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:610: 634 - The Company of Wolves (1984) - 6/10 - This Little Red Riding Hood story has excellent production design and a pretty boring story. :6510: 635 - Red State (2011) - 6.5/10 - A fundamentalist church (think Westboro) uses social media to lure young men who they then drug and execute during t...

:610: 627 - Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) - 6/10 - In postwar Hiroshima, yakuza gangs battle for power and money. There is a ton of violence here and the characters aren't really well developed. It shows the seedier and deadly side of gangster life, but I didn't find the film that compel...

620 - ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970) - An experimental film that reminded me a bit of Brakhage, but I thought it was more interesting than his works. Still, at over 70 minutes, it was too long. :6510: 621 - My Way Home (1978) - 6.5/10 - I didn't think this was as interesting as t...

:610: 612 - Moscow-Cassiopeia (1974) - 6/10 - A genius teenager creates a nuclear engine that can propel a spaceship to nearby stars. A mission is set up to send a group of teens on a mission to explore radio signals from Alpha Cassiopeia. The mission is supposed to take 27 years to get there. I tho...

68 - M*A*S*H Season 5 (1976) - This was one of my favorite series back in the 1970s/1980s and I watched the new episodes and reruns regularly. I've probably seen every episode multiple times, but hadn't watched the show in a long time before finally digging out my dvds and watching the first four s...

:810: 607 - Fanfare (1958) - 8/10 - A rivalry between two men causes the band in a small town to break into two parts. There is a lot of back and forth with stealing instruments and banners as each band wants to be the one to represent the town in an upcoming contest. I thought it was fun. :5510: 60...

67 - Drops of God (2023) - This is a very nice adaptation of the manga series, though the testing phase was considerably shortened and there were a number of other changes. I still enjoyed the series quite a bit.

:7510: 606 - The Parallax view (1974) - 7.5/10 - A reporter starts looking into the assassination of a Senator when they realize that witnesses to the assassination are starting to die as well. This is a pretty good thriller. 70 (1970) (5 minutes) 8 Flags for 99¢ (1970) (26 muntes) The Blues Accordi...

:710: 602 - Death Wish (1974) - 7/10 - Charles Bronson stars as an architect who was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served as a combat medic. When his wife and daughter are attacked in his apartment, it leads to his transformation into a vigilante who roams the streets looking f...

65 - Ted Lasso Season 3 (2023) - I've read that there have been some mixed reviews for the final season and some of the characters certainly had their ups and downs, but I thought it was very good and the final episode was excellent. 66 - Mythic Quest Season 1 (2020) - I was a little slow getting i...

63 - Ghosts Season 2 (2022) - This was another fun season. I'm glad that it got renewed for a third season already and hope that it gets more beyond that. I still need to watch the original British version, but will get around to that sooner or later. 64 - Ocean Star (2003) - A group of kids look f...

:710: 600 - Land and Freedom (1995) - 7/10 - David Carr has died of old age and his granddaughter goes through his things, discovering that he was once a communist freedom fighter in Spain during the Spanish Revolution. We then get to see his experiences over there. It's a decent film that seems to ...

:710: 593 - On the Run (1988) - 7/10 - The wife of a Hong Kong detective is murdered by an assassin. The detective soon finds that he is a target as well and must team up with the assassin to try and protect himself and his young daughter. This is pretty violent and there is a lot of action, but I t...

:710: 585 - Lamerica (1994) - 7/10 - A small group of Italians arrive in post-Communist Albania to set up a shoe factory as a scam to make money. They find a poor old Albanian man to serve as a 'Chairman' to make it seem legitimate. The Albanian chairman is set upon by a group of children and ends u...

:7510: 581 - Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) - 7.5/10 - A group of men travel around one night looking for where a murder victim is buried. The group includes the prosecutor, a doctor, police officers, the murderers, and others. There are a number of false stops since the murderers can't remembe...