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 2021
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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 2023
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 2023
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 1976
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(Screenwriter Paul Schrader)
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Unforgiven 1992
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(Gene Hackman)
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