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Grimm: Mommy Dearest (2014)

Season 3, Episode 14

9/10

29 January 2024

The monster of the week, the Filipino "Aswang", is a "real", past and present monster in my family. My mother-in-law, born in 1941 in the Philippines, firmly believs the Aswang, back in the day, took two of her then small children. The Aswang, also known as Wak-Wak from the sound her backwards flipped feet makes, is the most scary monster of the Filipino mythology.

The Aswang, also called Tik-Tik is a blood sucking, baby and fetus eating shape shifting vampire. Google it.

In this episode Sergeant Wu, played by the Filipino Richie Lee, goes insane from exposure to the Aswang and has to be hospitalized in a mental asylum for a short time.

Nick & Juliet, Monroe and Rosalee don't want to tell Wu the truth about the Wesen while Hank is all for telling him the truth as he was in Wu's dark situation in a previous season.

All in all a great episode as it has a real foundation in Filipino mythology and living beliefs. There may be no baby eating Wak-Wak in Portland, Oregon but in the Visayas region of the Philippines there are for sure.

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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

10/10

Will watch again

22 October 2023

Warning: Spoilers

I give the film a 7 stars for action, 10 for artistic implementation and 10+ for moral importance. It could have been cut 1 hour, not rhat it felt I sat in the theatre for 3.5 hours but too many scens of Molly sweating in the bed and too little of Tom White, the FBI chief agent and too little of the trial.

The movie stayed with me and I will probably watch it a second time which hasn't happened ever in my long life. Incredible how old Robert de Niro has become, watched a clip from Taxi driver on YouTube. DiCaprio overplays the mouth thing. The Indians are all beautiful, I love their stoicism.

I highly recommend reading more about the complicated story. Why wasn't Hale and Ernest hanged, only life sentenced and Ernest out after only 10 years and Hale after 20 years. Why; because they only killed Indians.

The deeper meaning of the story is to show the American people's true soul. They all want to impose their will on other peoples. And have all of us non-american and non-white incompetents be subdued, robbed and impoverished by fullbloded white guardians.

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Bullet Train (2022)

1/10

Better if you use two hours watching the bottom of a box of cornflakes

7 October 2022

A piece of garbage trying to look like Tarantino. Starring Brad Pitt. William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals.

Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This led to starring roles in badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) & Cool World (1992).

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The Burning Sea (2021)

5/10

Casting issues

29 July 2022

The best part of the movie is the documentary 60 seconds at the beginning of the movie. That was realism. From the start I had issues with the casting, most of the main characters looks like bank clerks. I know a few people working on oilrigs and in the oil-business. They are big rugged individuals with strong faces and strong hands not like these pencil-necks.

The main character Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp) mostly looks like a hysterical victim to me, not like an heroine. This ruined the movie for me. The best character is the COO William Floe played by Bjørn Floberg, totally believable. I also liked the music, enhancing the movie. The oil industry is absolutely vital for humanity, without gas and oil production we would be back in the medieval ages relying on windmills. 80 percent of the world population would starve to death.

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The Sopranos (1999–2007)

1/10

I managed 20 minutes

28 December 2021

I managed 20 minutes of the first episode. Is this clown supposed to be a mafia boss? Ridiculous. Watch something else, anything. Check out the one star reviews, they tell it much better than I can.

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7500 (2019)

9/10

Never show this movie as flight entertainment

24 June 2021

Fantastic realism that Hollywood can only dream of. The movie should be compolsury viewing among aspiring high-jackers. An extreamly educational movie. Very good job. Intensly suspensful minimalism. Don't show it to anybody who is afraid of flying and never as flight entertainment.

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American Hustle (2013)

1/10

No point, no purpose, nothing to bring home

23 June 2021

A bombastic self-indulgent film that left me feeling dirty like I woke up with somebody's dirty underwear in my mouth. Fortunately I made myself stop watching after one hour. Probably given good reviews by hollow atheists.

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Gone Girl (2014)

3/10

A waste of time

23 May 2021

Save 3h and maybe some money. Two absolutely useless people. Good they never existed for real. Nothing to learn or gain.

The reason for the good reviews is because it's a political book/movie. It is written and directed by cultural marxists. They hate family and marriage because they understand that the family is the cornerstone of traditional Western life. To destroy our way of life they first have to destroy the family. This they do by portrating it as an institution of mutual limitless hate between husband and wife and a total sick co-dependency between siblings. And of course hating and blaming the grandfathers for the whole mess.

