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  • Venom

    ★★★½

  • To Catch a Killer

    ★★★

  • Expend4bles

    ★★

  • Masters of the Air

    ★★★★½

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  • Dune: Part Two

    Dune: Part Two

    ★★★★★

    Villeneuve has Dune it again and delivers the epic spectacle of our generation without losing the reserved manner of showing us grand battles. In Dune, it’s not about the battles we see, but rather the ones we infer through the eyes of our protagonists.

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★½

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    Today: Dune: Part One

    „This is only the beginning...“
    (Zendaya as Chani)

    Hi everybody, epic, spiritual, visceral, emotional - we're absolutely flashed by the clever blockbuster spectacle adaptation of Frank Herbert's influential milestone universe and one of our favorite book series, we have to say that the waiting and longing for the next big sci-fi picture was definitely worth it, an experience reminiscent of "Lord of the Rings" for many reasons. We couldn't…

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  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★★★½

    A disturbed, perplexing, and absurd love child of Tarkovsky's existential questions, Robert Eggers' dark madness, and the Coen Brothers' black humor injected into the body of Wes Anderson's aesthetics and Wong Kar-Wai's colors. A bizarre monstrosity that works!

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  • The Boy and the Heron

    The Boy and the Heron

    ★★★★

    Studio Ghibli/Miyazaki Ranked

    The last “Miyazaki” is a parable for the farewell of the old, wise man who has created entirely new worlds, passing them on to a younger generation. A succession of beautiful animation somewhere between the early classics and a new found style in movement, drawing inspiration from almost every previous work of the renowned studio: From story elements of Grave of the Fireflies or The Wind Rises to similar stylistic choices from Spirited Away or Howl’s Moving…

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  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    ★★★★★

    "When I first was writing the script I thought it was about loneliness. What I learned while writing the script is this was about a man who suffered from the pathology of loneliness, he wasn't only by nature he was lonely as a defense mechanism and he reinforced his own loneliness by his own behavior and the pathology grew until it became malignant and violent."
    (Screenwriter Paul Schrader)


    AN INDIVIDUALS FIGHT AGAINST LONELINESS - SCORSESE'S DARK MASTERPIECE OF URBAN ALIENATION IS DISTURBING, POWERFUL, AND REMAINS RELEVANT

  • Unforgiven

    Unforgiven

    ★★★★★

    "I swore I would never be involved in a picture with this much violence in it. But the more I read it and the more I came to understand the purpose of the film, the more fascinated I became."
    (Gene Hackman)


    BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN HEROISM AND VILLAINY, "UNFORGIVEN" SHATTERS THE MYTH OF "THE OLD WEST"