Rating: 90/100

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Hello everyone, if you're looking for a sci-fi, mysterious and psychological horror story then I'm here with the review of Churuli it is one of the most unique and unforgettable movies I have watched recently. You may be curious why I have called this movie unique? Well, the reason is in the movie everything is left unexplained, it's not clear, and that is exactly the reason I liked it the most. You have to figure out everything by yourself, which means the freedom of thoughts are given to the audience. This movie is directed by an underrated director Lijo Jose Pellissery, he has done many other movies before but sadly he is not recognized for his work. Anyway, it's an Indian Malayalam movie, if you never watched one then you can start with this master piece, this movie will definitely take viewers on a strange journey. When I first heard about the movie from a friend, I was not that interested, because it seemed like a predictable movie. As it was not famous I didn't take it seriously, but in the end I was wrong.

Let's explore the plot now. The story begins with two undercover police officers. They have taken the mission to capture the most dangerous wanted criminal. Many officers has failed to do this mission but these two officers are daring enough to chase the criminal to a remote village called Churuli. In the beginning, it may look like a simple mission like the other movies where police chases the criminal but this time it's completely different than your imagination and what you have seen before. As these two officers spend more time in the village they realize that something is very weird with the people of the village. Mysterious events keep occuring one by one leaving the audience with suspense. The movie successfully creates a feeling that nothing is normal in the village and it keeps the audience guessing without revealing too much.

My favourite part about the movie is the atmosphere of Churuli. As I watched the scenes everything created a scary atmosphere, the forest, the dark roads, the sounds of nature and the mysterious villagers make the movie feel real and dreamlike at the same time. I was curious about what would happen next. Also, they did not use any kind of cheap jump scares or too much action, they kept it minimal yet so mesmerizing. The movie builds suspense through its setting and characters. I'm glad they didn't forget the investigation atmosphere throughout the plot.

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The acting of each characters was on point. Their performances feel natural as they are talking to us through the screen and making us feel the same intense moments. In the movie every character fits perfectly into the strange world of Churuli. There was nothing special with the dialogues, even without dialogues they successfully created the unique mood of the movie. The background music also deserve praise because they increase the tension.

Churuli is so good that it gives opportunity to explore the story with our own intelligence. Like I said before it does not give easy answers or explain everything related to the events happening in the movie. To be honest, I was a bit confused about what really happened in the end, there were too many leads. Churuli is different unlike other mystery movies that reveal every detail by the end.

In the end, I would say Churuli is thought-provoking, it's not a simple movie if you're looking for a fast-paced story then this is not the right one. You need to pay attention with patience. To me Churuli is a creative and thought-provoking movie that stands out because of its originality yet it's underrated. So, I would definitely recommend watching it at least once.

Rating: 90/100

‎Hello, everyone. How are you all doing today? Hope you're all good. I think this old movie is Worth sharing and watching. The words I used to remember in the movie then was " test like chicken", this happened when the demon licked the face if spawn s wife in his front.

‎Well, the name of the movie is Spawn (1997); it's an old movie filled with lots of messages and comedy (but not particularly funny). ‎Michael Jai white as the main character. He played the role of Ai Simmons, who worked for the government as a high-skilled assassin, and he never missed a target. ‎ ‎He was noticed by a demon his boss works for to gain more power and influence. But Simmons wanted to quit the job and spend sometimes with his family, but his boss pleaded for one last mission, which Simmons obeyed, but was betrayed by his boss and was burned alive. ‎ ‎After his death, his best friend took over his wife and got married to his wife. His best friend and his boss never expected to see him once again on Earth.

‎He went to hell, and in hell, he made a deal with the devil to lead his army. After that, he will return to Earth and see his family again, his resurrection as spawn. He was given supernatural powers and abilities.

‎Spawn lives in hell, and sometimes, he goes to Earth. In hell, he met Coglistro, who was an assassin like him and had worked in hell 500 years ago. Spawn was filled with vengeance, and wanted to still love his wife and wanted to go back to her.

