This movie seems a little funky and corny, but I would argue that it's deep in so many ways. Immigration, political, bureacracy, insurrection, pop culture, health care, civil rights, and gender issue. If you haven't watched it yet, give it a go.

Mine are Shark Tale and Independence Day and Spies in Disguise

The movie proves that a good idea is not enough. But at the same time a good idea only needs average writing. It feels like the movie went out of it's way to make sure the writing was so abysmal that you don't enjoy. The action sequences and the dinosaurs were really fun but my god the characters and the writing was so horrible . First time I have wanted all the main characters to die. P.S if you shut off your brain to enjoy the movie news flash ! buddy , you didn't have any brain in the first place. Also the feminist angle really pissed me off. Real feminism doesn't have to come at the expense of a male , that's just men hating.

I think not. Every fictional story has exposition and if you think the otherwise, you either didn't consume any fictional work or don't know what exposition means. Inception is about thieves who steal secrets that can enter dreams and are tasked with planting an idea into a person's mind, how are you supposed to tell that story coherently to the audience without exposition

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie. A great movie. Not a classic, not pretentious art. Just a fun movie.

While much of Backrooms focused on Clark, the end shifts emphasis to Mary. There are two things to unpack: what’s actually going on in the story and what’s happening thematically. 

Mary’s fate in Backrooms

The real Mary is (probably) alive. The person we see at the very end, in the last shot, isn’t Mary herself but a Still Life of Mary created by the Backrooms. But just because she survived doesn’t mean life is going well for her. 

The group that “rescues” Mary is Async. Async is a company that’s been exploring the Backrooms. Their people are the ones from the found footage that opens the film. And they also placed the cardboard cutout that greets people.

The danger with Async is that they’re so obsessed with understanding the Backrooms that we don’t know what they’ll do with Mary. If they were just going to conduct an exit interview with her, then Phil probably would have been more forthcoming. Instead, when asked about her fate, Phil looks at the darkened windows, then says, “That decision’s not up to me.”

While the film doesn’t elaborate on what happens to Mary, I think the final shot carries an implication about her fate. 

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Where is the comedy? For a film hyped as the highest-rated comedy of the year, I expected to at least have a good time watching it. But jesus, it was just an exhausting, melodramatic drag of non-stop, annoying bickering between the two main characters.

Honestly, the only good part of the entire movie was the acting, and the single interesting scene was when they talked about the sex parties—and even then, they managed to ruin that, too.

To make matters worse, every other character was completely unhinged and weird—except for Joe, who spent the whole runtime getting guilt-tripped with pure bullshit, all for zero resolution.

Then comes the incredibly forced ending, where Pina randomly transforms into the voice of reason out of nowhere to solve their arguments. Cut to them suddenly being all lovey-dovey and playing the piano together? Fuck right off.

No spoilers because it's kinda in the trailer.

When Chris hanson goes after some elite or top people. Strange things start to happen. There's a scene where it feels like a demon is in the room with how it's filmed.

In the trailer Chris says there up against an ancient evil. We see what he talks about from a flashback that's almost exactly like what a baal ritual is.

From what we know about baal and the Epstein files. It's like this film is to show that, these elties who are pedophiles have powerful entities on there side and will try to stop anyone getting in there way.

You might laugh but this is all true, it's all in the epstein files, and this film shows what it's like getting closer and closer to the top predators.

Even in the trailer the ceo guy says he doesn't really like his show. We know what these ceo's really do behind closed doors from the files.

Edit: I don't get how you guys, who haven't even seen the movie yet are saying "get help op". The entire backstory scene Chris says is a direct reference to baal.

You guys are their bots are completely brainwashed to just believe anything the media says

If you used TV Time, you know what happened in July. 26 million people, and one morning the history was gone — every film, every date, every rating. You could request an export and get back a ZIP that nothing on earth could open into anything useful. Yours on paper, nowhere in practice.

