An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don’t go as expected. A story about corporate greed, humanity, telling the story of an oil executive that leaves Houston to the wild parts of Scotland to set the things in motion for an oil...

Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila’s sexually explicit overtures. Great coming-of-age movie, based on a story published under a pseudonym, telling the encounter between the author and Lila, a beautiful young woman. It’s a story about passion (teenage passion),...

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When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into his life and is unrelenting. The Japanese surely are special. Even after watching this, I don’t know if it’s the...

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a half-assed review -- Need for Speed III - Hot Pursuit (1998)"> There’s this millenium-old saying: “If nothing works, use a ThinkPad”. And here we are now. Unfortunately, I’m going through laptops faster than I’d wish and I didn’t even play one single game. While it is bad and unfortunate, I guess it’ll do. This...

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Great sci-fi movie of the 70s, it’s pretty much the cornerstone of conspirationists around the...

Best Romanian coach in history, may your light shine through. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/rip-mircea-lucescu/

Ove, an ill-tempered, isolated retiree who spends his days enforcing block association rules and visiting his wife’s grave, has finally given up on life just as an unlikely friendship develops with his boisterous new neighbors. Deep, heartfelt, funny and heartwarming at times, sad and nostalgic at other times, this...

A Quiet Form of Obsolence"> This is another guest post. In case you don’t know what that means, a guest post is something written by someone else, but published by me. It represents their views, not mine, I just considered it’s a piece worth publishing written by someone who doesn’t have a presence online. However,...

Brave rabbit cop Judy Hopps and her friend, the fox Nick Wilde, team up again to crack a new case, the most perilous and intricate of their careers. Good fun for the kids, social commentary in a cute package for the grown ups. Strong follow-up to the 2016 phenomenon, proving that Disney can still make proper...

A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars is knocked off course, causing the consumption-obsessed passengers to consider their place in the universe. While this happens on a spaceship, this is not a space opera about colonizing new worlds and discovering new civilizations. This is a slow burning drama about a group of...