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Watching this version you would never in a million years imagine what the book The Color Purple is about. You'd suppose it's christian literature, not the beautiful story that was censored many times around the world. This adaptation removes all the beauty, all the tenderness, to the point where this Celie is not even a lesbian and this god is barely present in the purple flowers of mother nature. The 1985 film is a lot more modern than the 2023 one, and not even that can hold a candle to the boldness of the 1982 novel. The executives making decisions about what could and couldn't appear on the 2023's Color Purple were cowards trying to sell a PG-13 movie for the masses, and guess what! Y'all lost 40 million anyway.

This is pretty much a perfect Drag Race episode. It has very high stakes: our beloved frontrunner Marina Summers will probably struggle in a comedy challenge, and top 5 is the perfect opportunity to pull a Manila/Pangina on her. Hannah Conda, who is friends with Marina, puts her right in the middle of the lineup, but ultimately that doesn't save dear Marina - the best at the roast are english-as-first-language Hannah and Tia Kofi, both of whom deliver a masterclass at Drag Race comedy. It feels like Tia has Marina's lipstick, as she probably won't eliminate her boyfriend La Grande Dame. The drama!! Then the episode culminates in an amazing lipsync to flawless song "Euphoria", where Hannah showcases major lipsyncing abilities we didn't expect her to have. Marina is safe to slay on the finale next week, and we say goodbye to Scarlet Envy. AMAZING!!!!!

Ana de Armas is a good actress, and she does a good job as Marilyn. Sadly, she's the only decent thing about Blonde, which is inexplicably harmful to the memory of the legendary Marilyn Monroe. I wasn't expecting such extreme bad taste, as I thought at first this was supposed to be an Oscar vehicle for de Armas. But what follows is nearly 3 hours of rape scenes (obviously directed by a man), unnecessarily graphic images of abortions, many Monroe moments that feel horribly fictionalized, and a lot of piss and puke. I wish they made that boring Oscar-bait biopic I envisioned Ana de Armas winning her Oscar for.

One of the strongest episodes in all of Survivor. I can only imagine there's some reality tv "magic" involved in the separation of the 2 groups of 5, because 5 guys in a group and 4 girls plus Jonathan in the second group is just PERFECT for the game.

Ana de Armas is perfect, but the 97% of No Time To Die where she's absent has very little to offer. Rami Malek is as unfit for the villain role as you might expect him to be, and the nanobot menace is silly.

Technically "Moxie" has flaws that should cost it some stars. The script can be heavy-handed at times. But the movie made me feel a lot of joy. Few motion pictures make me feel an emotion as intensely as "Moxie" did. Every flaw is forgiven. Ten stars, and down with the patriarchy!

Beautiful movie, very well written and acted. It feels like it was based on so many true stories I know. It's one of those pictures that schools should show their 13yo students. I see some people complaining that it was unrealistic to portray men as different degrees of disgusting, and women on a more positive light, which I disagree. Everything about "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" felt real to me.

I've been watching all of Survivor during the pandemic, and South Pacific has a bad reputation I thought was undeserved as I watched the first half of the season. There's some unexciting pagonging, a failed masterplan and even Adam Sandler (?), but overall the season was fascinating and creepy with a CULT happening on the island... up until this episode which is the most boring one of all I've watched so far (over 400).

I have very mixed feelings about this movie. I wonder how the families of the deceased in this tragedy feel about the dramatization of the oil spill. Because I'm pretty sure the average moviegoer did not see the movie as a means to paying respect to these dead. This is a disaster movie with explosions, and that's why the studio thought it would be worth spending 110+ million dollars. The movie feels a lot like "Final Destination", without the supernatural elements (the levels of violence are pretty much the same, even though Deepwater Horizon is shockingly rated PG-13). The "Final Destination" feel would be fine if this was fiction, but to have the memories of real people turned into a spectacle that works like the 6th installment of a horror franchise is not exactly tasteful. The performances are OK, direction is OK, all around an OK movie if you can ignore the morality issues (which I can't).

