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Ice Storm (2023)
chunks as big as bowling balls ... Do you know what we're up to? No. Hold on ... I hope the parachute holds
(so I watched this trash with the subtitles turned on and it then made this movie stupid-funny-WTF-trash)
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REACT is the controversial crisis team which saved countless lives ... crisis team from California is led by the environmentalist dr. Molly Martin and financed by the billionaire Griffin Richards and managed safely by the shady David Diaz. We are starting a preliminary investigation ... but the whole REACT for fakes information and to create panic. Sooner or later, REACT makes a mistake. / do they help or do more harm? The natural disasters has been added a lot. Could they have made it worse? People are
at risk, perhaps due to REACT. Eric. What are you doing here? Griffin let me in. Yes, he lives here. Do you want coffee? Did you know that Clay will start to go to a psychologist? Is it true? That is great. Sheep! It was just us. I let it stand, just like Sven! Yes. And therefore I know how easy it is to let it stand. I don't want to disappoint you! That's right, mate. Is this how a billionaire lives? You even have a rocket. Yes, nice rocket. It looks new. I have never seen such big hail. We have to go to the command center. The Duopolar Radar shows strong energy levels here. The hailstorms are getting larger with chunks as big as bowling balls ... So we dampen the hail with sky rockets filled with silver iodide ... Big as bowling balls? ... Be aware of snow-fog, black ice and hail as large as bowling balls that come flying ... The difficult thing is that the forks should preferably be placed at the same time ... Here is everything about where you are going, how You place the fork and triangulate ... If you hear or see anything, call. This is my personal mobile number ... We will not be stopped by guards ... We are literally driving in the snow on the way to Mount Olive to set up tuning forks
and send rockets up into a blizzard ... Have you installed one before? A fork? I've never seen one before. But Molly knows all about it. She has always been a geek ... It sounds like balls, that hits the car. That is it. Look how big they are ... Look how big it is. It's like a baseball. Did he say baseball? Eric, are the hailstones bigger
than those at the hangar? Yes, Griffin has one. It's like a baseball ... Imagine them as bowling balls. We hurry to change the wheel ... When this is over, I want to talk to you about REACT ... We'll talk about it later ... Strand Hospital will not cooperate. They fear that the electromagnetic forces from the fork disturbs the equipment in the hospital ... We need to place the forks within this time frame ... Let me know when yours fork is in place and activated ... We called back to install a tuning fork ... He needs a wheelchair now ... I don't want to make a scene or give you trouble, but i do what i have to if you don't get a wheelchair now ... Our tuning fork is ready ... We only have four minutes. If it doesn't come up, everything is in vain ... Molly, now it's counting those bowling balls you talked about ... The rockets have been sent up ... The hail is smaller. It's just snow. We did it ... Do you want a cookie? Quiet now. Did you get an answer to the question? Yes ... Yolanda? Are you feeling well? Yolanda? Are you okay? Yes sorry ... Yolanda, you won't lose me. Is it true? Yes ... Satellites that capture solar energy ... Do you suggest that we heat the storm with microwaves? Yes. From satellites. They contain solar energy ... They are not wrong. The temperature drops ... When the vortices meet, the whole planet will be frozen ... which shows an ice age. What? Wait a minute ... I'll call Dunfield back. Wait a minute ... All forecasts and all map software have dismantled ... How is it possible? It seems like the weather service
has stopped posting data. Ling, What happened? We have lost NOAA. Natasha, what's going on? We have lost the office, the satellites and the product company ... We can't communicate with the satellites. It has happened. We can not link us to the satellites now ... The Arcstar mk8 spacecraft ... Are you asking if we can fly the transmitters closer to the satellites? Now we use the same brain ... How do we solve it? Well, the train that crashed, transported it ... Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine freezes at minus 75.3 degrees ... We must take REACT's command center ... it probably won't freeze since it's made of the same material as the suits ... The cold is extreme. We freeze on the spot, if the core temperature drops. So everyone must wear protective thermal suits ... Do you remember what I said? You won't lose me ... Without the rocket there is no earth left ... What does it mean? Aner doesn't know, it's David's department. How's it going over there? The transmitter has been reprogrammed ... That literally is a train wreck ... What was it called? Unsymmetrical dimethalhydrozine. It's in the cylinders ... Senator? Are you there? Senator Carlson? Can you hear me? I have you. Griffin! What happened? It's broken. A cylinder fell on him ... so we have about five hours before the vortices meet and freezes the whole world ... Failure is not an option ... Eric, are you ready? Yes, if you are ... The stabilizer and heat shield are damaged but not broken ... What do I do? The stabilizers are damaged ... Griffin, how do I fix this? You can not do that ... The parachute is huge. It is silver colored and reflects heat and light. Can we put it right, it becomes the heat source ... What does it mean? Mother? Sheep? Come in, change! Mother! Sheep! Power off. I don't want to hear them. I have to concentrate ... Do you know what we're up to? No. Hold on ... I hope the parachute holds. There is something wrong. The parachute is gone. What do we do? What are you doing? We have to jump out! What? The rocket is destroyed ... Eric? Are you okay? Are you in one piece? Yes. Are you okay? Funny, right? Shall we try again? No thanks ... I love you to the moon and back ... Shall we save the world again? Not directly ... But as REACT's new owner I will make some changes ... What? David, what's going on? Griffin. Your money was essential. You are arrested ... And Molly. Return to your protests. You and your family are fired. What? Yolanda ... What do we do now? Mother? Sheep? What happens?
