elo-equipamentos Reviews (3,125)

Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes (1986)

A true amazing-sarcastic Sci-Fi mocking the dictatorial communist system!!

[8/10 · 24 January 2025]

The final Piotr Szulkin's Sci-Fi trilogy ends up in this higher acid critic addressed to dictatorial communist system at Poland prior fall of Berlin wall and ensuing the total collapse of URSS's bleak regime, it was made in 1986 when all countries of iron curtain were in decaying process of extreme poverty and lack of enough food meanwhile the oppressive regime tried hidden this outrageous plight inserting a massive TV propaganda aiming for misleading the people.

The plot basically is about an unnamed country in near future that has a correctional facility at space, so the government impose for a prisoner Scope (Daniel Olbrychski) to became an astronaut travelling to outer space to explore new planets and plant a national flag in such ground, although reaching at planet called Australia Scope is well-received as hero by a local bureaucratic Chudy (Jerzy Stuhr), oddly enough this planet has the same community system ongoing at Poland at mid-eighties.

A sharp screenplay mocking the strapped-cumbersome system on those massive paperwork whatever the reason it's required a triple carbon copy properly assigned by the upset citizen, all that in a decaying city likewise Poland's poorly environment at its period of time, to finish the odd offering the hero ought commit a cruel crime to be impaled at packed stadium with a live broadcasting, well it's really a sarcastic outcome.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

Blood and Sand (1941)

The bloodthirst wild crowd in a bull arena screaming louder!!

[8/10 · 23 January 2025]

The Fox's star Tyrone Power often fits perfect in those Spanish characters in THE MARK OF ZORRO, CAPTAIN FROM CASTILE and now a famous bullfighter in Blood and Sand, a follow up devised by Fox after the smashing success of famous outlaw Zorro, the producers team up once more Mamoulian and Power in this classic novel of Vicente Blasco Ybanez bringing together Linda Darnell and some stereotyped supporting casting as Pedro de Cordoba and Fortunio Bonanova to accomplish this thematic picture over this medieval show.

Essentially a story about a son of a former champion bullfighter Juan Gallardo (Power) died at arena that headed toward Madrid with their friends to reach at stardom on that bloody show, back home in Sevilla get marriage with his childhood girlfriend Carmen (Linda Darnell), the sudden fame went to his head, hereinafter he gets himself bewitched by a Doña Sol (Rita Hayworth) from Spanish aristocracy entering in financial troubles due the expensive lifestyle, then the worst coming over.

Ybanez made a hard criticism in the deadly spectacle that aforetime was from afar the most favorite ever in Iberian Peninsula & Spanish territories at America concerning the bloodthirst wild crowd in the arena, also exposing the bleak future in some key characters as Sebastian "El Nacional" (John Carradine) often saying "this is my last season" and the own Juan Gallardo's fate, legend says that Tyrone Power previously the shooting had visited a Bull arena in Mexico, there he was deep shaken up over the outrageous bloody scenes and leaving the venue right away.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

The troublesome of prearranged marriages upon sharp lens of the master Ozu!!

[9/10 · 22 January 2025]

As a matter of fact Yasujirô Ozu was deemed the best Japanese director ever, nonetheless overseas he was illustrious unknown, just around the eighties their movies reach at Europe and America baffling the critics and gaining more admires worldwide henceforth became famous for newest cinephiles like myself that just came to me on later DVD advent nearby 2015 or so, when a lot of their best pictures came out officially in Brazil.

This quiet-enigmatic persona, conceived mostly human family interactions on poetic look, grounded in easy Japanese lifestyle, in this offering Ozu touches in those prearranged marriages an old custom since ancient times, now a mid-age couple entering in clash due their young niece rejects such medieval proceeding, hereinafter the stubborn-spoiled wife often complains about bad behaviors of his forbearing husband, to the extent at call him as disparagingly as coy man.

Upon this elements Ozu introduces his keen look thru this trivial matter in awesome manner displaying to the audience masterfully how he sew up at first glance an insoluble domestic issue in a mutual understanding anchored in straightforwardness of human being only, which everyone ought respect his opposite whatever their behavior insofar he feels free to do such things, another near masterpiece of the unforgettable Japanese master Yasujirô Ozu.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 9.

República dos Assassinos (1979)

Miguel Farias jr. implied a political drama underneath a sexploitation of gay setting!!