He swears his boss is going to get back for what he did to him, but Coglistro told him that was exactly what the demon wants; they want him to be angry and filled with vengeance so he can lead the army of hell.

One of his boss's plans was to use a virus named HEAT-16 to make the world join him in his act. HEAR-16 is a dangerous virus that can wipe out the entire old, and he possesses the cure to this dangerous virus. When his boss noticed spawn is coming for his life, he implanted a chip that controls the bomb in his heart, and if he dies, the bomb will explode, killing everyone.

At the end, Spawn killed the demon his boss was working for, but he spared his boss's life because of his family.

Spawn is really an interesting movie, which I recommend to everyone here. If you love watching movies, then I think you should add Spawn to your movie list.

Thank you for reading, see you all next time.

Rating: 70/100

I was wiped out from work all week when I finally got around to watching Spectral (2016), always had it in mind and in fact have this idea to look up all the Netflix Originals that I havent watch yet, it felt like a good short film, the movie shows like they did a lot with little and fits perfectly a streaming movie. The movie follows Mark Clyne, a DARPA researcher sent into a war zone in Moldova and the movie picks up the war pace really quick without much explanation of who are the bad guys, it just gets to the point and I like that. The first contact scene with the enemy is this soldier who ignores orders to wait for backup, choosing to push forward and uses these advanced hyperspectral goggles to look around the ruined streets. He sees this swirling transparent figure and the entity just rushes right into him. The poor guy drops dead on the spot, because his internal organs are flash frozen and his eyes turn completely white. There is a lot of jumps between places withouth much explanation witch might be the most confusing part of the movie aside from the tech, all of the sudden we are at a research lab, where Clyne demonstrates a high powered laser, which instantly melts a huge block of ice. When a military official casually asks if they can test it on a living thing, Clyne just fires back by asking if there are any volunteers. That exact moment tells you everything you need to know about Clyne, because he is a man of science, who relies on his brain and is a man who prove things rather than follow unproven theories. Those first twenty minutes nail the risks this soldiers are taking on and the look of the movie too because for this spectral shapes to be perfectly notice there has to be dark ambient, and you end up just as confused and scared as the soldiers are without knowing wtf attack them and how to stop them.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106651/
• Platform: NETFLIX

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When you start thinking about the concepts that this movie touch on you start to realize how crazy it is and in fact is the only thing that keeps it alife during the draggy and slower moments, a lot of the characters are plain flat, but thats not a bad thing for a movie like this. When Clyne first shows up at the military base, the Delta Force soldiers get right in his face acting like a bunch of aggressive bullies. They treat him like a complete nerd, until their commanding officer gives a massive speech about how Clyne invented their protective gear. Aside from that, even Clyne suffers from a lack of development, jumping to the conclusion that the creatures are made of Bose Einstein condensate without much logical buildup. The rest of the squad members blend together into a faceless crowd of guys holding guns, and I literally could not tell you anything about their individual personalities. Sergeant Toll is one of the few exceptions, especially when the team hides in an abandoned factory and discovers two local children named Sari and Bogdan. Toll is the only soldier who actually talks to the boy, showing a softer side by asking what the entities are. We learn the deceased father of the kids protected them by pouring a ring of iron filings around the building, and the movie tries to force an emotional connection before the group has to abandon the safe zone and make a run for it. Young Bogdan gets killed by a ghost almost immediately, but I did not feel any emotional weight when the kid died because we barely spent ten minutes with him, so his death just felt like a fkn cheap trick.