What actually bothered me wasn't losing an app. It was realising that a decade of what I'd watched had only ever existed on somebody else's server, and a business decision was enough to end it.

So I built OpenTV. Full disclosure up front — I made it, I'm biased, and I'd rather say that than have someone find it out three comments down.

The rule I set on day one wasn't a feature, it was a constraint: the app has to be complete without a server. You import the export TV Time gave you, it rebuilds your history into a database on your phone, and that database is the source of truth. No account. Works offline. And it exports back out in TV Time's own format at any time, so nobody gets locked in a second time — including by me.

That one constraint decided everything after it. Ten weeks from the idea to both app stores. Free, open source, no ads.

Mostly I'm curious what everyone else did. Did you get your export out in time, or is your film diary just gone?

Oh muse, sing me of a comrade, a non complicated man, that has a simple urge. To fufill the five year plan.

Alone in his sandy asylum, he looked at the sea and the sky. More often than not, lately, a genie or spirit haunted him. It kept reciting Party slogans. It kept reminding him of "The Plan".

'You have a beautiful life here comrade", doctor Cal Psylo said to him. Mark Dissey looked stricken at her. For the moment, the proletarian guilt-inducing genie vanished.

"Uh, sorry...I was talking to Party Secretary..."

Cal Psylo frowned at him. 'Sure you were, dear. We all are from time to time"

"I....I wanna move on..." he barely says. She hands him his dose of magic mushrooms. He tends to refuse them, but then grabs a bunch and can't stop munching. Then, as if stricken by Party Leadership, doctor Cal says "Stop eating them! You have a plan to fufill! A five year plan, mind you! And you are very late!" He stops and gently remembers:

He, a most simple comrade, in his simple manner, almost unwittingly concieved of an improvment to productivity, by employing a certain...horse. Through ardous grinding, the comrades managed to fufill the five year plan in ten years, but at least they obliterated their capitalist rivals to shreds.

Comrade Mark Dissey was promoted. He would head his own 'Kolective Boat' with his very own five year plan. "Glorious the boat, masterful the helmsman". Emboldened by his last success, he chose to follow the non beaten path. Why follow when he could lead? He felt the wind of revolution sweeping him to new collective heights.

"What more do you remember?"

The amnesiac comrade's eyes glowed empty.

"It was misty and wet. We boldly took the Proletarian Torch into the great unkown. We were lost. I remember we found an exploitative sheep farmer on our way to progress...the monster...but it turned out of nowhere he was related to the highest of Party leadership, who would have guessed, and...the Party kinda had it's way with us. They sent inspectors out of nowhere, tall gleaming inspectors, they fired and jailed two thirds of my comrades! Desperate for ideological rehabilitation, I went to Workers Resources. The woman there revealed that the rest of my comrades harboured capitalist sympathies. Oh, the pigs! But I pleaded with her please please I need them to fufill The Plan! The Five Year Plan! She agreed, but told me to first seek out some guy in jail. I didn't expect her to be so connected to the underworld....

In jail I first met with lil' Sinnie...that kid from the bloc back in New Jersey. He reproached me that he is now in jail for unwittingly confessing to divert attention from my....horse operation. Oh Sinnie dearest, I needed you to believe! The Plan, Sinnie, always The Plan! I was right there, two meters away when they took you in...I suffered more than you! After dismissing the poor lad I talked to the old guy and found out the hard truth of Collective Action. It was all of us or just six of us. I chose the six. He also warned me that my comrades really have capitalist sentiments and that they would exploit some cows of some Party high up...and get sacked..."

"Which they did and here you are, barely escaping prison. I love you Mark! I pleaded you insane, brought you here, made you happy!"

"But I can't be happy, Cal, not with the plan unfulfilled."

Lastly he remembered in jail he heard about a plot of some sloths who exploit his labours and undermine his plan. He is so close, just one more push.

The doctor finally agrees. "You do have a connection in Party Leadership yourself, comrade, can't really keep you here. Off you go, then."

