The Runaways (2010) Spela Film

I really like this movie. thank you. I went to see Agora expecting an epic with swords, sandals and sex. I found swords and sandals, some unexpected opinions about sex, and a great deal more.. The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential.. This is the single best movie I have ever seen.Thanks for your movie info.. Floria Sigismondi has created a movie that's more interesting than the band that it's about.. I wish the movie kind of caught fire for me.....

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辛亥革命 (2011) Spela Film

Packed with so many characters and subtitled history lessons it barely allows its excellent main cast room to maneuver.. Earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook.. If the success of epic storytelling were determined by the sheer number of unnecessary on-screen name tags, 1911 would be a masterpiece. But the small matters of characterization, audience identification, and scene-making are entirely absent here.. Corny, preachy and tedious.. What sh...

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Oranges and Sunshine (2011) Spela Strömmande

The result is a problem drama with more problem than drama.. Jim Loach (son of Ken Loach) has his heart in the right place for his feature debut, but a plodding script and muted staging strangely strip away the emotional punch.. It's powerful, gut-wrenching stuff, and it doesn't need tarting up.. A deeply moving study of emotionally scarred adults who were illegally deported as children to Australia from Britain in the 1940s and '50s.. Emily Watson, a delicate English rose, has never seemed more...

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Die geliebten Schwestern (2014) Online Streaming

Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. Cello-scored pantomimes of resilience and grief can make us feel, but it's not always evident who or what that serves.. Music perfectly fits with the movie, the story can't tear myself away from the screen for hours. Really GREAT movie!!. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a ...

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Pompeii (2014) Fullständig Strömning

Parmageddon is nigh in this cheesy action melodrama that feels both overheated with plot developments, yet strangely curdled from a lack of histrionics that might have redeemed it as fun trash.. Narrative has never been Anderson's strength; the story here is a corny overhaul of James Cameron's already-corny Titanic.. A campy guilty pleasure that serves up a "Gladiator'' knockoff as an appetizer to the impressively flame-filled main course.. Harington transformed his body for the role, but here's...

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Rubrikernas Man (2003) Online Streaming

It was made strictly by and for Civil War buffs who insist that every pious speech and every skirmish is worthy of filming, even if the end result suffers from serious battle fatigue.. One doesn't come away from it with any sense of what the victory cost in human terms or what it's like to face a rank of men shooting at you, or to jam a bayonet into somebody's guts or have one jammed into your guts.. . It is so lacking in flesh-and-blood characters, so unclear in its depiction of battles like Bu...

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Jin Yi Wei (2010) Fullständig Film Streaming

A masterpiece of genre film-making, really worth to watch.. While "14 Blades" grinds on perhaps a half-hour too long, its ambitions and energies show that for a fresh take on the western, go east.. Its stylishly retro touch and flashy sets and stunts makes a nice package.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, an...

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