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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) DeaDvey's Reviews TMDB ReviewDB Douban WikiData Skybridge IMDb
The Phoenician Scheme
6.7 (35 ratings) director: 韦斯·安德森 actor: 本尼西奥·德尔·托罗 / Mia Threapleton …
other title: 페니키안 스킴 / ザ・ザ・コルダのフェニキア計画 …
Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.
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Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees (2024) Douban TMDB IMDb
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees
director: 娜塔莎·雷昂 actor: 杰奎琳·诺瓦克
other title: Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees / 杰奎琳·诺瓦克：为爱下跪 …
Filmed at The Town Hall Theater in New York City, the special features the final performance of Novak’s touring stand-up show “Get On Your Knees,” which premiered in 2019 and sold out multiple times. This 90-minute concert film-meets-comedy special revolves around the blowjob and is described as both raunchy and poignant, an unexpectedly philosophical, coming-of-age tale of triumph that pushes the boundaries of stand-up.
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The Trip (2010) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Trip
8.3 (6 ratings) director: 迈克尔·温特伯顿 actor: 史蒂夫·库根
other title: 美食之旅 / 旅途 …
When Steve Coogan is asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, he envisions it as the perfect getaway with his beautiful girlfriend. But, when she backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him but his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.
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Spoorloos (1988) Douban TMDB Skybridge WikiData IMDb
Spoorloos
7.5 (37 ratings) director: 乔治·斯鲁依泽 actor: 贝尔纳-皮埃尔·多纳迪约 / 吉恩·伯沃依兹 …
other title: 神秘失踪 / 逝影惊心 …
1988 film by George Sluizer
May 18, 2025 watched
Love a good procedural.
When the father honks his daughter's nose in the car after locking her door... What a prankster!
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) TMDB Douban IMDb Min reol WikiData NeoDB Test Skybridge
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8.4 (1067 ratings) director: 米歇尔·贡德里 actor: 金·凯瑞 / 凯特·温丝莱特 …
other title: 暖暖内含光 / 暧暧内含光 …
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
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Sneakers (1992) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Sneakers
6.9 (16 ratings) director: 菲尔·奥尔登·罗宾森 actor: Jo Marr / 加里·赫什伯格 …
other title: 스니커즈 / スニーカーズ …
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
May 18, 2025 watched
Eleven year-old me looooooved this movie so much.
Forty-four year-old me still does, and can still recite most of it, too.
Great to hangout with this old friend and in 4k now to boot.
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Thieves Like Us (1974) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Thieves Like Us
director: 罗伯特·奥特曼 actor: 基思·卡拉丹 / 谢莉·杜瓦尔 …
other title: 没有明天的人 / 像我们一样的强盗 …
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.
May 11, 2025 watched
So much of this worked for me and I love it.
A lot of environmental storytelling with the radio that I found delightful.
The camaradarie of the guys was great.
Did Mia Goth pull from Shelley Duvall to bring Pearl to life?
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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
8.0 (50 ratings) director: 米奇·科斯汀 actor: 埃里克·阿达尔 / Ioan Allen …
other title: 制作音效：电影声音的艺术 / 荷里活音效大师班(港) …
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
May 3, 2025 watched
Pretty good doc about sound in film, and then out of nowhere I got emotional about it and cried at the end.
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The Wicker Man (1973) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
The Wicker Man
7.9 (174 ratings) director: Robin Hardy actor: Edward Woodward / 克里斯托弗·李 …
other title: 위커맨 / ウィッカーマン …
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
May 2, 2025 watched
I get now why this is so beloved, because it's really frickin' good.
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The Shrouds (2024) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
The Shrouds
6.0 (25 ratings) director: 大卫·柯南伯格 actor: 文森特·卡塞尔 / 黛安·克鲁格 …
other title: 裹尸布 / 더 슈라우드 …
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, Karsh, a prominent businessman, invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
April 30, 2025 watched
Love, loss, grief, multinational techno-conspiracies, longing, desire, dreams.