[6/10 · 21 January 2025]

Don't get me wrong, Republica de Assassinos is disguised as political drama regarding the dreaded Death Squad arising in late sixties during military dictatorship system until mid-eighties, as a matter of fact this picture focuses essentially in a gay-relationship setting than everything else, a sub-plot concerning a tabloid umbilical corrupt connection between head office of security department as a tool of exposure this special squad.

Aftermaths many excess carried out by the leading casting the crook cop Mateus (Tarcisio Meira) allied his hot affair with a tabloid's owner daughter (Silvia Bandeira) spoils for good an easy ambience at high sphere of power, so hereinafter each members of death squad have been arrest to appease the hot environment lifts by an stringent district attorney at their neck, upon this plight someone threats becomes a squealer.

Underneath these facts cited above entering the main plot about the exotic gay persona played by Anselmo Vasconcelos that spent fifteen minutes in opening sequence exposing his sexual behavior with his humble lover, actually he is the main character in this sexploitation-dramatic picture, he also appeared in key sequences as at courthouse and on final outcome, so don't be fooled by some reviewers dealing it as political drama as the tittle implied.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.

Baal (1970 TV Movie)

My worst picture number 27!!

[1/10 · 20 January 2025]

When you think that saw everything about bad pictures suddenly you bump into another rubbish production increasing the long list doomed to oblivion whereby they deserve stay there forever at trash can of cinema industry, stay tuned for forthcoming entries still buried that in near future like it or not will see the light, it's specifically the case of the outrageous "BAAL" that hurts the viewers in plenty way as never seen before.

Technically Baal never was released properly, just exposed by small audience in several private sessions aiming for be assessed by them, aftermaths the baffled watchers warned the producers forget the project otherwise it will be rejected by large majority would be became a huge flop, so just recently the filmmaker Volker Schlondorff has a nerve to recover it to release in a thematic box as really happened intitled at "New German Cinema".

A nasty leading cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder labeled a genius poet gone wild against the system becoming bitter and sleazy behavior, a sort of irreversible self-destruction process among it enters an unaware viewers that quickly perceive an unorthodoxy setting as art movie, we delve into an everlasting nightmare praying to reach at final, a kind of countdown where every single minute count, a true endurance test to the audience without any reward.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 1.

O Camelô da Rua Larga (1958)

Zé Trindade as womanizer huckles between counterfeit money & a long awaited heritage!!!

[6/10 · 19 January 2025]

I have been revisited many Zé Trindade pictures lately and I make sure to expose my reviews over this beloved swindler character whom I grew to like in my youth time, I've release an absent of others Brazilian reviewers in those old features, it's a really crying shame for us, in this specific comedy once more produced by Cinedistri, the screenplay was devised by a genius Chico Anísio at early career, Victor Lima and hunches by own Zé Trindade because it was written addressed to womanizer huckster Vicente often in a jam by succeeding police raids at his selling point at Rio de Janeiro's downtown.

To worse he'd eight months of overdue rent always pushing by the bossy landlady Bebê (Maria Vidal) whereby Vicente often recalls the angry lady that is about to get a pulpy heritage from his wealthy auntie on the verge of die, which he won't hasten the process, even wishing for, however everything changes when he bumps into a gang of counterfeit money that end up in bench-clearing brawl Vicent gets unwittingly to protect himself an infamous suitcase of full of cash, hereinafter the chaos in done, so forthcoming events due someone has been passed ahead the fake money.

As usually Zé Trindade speaks those sharp lines often in double meaning, also his customary hiss to every single gorgeous girl passing by, as expected on storyline are inserted many off topic musical numbers scattered along the offering, too much commonplace at Brazilian cinema at its period of time, even so the whole packed became a middling comedy by Zé Trindade's standard, he closing the movie saying "How is hard to be hot!!" what a line, don't you?

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD-R-Youtube / Rating: 6.5.

I Walk the Line (1970)

Among moonshiners, hillbillies and forbidden sexy girl, don't cross the line!!!

