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Wiener-dog

animals 01:20:00
You know how it is with those pets. They spend whole days with you, observing your every move, sniffing at your every household crime. They know more or less everything about you. The way you treat your pets should be the way you should be treated. But it's fascinating to hear the stories of lost animals which were found seven years later in...
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10,000 BC

adventure 23:51:00
Quite recently I have come across an online newspaper article about a mammoth tusk discoveries in Siberia or some other distant Russian area. As we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Internet, it amazes me that two spheres: the distant past and technology-packed present interchange. Around 10 000 BC, I would have probably been scribbling something on the cave wall and waited...
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Summer of Sam

crime 02:35:00
When your seemingly calm city life starts to remind you more of a nightmare than your usual day to day life... When everyone you know suspiciously looks at your every move... When in the blink of an eye your friend can turn into an enemy... When love and sex intermingle, making the first one non-existent, and the second an everyday nectar of survival......
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The Other Woman

children 02:18:00
There is a small percentage of the happily married couples who knew each other all their lives, fell in love in their teens and lasted in fondness, fidelity, and bliss to their last days. They hit newspaper's headlines. They still arouse the admiration during their golden anniversaries and receive appreciative letters from the officials. The rest have to be happy with second or...
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Sausage Party

adventure 02:54:00
Providing that the whole experience is not traumatic to the viewer who has a healthy relationship with food, this might actually be a very entertaining adventure. Is everything we believe in the truth about how we are supposed to live? Are we controlled by lobbyists, churches, and corporations? Are we afraid of breaking rules which were established by officials in the name of...
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Spotlight

church 02:40:00
When I was a child I used to go to church. I needed an hour of consolation once a week before school. Imagine an introvert child who didn't like Mondays and the stresses of exams, and went regularly to a place where you could be alone with your thoughts and faith. I still think that we need the consoling power of religion, we...
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The Blue Lagoon

beauty 00:05:00
Oh, that was something! I always wondered why we act as we act as civilized people. What makes us fall in love, take on different responsibilities, act according to certain cultural norms? Why women tend to be full-time mothers and men want to play with the fire? Why in the developing countries there is still a division between feminine and masculine roles and...
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Orc Wars/Dragonfyre

action 02:47:00
We all know that the film industry is unfair. There are thousands of stories pushed into post-production, delayed to eternity, postponed to a better day which may never occur. There are hundreds of scripts which pass unnoticed and millions of wanna-be actors who try their strength in countless hours of castings and rehearsals. Few of them destined to stardom. It all comes down...
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Shadow of the Vampire

filmmaking 01:14:00
You are probably familiar with a lot of vampire movies. Blood-sucking, immortal and mysterious undead have been with us for centuries. From legends, through novels to modern age cinema. We still haven't got bored with their pale nature and food cravings. We still carry some respect towards their desires and strict rules of conduct.We still appreciate the healing powers of garlic. Crowds of...
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Suicide Squad

action 02:04:00
I read so much criticism that it actually almost prevented me from going to the cinema. But then I went, hopeless to be soon disappointed, landing in an almost empty cinema room, as it was daytime. And I watched.  I really don't get those film critics, to be honest. Maybe as viewers, we pay attention to different things, maybe as fans, we don't...
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Waterworld

adventure 03:21:00
If you take ground for granted, if your life circulates around the rural gems of the field, or you simply like stepping on the thick layers of city concrete, can you imagine a world flooded by water? What does life look like on the vast areas of oceans and seas, what things are of value and what hope do people have for the...
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V for Vendetta

abuse 07:08:00
Inequality, prejudice, and intolerance are no longer attached to World War 2 and Hitler-like politics. Turn on the TV, go to the streets of any European city. Our generation encounters events which we cannot comprehend, where one religion fights with another, where one culture wants to dominate over different ways of life and where one lifestyle cannot be accepted by other lifestyles. What's...
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Switch

comedy 01:22:00
One day you are a man. The boss of your surroundings, the mighty heartbreaker of women's hearts, the leader of the pack of your kind. You think you're the king of the world in your manly suit and a bunch of girls following your lead. The fate is tricky. Karma of bad deeds can come to you in the most magical way. One...
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Dans la maison/In the House

France 00:05:00
Storytelling is a gift. There are people who tell interesting stories and there are those who burn every joke. There are writers who make you read till the very last chapter and there are those who force you to put down the book after a couple of pages. What if your writing talent was inspired by real events and you were the creator...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.