Kind of a lot to digest, and I look forward to another viewing at some point.
"*I'm a non-practicing atheist."*
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The Order (2024) IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB Skybridge
The Order
5.5 (13 ratings) director: 贾斯汀·库泽尔 actor: 裘德·洛 / 尼古拉斯·霍尔特 …
other title: 教团 / 秩序信条 …
A string of violent robberies in the Pacific Northwest leads a veteran FBI agent into a domestic terrorist plot to overthrow the federal government.
April 25, 2025 watched
Jude Law IS Gene Hackman AS Terry Husk.
Pretty good looking movie about a group of terrible people barely being stopped once by marginally better people who all appear to be much worse shots.
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The Ugly Stepsister (2025) IMDb Douban TMDB Skybridge WikiData
Den stygge stesøsteren
7.2 (78 ratings) director: Emilie Kristine Blichfeldt actor: Lea Mathilde Skar-Myren / 安妮·达尔·托普 …
other title: Den stygge stesøsteren / 어글리 스텝시스터 …
Combining comedy and horror, the film is a daring and unexpected take on the world-famous tale, seen through the eyes of the Cinderella’s stepsister, Elvira. The gory film follows Elvira as she battles to compete with her insanely beautiful stepsister in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business. She will go to any lengths to catch the prince’s eye.
April 23, 2025 watched
A fun retelling of the Cinderella fairytale, but with a little body horror, a touch of *The Substance*, a dash of *Pearl*, and also the occasional penis.
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Robin Redbreast (1970) TMDB IMDb
Robin Redbreast
director: James MacTaggart actor: Anna Cropper / 伯纳德·赫普顿 …
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.
April 18, 2025 watched
YES! To renovating and keeping the cottage in a remote village.
YES! To weird village folk sticking their noses in your business.
YES! To things going terribly awry.
YES! To all of this.
A pretty great one to go out on in the *All the Haunted Be Ours Vol. 1* box, but now I'm sad and lost. What now?
(*Vol. 2*, yes yes, but not soon enough!)
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The Pledge (1982) IMDb TMDB
The Pledge
director: Digby Rumsey actor: Glenn Cunningham / Ronald Forfar …
Three criminals pledge to free the soul of their friend from his gibbeted corpse in this short film based on 'The Highwayman' by Lord Dunsany.
April 18, 2025 watched
Much like the skeleton of the hanged man swaying in the wind, there's not much meat on these bones.
Also, I think the song in this score is called "Many Key Changes For Burying the Remains of Your Dead Friend To".
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Penda's Fen (1974) WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Penda’s Fen
7.4 (5 ratings) director: 阿兰·克拉克 actor: Spencer Banks / John Atkinson …
other title: 彭达的沼泽 / Penda’s Fen
Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality.
April 16, 2025 watched
There's a stream of consciousness-iness to this that I found enjoyable, but as I wrote elsewhere, I don't think I'm British enough to fully connect with it.
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Anchoress (1993) Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Anchoress
director: Chris Newby actor: Natalie Morse / 吉恩·伯沃茨 …
other title: 女隐士 / 女隱士
In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christine's mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death.
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A Field in England (2013) IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
A Field in England
5.7 (6 ratings) director: 本·维特利 actor: 迈克尔·史麦利 / 朱利安·巴拉特 …
other title: 英格兰的田野 / 腐国恶土 …
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
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A Different Man (2024) ReviewDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
A Different Man
7.0 (29 ratings) director: 亚伦·施密伯格 actor: 塞巴斯蒂安·斯坦 / 雷娜特·赖因斯夫 …
other title: 어 디프런트 맨 / 非常男人 …
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare, as he loses out on the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with reclaiming what was lost.
April 5, 2025 watched
The three leads - Sebastian, Renate, and Adam - are really terrific and elevate what is on its own a pretty compelling exploration of change and personality and confidence and self. Really enjoyable!
*People change
But you know some people never do
You know when people change
They gain a face, but they lose one too*
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