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One Battle After Another (2025)
One Battle After Another
★ 7.7 428 ratings
保罗·托马斯·安德森 actor: 缇雅娜·泰勒 / 莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥 …
other title: 一战再战 / 一戰再戰 …
When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own.
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Mask Of The Devil (1960)
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★ 6.5 17 ratings
马里奥·巴瓦 actor: 芭芭拉·斯蒂尔 / 约翰·理查森 …
other title: Black Sunday / La maschera del demonio …
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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The Devil's Daughter (1991)
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★ 6.4 5 ratings
米歇尔·索伊 actor: 凯莉·柯蒂斯 / 赫伯特·罗姆 …
other title: 邪教 / La setta …
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and takes him in, unbeknown to her the man has plans for her – plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
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Stone (1974)
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Sandy Harbutt actor: Ken Shorter / Sandy Harbutt …
other title: 스톤의 추적 / マッドストーン …
After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
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Shanks (1974)
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威廉·卡斯尔 actor: 马塞尔·卡尔内 / Tsilla Chelton …
other title: 长腿人 / Jogando Com a Vida e a Morte …
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
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Shin Godzilla (2016)
シン・ゴジラ
★ 7.4 420 ratings
庵野秀明 / 樋口真嗣 actor: 长谷川博己 / 竹野内丰 …
other title: 신 고질라 / シン・ゴジラ …
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.
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Aug. 16, 2025
I rather enjoyed seeing the bureaucratic red tape behind a Gojira attack play out, and also liked watching the little derp evolve right in front our very eyes.
Also loved how the lower-level female scientist was always right about everything and that, in the end, the nerds won.
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Communion (1976)
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★ 7.3 15 ratings
阿尔弗雷德·索莱 actor: 琳达·米勒 / Mildred Clinton …
other title: 甜美爱丽丝 / Alice, Sweet Alice …
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
Watched
Aug. 12, 2025
Had a great time watching a family being torn apart by a terror of a gal.
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Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)
ヨコハマBJブルース
★ 6.8 8 ratings
工藤荣一 actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Yuya Uchida …
other title: 요코하마 BJ 블루스 / ヨコハマBJブルース …
BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
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Blood Hook (1987)
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Jim Mallon actor: Mark Jacobs / Lisa Jane Todd …
other title: Blood Hook - Leichen an der Angel / Blood Hook : L'étang du cauchemar …
During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.
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July 21, 2025
Kind of a goofy premise with some loveable characters I enjoyed spending time with, but it could've been tightened up a bit.
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The Warriors (1979)
The Warriors
★ 7.9 22 ratings
Walter Hill actor: Michael Beck / James Remar …
other title: 워리어 / ウォリアーズ …
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Watched
June 17, 2025
A great movie about an eclectic group of individuals who attended a general assembly that was dissolved prematurely by an act of violence that one group was framed for (also the cops, of course). That group was then split up and had their own crazy odysseys when trying to just make their way back home.
An engaging tale oozing with really great style.
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American Ninja (1985)
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Sam Firstenberg actor: Michael Dudikoff / 史蒂夫·詹姆斯 …
other title: 아메리칸 닌자 / American Fighter …
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
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★ 7.6 5 ratings
Richard Brooks actor: 黛安·基顿 / 塔斯黛·韦尔德 …
other title: 寻找顾巴先生 / 欲海花 …
Theresa is a successful teacher of deaf children during the day but after a short unhappy affair starts to spend her nights cruising bars. Her craving first for sex but later also for drugs leads into increasingly demeaning and dangerous situations at odds with her daytime commitment to her children.
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Manhunter (1986)
Manhunter
★ 7.0 20 ratings
迈克尔·曼 actor: 威廉·彼德森 / 金·格雷斯特 …
other title: 맨헌터 / 刑事グラハム／凍りついた欲望 …
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
Watched
May 27, 2025
What a beautiful and captivating hunt-for-a-killer with great and grounded performances by the leads. Good score, too!
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
★ 6.8 290 ratings
克里斯托弗·麦奎里 actor: Tom Cruise / 西蒙·佩吉 …
other title: 碟中谍8：致命清算(下) / 职业特工队：最终清算(港) …
Ethan Hunt and the IMF team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Ethan's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.
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To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
To Live and Die in L.A.
★ 7.2 20 ratings
William Friedkin / 威廉·弗莱德金 actor: 威廉·彼德森 / William Petersen …
other title: 威猛奇兵 / 洛城生死斗 …
When his longtime partner on the force is killed, reckless U.S. Secret Service agent Richard Chance vows revenge, setting out to nab dangerous counterfeit artist Eric Masters.
Watched
May 20, 2025
A beautifully shot movie with a great score about a cop that's not very good at his job going after a counterfeiter-killer-artist-dance appreciator that's quite competent at his. Also, there's a really good car chase.
I liked this a lot.
Does Friedkin have any misses?
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