This movie, which is part horror, but also comedy, drama and somehow romance, is ridiculously entertaining. It should not work. It has a terrible depiction of violence against women and how women react to being violated, it has a shitload of characters for us to follow and too many things happening - it literally has a Christmas episode in the middle of the story, reinforcing the notion that "Elle" should've been a miniseries instead of a film. Every single character in it is either an awful person or a dumbass. The horror elements of the movie are all stupid jump scares, including the literal "it was just the cat" cliché. In spite of all that, I could not stop watching, by the sheer force of Verhoeven's will. As someone who's watched thousands of movies (great, good, mediocre and bad), my intellect tells me not to love "Elle". But I did. Whatever.

Spoilers ahead! "San Junipero" is the first "Black Mirror" episode to be set in the past. The looks of our protagonist, Yorkie, seem heavily inspired by internet's BFF Barb from "Stranger Things". As usual in "Black Mirror", information about the technology involved in this story is given to us gradually and we soon learn that time travel is possible, because the 80s are not the actual 80s, and that Yorkie and Kelly are actually elderly ladies who can be young again through computer magic.

Yorkie and Kelly are a somewhat weird couple at first, but by the time the whole truth is revealed, their love story touched me like few others. Plus, they are a gay interracial couple, which is amazing in itself.

"San Junipero" has good writing, acting and directing, as usual, but it is very much unlike the other "Black Mirror" episodes. Other than being set mostly in the "past", it made me feel good, which is a first time in this series. Also, it is also a rather hopeful story with a happy ending. I give it a 10 for the way it moved me, but I do have problems with the ending - it should've stayed true to who Kelly are instead of giving in to the happily ever after.

In an era where Pokémon Go used to be all the rage until last week and who knows what's gonna be trending next week, "Nerve" hits very close to home... at least for now. The game that gives the movie its title is insane, and the most shocking thing about it all is that it's fiction. The movie is very exciting, fast-paced, and even cute and romantic at times. Emma Roberts and Dave Franco are charming and do a nice job as the protagonists. The art direction is pretty fabulous, making it all just slightly futuristic (you can trade numbers on each others' phones by making the devices touch!) and colourful in ways that reminded me of another exaggerated-reality franchise, "The Purge". I also very much enjoyed the ideas of class struggle, where some pay to watch and others are paid to risk their lives - again, very close to reality, but a little exaggerated. Overall, I had a great time watching "Nerve", and I admit I consciously avoided overthinking some plot points because sometimes you are on the roller-coaster for the thrill of it and not for some deeper purpose.

I feel like it was all too acted, the interviews with Amanda felt written and rehearsed. Feels a little like this documentary was made to profit on Amanda's celebrity. Amanda, by the way, certainly doesn't look like a warm, caring person, but that does not mean she is a murderer. The documentary manages to put together a revolting piece of the "justice" system in Italy, where the prosecutor Giuliano Mignini makes very clear that there is not a lot of evidence against Amanda but A LOT of conviction that she is a slut and sluts must be punished. Mignini is disgusting and doesn't realize how bad his claims sound. The expression "slut-shaming" is not mentioned, but it occurred in my mind multiple times over the course of these 92 minutes. "Trial by media" was mentioned close to the ending of it, as it should be.

I have no idea how this compares to the books, because I've never read them. Judging the movie alone, it was, in my opinion, reasonably intense, decently acted and did not bore me even though there is a lot of technical talk going on with a plot of Wall Street stuff and terrorism driving the narrative. In this kind of movie, not being boring turns out to be a major quality. The action scenes feel like the direction could be better, though. My favourite part about this action movie might be the non-action scenes: Keira Knightley is as good as usual and makes a nice couple with Pine. All in all, I had a good time, so I see no reason to rate it less than a solid 8.

The idea is very interesting: one man can easily break, so maybe someone among the billions of humans is his opposite, unbreakable, and probably doesn't even know it.