Needless to point out that the robotic acting of the family members are intended and that is what is so loved by leftists reviewers. You cannot watch this movie as a suspense or crime flick, it's a political leftist drama never mind the black holes in the plot.

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Unhinged (I) (2020)

6/10

Evil vs. stupid

25 March 2021

Nice action scenes, I hope the female lead character learned to be on time, arrange her handbag and how to honk her horn in a friendly way. What a stupid messed up character, Russel's character was pure evil. I guess the movie was no commercial hit as Youtube sell the movie a few months after it was released for only six bucks..

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The Bureau: Episode #5.10 (2020)

Season 5, Episode 10

10/10

Perfect Greek tragedy ending

13 September 2020

Warning: Spoilers

It's clear that the Eric had run out of creative steam and had to turn over the ending to a fresh director. The new director cuts out the Hollywood characters and bores to the hart of the series; "WTF have the Western powers to do in the Middle East, the ruin of Western raison d'etre. Accordingly they get their asses handed back to them.

The ending is an absolutely perfect Greek tragedy ending. Malotru and Jonas who had destroyed so many lives get themselves destroyed but has to live on, crushed. All the other seasons are clever spy plots, very good for young adults, but Season 5, e9-10 are Greek drama. Well done Audiard.

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Yellowstone: I Killed a Man Today (2020)

Season 3, Episode 8

6/10

Weakest episode

12 August 2020

Hollywood PC culture has influenced the story too much. White men are evil, all other are good. Not much exiting action in this episode. Monica is totally unbelievable as tough native mother. She's never been pregnant a day in her life. They keep her for showering and sexy scenes.

"I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be."

Kelsey Asbille

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Paradise Lost (2020)

9/10

Scary Weird

7 August 2020

Some of the characters are so disgusting that I cannot watch them just listen. Not one sympathetic to hang on to, all weird. The Deep South is portrayed as hell on earth and the people are all demons to a greater or lesser degree. Hollywood Politically correct in nauseating and bigoted way. Worth watching to see and understand how depraved the film industry have become.

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JFK (1991)

5/10

Too long

19 July 2020

The movie is over 10 hour long, that's just too much. A terrible waste of time. Fantastic cast, specially Gary Oldman as Oswald but unbelievable story. Did the producers get their investment back? Then at least it wouldn't be a waste of money.

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American Gangster (2007)

6/10

Above average gangster movie

17 July 2020

An interesting story but not more exiting than a National Geographic documentary (the movie is pure fiction but inspired by true events). The bad guys are not scary or feel especially bad. They live a pretty normal life. Not much emotional connection overall.. Most interesting and well played was the corrupt special cop. Russel and Denzel very competent as usual but not inspired.

The movie had no fire in it but I still recommend it as a home or flight movie, but nothing to go to to the theater for.

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

6/10

Exquisite cinematography and beautiful set designs

23 June 2020

I saw this movie in 1999 and decided to watch it again today. My god, how much I have experienced in those 21 years. Now the movie is boring.

Cruise plays the role of a man at the bottom of the masculine pecking order. A fagot, a weakling, afraid of his own shadow, trying to join a serious game way above his weight.

The music is muzak for white people. Elevator music. Clever social statement by Kubrik, but boring to hear. Exquisite cinematography and beautiful set designs

Perhaps this is a movie for the innocent and inexperienced. To feel a little excitement, that there is more to life. Maybe there is an Illuminati. Kubrik must be laughing in cinema heaven.

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

6/10

Very nice cinematography, colors, clothes and home decorations

23 June 2020

The story is about a supposedly common American with a boring routine sex-life having some fantasies. The man discovers he is really at the bottom of the male masculinity pecking order. A fagot, an impotent weakling. The 'sex orgies' feels colder than plastic shopping malls mannequins. Couldn't arouse a teenager full of testosteron.

Very nice cinematography, colors, clothes and home decorations etc

Not recommended.

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Ford v Ferrari (2019)

9/10

Filled with the sound of HP

22 May 2020

Warning: Spoilers

I am amazed how good this film is. Saw it two days in a row at home. Must have been even more awesome in a theater. The missing star is cause of the last minute of the movie when we was told what happened to Ken long after the race was finished. A totally unnecessary let down.

Don't mind the people who give this movie low rating because of some personal issue they have with a wrong colored lug nut.

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