Talking of goofy, for some reason Nolan splices in these weird little clips of what looks to be poorly made stock footage (I know it's not), when characters talk about certain things (usually physics) - things like recurring sparks as a metaphor for chain reactions, but also this weird shot of a rocket flying up above clouds(???). So these are bad. Like really bad. But then, he REUSES THE SAME CLIPS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Like ??? this is literally what I'd do in GCSE drama or something idk it's fucking awful.
There's a good, well paced movie in here, about the trials that followed the bombings and the characters involved. There is also an absolute dogshit movie here about how some dude made a bomb by squiggling some shit on a whiteboard, or one of his pals going into another room and solving physics. It's a shame this gets more screentime.
The performances are fuckin great though and the soundtrack is way better than the usual Nolan/Zimmer wank so there's that I guess?
A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
Fast X
2023 • Jul 16, 2023
Director
Louis Leterrier
Cast
Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Statham
Genre
Action, Adventure, Crime
Looollll
Dom Toretto and his family are targeted by the vengeful son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
2023 • Jul 11, 2023
Director
Christopher McQuarrie
Cast
Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
Genre
Action, Adventure, Thriller
?????
It's The Lord of the Rings?
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must track down a dangerous weapon before it falls into the wrong hands.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
2014 • Jul 10, 2023
Director
Wes Anderson
Cast
Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
Genre
Comedy, Drama
I don't get it
It's like my mate Barry's art project
This movie recounts the adventures of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent.
Moonrise Kingdom
2012 • Jul 10, 2023
Director
Wes Anderson
Cast
Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
I don't get it
It's not like I am fucking crazy right? Like I solely am incapable of understanding this supposed genius?
It's just wankery.
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down - which might not be such a bad thing.
Barbie: Dreamtopia
2016 • Jun 4, 2023
Director
Saul Blinkoff
Cast
Erica Lindbeck, Meira Blinkoff, Addison Chandler
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Hell yeah
Join Barbie, Chelsea, and her puppy Honey as they swim through rainbow rivers with beautiful mermaids and fly through cotton candy clouds with fairies.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2023 • Jun 3, 2023
Director
Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Cast
Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Genre
Animation, Action, Adventure
No Christopher Daniel Barnes
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
Good Time
2017 • Jun 2, 2023
Director
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Cast
Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Better than Uncut Gems I guess?
I don't get the noisy, shaky camera, awkward angle fake-intensity that these two love to pull so much. It works a bit more for Uncut Gems (and it's awful), but here it's done while absolutely nothing happens. The latter half of the movie subdues this shite but honestly it's all a big pile of obnoxious wank.
Connie Nikas forcibly removes his developmentally disabled brother Nick from a therapy session. The two rob a New York City bank for $65,000. In the getaway car, a dye pack explodes in a money bag, causing the driver to crash. Connie and Nick flee on foot, washing the dye from their clothes in a restaurant restroom. Stopped by police, Nick panics and runs; Nick is arrested while Connie escapes. Connie attempts to secure a bail bond, but needs $10,000 more to get Nick out of jail. He convinces his girlfriend, Corey, to pay with her mother's credit cards, but her mother cancels the cards. Connie learns that Nick has been hospitalized after a fight with an inmate.
Deep Cover
1992 • May 31, 2023
Director
Bill Duke
Cast
Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
I need more of that Lawrence Fishburne narration man that shit is perfect
A black uniformed policeman is recruited by a devious drug enforcement agent to infiltrate a smuggling organization seeking to expand into designer drugs. This 'ugly side of the war on drugs' explores the context of race, identity and hypocrisy within a brutal and alienating investigation.
The Thing
1982 • May 27, 2023
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David
Genre
Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Idk it's obviously rad but didn't quite do it for me idk it didn't have that Carpenter clowniness to it
A US research station, Antarctica, early-winter 1982. The base is suddenly buzzed by a helicopter from the nearby Norwegian research station. They are trying to kill a dog that has escaped from their base. After the destruction of the Norwegian chopper the members of the US team fly to the Norwegian base, only to discover them all dead or missing. They do find the remains of a strange creature the Norwegians burned. The Americans take it to their base and deduce that it is an alien life form. After a while it is apparent that the alien can take over and assimilate into other life forms, including humans, and can spread like a virus. This means that anyone at the base could be inhabited by The Thing, and tensions escalate.
Breakdown
1997 • May 26, 2023
Director
Jonathan Mostow
Cast
Kurt Russell, J.T. Walsh, Kathleen Quinlan
Genre
Action, Crime, Drama
The maintenance of the perfect intensity throughout a movie is an incredible feat
Jeff and Amy Taylor are moving to California and must drive across the country. When they find themselves stranded in the middle of a desert with hardly anyone or anything around, their trip comes to a sudden halt. Amy had taken a ride with a friendly trucker to a small diner to call for help, but after a long time, Jeff becomes worried. He finds that no one in the diner has seen or heard from his wife. When he finds the trucker who gave Amy the ride, the trucker swears he has never seen her. Now Jeff must attempt to find his wife, who has been kidnapped and is being held for ransom. But who can he trust?