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The best part of the movie for me is the action, there is no drama here or time to grow characters, they throw you right into it, especially the part where the Delta Force team goes into a building to grab a missing squad. Clyne is the one who created the goggles that could detect the motion of the entities but not fully see them, so he takes this massive old television style camera that can actually capture the entities and reverses the polarity so it acts like a giant spotlight. Now not only can he see them but every other soldier around him can too, something they just do not explain much and it just works. The team eventually finds one guy still alive, and if you have seen a lot of sci fi movies there must be a reason why he was still alive. A soldier named Comstock is hiding underneath an overturned ceramic bathtub, and that detail ends up mattering a lot later on. The visual effects look incredible when the entities phase right through the heavily armored troops, leaving them frozen and dead in an instant. They have this trace that follows them almost like in the Tron movies. The movie does develop itself as after each scene there is a new clue or a new weapon, it feels like you are going through levels. After they try to escape from the building where Comstock was, their trucks get bombed so they have to run into the factory, where they hit the lottery without knowing it. They meet the kids, learn the basic concept of why the factory is surrounded by iron, where everything started and who their dad was, and it all starts to fall into the right places. That sequence leads into a standoff in an old courtyard with a busted up water fountain, where the soldiers lose their portable light and are completely blind. Massive tanks roll in with giant searchlights mounted on top, and I was amazed when one of the ghosts charges straight into a tank. The ghost fails to pass through the thick ceramic armor, just bouncing off while denting the metal, which proves these things actually have physical limitations. Its like every encounter is a new experiment, a new clue, and thats what makes the movie interesting, aside from the spectral concept that I have never heard before. Then a rescue helicopter shows up and it turns out the rotor wash actually pushes the entities back, which is such a smart touch. Clyne grabs and smashes glass jars full of iron shavings right then, so the helicopter wind blows all that metal dust straight into the ghosts, breaking up their forms just enough for everyone to get out. My main problem with the movie is still that a lot of this tech feels like it was created just to look cool rather than make any sense, but the constant progression of new clues and new ways to fight the entities kept me interested.

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The story itself is pretty simple, and you can tell it borrows a lot from classic science fiction and action movies. The soldiers getting overwhelmed by an enemy they do not understand reminded me of Aliens right away, but most important an enemy they cant see so then it gets closer to Predator. Clyne, Madison, and Captain Cabrera monitor the squad through helmet cameras from an armored vehicle out side of the building. When things go sideways, Clyne practically begs Madison to pull the team out, but she resists because she does not want to walk away without a sample, until Cabrera finally calls the evacuation himself after he realize nobody is getting out alife if they stay and fight. That is basically Ripley screaming at the lieutenant to pull the marines out and it works very well here, because it shows how stubborn humans can be when they center into an idea, specially an unproven theory. The movie also shares a ton of DNA with Battle Los Angeles, with that gritty boots on the ground feel of soldiers trying to survive a chaotic urban invasion, but for me it had a place and memories from my childhood, it takes things a step further by mixing in the high tech spiritual warfare of something like Final Fantasy The Spirits Within, that was my very first movie ever, one I would never forget but back then I was more into music. This Spectracl has the same theme of combining spectral phantom enemies with heavy military hardware, like on the opening where the soldier looks down his sights at the ghostly anomaly, and if the spectral touch them its game over. It even feels very Mcgyver when Clyne tells them to bring all their gear and he will find a way to build them an arsenal, like the heroes are forced to build custom plasma weapons and energy packs to fight ghosts but without explaining what they hell they doing, the movie just make their masks and weapons look cool.

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A former secret agent is called back to service to save the world from the sinister plans of the KAOS criminal organization.

Will he and his team manage to penetrate the ranks of this shady organization, expose its leader, and eliminate him?

According to Agent Smart himself, he is in perfect shape to accomplish the mission, although his body says otherwise due to issues such as hernias and other age-related problems.

After all, the United States and the whole world seem to rely on Smart’s physical ability to return to service, and apparently, Intelligence Agency Commander Drury has no other choice than calling a semi-retired agent to hold the hot potato.

Smart as a wordplay

The title of the movie: “Get Smart, Again!” is some sort of wordplay.

On top of referring to Agent Smart, and reactivating him, it also implies that people, in general, need to get smart, again.