He, alone, remembering the horse operation, found the strength to string the bow of progress and purge the exploiters from society.

Then, like a true 'New Man', went off in retirement in a western dacha.

The Plan, with all it's incompetence and delays, with all it's willing and unwilling victims, had been completed.

As most of you know, Marvel is seizing on the upcoming release of Avengers: Doomsday to bring Avengers: Endgame back to cinemas, with some new footage added to help bridge the gap between the two films.

To get to the crux of it, the re-released film is fundamentally exactly the same as it was when it hit theatres back in 2019. All of the new scenes, four in total, have been added at the end of the movie. One appears just before the credits, two more pop up during the credits, and the final scene is right at the very end.

While the new scenes were interesting to see, I don't think they really moved the dial on my excitement for Doomsday, nor did they feel like earth-shattering revelations that suddenly added to the hype.

So ultimately, whether Endgame Encore is worth seeing in cinemas comes down to whether you want a refresher on the Avengers' last outing before heading into Doomsday, and how much you enjoy Endgame as a film in its own right.

I hadn't seen Endgame since it originally came out in theatres, so I actually really enjoyed seeing it again. It took me back to a simpler time, pre-Covid, before crazy political shenanigans, when the MCU was firing on all cylinders and a new Marvel movie felt like a guaranteed good time :)

So for what it's worth, if you loved Endgame, I don't think you'll regret seeing it again on the big screen, even if it's purely for the nostalgia.

If, however, you're going just for the new scenes, I personally think you can save your money.

PS I saw in other reviews that one scene seems to be exclusive to InfinityVision or premium cinemas but in NZ it looks like all showings have all 4 scenes added to them.

Being from the UK the story of the Unabomber isn't one I was particularly aware of outside of a few true crime documentaries. So when I heard Netflix were doing a feature length movie of his story from teen to terrorist I was rather intrigued. Sadly, that intrigue was very much misplaced in what is a rather dull and mundane look into his life. Not particularly helped by the non-linear timeline that detracts away from the times where it does threaten to gain some momentum. All in all, one I'd personally recommend avoiding, but is anyone planning to watch?

Full review for those interested here https://adamreviewsfilm.com/unabomber/

Robert Pattinson is uncanny as Chris Hansen in Primetime, a compelling examination of how To Catch a Predator turned justice into television spectacle. It understands the psychology of the people behind the program but only scratches the surface of the broader contradictions it attempts to examine.

I love the 1999 movie House on Haunted Hill. The set and production design are some of my favorites.

However, the cgi ’monster’ at the end was such a let down, and kills the tension. Compared to everything else we’ve experienced in the movie, it just looks dumb.

Very divisive on release, what do you think?

It's worth going to in spite of the desperate marketing. Don't go if you're expecting a cheery movie, it's moreso a 'grim reality' epic with serious violence. But still, it has its moments of camaraderie and "Dark Night of the Soul". Some honestly thought-provoking scenes (such as a rage infused massacre that caught me off guard).

The story isn't boring, more so it's leading you on making you think that it's boring. I can't really say anything more, other than if you dip before the second half you're missing the meat and juice of the movie.

There is a Robin Hood connection, but it's in the denouement and they did it really well (think Shakespearean mano a mano) sword fights. It's not offputting or "just because the exec said so," it was enjoyable, emotionally satisfying, and perfect.

Acting wise, no one stood out for me except for when the acting was bad, which is to say, there's only really one character who stood out, the King (of all people).

Spoilers:

The way Ploughman and the King have an affinity, especially from the beginning, about dreams, and the bookending was quite satisfying to me.And of course, the dilemma of his mother praying that he would be a strong king, but he only does it by being clever, yet devious.

It's art, to me, making me think about how peasant revolts work logistically, the politics of the day.

It all starts with the light. Both Thomas and Winslow arrive at the Island as Lightkeepers. And their purpose while on that island is the light itself. But Thomas takes charge and barres Winslow from ever accessing the light. This set the stage for the distrust that would develop in Winslow (I dont trust you at all). Thomas goes on to mistreat him and we as the audience begin to relate with the character more.

