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Top Gun & Top Gun: Maverick

accident 10:42:00
If there could be anything more exciting than a sequel that actually works! The mix of freedom offered by the skies, Tom Cruise, with his naughty sex appeal, and a story about a friendship that shaped a brilliant pilot for years to come, returned even better and bolder. Top Gun was a dream of 1986 with a taste of adventure, slightly forbidden romance,...

The Father/Fear of Falling

aging 05:02:00
 No one prepares you for this. You have been familiar with keywords, which circulated around your childhood when someone mentioned ancestors. To you, they were like a third leg - equally unexplainable and mysterious. But you were far from them, with your life ahead of you and your parents still young. But once you reach adulthood,  you get closer and closer to encyclopedia entrances,...

Being John Malkovich

acting 03:54:00
 In the celebrity culture, everyone secretly wishes to be someone else. To experience life in a different way, to be successful and recognized. There are very few accomplished hitting the headlines of gossip magazines and millions of those who buy them and follow the latest gossip. But if you could have a chance to become someone else for a short period of time and...

The Remains of the Day

Anthony Hopkins 03:37:00
 Political and personal situations require us to make major life decisions. Who to support in times of conflict? Who to be loyal and devote years of service to? Is your personal life more important than financial stability? Or will you, against reason, make the same mistake as many before you and sacrifice your career for the sake of budding feelings of affection, when...

Swallow

escape 04:41:00
 Picture a perfect life for a young woman: a loving and handsome husband, rich parents-in-law, a beautiful house to take care of, a baby on the way. But whose perfect scenario is it? The husbands and parents' or yours? Are you just an addition to the pretty picture whose voice, thoughts, and experiences don't matter? What if your only way of independence and...

Blade Runner

Ana de Armas 06:25:00
 Tell us the future, we ask now and again the fortune tellers, whom we partially trust, holding our hopes higher than our reason. If The Jetsons' cartoon reality of video conferences, internet schooling, application shopping, and robotic machines doing our kitchen chores came true, other scenarios might also turn into reality. The world consisting of humans and androids is not so difficult to...

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Barbara Streisand 12:50:00
 The cult of physical attractiveness is difficult to overcome. One hundred years ago film stars and celebrities were one of the most attractive people according to the standards of the epoch, and, sadly, one hundred years later actors, actresses, singers, and TV personalities of today are in most cases sexy. But is physical attraction the only ingredient of a happy relationship? On the...

Nomadland

disease 12:01:00
 In the past, when you were getting older, you most likely ended up with your family. You lived with your children and grandchildren and as a representative of three generations under one roof and knew your fate perfectly well. In many societies, this is still a valid concept and tradition to obey. In equally many, when you get old, you start to be...

Don't Look Up

Cate Blanchett 09:24:00
 You know how it is with climate change. Scientists show you pictures of flooded continents that they produced via simulation, weather conditions oscillate now from fires and heatwaves to hurricanes and floods in the areas where there hadn't been one. And unless you're there being killed, you just scroll. Greta Thunberg is literally pissed as she was born in times where a bunch...

The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch 06:59:00
 Do you think that you have the right to peace and happiness? To respect and dignity? To acceptance and understanding? It's enough to bring you closer to a toxic family member to destroy any sense of self-respect and slowly suck the happiness from you. A complex square of interconnected characters: a woman, her son, her husband, and his brother in a tangle of...

Dune

action 06:39:00
 Imagine a planet where there is only spice. Water is like gold. Special uniforms have to be made to retain water from the body and keep you alive. Gigantic Warms cross its deserts bringing only fear and destruction. There are conquerors who want to make the most profit and the conquered who learned to adjust to the circumstances and live in hiding. In...

The Great Gatsby

accident 06:16:00
 Old money and new money. Getting inside the circles of the super-rich is equally strange as immigrating into a new country with a different language and culture. You want to fit in. You want to be respected. But will having enough guarantee you the love of a woman spoilt by her upbringing? Or will you find yourself inside a messy affair and an...

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.