[8/10 · 18 January 2025]

John Frankenheimer choose Mississippi state to tell I Walk the Line for two main reasons, firstly because this state had the legendary moonshiners hidden in those mountains far out of range of authorities and secondarily due Johnny Cash provides the soundtrack was born there, upon that such place offers a perfect ambience to develop the well-crafted story of the mid-age Sherriff Tawes (Gregory Peck) stuck in a unhappy marriage finding himself enchanted by gorgeous teenager Alma (Tuesday Weld) daughter of Carl McCain (Ralph Meeker) a long line of moonshiner's leader clan that throw her at Tawes's hands insofar he turns a blind eye of family forbidden business.

In a bucolic rural environment the story unfolds towards a drastic outcome, due appears a fed man sniffing around hell-bent to catch those illegal moonshiners among then Carl McCain, meanwhile an Alma's message addressed to Tawes ends up in the dirty hands of the bleak deputy Hunnicutt (Charles Durning), so the circle is closing for Tawes, so he has been planning a departure taking the blonde Alma together, foreseeably it doesn't take too long for upcoming strains.

The savvy director also implied a slight incestuous relationship regarding the silly Alma and his shady father, aside he didn't expose anything, also Alma triggers a harassment carried out by rotten Hunnicutt in a pivotal sequence, anyway as a matter of fact the movie's preposition is the sexual setting in those hill territory, all this scored by a gorgeous country soundtrack, a forgotten Frankenheimer picture.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

...All the Marbles (1981)

An unexpected farewell of the classy Aldrich a smaller great picture!!

[7/10 · 17 January 2025]

I'd already lost my hopes to re-watch this wrestling picture since 1987 when it aired on TV, aftermaths it disappeared from the sight, no so fast out of the blue our all-weather friend Versátil a kind of Brazilian Criterion has just released a box entitled "New Hollywood" already in eighth volume, it brings a ultimate restoration of ...All the Marbles to my pleasure.

It was unwittingly Robert Aldrich's last feature, he'd too much concerns due their previous pictures flopped at box-office, aided by his son William Aldrich as producer in this smallest offering about wrestling hiring the veteran actor Peter Falk as manager of duo wrestler girls Vicky Frederick and Laurene London labelled as California Dolls in touring fighting thru many cities until reach in a final match-tiebreaker at MGM's arena at Reno in Nevada.

An utterly awesome and spice entertainment on those endless fights at boxing rings and even in a dirty mug, further many gorgeous contenders, on that travelling Aldrich displayed their fears, sufferings and anxieties to achieve at so awaited stardom, the chemistry between the hated-loved manager and their girls is really touching, supported by a solid casting as the red-letter Burt Young and his moronic-funny bodyguard Lenny Montana, the crook referee Richard Jaeckel without forget the eye-candy black Toledo Tiger girls.

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First watch: 1987 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.

Samurai Spy (1965)

An early Shinoda exposes a high strain period on Chambara picture in noirish style!!

[8/10 · 17 January 2025]

The crafty director Mashahiro Shinoda entering at Shochiko in early sixties aiming for work nearby his hero Yashirô Ozu or perhaps together, unfortunately the famous master already had his own favorite crew members, nonetheless it didn't take too long appears his first directorial debut, five years later Shinoda becomes in successful director there at own style, he manages the whole system on Shochiko studios.

In this medieval epic sets place at 17th century aftermaths the legendary Battle of Sekigahara real events carried out in old Japan split in two opposite shogunates, then both employed hundred spies in high strain period, this picture focuses in a fictional spy character Sarutobi Sasuke (Kôji Takahashi) moving around to gathering some insights, soon he finds himself tangle of strange murdering case, meanwhile a love interest by a charming dancer, later he'll be charged such murders, often chased by a white clothed warrior.

A kind slow pacing shambara picture in a noirish style, on tons of foggy ambience implied by the stubborn director against the quickly process required by the so worried Shochico's producers, needing relisting movies in industrial scale, anyway Shinoda dribbled past studio system with majesty on a fabulous entitled "Samurai Spy" by foreigner dealers.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

Nice Dreams (1981)

A wacko comedy from Smokey men!!

[7/10 · 16 January 2025]

I swear when I'd watched Nice Dreams in 1994 I'd assessed it rather silly to my taste due the offering touches in a neuralgic matter at my generation on the eighties deeply devasted by those smoke and white dust on their lives, nowadays as ripened brain revisiting this uncanny funny comedy I manage split the subject of the main preposition that make you laugh upon a countless gags concerning two weirdo guys selling marijuana covered as ace cream.