Blade the Iron Cross (2020)
another trashy trap to suck money from good faith viewers treated as mere marks in a never-ending con game
This stinker is bad. Really bad. The so called "plot" feels like it was written in one boring afternoon by somebody with very limited creativity. And it all seems so dreary - it has that "cramped stage with almost all action pushed up against a wall" feel. Camera work is constantly out of focus, sound is hashed up in places and the Set Props are beyond laughable! Yeah this one is a dead donkey and I do wish I could get back the time watching this horror-ible film. 1 star - as I can not rate it any lower...
ParaÃso (2021)
(Are they dead or eating) "Estan muertas o comiendo"
Well I have watched the first episode of ParaÃso called "El incendio" (The fire) and I found it rather slow going. And the character Javi seems to always have the same angry/sad/confused look on his face for most of the episode.
Five minutes in, there is a scene in a school hallway involving students and a memorial type setup beside one wall. On the wall are the words "Estan muertas o comiendo" but there is no mention of what this means in the English subtitles. And I do not speak Spanish.
So I paused the episode and typed the words into a translation service to get a meaning (Are they dead or eating). Yes it's a minor thing, but it helps with understanding the scene and any message.
The main issue I have with the English subtitles is that in places they flash on the screen and then disappear so quick that I didn't get a chance to read them so this means I have to skip back a few seconds to read them and/or pause, which of course breaks up the flow of the scene :(
Including three music symbols - (this IMDB submission contains the following invalid characters) - in the English subtitles constantly did get a bit annoying.
Also annoying was the background music: eerie and sombre in some places was ok, but I felt there was to much of it. And the constant cuts from one scene with people in it to a different scene - with different people in it - and then back again, was very distracting.
I quickly spotted moments very similar to Stranger Things (an example at 19:28) being a scene where Javi is riding at night - on his red lowrider-bicycle with a banana-seat and single dynamo powered front bike light.
The last ten minutes of the episode are the best (the fire in the ParaÃso nightclub) but it made me sad to see a mirror ball burning on the floor and then lots of lights and truss on fire. The outside scene a few minutes later was a great twist though!
At 58:35 you get a glimpse of the right wrist of "Lieutenant Zhou, Central Unit." WALKING towards the camera. His wrist shows a tattoo of what looks like three propeller blades within a small circle. The problem is Lieutenant Zhou supposedly got a double barrel shotgun blast TO THE HEAD a few moments ago! Yep I paused the episode, and at 58:02 "Don't move or I'll shoot your brains out!" - a flame at the end of the barrels can be seen - with a large dark red splotch on Lieutenant Zhou's forehead in the very next frame.
Stranger Things indeed...
An Audience with Adele (2021)
May I Get A Hot Honey? That's A Chamomile!
An Audience with Adele
a pre-recorded ITV special at the London Palladium
broadcast 21 November 2021 on ITV
Adele has a truly amazing voice: such a deep and soulful sound!
And this "An Audience with" special was pure magic for me (and will be for any Adele fan)
Awesome and stunning, an hour of great entertainment indeed. Now for the second viewing.
Setlist:
01:38 - 04:56 Hometown Glory
05:15 - 10:04 Hello
15:02 - 18:42 Send My Love (To Your New Lover)
18:57 - 23:37 Easy On Me
27:14 - 32:14 I Drink Wine
35:23 - 39:14 Rolling in the Deep
40:30 - 46:31 Hold On
51:32 - 55:28 Set Fire to the Rain
57:50 - 1:02:34 Someone Like You
1:02:56 - 1:08:08 Love Is a Game
Notes:
early in "Easy On Me" Adele was forced to restart after botching the intro. Swearing loudly, she told her band: "One more time. I'm really scared."
10:46 - 10:48 Adele took a sip from her white mug on stage
"may i get a hot honey? That's a chamomile!"
50:08 - 51:01 comedian Alan Carr sang a few lines from "Make You Feel My Love"
with support from the crowd while Adele went off stage for a moment
"30" is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter Adele, released on 19 November 2021 by Melted Stone and Columbia Records.
