Movies
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Hummingbird
Hummingbird is a 2013 movie with Jason Statham. In the US it was released with the alternative title Redemption. Statham plays Joey Jones an ex special forces soldier with a history. After his patrol is ambushed in Afghanistan and 5 of his comrades are killed he takes revenge by killing 5 random ‘suspects’. He deserts…
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Fist of Fury
The second movie starring Bruce Lee. This is a classical story in the martial arts movie genre with a Chinese hero fighting for the honour of the Chinese agains foreign oppression and aggression. A superior Chinese martial artist is murdered after being poisoned by the Japanese. All typical Bruce Lee movie elements appear again with…
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The Big Boss
I recently watched ‘The Big Boss’ again with my son. This movie from 1971 start Bruce Lee in his first major film role as the leading star. It is vintage Bruce Lee, including extreme close ups of his face, grimacing, the tasting of blood before he really unleashes his devils, the howling sounds he makes…
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Apollo 13
This movie with Tom Hanks playing Jim Lovell came out in 1995. It is about the disastrous Apollo 13 flight and based on the book ‘Lost Moon’ by Jim Lovell. Apollo 13 was the third flight scheduled to land on the moon and so got little prior attention from the press. That changed dramatically after…
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The Last Stand
This 2013 movie was directed by South Korean Keen-woo Kim and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in his first lead role 10 years after Terminator 3. Arnold plays Ray Owens, a former LAPD policeman who has retreated to being sheriff of the quiet bordertown Summerton Junction, far away from the violence of LA. Unfortunately the quiet life…
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Safe
This is a movie from 2012 starring Jason Statham. It could also have been called Save as Statham plays Luke Wright, ex cop, now living as a tramp because the Russian maffia threaten to kill everyone he talks with for more than 5 minutes. Finally ready to give up and throw himself in front of…
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Star Trek 10. Nemesis
The last movie with the TNG crew and the end of a 10 movie series that began with ‘Star Trek. The Motion Picture’ in 1979 and ends with ‘Star Trek. Nemesis’ in 2002. The first 5 movies suffered from varying quality and seemed to struggle to translate the themes central to TOS episodes into stories…
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Star Trek 9. Insurrection
Movie number 9, the third TNG based one. And another good one if you ask me. It has drama, suspense and mystery, betrayal and even a love story with Picard as one of the lovers. Of course it stays all very dignified, Picard never losing control. The movie starts with Data malfunctioning and being out…
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Star Trek 8. First Contact
This is the first completely TNG movie without any TOS characters involved anymore. In it 2 stories are cleverly intertwined. The first one is the one about how humankind developed the warp drive and made contact with the Vulcans, the First Contact with extra terrestrials. The second one is about the Borg attack on Earth…
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Star Trek 7. Generations
As the title suggests this is the first Star Trek movie with the TNG crew starring. It is actually a transition from TOS to TNG in the sense that a couple of the old crew still appear at the beginning of the movie when Kirk, Scottie and Chekov join the maiden voyage of Enterprise B…
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