Very Bad Things
1998 • May 21, 2023
Director
Peter Berg
Cast
Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Cameron Diaz
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
I need Cameron Diaz to smash my face in with a coat stand
A group of friends head to Las Vegas for a bachelor party.. only things go wrong and a woman is killed. Soon, the bodies are piling up and the friends find themselves turning against one another as the coverup builds.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
2023 • May 17, 2023
Director
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes
Genre
Action, Comedy, Thriller
Lmfao why did they exclusively subtitle Bugzy????
An agent is recruited by a global intelligence alliance to track down and stop the sale of a deadly weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
The Nice Guys
2016 • May 17, 2023
Director
Shane Black
Cast
Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
Idk it started off really really good and then it got really samey and typical and it was like Gosling and Crowe got bored of their roles towards the end and so did I
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licensed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy.
Burn After Reading
2008 • May 14, 2023
Director
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast
Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Drama
I think that's the shit, man
Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, resigned from the CIA because of a drinking problem, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A CD-ROM falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for cosmetic surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and Harry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 • May 7, 2023
Director
John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Cast
Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Regé-Jean Page
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
It's kind of okay I guess. The script is really awful and sours the majority of the movie.
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
Darkman
1990 • Apr 25, 2023
Director
Sam Raimi
Cast
Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels
Genre
Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Raimi is fuckin mental man what the heck
Peyton Westlake is a scientist who has discovered a way to produce synthetic skin. This could revolutionise skin grafting, except for one minor glitch; the synthetic skin degrades after 100 minutes of exposure to light. When gangsters attack Peyton, he is horrifically burnt, and assumed dead. In his quest for revenge, Peyton, aka the Darkman, is able to take on the appearance of anyone (using the synthetic skin,) but he only has 100 minutes per disguise.
Big Trouble in Little China
1986 • Apr 24, 2023
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
God this movie is fuckin rad
Truck driver Jack Burton arrives in Chinatown, San Francisco, and goes to the airport with his Chinese friend Wang Chi to welcome his green-eyed fiancée Miao Yin who is arriving from China. However she is kidnapped on the arrival by a Chinese street gang and Jack and Wang chase the group. Soon they learn that the powerful evil sorcerer called David Lo Pan, who has been cursed more than two thousand years ago to exist without physical body, needs to marry a woman with green eyes to retrieve his physical body and Miao is the chosen one. Jack and Wang team-up with the lawyer Gracie Law, the bus driver and sorcerer apprentice Egg Shen and their friends and embark in a great adventure in the underground of Chinatown, where they face a world of magicians and magic, monsters and martial arts fighters.
Suzume
2022 • Apr 23, 2023
Director
Makoto Shinkai
Cast
Nanoka Hara, Hokuto Matsumura, Eri Fukatsu
Genre
Animation, Adventure, Drama
This feels like such a great movie until suddenly it stops being one. The characters fall flat really hard and the weak introduction of additional characters just serves to add some shit side plot that never gets resolved. Going from Your Name which left you with this conflicted feeling to this which just concludes in some baby movie wannabe-feel-good wankery instead just makes you leave this movie frustrated and unsatisfied.
Suzume, a 17-year-old girl who lives in a quiet town in Kyushu, meets a young man on a journey "looking for doors." Suzume follows him to a ruin to a dilapidated building in the mountains and finds a free-standing, undisturbed door t as if "it" alone were saved from devastation. Suzume feels drawn by an invisible power and reaches out to the door - Soon, doors all over Japan start opening one after another. The doors that opened must be closed to shut out calamity that lies on the other side. -Stars, sunset, and the morning sky. The places she wanders into have a sky where all hours of the day seem to blend together- Beckoned by the mysterious doors, Suzume's "journey of closing doors" begins.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
2023 • Apr 20, 2023
Director
Peyton Reed
Cast
Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy
There's all the obvious shit parts of this movie: the awful visuals, the terrible plot (I swear this was an FF side-issue plotline, Kang aside, anyway), the lack of any villain identity other than "he's bad cause we said so and now he's mad", the lack of soundtrack, the horrible "I wish I made star wars instead" parts, the "we need a korg character actually", the horrible script, the horrible pacing, the fact that none of it makes any sense - but the worst offense of this movie is the line delivery - literally nobody gives a shit about this movie and you can hear it in every single line except for Kang's - Nobody even has more than a line of dialogue at a time - It's honestly bizarre to watch because it's like being in a GCSE drama class
The further adventures of Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Videodrome
1983 • Apr 20, 2023
Director
David Cronenberg
Cast
James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits
Genre
Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
idk what i just watched and idk how to rate it and it's good but also like ??? and also i get cronenberg is like hey i will do this but also why did you do that?
