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https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaHewitt
was emmahewittofficial.com
Though she’s done other stuff, I know her from her trance/progressive house contributions.
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Emma Louise Hewitt
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2140379/
was focusfeatures.com/selfless
An dying old rich man has his mind transferred to a younger body, and learns the dark secrets of the process.
Overall a good movie. It’s not particularly science-fictiony, but it does explore an interesting topic.
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See also Freejack – (1992 movie)
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 Definitely not Tiny Tina
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://vimeo.com/7432584
https://web.archive.org/web/20180806095234/www.cgsociety.org/index.php/CGSFeatures/CGSFeatureSpecial/mtv_codehunters
I heard of Codehunters from one of those idiotic “10 things you didn’t know”-type YouTube videos. It had a reference to Borderlands – (2009 game) having artwork similarity.
However, it turns out to be Kotaku’s usual bullshit “journalism” based on a reddit comment thread. No, really. For all anyone knows, Kotak-eww made it all up.
Overall, this short is decent. Good enough to deserve the recognition it did. There are plenty of other similar styles and stories which are like this though.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1638355/
https://www.warnerbros.com/movies/man-uncle
Two agents become an unlikely pair to thwart the creation and deployment of a nuclear warhead.
I overall liked this. It has a classy feel something like the old James Bond films but with its own flavour. Younger fans of that genre will likely also like this movie.
- Based on the television show The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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United Network Command Law Enforcement
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2679042/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/hitman-agent-47
A super-soldier program falls apart when its author goes rogue, but when its heirs move to re-capture him, not only does one of his creations turn against them but so does his greatest creation, his daughter.
What was, in so many respects, an original piece in an original world, it has various inappropriate quips and so obviously draws from other sources that it wears thin for a fan of them. Definitely recommended, but I’ll leave it up to the viewer to decide on if they’d re-watch it. I reference several other sources which ought to be watched at some point, and I think their viewing would reveal just how thin this movie is. Good, but thin.
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Properly titled Hitman: Agent 47
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2488496/
https://www.starwars.com/films/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens
Random people go on a merry adventure looking for Luke.
DO NOT WATCH Not just because it takes a steaming dump overtop of the already steaming dumpyness of the prequels, but because it’s badly written and unresolved. Go and watch The Matrix Reloaded – (2003 movie) instead. That piece of shit somehow has less issues.
- Properly titled Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Followed by Rogue One – (2015 movie)
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1663202/
https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-revenant
In a barely-colonial North America, a semi-savage man survives some harsh shit in search for a dude that did some stuff that he doesn’t like.
Slow and pretty. I’m certain this would appeal to some people, just not to me. It’s cinematic, outdoorsy, survivalistic, travelling, manly and all that. But it’s slow and nerve-wracking as fuck.
- Based on The Revenant, by Michael Punke.
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.. which is in turn inspired by the story of Hugh Glass.
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Entertainment > Movies >
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
A man stares into the sun as a child, and develops superhuman powers of math, pattern recognition with a side order of paranoia etc.
I don’t think this will appeal to most people, since it deal with topics only the fringe of humanity have any comprehension of. I happen to like it quite a bit, for reasons I certainly never hinted at in the previous sentence.
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The Secret Number (bleem)
- https://youtu.be/v=Ae2ghhGkY-s
- I’ll get around to reviewing this.
- Knowing – (2009 movie)
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – (1979 book), by Douglas Adams and it’s “Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything”, the number 42.
