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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning - Sum of 8 choices
Exactly 29 years ago, on May 22, 1996, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) made his iconic, soft as a whisper, upside down entry from a ceiling...

Oppenheimer - Prometheus unchained
If you think Oppenheimer is the name of Barbie's Jewish boyfriend, dressed in a pink tutu and wearing a pink headband, then trespass no...

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Mission unconditionally accepted
Unless you're an extra-terrestrial who just landed on Earth, or have been living under a rock, or get your facts only from Fox News or...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Indy rides into eternity
Forty two years ago, a fedora-wearing, bullwhip-toting, wisecracking, gruffly handsome archeology professor outran a massive boulder in a...

Selective Outrage - Rock rocks
Just finished watching Netflix’s first ever live comedy special, the Chris Rock special called Selective Outrage. He killed it with his...

Elephant Whisperers - Gentle giants
Watched Elephant Whisperers on Netflix, India’s contender in the Documentary (Short Subject) race for the Oscars. Very nice - sensitive,...

Avatar: The Way of Water - I see you
Back in 2009, director James Cameron released the most groundbreaking movie spectacle Avatar, the likes of which the world had not seen....

The Sound of 007 - Bond is forever
Oct 5, 1962. The premiere of Dr No, the first James Bond movie. To commemorate 60 years of Bond today, Amazon Prime is putting all 25...

Blonde - Goodbye Norma Jean
Blonde, the heavily fictionalized Marilyn Monroe biopic which premiered on Netflix this week, has the dubious distinction of being the...

Top Gun : Maverick - Evergreen highway into the danger zone
"I feel the need, the need for speed". Those immortal lines were uttered 36 years ago in Top Gun (1986) by the ageless Tom Cruise. Since...

Operation Mincemeat - Deception is half the battle
After dozens and dozens of WWII movies over the past 70+ years, both real and fictional, and having seen so many of them since childhood,...

Downfall : The case against Boeing - Corporate greed kills
The documentary Downfall: The case against Boeing on Netflix. is about the incredible but remarkably similar, never before in the history...

Kimi - Alexa is watching
Kimi on HBO Max is a fictional movie about a tech company worker hearing something unsettling on an audio stream from one of the...

The Last Duel - MeToo in the 14th century
Saw The Last Duel on HBO Max streaming. A 14th century tale based on true events, it’s classic director Ridley Scott storytelling with...

No Time to Die - Craig, Daniel Craig
"Vodka martini". "Shaken or stirred?" "Do I look like I give a damn?" That repartee in his first movie, Casino Royale (2006) was a...

The Many Saints of Newark - Bada-bing bada-boom
If you were alive at 10pm Eastern in the US on June 10, 2007, and not living under a rock, you were about to witness, after 6 brilliant...

"I am a revolutionary"
On Aug 28, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr gave his seminal "I Have a Dream" speech on the Washington Mall. More than half a...

The White Tiger - it's a jungle out there
A white tiger is a rarity, a product of a genetic anomaly, occurring naturally only once in about 10,000 births. The protagonist of The...

Tenet - a man, a plan, a canal : Panama !
Do geese see God? Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam. A nut for a jar of tuna. Had enough palindromes yet? Nope, you haven't even begun to scratch...