Max Renn is the President of Channel 83 Civic-TV, a small television station on the UHF dial. He defends his programming of largely X-rated shows - which depict graphic sex and extreme violence - as a pure matter of economic survival as a small station. Behind closed doors in specific company, he would admit that he enjoys such programming, but as President will stay away from associated activities that may be dangerous for him in its purchase. His current girlfriend, radio personality Nicki Brand, who he met on a television talk show, is sexually aroused by light mutilation on her person, that despite or because her radio show is like an open air crisis hotline. On that same talk show, the other guest via video feed was Professor Brian O'Blivion - solely his stage name - who believes that television and video broadcasts will one day overtake the world as reality, which may make Max's programming in combination more dangerous. In Max's search for the next big thing in like programming already on Channel 83, Harlan, his pirater who scans satellite signals, illegally obtains a satellite feed of something called Videodrome, which depicts continual sexualized torture and murder with no storyline of which to speak. The background behind Videodrome is unknown, but believing it is that big thing for which he is looking, Max is determined to find the producers so that he can purchase it for his station. He is concerned for Nicki if she goes ahead against his warnings in wanting to appear on Videodrome, however it does not lessen his desire to purchase it. If Max in turn does not heed the warning of Masha, one of his long time show suppliers, based on what little she discovers about it, Max may discover that Videodrome is just the next but destructive step in O'Blivion's prognostication.
Escape from New York
1981 • Apr 20, 2023
Director
John Carpenter
Cast
Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Genre
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When I get back I'm gonna kill you
This movie is fuckin rad, no wonder Kojima did what he did
In the future, crime is out of control and New York City's Manhattan is a maximum security prison. Grabbing a bargaining chip right out of the air, convicts bring down the President's plane in bad old Gotham. Gruff Snake Plissken, a one-eyed lone warrior new to prison life, is coerced into bringing the President, and his cargo, out of this land of undesirables.
Groundhog Day
1993 • Apr 20, 2023
Director
Harold Ramis
Cast
Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A story about a sociopath who loves manipulating women and takes it as a task to do so. He meets a woman that he struggles to manipulate into having sex with him, so in his repeating days he learns more and more about her so that he can more easily manipulate her. The movie culminates in the sociopath deciding to appease an entire town of people with his fake persona in order for them to praise him and make him appear likable so that he can finally have sex with the woman he's been chasing for days(?). The loop finally breaks when he does it.
Insane movie. People told me this was wholesome???
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day, he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing every day.
Stuart Little
1999 • Apr 15, 2023
Director
Rob Minkoff
Cast
Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie
Genre
Adventure, Comedy, Family
None of this makes any fucking sense why do people just act like Stuart has some kind of face deformation instead of being an actual literal fucking mouse and also why the fuck is he allowed to be an adopted son but the cat has the be a fucking pet and also the movie just fucking opens with this fucking couple going to the orphanage and seeing this talking fucking rat who sounds fucking 40 years old just reading a fucking shit book and then it's literally not fucking explained why he exists or why he's there or why any of this fucking movie is happening
In New York City, you would come across a small house, home to a family known as the Littles. You would happen to think of them as the nicest family you'd ever meet. One day, Fredrick and Eleanor, both parents and Littles, ho to and orphanage to find a brother for their son, George. While at it, they meet Stuart, a small, but charming mouse, who apparently, is human-civilized. They adopt him, and everyone, even George, loves him. But there is one problem with Stuart's life, Snowbell, the Little family cat, who wants him. But when trouble starts up almost immediately, Stuart must make it back to his home-before snowbell's friends find out about him
Timecop
1994 • Apr 14, 2023
Director
Peter Hyams
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
Genre
Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
None of this makes any sense whatsoever, using any kind of time travel theory bullshit. It's incredible.
When the ability to travel through time is perfected, a new type of law enforcement agency is formed. It's called Time Enforcement Commission or TEC. A cop, Max Walker, is assigned to the group. On the day he was chosen, some men attack him and kill his wife. Ten years later Max is still grieving but has become a good agent for the TEC. He tracks down a former co-worker who went into the past to make money. Max brings him back for sentencing but not after telling Max that Senator McComb, the man in charge of TEC, sent him. Max has his eye on McComb.
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 • Apr 11, 2023
Director
Chad Stahelski
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou
Genre
Action, Crime, Thriller
I need Rina Sawayama to stab me multiple times and then mount me and stab me some more
John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Rain Man
1988 • Mar 23, 2023
Director
Barry Levinson
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Genre
Drama
I'm Tom Cruise he's literally me
Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Qantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.