The duo comics guys already had started in a successful thematic comedy in UP IN SMOKE, CHEECH AND CHONG"S NEXT MOVIE, in fact anytime they didn't logged out of those smokey characters whatsoever, they pursued in this track until the topic was utterly sapped, so Nice Dreams worthwhile take a look for tons of hilarious sequences, mixing a slight sexploitation orientation and the wacko guys around, as the fruit cop character Noodles (Tim Rossovich) often groping Detective Drooler at surveillance at night shift, what a priceless moment.

Beware when it reaches on the highlight sequence at panoramic elevator a naked Cheech in dire straits running from the menacing "Animal", so get yourself ready to see a mocking of those wild times which smoke and sniff were meaning of forbidden things, otherwise on current time quite normal, Cheech & Chong are unforgettable indeed, unfortunately just a couple of pictures were released on DVD in Brazil.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5.

The Screaming Woman (1972 TV Movie)

On a stellar veteran casting a small offer became a pulse-pounding thriller!!

[7/10 · 15 January 2025]

Woefully the legendary actress Olivia de Havilland due her advanced age often was cast for playing this kind of character, a disturbed widow old lady Laura Wynant back recently from psychiatric hospital by some mental disorder having troubles with his unique son Howard (Charles Robinson) that is willing sell her sole large property by best offer, otherwise his pushy wife Caroline (Loraine Stephens) will left him for good, to getting worse Laura alleges had hearing a distress call from a demolished building area.

In a dead corner Howard asking for family lawyer George (Joseph Cotten) assess a possibility to sell it by legal recourse without her mother consent, also he appeals by Laura's doctor Amos (Walter Pidgeon) a possible medical assessment to lead it at courthouse to give him all ownership that allowed an outright sale, meanwhile Laura beseeches helps from everybody around, nonetheless nobody doesn't care due Laura's background insofar her mental status or some sad occurrences concerning pastime.

Awesome TV picture devised by the eclectic writer Ray Bradbury, having a great veteran cast as named above, furthermore the decent persona Lonny Chapman, the gorgeous Alexandra Hay, the iconic Charles Drake and the faltering villain Ed Nelson in a flawless performance, aside a low budge it's really a true accomplished by the hardworking Jack Smight.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

Beyond the Law (1968)

On an ordinary Spaghetti where Lionel Stander lifts it to high patten by his funniest Preacher persona!!

[7/10 · 15 January 2025]

Aftermaths the smashing success in IL BUONO, IL BRUTO, IL CATTIVO the leading power trio Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef, it open the gates of Italian profitable market to Van Cleef for good, it was the fourth movie sequentially often as leading star in a pulpy salary instead at America whereby was a mere adjunct on those countless western TV series, he reaches at stardom which he owes to Leone exposition as the legendary Sentenza.

Al di là Della Legge (Beyond the Law) is an above average spaghetti, having the Sicilian actor Antonio Sabato as co-star, the summarized plot is about a trio gang, led by the mastermind chief Culdlip (Van Cleef), El Niegro (Al Hoosnan) and the Preacher (Lionel Stander), they used to make small scams, although this turn they got a higher 12 thousand dollar took by stagecoach's foreigner engineer passenger Novak (Antonio Sabato) who was travelling with silver mining company's payroll money.

Aside be a successful heist something going wrong forcing an upcoming meeting of all them in city mining area where will have a large shipping of silver estimated nothing to sneeze at 100 thousand dollar in matter a month, it triggers the interest of the trio, also a menacing Burton's huge gang lurking nearby portrayed by the legendary Gordon Mitchell from those peplum and sandals Italian pictures.

Oddly enough in the casting has the forthcoming star Bud Spencer on a supporting role, the offering has many gorgeous girls around as the eye-candy Graziella Granata which Culdlip has a romantic interest, nonetheless who steal the show is the funniest Preacher Lionel Stander with tons of bible's notable lines in prophetic meaning whereby lifts an ordinary spaghetti in high path, easily perceived by a keen viewer.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.

The Rain People (1969)

Another hard endurance test for the audience, suffering twice? Certainly not!!