It serves as a prompt for people to regain their lost intelligence, and this is emphasized more through Agent Smart’s blunders and clumsiness.

Resemblance with Inspector Clouseau

In Agent Smart, cinephiles may be able to see some resemblance with the figure of Inspector Clouseau, another movie character famous for his unmatched clumsiness.

Global climate control technology as a threat

A weather machine that threatens the world was pure science fiction back then.

Nowadays, however, with climate change at the heart of global debate and concern, it looks like reality has gone beyond imagination.

Perhaps human activities have done the job that a weather machine could allegedly do in this movie.

Asking $250bn in small bills as ransom

There was a point in the movie that really made me pause for a moment.

The leader of KAOS asks $250bn in small bills as ransom.

After searching online, I found out that, if he is paid, let’s say, in 20 dollar notes, 25 standard shipping containers would be required just to store this huge amount of money.

I guess it is something that adds to the movie’s absurdities.

Secret services before the Internet

The facilities and equipment used by secret agents in the pre-Internet era were primitive compared to today’s.

I mean, there is only one computer available at the headquarters of the Intelligence Agency, while “scientists” play cards in another room!

Talking about technology, when Smart’s shoe phone rings at the funeral, nobody has a mobile phone, and they all trying to find out where the ring is coming from.

Compare this with today’s abundance of mobile devices, and you immediately notice the huge difference in communication technology that has taken place in the last few decades.

A married couple of secret agents

Smart is a secret agent, and his wife, with the code name “99”, is a secret agent, too.

You could say that they keep the business in the family.

They also have a “cone of silence”, which is an anti-bugging device, in their bedroom. How strange is that?

A robot with feelings but no common sense

Hymie is a former spying robot that has now been programmed to be used in car crash testing.

It is a robot that has feelings and complains because his old friends have forgotten him.

On the other hand, he seems to lack simple common sense, as he translates words literally into acts. This is a paradox, isn’t it?

A Sumitomo Bank building in the background

While Commander Drury, Major Waterhouse, and Maxwell Smart are on the roof of a skyscraper for “hover cover” (so that their words are covered by the noise of hovering helicopters), you can see a big Sumitomo Bank sign in the background.

This Japanese bank was one of the biggest banks of the world at the time.

At another point in the movie, Maxwell Smart says that the Japanese have contributed just 100 bucks to help fight the KAOS organization.

Bonus point

Don’t you think that Nicholas Demente, the leader of the KAOS organization, enacted by Harold Gould looks very much like Mansour Bahrami, a former professional tennis player?

Rating: 66/100

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I guess the cat was out of the bag after episode 4, after finally the american spy has been identify but who is / was working with her was not clear and thats what this episodes does, with Irina putting two and two together about the sabotage coil hidden inside the perfume bottle from last episode and the realization washing over her face is just damn good writing and acting. Now that we know how far the Soviet Union incompetence will go just because they think there is a spy and how far the cosmonauts will go too because of the place where the state has put them in, only then you realize how messed up things are for these characters right now. Irina goes wild on this episode and it almost feels like braging just because she knows everything, as when she went to Tanya's place, the tea kettle starts whistling outside the bathroom door and she goes to check on her sleeping daughter before sitting down with Tanya for tea. She starts grilling Tanya with specific questions about that woman from Moscow, then walks over to the wall and peels back the wallpaper to show a hidden microphone bug. A scene that is expected but it had so much impact because Tanya just looks completely horrified, realizing her entire private life has been recorded by the state without her knowing. Irina does not waste time, she drops the hammer and tells Tanya that Valya is actually an American spy and it breaks your heart watching Tanya process that betrayal. Irina insists that Tanya needs to disappear immediately for her own safety, which shows despite being a hardcore party loyalist, she still has empathy left for this woman. It is a heavy way to start the episode and I is the type of shocking moment that makes you want more out of it.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32140872/
• Platform: APPLETV