Initial D
2005 • Mar 23, 2023
Director
Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak, Ralph Rieckermann
Cast
Jay Chou, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Edison Chen
Genre
Action, Comedy, Drama
Actually legit. No eurobeat though.
Two mountain road racers, Nakazato and Takahashi, challenged each other to find the best racers, and defeat them in "battles". Nakazato was surprisingly defeated by an old Toyota Trueno AE86 (Corolla in the US) one night, and he searched for the person who defeated him, which lead him to the Speedstars, a local team. But the car who beat him was actually driven by a local Tofu shop owner's son, Takumi Fujiwara, who had unknowingly perfected the art of mountain racing through daily deliveries of tofu. Takumi was able to defeat Nakazato again, showing that he is no fluke. However, winning hasn't helped him home life, as his father, Bunta Fujiwara, was a drunkard (and a racing genius). His girlfriend Natsuki Mogi wants his attention even though she's got a dark and shameful secret, and his best friend Itsuki (who has no talent in driving) wants Takumi to teach him road racing... after buying the WRONG car. In a mountain road encounter, they ran into Team Emperor's Mitsubishi Evo, and normally the old junker don't stand a chance, but when controlled by Takumi they were able to defeat the Evo... And attract the wrath of Sudou, Team Emperor's leader. In another chance encounter, Sudou ran the AE86 and Takumi to the limit... and beyond... Forcing the AE86 out with a busted engine. However, Takahashi is there to lend a hand. With Bunta's help, they repaired the AE86, this time with a true racing engine, and a three-way showdown between Takahashi, Fujiwara, and Sudou is on... Who will be the winner at the end?
Sexy Beast
2000 • Mar 23, 2023
Director
Jonathan Glazer
Cast
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Genre
Crime, Drama, Thriller
very good piss scene
Gal, Deedee, Aitch and Jackie, having left behind respective lives of ill-repute, bask in the sun of Spain and in the most essential brand of leisure. A hazy yarn of barbecues, beer and botched hunting expeditions make up their retirements, until a sudden and unforeseen disruption emerges from their past. Enter the childishly violent and hilariously edgy Don Logan. Through a series of side-splitting negotiations and irrevocable acts, retired crook Gal is forced to shake off the rust and accept one last mission, put forth by the menacing Logan, his ex-mentor. A heist of legendary proportion and personal implications, this job should make for one hell of an encore.
Glass Onion
2022 • Mar 23, 2023
Director
Rian Johnson
Cast
Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson
Genre
Comedy, Crime, Drama
this movie is fuckin dog lmao
Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.
Barbarian
2022 • Nov 5, 2022
Director
Zach Cregger
Cast
Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long
Genre
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
What the fuck lmaooooo
Watch this as blind as you can and it's a fucking rollercoaster
A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the house she has rented is not what it seems.
L.A. Confidential
1997 • Oct 21, 2022
Director
Curtis Hanson
Cast
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Yeah okay this is rad.
Except for the shootout that was kinda silly.
1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.
Repo Man
1984 • Oct 6, 2022
Director
Alex Cox
Cast
Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter
Genre
Action, Comedy, Crime
If a movie makes you exclaim "what's HAPPEning?" 30 times, it's probably pretty fuckin good. Every line is a masterpiece with delivery to match.
Frustrated punk rocker Otto quits his supermarket job after slugging a co-worker, and is later dumped by his girlfriend at a party. Wandering the streets in frustration, he is recruited in the repossession of a car by a repo agent. After discovering his parents have donated his college fund to a televangelist, he joins the repossession agency (Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation) as an apprentice "repo man". During his training, he is introduced into the mercenary and paranoid world of the drivers, befriended by a UFO conspiracy theorist, confronted by rival repo agents, discovers some of his one-time friends have turned to a life of crime, is lectured to near cosmic unconsciousness by the repo agency grounds worker, and finds himself entangled in a web of intrigue concerning a huge repossession bounty on a 1964 Chevy Malibu driven by a lunatic government scientist, with Top Secret cargo in the trunk.
Constantine
2005 • Sep 3, 2022
Director
Francis Lawrence
Cast
Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou
Genre
Action, Fantasy, Horror
I need Tilda Swinton to step on me.
John Constantine is approached by Det. Angela Dodson who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel's death was not a suicide. The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. She's asked Constantine for help because he has a reputation for dealing with the mystical. In fact, he is a demon hunter whose sole purpose on Earth is to send demons back to the nether regions. John himself has been to Hell and knows that he is destined to return there on his death - but hopes his good deeds may find him a place in Heaven. As he looks into Isabel's death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into a direct conflict with Satan.