[7/10 · 13 January 2025]

Do you know that good art picture in a slow pace experience that you probably wouldn't to see again? Yes I'm talking about The Rain People, a hard endurance test to the viewers in a far fetched plot, a road movie that preceded the upper-class Awards winner THE GODFATHER one year later, however the offering has some qualities indeed, as those quickly flashbacks on key sequences trying exposing what happened in the past in regard what's going on in that moment, it really is a bright idea of the brainy Coppola.

The early sequence allied in the middle the movie is a kind contemplative sights interspersed with a quiet moronic hitchhiker (James Caan) between some reverse-charged calls by Natalie (Shirley Knight) to an upset husband, actually Caan didn't seems any stupid guy whatsoever, maybe miscasting for this specific role, nonetheless the key sequence that screw up quite sure was linked the doddy Alfred (Tom Aldredge) owner of that farmhouse of exotic animals as being the local judge to collect the usual charge by speeding ticket, here Coppola belittled audience intellect without forget the state troper Gordon (Robert Duvall) making twists over the motorcycle.

The whole thing getting fire just on final sequence at parking motor home, when the silly Natalie finally figures out that entered in a trouble with a philanderer redneck, apart it was a preposterous production, let it see with a compliant watcher, if he doesn't sleep before.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

Flash Gordon (1980)

Delightful cheesy Dino De Laurentiis extravaganza in remake of Flash Gordon!!!

[7/10 · 12 January 2025]

It sound like wine the older the better, I'd remembered on first watching in 1994 on TV a campy offering, however along all those years it getting strong in each revisiting, on DVD and now it seems much enjoyable on Blu-ray experience on brighter colors, breathtaking scenario in outer space devised by the iconic Dino De Laurentiis's producer, a lavish and luxurious huge sets, plus scored by a fine soundtrack provided by Queen make it greater.

Please no comments concerning the bad dialogues and awful performance gave by leading actor Sam S. Jones allied an unconvincing female star Melody Anderson, despite her stunning beauty, in other hand the still gorgeous Ornella Muti as vamp woman makes up for, the bleak Emperor Ming magnificently portrayed by the classy often villain Max von Sydow, enhanced by the eclectic Topol and the overbearing character Timothy Dalton, although who steal the show quite sure is Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan and their hawk men.

It's cheesy, corny and a guilty pleasure, tons of well-crafted props likewise the laser beam machine and those old-fashioned upscale spaceships to named just a few, furthermore a dazzling Ming's Kingdom, rocky planets, highest trees on small maquettes, surrounded by colorful clouds, it are a truly gorgeous environment, shot in British ground at Shepherd studio among others.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-Blu-ray / Rating: 7.

Never Let Go (1960)

Visceral Peter Sellers as never seen before, near masterpiece!!!

[9/10 · 12 January 2025]

Unfortunately it reaches to me too belatedly, this British noirish thriller devised by John Guillermin that also assigned the direction, whereby we can testify the iconic comic actor Peter Sellers in a visceral performance as never seen before as short tempered crook businessman always when he is annoyed for something from whom dislikes, becoming wild and spiteful, he has a upper class garage as facade, meanwhile behind of this regular business he used to stolen fancy cars on which he legitimizes thru crashed cars documents, upon a special request their stupid car's gang thieves commit a fatal mistake to steal a car nearby the garage.

Worst the victim is humble cosmetic salesman (Richard Todd) in dire straits due poor sales lately, who recently has invest his savings to acquire the car aiming for raise the turnover, however to save he didn't go any car insurance, in a dead-end saying the police working bureaucratically, so he starting searching for himself, after many failed attempts he was hardly tipped off by the local police, nonetheless facing the haughty mastermind it becomes it as personal.

Furthermore aside the main plot, it has sub-plots as the eye-candy girl (Carol White) in a pivotal character as dealing with the mobster as lover whereas has a romantic affair with young carjacker (Adam Faith), in other hand Richard Todd sees everything fall apart, he lost his position as seller and his weepy wife threatens to desert him, a fabulous forgotten picture, worthwhile a look for newest generation of cinephiles, near masterpiece.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 9.

Ruby Gentry (1952)

Ruby the flaming wildcat is highly underrated!!!

[8/10 · 11 January 2025]

Ruby Gentry portrayed by a hot girl Jennifer Jones is quite similar flaming character Pearl Chavez in DUEL IN THE SUN, by the way both pictures underrated, now the story takes places in southern swamp territory where has a long dynasty of aristocracy where those well born sons who ought remains among their own, Ruby is wild cat from poorest swamp family, she has a hot affair with upper class Boake Tackman (Charlton Heston) meanwhile his family already planned a marriage with a lady.