The movie built around the concept is okay, although one might argue that it's not aging too well. Besides that, the pacing requires patience and some of the developments bother me a little bit. For example, Mr. Glass affirms that David's weakness is water, but it is said that David survived five minutes underwater when he was a child. Sounds like a superpower to me, and therefore that subplot ends up feeling silly.

And then, the twist that should mark the end of the second act and set up a climax... is the final scene of the movie. "Unbreakable" is all build-up, an origin story with no pay-off.

I enjoyed the 4th season of "House of Cards". The highlights were the chapters directed by Robin Wright, with everything before, between and after those being good but often uneven up until now.

My favourite developments were the ones involving the campaign, all the backstabbing etc. I hoped we would have the election this season, but after some episodes it started to drag a bit and it was clear we wouldn't reach it this year. "Chapter 51" shifted the focus completely and was all about a terrorist crisis that lost all my interest. This crisis continued in the last episode of the season, and another crisis showed up, one that is equally uninteresting: Tom Hammerschmidt's article on the Herald.

The new story doesn't feel all that threatening, and yet everybody keeps talking about it as if it was super harmful. What important part does it have that Lucas Goodwin didn't know already? Some quotes by partial people? We know what happened to Lucas. Frank should easily overcome this, considering everything he's been through in this series.

All of this ended up being hard to swallow and even eye-rolling. The dialogue between Claire and Frank when they decide to generate fear and war is just cringe-worthy. The actors try hard but there's not much to do about it. Also, I have no idea what it means for the future of the series when Claire breaks the 4th wall in the last seconds of the episode.

The episode was pretty to look at, as usual, with beautiful set decoration and Claire's stunning dresses etc. Director Kari Skogland did a fine job behind the camera.

The problem in this particular episode is the writing. The actors did their best with what they were given, but a lot of what went on should have been better. I love that Freddy is back, and Reg E. Cathey sells the hell out of that scene, but his actions are mostly abrupt and exaggerated, out of nowhere.

However, nothing in the entire run of "House of Cards" came close to the scene where the guy who's running for veep on Will Conway's ticket says "BS" while walking into a cow farm and suddenly we hear a lot of "moo". That crossed the line and entered ludicrous territory. Also, that wasn't funny at all.

The writing wasn't much better with the handling of Claire's extramarital relationship with Tom, and Frank's acceptance of it. It's not hard to swallow that the character Frank would accept it, but the Frank we got here doesn't fully feel like the Frank of the best episodes.

Apparently, "Chapter 50" is Tian Jun Gu first episode as a main writer. I hope he can do better than this if he is going to return. It was a letdown following one of the very best episodes in the series.

I don't understand some of the praise The Piano received. Holly Hunter's acting is not as good as I expected. She mostly keeps the same emotionless face throughout the movie, even in the two scenes where Ada certainly feels incredible pain. I don't see how challenging could it be for an actress to pull that off.

Young Anna Paquin is good, but not as good as I thought she would be. She is adorable and does an accent and all, but not for a moment blew my mind.

Some say this is feminist. Maybe it's because I'm a man and can't fully understand it, but watching the movie I thought my female feminist friends would feel offended by the screenplay. Ada is weak and allows awful things to happen to her - yes, she loves that piano and wants it back (you could never tell by Hunter's expressions), but maybe she should have been more "vocal" about it instead of becoming a prostitute. She hardly resists such disgusting proposals, even though she's not supposed to be perceived as a slut.

Some say this is romantic and passionate. To me, it felt like a creepy story about a woman who falls in "love" with a disgusting man, and it reminded me of Stockholm syndrome. It worked a lot better in Beauty and the Beast.

The Piano is a very unpleasant movie, and no eye candy could save it.

"Shaun The Sheep" is not groundbreaking in any way. The storytelling is mostly cliché and formulaic, as if you have already seen this story before - because you did. But its jokes almost always work, and even the moments involving poop are not totally worthless. I caught myself laughing a lot during these 84 minutes.

The animation is pretty and colorful, and the music is pleasant. The laughs come nonstop. I couldn't ask for anything more. I'm sure kids will love it.

I was having a bad day and decided to watch this movie, and my day is quite better now.