This episodes is really interesting and satisfying because it shows how the series handles the pressure cooker environment over at the Venus headquarters, especially when the Chief Designer finally breaks down the mission profile for his cosmonauts. Watching them map out this plan to disguise the launch as a weather satellite mission is honestly ridiculous, I would never imagine you could smugle a ship to Venus and nobody noticing, hiding the crew inside the bathysphere module before docking with a refueling module in Earth orbit. The goal is a Venus flyby, dropping that bathysphere right into the Venus atmosphere, which sounds like a suicide mission since the heat alone would make you burn up and disintegrate. A lot has change around and keeping with the ridiculousness one of those specific changes is Sasha who all of the sudden wants to be the touching husband for Anastasia during that slow morning before he left and at least he stay put not saying a thing about his mission. She walks into the bathroom and finds him suiting up in his flight gear for a training exercise and the look on both their faces says everything about how uncertain things are for both of them. He tells her he will be gone nine months and you can see the jealousy and sadness in her because she knows she will never get to fly again but at the same time that he is not going for training, thats for sure. The actors work out this arranged marriage turning into a pure love relationship almost like it was forge in a bad way and end up becoming true, making you care about them surviving this. We also get a quick resolution for Sergei, after a night in a prison cell, as the Chief Designer negotiates his release with Colonel Raskova and tells him that life is a compromise, which sums up the entire Soviet mindset in one line.

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The alternate history vibe here is similar to how things were at the begining in the For All Mankind but this time the spy and conspiracy theme hits so hard to make it worth more, at first I though it was a seperate show but it is in fact a spin off just that AppleTV didnt put that much effort into the PR for some reason, its that sad and dark Soviet Union iron fist grip that makes things more interesting after every achievement it comes back to take little oxigen out of you. The scene where Valya gets confronted by Tanya outside is incredibly tense because it almost feel like guards are chasing them and about to catch them right there, especially when he tries to feed her a secret code about marking a cafe wall and heading to a bridge for extraction because we dont know if its all bs. Tanya is completely disgusted with him and will not play his game, so he is in the worst possible moment alone because not even his wife is with him, I think what hurst Tanya the most is that she might think because he is a spy the state was recording them but none of them know that they do this with almost everyone at Star City, it is part of the program. The military raids the apartment with dogs while Valya runs through the woods and this is where the show goes hardest into that gritty espionage thriller feel. Valya spots Pavel walking by, smoking what he calls his last cigarette for nine months and the way Valya asks him to hold up a second before smashing him in the head with a rock is straight up ruthless, because is such a coward hit from the back to safe his ass somehow, everything but getting caught and this means taking on a trip to Venus for nine months withouth thinking or meassuring the concecuences for the mission because there is not enough time, it was do or die moment. Latter we find out Valya bound and gagged Pavel in a closet so he could steal a spot on the Venus mission, pitching himself as the hero when the Chief Designer panics about being a man down, this was hilarious. It is a desperate move from a guy who knows the government is coming for him and picking a suicide mission over a Soviet gulag shows you the kind of dark choice these characters keep making. I love seeing how far these people will go once they are backed into a corner, tossing their morals aside just to survive another day, on For All Man Kind you got none of this, yes you had those hero moments but it was because of the glory not because you might be thrown into jail for life.

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Even though I really like this episode, I do have a few issues with some of the sloppy spy moments back at building twelve, because some of the choices feel too convenient, like the writing got lazy. Irina goes into her office and just uses a desk magnet to wipe portions of the audio tapes and cover her tracks with Tanya and that feels way too easy for a supposedly secure government facility, this was not the first time and I really really though she was going to get caught by her coworker and bring back to Colonel Raskova and she does but for a different reason. The snooty coworker Yegorova gets suspicious and reports Irina to Colonel Raskova for fraternizing with the target, she had her ass right there but didnt know it, and that sets up a confrontation that could blow everything up but it doesnt. Irina just walks in with files and flips the script, claiming she only got close to Tanya to gather evidence that Valya is the actual spy, and Raskova buys it without verifying the timeline. I hate when a show builds up a threat only to resolve it in two seconds and watching Raskova stand over that coworker and force her to apologize and call herself an infantile rat is satisfying, but also feels incredibly unearned. It also bothered me how easily Valya gets through the security checkpoint while running late, showing off who he is, pulling rank on the guard and asking if he knows who he is to avoid getting logged into the system. You are telling me a heavily guarded secret military base just waves people through without proper protocol because someone acts annoyed about a late bus, come on.