Although everything changes when a wealthy businessman Jim Gentry (Karl Malden) from lowest household became widower overnight getting Ruby as wife, it triggers many whispers at society whereby dislike such marriage for pure prejudice, nonetheless the past time over Ruby and Boake is back again, later upon an unpredictable accident on the boat alone with Ruby Jim went to die, then citizen blamed Ruby killed him willfully, thus upon the rich heritage she imposes a fierce revenge.

It seems much better on first time in far off 1993, somehow it doesn't aged well, even son watching carefully I'll keep my early feelings over this melodrama assigned by the classy King Vidor, the final outcome at swamp foggy environment is still striking.

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First watch: 1993 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8.

Graveyard of Honor (1975)

Kenji Fukasaku exposes sympathize for a mad dog character!!!

[8/10 · 11 January 2025]

It's an unusual Yakusa picture, according some Fukasaku's most closest work friends interviewed on bonus material explained that Rikio Schikawa a wild persona portrayed by Tetsuya Watari is meaning the compassion whereby Fukasaku felt by those losers in the society, thus the story spans since his tender years just narrated by someone until post WWII when the acting really starts properly, exposing a kind of mad dog criminal character entering in a Yakusa gang making great damages whatever he goes, thus has been punished by banishment for ten years in agreement of Yakusa's law, however he dares go back in few years.

Another interesting point is about the fully chaos carried out there by lost the war, followed by American military intervention which wasn't any novelty, although countless people from nearby countries raided the Japanese ground as reprisals over the fierce and ruthless deployed by Japanese Army on previous years on the continent, also inserting those drugs displayed on story, brought massively aftermaths the war and all black market over an economy in ramshackle.

Aside some overacted implied by Kenji Fukasaku on the narrative, the picture in fully interesting by a character study, also understanding how Japan overcame those chaotic environment post WWII, where the Yakusa's mobsters took the political power in many territory thru "good looking civilians" a true achievement by the underrated master Kenji Fikasaku.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8.

The Secret of the Mummy (1982)

The undying Mummy strikes at Rio de Janeiro!!

[5/10 · 10 January 2025]

Who knew one day the Brazilian cinema would undertake on Mummy franchise, well this day came in 1982 when Embrafilme, Mapa filmes and Super 8 Produções teamed up in this fresh project due just the iconic Coffin Joe already had produced Horror pictures, actually he made a small appearance on early sequence, however O Segredo da Mumia as expected had a humor oriented having a great casting of famous Brazilian actors.

The plot essentially is quite usual as a notorious Professor-scientist Expedito Vitus (Wilson Grey) mocked by the media by research the secret of immortality thru a kind of elixir of life, so he stolen a four-piece of a treasure map of the tomb Runamb, into possession the fully map Prof. Expedito headed to Egypt with small crew members of explores to try find out the chamber of the mummy, after a successful assignment he is back and starts bring to life the ancient Runamb thru a special serum developed by him.

Sure enough the mummy comeback to life, aftermaths at large instead kill randomly such undying monster strikes at unusual spot to bringing gorgeous girls at motel, girl dating at night and even grabbing unfaithful wife, aside the odd production the movie brought Marilyn Monroe's Brazilian doppelganger Clarice Piovisan, the veteran Wilson Grey a recorder-holder in our cinema plays a poker face Prof. Expedito, a low budge had a massive use of old footage also interspersing black & white and color photography, awfully bad and hilarious as well.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 5.5.

Medium Cool (1969)

Haskell Wexler brings a contentious scenery by civil rights on America!!

[7/10 · 10 January 2025]

The cinematographer Haskell Wexler previously devised a picture about a boy coming from Appalachian mountains now living in Chicago with his mother at poorest ghetto, meanwhile his father went to Vietnam, the boy used to create pigeons at apartment's roof, it was the main plot, suddenly the political environment in 1968 is getting hot there due Democratic National Convention allied civil rights demanding by black people it became a kind of semi-documentary.

