I recently found out that I’m a sucker for the “super spy fights petty crime” genre. First for me there was the Burn Notice TV show (2007-2013), then The Equalizer movies (2014, 2018, 2023) and then The Beekeeper (2024).

I believed it was a recent trend that highlighted a disillusionment for regular spy movies with higher stakes, but during my cursory research for this post I learned The Equalizer started out as a TV show in 1985?

Definitely an older trope than I thought.

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#MiniReview #Movies #VideoGames Having played several of the games, albeit never to completion, I was curious about Borderlands (2024). The distinctive “colorful apocalypse” aesthetics are beautifully rendered, and the general tone is as unserious as the games’, making for an entertaining experience.

My only regret? There’s a lot of shootin’, but no lootin’ at all, despite it being the main point of the game. I was expecting one of the main characters to spend some time comparing two weapons at an inconvenient time, but no dice.

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#MiniReview #Movies Dune: Part 2 (2024) is a faithful continuation of the first movie. A lot of spectacular and pointless fighting and too little but tense intrigue. Overall a good spectacle way showier than the books.

Awaiting the hopefully last movie in the series. Much like Star Wars, this franchise has the potential to bog down with each subsequent release.

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Shown Ghostbusters (1984) to my 9 year old kid and she “didn’t know what to think of it”, which is a small victory considering she deemed Jurassic Park (1993) “boring”.

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Watching Mean Girls (2004) at the request of my kid for Sushi Movie Night we have every other Friday, I’m being reminded of this seamless cut of the end of Mean Girls immediately followed by the beginning of Hackers (1995) as both share Orbital’s song Halcyon On and On (1993) on their soundtrack. And it never fails to make me chuckle.

(hat tip to @JP for the discovery)

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Mean Hackers

Where one movie ends, another movie starts.

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What does Romania, Russia, Latvia, Germany, and the United States have in common? A planet, and the human imagination. We imagine borders, nationalities, and differences. In truth we are all very much the same. We grow up in a culture, we watch the same TV, listen to the same music, follow similar traditions. We are "educated" and "trained" by institutions that are rarely questioned by the masses.

So how does a newborn human become someone in this culture of humans? And how does the human-invented world contrast with the vast universe we are part of?

#Help I'm looking for the name of a comedy, either a movie or a TV show episode, in which every time an actor mentions the word "assassin", there's a dramatic off-screen whisper echoing the word.

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Still salty that the cinematic adaptation of the book World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) written by Max Brooks, which is a lovely collection of apocalyptic short stories, ended up being written as a white savior long story starring Brad Pitt. 😫

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Today, September 18, Klaatu delivers his message of absolute peace to a group of Earth's leaders, informing them that if the planet cannot contain its violent tendencies, it will be incinerated for the safety of the rest of the universe (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951)

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I’ve never given much credit to professional film critics. I’ve found them either on a cultural level way beyond my reach, or mere indiscriminate fans of the medium itself and its associated fame and glamour without anything much deeper to contribute.

However, after watching Empire Records (1995) on my partner suggestion and having some sprouting thoughts about it, I looked for a more established opinion about why this box-office flop became a cult classic.

And I found this excellent article by jason Bailey that articulates some of the same burgeoning ideas I had better that I ever could while still remaining accessible for neophytes like me. Definitely a “wow” moment, and not just because a stranger agrees with me.

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The Quick Failure and Unexpected Comeback of ‘Empire Records’

In September of 1995, a teen-geared comedy called Empire Records opened quietly in only 87 theaters. It was greeted by hostile reviews and meager box office, grossing barely a quarter of a million dollars before its theatrical run came to a halt two…

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Now I Am the Master (Darth Vader) by Devin Schoeffler

Guardians of the Galaxy by Neil Davies

• No horror or gore films, please.
• Do not tell me what it is about. No hints either. Just suggest me a good film. 😀