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Rating: 80/100

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Hay películas que se quedan grabadas en la memoria con la misma nitidez con la que las vimos por primera vez. Para mí esa película es La historia sin fin y WOW… No les miento si al cerrar mis los ojos casi puedo escuchar el sonido mecánico del reproductor de VHS de mi casa tragándose la cinta y lo digo tan vulgarmente pues en ocasiones ese VHS de casa solía sacar el rollo de película y se hacia todo un desastre ja ja ja... Gracias a Dios mi papá lo reparaba y funcionaba por un tiempo sin problema. No olvidare esa primera vez, ese día que conocí esta grandísima historia

There are movies that stay etched in our memory just as vividly as when we first saw them. For me, that movie is The Neverending Story, and WOW… I’m not lying when I say that when I close my eyes, I can almost hear the mechanical sound of my VHS player at home eating the tape and I say it so bluntly because sometimes that VHS player at home would pull the tape out, and it would turn into a total mess, ha ha ha… Thank God my dad would fix it, and it would work fine for a while. I’ll never forget that first time, that day I discovered this incredible story.

Ver esta película no era solo sentarse frente a la pantalla, era un ritual. Una película que desde que la vi de niño me ha quedado en el recuerdo como si la hubiera visto hace unas semanas y aunque ya ha pasado bastante tiempo desde aquellos días, recordar esta joya me hace sentir exactamente como ese niño que descubrió el reino de Fantasía por primera vez. La Magia de Fantasía y el peso de "La Nada" y más allá de los efectos de la época que hoy en día tienen un encanto artesanal único, la historia tiene una profundidad tremenda y es más, creo que si la película le realizaran un remake puede que tenga un éxito increíble. De niño, la amenaza de "La Nada" me parecía aterradora, pero hoy la entiendo mejor: es la pérdida de la imaginación, el olvido de los sueños y es por eso que recordar esta película me trae hermosísimos recuerdos.

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Watching this movie wasn’t just about sitting in front of the screen it was a ritual. It’s a film that, ever since I saw it as a child, has stayed with me as if I’d seen it just a few weeks ago, and even though quite some time has passed since those days, remembering this gem makes me feel exactly like that child who discovered the kingdom of Fantasia for the first time. The magic of Fantasia and the weight of “The Nothing” and beyond the period effects, which today have a unique, artisanal charm the story has tremendous depth. What’s more, I think that if the movie were remade, it might be an incredible success. As a child, the threat of “Nothing” seemed terrifying to me, but today I understand it better: it’s the loss of imagination, the forgetting of dreams and that’s why remembering this movie brings back such beautiful memories.

Volver a pensar en personajes como el tierno y gigantesco Falkor ese gran dragón con un parecido a un perro, el gigante de piedra comiendo rocas, o el dolor tremendo de ver a Atreyu perder a Artax en el Pantano de la Tristeza que por cierto, es una escena que nos traumó a todos por igual. Todo me hace dar cuenta de que la película no ha envejecido ni un solo día en mi mente y que más que una película fue una lección de vida. Por eso esto no es tanto una reseña, es una lección de vida que aprendí y comparto con ustedes. Además, de seguro será la primera de muchas buenas reseñas que compartiré con ustedes.