Fourth song "Easy On Me" in the show is the second track on the new album
fifth song "I Drink Wine" in the show is the seventh track on the new album
seventh song "Hold On" in the show is the tenth track on the new album
tenth song "Love Is a Game" in the show is the twelfth track on the new album
Dame Emma Thompson almost stole Adele's shine as she was caught full on dancing!
Zeros and Ones (2021)
does not deliver as the sum total of its parts 😶
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by the end I had far more questions and confusion than answers.
Inspektion (2018)
an 8 minute drama/kriminalfilm in Deutsch/German about censorship/physical violence
Germany is in an uproar as the new government has had a law adopted that establishes a State-controlled censorship. All media and cultural facilities are being thoroughly inspected. The theatre house of Jan Reeberger is one of the many inspected institutions. During the inspection two different world views collide: Jan with his idealistic and cosmopolitan worldview on one side - and on the other, Micky who is standing up for the new political system. What begins as a conversation between the two of them gets more and more out of hand and escalates into physical violence. So Jan must ask himself the question: how far can you go before facing injustice.
County Lines (2019)
the 'County Line' is the mobile phone line used to take the orders of drugs
This is certainly both a bleak and powerful film, full of real emotion and depth: the sense of hopelessness and struggle kept me watching for the entire 84 minutes!
A moving coming-of-age British film with lots of swearing and brutal scenes about a teenage boy who is groomed into a 'county lines' criminal network.
Before watching this I did not know much about this topic so I had a quick look at the nationalcrimeagency website:
"County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another, often across police and local authority boundaries (although not exclusively), usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs. The 'County Line' is the mobile phone line used to take the orders of drugs. Importing areas (areas where the drugs are taken to) are reporting increased levels of violence and weapons-related crimes as a result of this trend."
The film follows Tyler (Conrad Khan, born in 2000) - a withdrawn teenager whose mother struggles to keep her family afloat. In the first minute of the film you hear the words "acceptable loss" and Khan's role here asks a lot of him as a young actor: his opening scene relies purely on his facial expressions and, as his situation deteriorates further, we are even more aware that underneath he's still a boy, full of confusion and turmoil. There is a flashback to Tyler's life six months earlier and you see a rather troubled boy.
After buying a pair of shoes and sitting having food, Tyler listens as Simon (Harris Dickinson) describes himself as an entrepreneur and a man of his house: Tyler immediately replies that he, to, is "the man of my house". From here you feel the excellent script building the story with every scene and watch as Tyler changes from that boy into an angry and violent man-of-his-house.
"County Lines" works best on a big TV screen as there are many dark and deliberately dimly lit scenes. The camerawork is clever in many scenes and the use of filters on some of the shots really adds to the atmosphere of the characters. You see this in the scene where Tyler is standing in the school yard, surrounded by puffy jackets and people, but totally alone in his depressing view of his life.
I was shocked at how real this film feels, and I watched as Tyler becomes a train-bound drugs courier, taking him into a world of violence, exploitation and deceit. This really is gritty storytelling - from Tyler's concealed method of carrying the drugs to the brutal beating he receives one hour into the film when he tries to muscle in on the patch of another dealer.
We only ever hear and see exactly what we need to and the director's restrained approach to his narrative heightens the film's devastating impact.
The film ends with a rather disturbing message:
Up to 10,000 children as young as 11 are involved
in County Lines across the UK.
Red Mist (2021)
Compelling viewing: a bad business deal, a beating, betrayal, lies and murder!
I must say the poster tagline "They were glad to see him die" is a bit misleading but no spoilers. A good watch at 93 minutes indeed!
The Ballad of Billy McCrae is a story of love and hate and murder, set against the backdrop of industrial South Wales. A taut psychological thriller about three compelling, flawed, iconic characters. This is a classic film noir full of emotional danger and sensual attraction.
'The Ballad Of Billy McCrae' is a film about damage and dysfunction, a film about flawed people, emotionally stunted people, people who can't see far beyond their own desires, dreams and greed.
- Director Chris Crow
US rights have been purchased by Gravitas Ventures and the film will be released in the States in 2021.
Dybbuk Box: The Story of Chris Chambers (2019)
don't try to tell your audience it's real when it's clearly not!
> there are just two "actors" and they can NOT act.
> hard to watch: it's ripping off a far more successful film series
> biggest disappointment though comes in the flat finale
similar to Paranormal Activity but sadly, it makes it all feel like a waste of time.
Triassic Hunt (2021)
Tri-assh ... TRASH
A rip off of Jurassic Park (1993) and a really bad one at that!
Which is the stupidest?
Triassic Hunt FOR SURE
so, so bad: avoid this Tri-assh
Budget: $1 (estimated)