Upon this contentious scenery Haskell Wexler made a twist, hereinafter mixing with family drama over a former teacher (Verna Bloom), troublesome boy (Harold Blankenship) and his missing husband fighting overseas, thru the moving camera of the reporter Robert Forster in those riots carried out nearby Democratic convention, surely Wexler was a sympathizer of struggle for civil rights even coming from upper class family, fine picture although to many overacted by such neuralgic subject in America, a kind slow paced offering.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.

They Live (1988)

The genesis and the meaning of They Live!!!

[8/10 · 10 January 2025]

Even watching They Live three times, I've ought confess take too long to understand the meaning of those odd aliens in the picture, just after watching all bonus material the own John Carpenter exposed the main purpose of the picture itself, actually he was fed up about so interfering of those Hollywoodian producers in his movies, so he deceives go back on small productions, so appears They Live based in a short story coming from a comic book, the main character named Nada made sense due such weird name meaning nothing, so the brainy Carpenter conceived where the aliens invaders are the greedy society at Regan's era, where the people were became poorest than never.

It's a METAPHOR and hard criticism in Hollywood system, where just the profits is really relevant, Carpenter felt in flesh when THE THING & BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA were a big failure on box-office at release time, the first one recovered hereinafter, however Carpenter figures out to Hollywood means money on first place, so he exposes money on alien's hands when Nada saw thru the glasses "It yours God", furthermore he hardly criticizes the media mainstream on those advertisement "Buy and asleep" "Consume" "Obey" "Marry and Reproduce" "No independent Thought" and so for.

Aside be a capitalist concerning money Carpenter seems sympathizer of democratic party indeed and their do-gooders as John Kennedy as he makes sure to underline mostly of time, therefore he inserts those endless subliminal messages everywhere wearing thru the black glasses, fantastic it went unnoticed unless the own John Carpenter explained by himself!!

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 3 / Source: TV-DVD-Blu-ray / Rating: 8.5.

Indestructible Man (1956)

Delightful and not despicable Sci-Fi on lowest budge!!

[6/10 · 8 January 2025]

On early fifties starts these low-budge Sci-Fi almost in industrial scale due it was guaranteed success at box-office scattered coast-to-coast in those drive-in theatres, unfortunately our beloved Lon Chaney Jr. Was just scheduled by this kind of character, due he was a bulky and ugly man who fitting perfectly in this stereotypical menacing monsters.

This turn Chaney plays Charles Benton a burglar about to die on death row, due their fellow mates on heist framed him, by this he denied to tell where the stolen money was hidden, although he has promise a fully revenge against all them, oddly enough after died on gas chamber his body was criminally delivered by a mad scientist to recover him back to life by 300 thousand volts machine, hence became indestructible.

The whole story is narrated since the beginning by Lt. Dick Chasen (Max Showalter) when suddenly Charles's body disappears without a trace, meanwhile is reported an undying monster at large at Los Angeles area with same Charles's fingerprints, in the meantime Lt. Dick followed his instincts looking for Charles's former fiancé Eva Martin (Marian Carr) a beauty dancer at burlesque show to get a hint that would take on the missing money.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: Youtube / Rating: 6.

Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha... (1974)

Condominium Pandemonium!!

[6/10 · 8 January 2025]

Labeled by the critics as Pornochanchada it was a specific Brazilian genre mixing comic-soft-porn offering, such thing starts on late sixties and all along the seventies took millions at theatres on a huge box-office, it was a kind of low-profile productions, therefore "Ainda Agarro Esta Vizinha made in 1974 belonged this successful genre, starred by Cecil Thiré and the gorgeous Adrianna Pietro and supported by a fabulous casting under Pedro Carlos Rovai direction produced by Sincro Filmes.

The main plot sets in a vertical lousy condominium at Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro where living countless stereotypical characters, focused in the womanizer-swindler Tatá (Cecil Thiré) who used to rent your tiny apartment for their friend making sex, meanwhile their odd neighbors as the next-door prostitute, upstairs he has to withstand a noise rock band, a gorgeous sexy girl hearing a louder songs at radio, allied with children playing football on narrows hallways, anyway a true pandemonium.

However everything gonna changes when an eye-candy girl Teresa (Adrianna Pietro) moving there escorted by her older surrogate parent Olga (Lola Brah) aiming for gets a wealthy sponsor for her still virgin niece, a kind of immoral earning implied by greedy Olga, at once Tatá enchants by such heavenly beauty, nonetheless the pushy Olga denied any romance interest due Tatá is a twirp guy, then come up another chaos on the noisy "Hospice".