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Thinking back on characters like the gentle, gigantic Falkor that huge, dog-like dragon the stone giant eating rocks, or the heart-wrenching pain of seeing Atreyu lose Artax in the Swamp of Sorrows which, by the way, is a scene that traumatized us all equally. It all makes me realize that the movie hasn’t aged a single day in my mind and that, more than just a movie, it was a life lesson. That’s why this isn’t so much a review as it is a life lesson I learned and am sharing with you. Plus, it will surely be the first of many great reviews I’ll be sharing with you.

Rating: 100/100

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I have been waiting for season 3 to drop for a while, this is one of those shows that got me inlove with AppleTV content, season three of Silo threw me right back into that dark, underground world, but they mix things up right away, swapping the old opening biology symbols and fresh apples for heavy gears, a solar system model, and a rotten apple falling from the tree, setting a kind of very toxic mood for everything, its signaling that things are going to get very twisted. Then we get a flashback set centuries in the past in Washington during the Before Times, where Congressman Daniel Keene and his sister Charlotte who is a naval pilot are introduced right before a massive strike against Iran although its a secret mission that is not part of what the world is watching, its crazy and some may say a bold move to relate a show to recent real War events, or is it just coincidence?l. Watching Charlotte and her squadron climb to fifty thousand feet and fly into a strange cloud that knocks out their instruments while a black, oily substance eats away at the rest of their F-35 planes, breaking apart around her before her own goes down, a very creative scene although the CGI was not good in my opinion because you can tell how the plans and her face look fake, its probably because Im just too familiar with the tech but it does not look natural. Lucky her, Charlotte survive the crash and wake up with a traumatic brain injury that seem like got her memory wipe out, either entirely or partial because when her brother arrive to the hospital she didnt recognize or recal who is he, from the story line perspective I think is a smart choice, mirroring the present day, Charlotte pushing Daniel onto the Iran committee run by Senator Paula Thurman, later letting him know Charlotte has actually been sent on the Iran operation, its the entire thread of conspiration and secret mission package in one. I was worried the Before Times stuff would be a distraction, but getting in the mix the cloud and the conspiracy together grabs your attention and leaves you desperate to know how it connects to the toxic air outside of the Silo, there has to be connection.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688458/
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Jumping to the present day inside Silo eighteen, the story gets depressing fast, because it has been three months since the rebellion and Juliette is now the mayor, but completely stripped of her memories, latter the show itself tells you it is intentional. The opening scene where the nurse casually hands her the suppression vitamins is sick as she is again been play out, the moment she look at the mirror is all very creepy giving you that feeling that someone is looking at you from the other side. Juliet is suppose to be this fierce woman who survived the outside now a confused puppet who accepts whatever she is told. Rebecca Ferguson is doing something great here, this washed out version of Juliette who barely reacts to anything and the construction site scene got me good, she just asks if that is where her dad died like she is asking about the weather, no feeling in it at all. Hank sits her down and tries to walk her through the real story of what happened with her father, that he did not throw his life away for the rebellion like she thinks or been told and she just looks through him and cuts him off asking who he even is, I was like are we seriously playing this game? because it resets everything, the only satisfaction will come when her memory kicks in plus the juicy context we might get from the flashbacks from Charlotte and her brother Daniel. Shirley is pissed and hurt that her friend does not even know her anymore after everything they went through together and seeing that gap between the woman who marched over the hill and this hollowed person that is Juliet now, that no body recognize anymore, it even looks like the entire Silo is full of people who forgot who she really was and not saying anything about it. Part of me kept waiting for something to snap her out of it, but I know they wont make it that easy for use, the vitamins are doing their job, she stays foggy and easy to control the whole time. It is rough to watch but you have to give the show credit for sticking with this amnesia plot instead of rushing her back to normal to shake things up more than it was before she left and the whole Silo feels like it is one spark away from exploding again, with everyone bowing down to a hero who could not even tell you her own name.