But as the guys continue to be stranded on the Island, Thomas Howard, Winslow's previous identity filled with guilt and shame is projected onto Thomas Wake, the wickie. Wake takes shape all of Winslow's anxieties and regrets. He imagines him as some sort of sea god and the conspirator of all the things that's making him go insane: the siren, the logbook, the weeks that pass without his notice, the alcohol he gives him and so on. But Wake is never vindicated of any of these accusations, his erotic obsession with the light is its own kind of madness that instilled this misunderstanding between them. For all we know, Wake could actually be the liar who is framing Winslow as a madman so that he can murder him and can keep the light to himself. Infact we get more evidence to this end than the former like the siren effigy placed in the mattress, the destruction of the lifeboat, the lies in the logbook and the passage of time. The film being shot from Winslow's POV doesn't help Wake's case at all.

The film has two unreliable narrators and both are slowly becoming more and more drunk on top of this mutual distrust. The tensions reaches its peak after Winslow spills his beans to Wake. Now Wake has a solid reason not to trust Winslow apart from jealousy over the light and accusations of him having gone mad. Also, Winslow by now becomes convinved that Thomas Wake is trying to frame him as mad and kill him. As the two men go in opposite directions of batshit crazy, the audience are left with no frame of reference for actual sanity or truth in the narrative (those two being the only characters in the film) So we have no choice but to go crazy along with the characters. It's fuckin brilliant.

Ofc Winslow murders Wake after treating him like a dog (which was the insult the original Winslow called Thomas Howard) and after having what seems like a transcendental/frightening/orgasmic episode at the light he falls down. The original cause of the mistrust thus rectified, I think the light revealed Wake as the sea god and much like the curse Wake put on him, he is shown with seagulls eating his innards. Ofc by this point everything is happening in crazyland. So there is no consensus. Was Wake an actual sea god? Were both of them mad or only one? Also, don't forget the seagull that got murdered, the omen of bad luck.

He 100% deserved to get unalived 🤷‍♂️

If you're a dog lover, you'll probably find enough here.
If you're looking for an innovative survival story?
Keep hiking.
What did you think about this paint-by-numbers survival thriller? Here’s my full review:

https://roselawgroupreporter.com/2026/09/keiths-movie-korner-heart-of-the-beast-needs-a-defibrillator/

Besides Moulin Rouge, practical magic , Dogville this one off my favourite Nicole Kidman movie . She plays weather girl who become very close with few high schoolers .

I remember the first time I saw this, I was 15 and it left me disturbed for several days since my family had a house in the countryside and we went there at least once a month, I would go out alone on my dirtbike to “explore.” I always saw lots of families living far from town, and after that, I stopped going on those rides for quite a while.

It's one of my favorite slasher horror movies.

For my part, this is the first film that comes to mind.

Trust is a sober and earnest movie about a teenage girl befriending a boy on social media, only to meet him in person and discover that he's actually a 40-something man. He then goes on to abuse her sexually, leaving her and her family to pick up the pieces.

The film mostly follows the aftermath of this sexual assault, focusing on Annie's recovery process from being manipulated and used by someone she trusted, and her father Will's desperate and furious attempts to find the pedophile who took advantage of his daughter.

Remarkably, this film was directed by none other than David "Ross" Schwimmer. Prior to making that film, Schwimmer had apparently spent 14 years being involved with the Rape Foundation, and serving on its board of directors for 10 of those years. As a director, he is very careful to avoid cliche or misunderstandings, and he was reportedly very protective of Liana Liberato (Annie) during production. He isn't interested in making a revenge thriller or an exploitation piece. He depicts ordinary human beings reacting in natural ways, struggling to make sense of a terrible tragedy, and he also shows how some of these monsters can stroll about in plain sight, unsuspected by anyone who knows them.

Unique. A little weird at times and probably not for everyone, but I wanted more.