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 6.25.

The Heavenly Kid (1985)

Angel on my shoulder in the future baffled with a lot of weirdo changes!!

[7/10 · 7 January 2025]

Orion pictures going on production of thematic successful formula on dead man forced to go back as angel to fix unfinish matter, upon it was already has been proved a great potential by previous huge box-office, so the smart filmmakers taking precautions in advance of a possible failure, hence even in a low budge allied with casting having a single star as Richard Mulligan and all remainders were unknown yet.

The story starts on early sixties when a wild boy (Lewis Smith) went to die by an useless way as those stupid car race towards to the precipice carried out by youngers opposites for pure proud, afterlife he meets an odd mentor (Mulligan) due his deadly fault doesn't allowed him at heaven, so he ought goes back to help a boy in the middle of eighties, well what it gonna changes from those formulaic forerunners? Quite sure the whole concept concerning the new weirdo environment where the Angel landed.

He be startled by "Lot of changes" as he often spoken when enters in a fruits's ambiance as motorcycles's bunch, or how the girls are wearing tiny sexy outfits, it somehow make the Angel minds off the main task on the earth, by this unusual behavior his mentor occasionally appears to fell his collar, anyway hilarious and corny mostly of time.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.

O Comprador de Fazendas (1951)

The immortal legacy of Monteiro Lobato on Comprador de Fazendas!!

[7/10 · 7 January 2025]

A famous story wrote by the legendary Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato adapted by big screen "O Comprador de Fazenda"s was produced by a small Compania Cinematográfica Maristela, it was together Vera Cruz the very first ones genuinely Brazilian to producing pictures with domestic thematic storyline addressed by Brazilian marketplace, however it doesn't take to long to bankrupt due by financial troubles, although remains the legacy.

A summarized plot is about an older farmer Moreira (Procopio Ferreira) work-shy on labor seeing its famer went in ruins, worst he became a fare-dodger with their local suppliers, so decides sell his property by any means, nonetheless due the lousy condition of the state anyone gets any interest to offer a dime, so after an outsider is willing to buy it for nostalgic reasons, Moreira ought gives an improvement in a dilapidated farmer at the expense of their wary creditors as cattle, horses, new gate, fences, tractor even fruit trees and naturally a whole recovering on the main house.

All them expecting a fully returning after the property getting sold by high amount of money, on at arrival the young buyer Pedro Trancoso (Helio Souto) portraying as millionaire stayed at farmer aiming for evaluate the state itself, instead he enchants by the gorgeous Moreira's daughter Gilda (Margot Bittencourt), meanwhile Moreira pushes him to made a contract to grant the selling, although Pedro avoids all the time assign any paper, the confusion is near, all this on Brazilian humor oriented.

Unfortunately the Brazilian genius Monteiro Lobato was scrubbed by fierce libelous campaign carried out by newest generation of haters due he had some black slaves at your service in early century, what a shame, he was man at its own time, judge him by this is foolish stuff, instead the large marjorty of fresh minds keeping untouchable his legacy as true Brazilian writer.

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First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.25.

Elena and Her Men (1956)

Colorful farse comedy in sinful Paris environment!!

[7/10 · 6 January 2025]

The master Jean Renoir painted in strong colors this delightful farse comedy prior WWI sets in Paris on conflict-hidden years regarding a possible new kind of Napoleon as Gen. Rollen (Jean Marais) trying overthrow the French Republic meanwhile a diplomatic incident at German territory where landed there a French balloon, labeled by Germans as spies, it triggers an increasing tensions regarding an upcoming conflict between two powers countries, soon stifled by the menacing and savvy Gen. Rollen.

In other hand Paris became the last destiny those deposed royalties with their patrimony utterly pilfered by countless changing powers from nearby countries, as the former Polish Princess Elena (Ingrid Bergman) such beauty widow whose draws attentions of Gen. Rollen and his closest Count Henri (Mel Ferrer) also an older & wealthy Industrialist Martin-Michaud (Pierre Bertin) also the traveling Gypsies in a sinful Paris environment the story unfolds, with tons of misunderstandings concerning political powers, patriotism, love and luxury, all these elements in comic manner.

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First watch: 2025 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-Youtube / Rating: 7.