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GustavoCampello (6 KP) rated The Wild Goose Lake (2019) in Movies

Feb 10, 2022  
The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
2019 | Crime, Drama
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Beautiful film nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The director plays with various genres ranging from action, drama, noir and romance. The technical part is perfect and the rhythm helps a lot. It's funny how during the film we completely forget that the main character is not really a good guy, but a criminal without many scruples, and this is a very interesting asset of the film, as he intentionally manipulates the spectator's perception. The performances are great, but it's a picture movie, even when the lighting is dark. There are some clichés throughout the movie, but the pacing helps to soften that. I really liked it.
  
    FRAMED

    FRAMED

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    FRAMED is a multi-award winning noir-puzzle game where you re-arrange panels of an animated comic...

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Milleen (47 KP) rated Our House in Books

Jan 14, 2019  
Our House
Our House
Louise Candlish | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery, Thriller
8
6.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Lawsons bought a house before the boom and are now sitting ‘asset rich’ in a leafy London suburb. Fi Lawson arrives home one afternoon to find her house has been sold and new people are moving in. Her estranged husband Bram has disappeared, and she is facing this chaos alone. Candlish opens with this almost farcical beginning and pulls you into the story. Things take a darker turn when Fi starts to relay her situation on a popular radio podcast. This timeline is spliced between paragraphs of a letter from Bram. As both sides of the story unfold and both characters think they know all the facts, this novel is an interesting twist on domestic noir. Thoroughly enjoyable.
  
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Danny Mulligan (31 KP) rated Altered Carbon in TV

Apr 12, 2020  
Altered Carbon
Altered Carbon
2018 | Sci-Fi
8
8.0 (48 Ratings)
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Its different
More than 300 years in the future, society has been transformed by new technology, leading to human bodies being interchangeable and death no longer being permanent. Takeshi Kovacs is the only surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors who were defeated in an uprising against the new world order. His mind was imprisoned for centuries until impossibly wealthy businessman Laurens Bancroft offers him the chance to live again. Kovacs will have to do something for Bancroft, though, if he wants to be resurrected. Bancroft's request of Kovacs is to solve a murder -- Bancroft's. "Altered Carbon" is based on Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk noir novel of the same name.
  
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    Jon Wallace

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    A fast-moving, filmic and violent SF thriller, perfect for fans of Jack Campbell. A meeting of The...

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Michael Imperioli recommended The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) in Movies (curated)

 
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
1976 | Drama
(0 Ratings)
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"Yes, Cassavetes again, and by now it’s a no-brainer as to who my favorite filmmaker is. This time he takes on the gangster/noir genre but does it in his own inimitable abstract-expressionist style, where time slows down or sometimes speeds up, so we never know exactly where we are in terms of a traditional story arc or act structures. We are in dreamland . . . an opium-induced reverie. This is a portrait of an artist in the guise of a strip club owner, and Ben Gazzara’s Cosmo Vitelli is a career-topping performance. The onstage burlesque routines are worth the price of admission, as is the one and only Mr. Sophistication, played by Meade Roberts."

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Brian Raferty recommended The Asphalt Jungle (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
1950 | Classics, Drama
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"In a year filled with epochal films—Sunset Boulevard, All About Eve, the great In a Lonely Place—this 1950 noir may have secretly had the greatest impact. Every heist film or let’s-get-a-team-together caper of the last seventy years owes a huge debt to Huston’s twisting and intense thriller, whose delightful ensemble cast features a bright-eyed Marilyn Monroe (then just about to take over Hollywood) and a grizzled Sterling Hayden (who was already looking to leave the industry altogether). The final moment is a genuine heartbreaker—as is the documentary about Hayden on the Criterion edition, which finds the great actor living on a boat, seemingly set adrift from society."

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