Month: October 2024

26/28

All entries contain spoilers

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A seasoned criminal injects a grieving woman with a paralytic agent. She must run, fight and hide before her body shuts down. She walks back and forth between scenes wearing running shoes and hiking boots..

Is the art of a good opening scene starting to make a comeback?

You Don’t Own MeWritten by John Madara, Dave White (as David Ernest White)Starring Deep Sea Diver with Natalie Closner. Probably not, but a few movies I’ve seen recently have had some good ones and 'Don’t Move' was one of them. It’s a tense little scene with little time, but more than that, it sets up the rest of the film.

He manages to make it work – just

Get information that will come into play later and set up the characters nicely. My main concern when I read the synopsis for this movie was whether they would be able to stretch it past 90 minutes. The film uses good creativity to stretch things out and keep the film fresh as things progress.

This is a solid little thriller with some good moments along the way

I don’t think they could have managed another 15-20 minutes and they were smart to keep the runtime to the length they did. It may not have had enough X-factor to stick with me for long, but there are certainly worse ways to spend 90 minutes. 7/10..

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35/34

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Spellbound follows a tenacious young princess (Rachel Zegler) who must go on a daring quest to save her family and their kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents (Nicole Kidman & Javier Bardem) into monsters.

45/46

Brothers tells the story of a reformed criminal (Josh Brolin) whose efforts to go straight are thwarted when he embarks on the journey of a lifetime with his sanity-challenged twin brother (Peter Dinklage). Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must mend their fractured family bonds before they kill each other.

46/39

One night, the arrival of young Heraldo definitively transforms the daily life of the place

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Under the burning sky on a roadside on the coast of Ceará, Motel Destino is the scene of dangerous games of desire, power and violence. Sixth film directed by Karim Aïnouz to receive its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, following Madame Satã (2002), O Abismo Prateado (2011), Nevidljivi život Eurídice Gusmão (2019), Marinheiro das Montanhas (2021), and Firebrand (2023)..

It is a movie about what destiny has in store for these characters, who seem more than once to be defying their own destiny

Directed by Karim Aïnouz, the movie offers a mixture of desire, love, and crime in a story that follows young Heraldo finding sanctuary in a motel by the beach, where he is soon immersed into unexpected situations where erotic and power tension surface while hiding from the gangsters who are after him.Motel Destino, Portuguese for destiny, is a sex motel where the lives of Heraldo, Dayana, and Elias will cross paths. Dayana and Elias, the owners of the motel, will find in Heraldo not only a young boy who they like and are willing to help, but also a seed that will bloom unforeseen challenges in their lives.

The cast does an excellent job in contributing to the uprising tension between them

Gazes that tell more than enough to interpret their owner's intentions are the physical manifestations of said tension. Sometimes they are the product of desire, and other times of jealousy, but they are always there, ready to cast what they are feeling.The cinematography of the movie is constantly reinforcing the location and the surrounding elements of Motel Destino.

Beaches, palms, sand, swimming pools, a light-colored palette, elements conveying hot days of summer where desire blooms

Desire that also manifests in their bodies, especially when naked, by channeling doses of eroticism that have to be released, but also of their immanent vulnerability. When a day comes to an end and the night takes its place, the location transmits the looming dangers of the relationships bonded by the motel.

Between the walls of Motel Destino, the corridors become larger by reason of desire alone, carnal desire in its purest form, but also desire for a better life away from what defines us

Barely lighted highways, the neon lights of the motel, and the secrets its walls harbor, open the door for dangerous destinies ready to realize themselves.A movie about emancipation from what we know constitutes our everyday lives.

16/34

IMDb Editor Arno Kazarian offers up quick takes on 12 movies he screened at the 2024 New York Film Festival, including Anora and the dangerous, curiously erotic Misericordia

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In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he's always dreamed of being..

Jacques Audiard's first Spanish-language film

A French title card misspells the Indian city as "Dehli"..

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(2024).

El TrioWritten by Camille, Clément Ducol and Jacques AudiardPerformed by Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Zoe Saldana

The script is shamefully shallow and implausible, the performances are weak (perhaps with the exception of Zoe Saldana, but still overacting).A hammy Karla Sofia Gaston, the so-called protagonist who gives the film its title, fails to convince either as a woman, as a singer, or much less as an actress (at times reminiscent of those over-the-top performances from low-quality Mexican soap operas).And when you leave a musical without any song stuck in your head, not even humming, it's a sign that the work has failed in that regard as well.

I really don't understand all the fuss over this highly overrated piece

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42/34

Kensuke’s Kingdom focuses on the epic adventure of Michael, a young boy shipwrecked on a remote island who must adapt to life alone. Over time, Michael senses another presence and discovers that his new world is home to unimaginable danger and beauty.

46/11

Magpie is a stylish neo-noir thriller centered on married couple Anette (Daisy Ridley) and Ben (Shazad Latif), whose lives begin to fracture when their daughter is cast alongside a glamorous movie star, Alicia (Matilda Lutz). As Anette’s suspicions of Ben’s infatuation with Alicia intensify, their secrets and lies threaten to burst to the surface and destroy them all.

33/24

A prolific expert in the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte accompanies a motley crew of military renegades to a remote island in the South Pacific to investigate the disappearance of Marine units stationed there in 1944, said to be in the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army. After talking to the islanders, they soon discover that the marines were actually killed by a group of lycanthropes, known to most as werewolves.

11/33

The filmmakers used what was already available to them

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After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to the small town of Miles County to target a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. Scenes filmed in the movie “Terrifier”; haunted house were filmed in a real haunted house called the Fright Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Art’s favorite acid is fluoroantimonic acid, which he keeps in a clear glass bottle. It is a super acid capable of dissolving even glass.

Art the Clown:

A central scene takes place in a mental hospital with Chris Jericho as security guard Alan Burke and Leah Voysey as a nurse. .. The German DVD and Blu-ray releases from Tiberius Film are shortened by approx. three minutes to secure the “Not Under 18” title; rating (this was necessary because the guidelines for video release are stricter than for theatrical release).

Adapted from Terrifier (2016)

Basically every violent scene was edited to tone down the violence. Nameless Media’s 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray Mediabook releases are completely uncut and have received a moderate SPIO/JK approval. The Equalizer (Not Alone) Written by Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle (as Jamison Tyler Lyle) Performed by The MidnightCourtesy of BMG Platinum Songs U.S. (BMI).

The horror scenes really shocked me

To be honest, the first scarecrow was something else when I first saw it. I found out they were doing a second one and I thought it was great! Now I saw it and still thought it was great, but OMG! This movie lives up to the hype people are talking about.

It’s so horrible and cruel

I honestly haven’t had a movie make me want to scream in disgust and look away but keep watching because the makeup and everything is really good. Art the Clown is ruthless and never holds back. He never speaks, but you know what he’s saying anyway. The final girl is amazing!

41/35

Terry Jacobs (Tom Welling) is a recently paroled criminal forced to go undercover to take down Griffo (Cam Gigandet), the head of Italy’s most notorious mafia syndicate.