The real puppet masters behind all of this misery are Camille and Robert Sims, funny enough how Camille went up through the ranks and the shift in their power dynamic is easily the most fascinating part of the season, not rooting for them but got to respect the craft. Camille now wears a maroon robe of authority and the scene where she enters the secret vault to speak with the artificial voice is tense since she is completely alone with it. Robert is clearly frustrated about being kept out of that kind of access but he is still doing plenty of dirty work behind the scenes and there is sick flashback finally shows what really happened in the airlock chamber. Sims told Juliette that Bernard died from poison that got into his suit once the fire burn it and make some holes in it, but the flashback shows he actually survived and it was Robert who wrap a plastic bag around his face and smother him to death, shifting all the blame for the Silo problems onto a dead man who can say or defend himself. Camille is also feeding Juliette fake computer images of a refuge hut, telling her she stayed there until she was strong enough to return, like she spending days on that other Silo never happen, exactly where she got the fire proof suit and it makes you sick just watching them construct that lie to keep the peace. The algorithm even orders Camille to double the dosage of the memory vitamins because Juliette is starting to have small flashes of the truth, proving whoever or whatever, is running the show is terrified of what happens if the residents learn it. I got this though about who the writers are setting up Camille as the ultimate villain, taking orders from a glowing screen while keeping up this illusion of a fair government, with a new mayor that is really just a farce to distract the population, this is exactly the kind of manipulation that makes this universe so engaging.

The illusion of peace in the Silo keeps getting threatened by smaller factions fighting for control, also there is this new rebel group called the Outsiders, that at first I thought where people actually from outside the Silo but its just a name. This group of masked rebels breaks into the IT department to steal a cleaning helmet and drops a massive banner telling everyone the display is a lie, injecting some much needed chaos into the environment and its there were Juliet memories start to kick in and doubt what is real. Security footage shows a raider possibly breaking the wrist of one of the female rebels with a baton and security starts searching for a woman with a bandaged right arm, this create this very real risk for anyone who just casually met this description to get arrested and I bet the first person they get is the wrong one. It is crazy to watch how Sheriff Paul Billings is also acting so docile while he sits around rewriting amendments to the pact, like why the all participating of this or is it that Camille somehow got everyone on her pocket, like a man who has completely lost his soul, makes me think if they got some leverage on him. On top of the rebel action there is a bitter feud brewing between Ed Harwood, who runs the mines and Orla, the new supply shadow, and their arguments add some spice to what seem to be a very stable Silo for now. Harwood points out the tunnels prove the Silo has been there for at least three hundred years, which makes you rethink the timeline of the disaster, while Orla notices items like computers and bulbs going missing from critical supply and arranges for two heavy barrels of vitamins to be sent to water filtration, a move that needs sleds and can only happen at night, not sure where is this going but I bet its going to be important. I like how the episode keeps cutting between these small department squabbles and the bigger mystery of the memory drugs, it is a good reminder that life just keeps grinding on down there even with a massive conspiracy sitting right above their heads, and it gave me that same tense feeling those early season one episodes had.

Then right at the end everything shifts when Juliette gets a secret message that finally breaks her out of just going on auto pilot. She is sitting alone in her apartment trying to force down a bowl of salmon chowder, she gags on it and dumps the whole thing in the sink, then finds a note hidden inside the bowl, it was this ridiculous huge metal container like a pill with the note inside, so how did nobody saw it?. The note tells her to flip the bowl over and meet at the marketplace at two oclock, then burn the paper right after reading it and you can actually see her come alive a little when she watches it burn, she wants to remember at least thats certain but what will she do when she face the reality thats the question, the obvious thing is that she will remain on her old version stand against the "Founders" but there is going to be some conflict there, doubt its going to be that easy though. I am really hoping this message came from Lukas or someone connected to the Outsiders because Juliette needs an ally to break through the fog of those double dosed vitamins. This first episode was very very slow, it was not bad but IF you havent seen the series its going to feel very meh so for me it gets a solid 7.5/10, because it manages to balance the intense historical flashbacks of the plane crash with the slow psychological horror of losing your own identity in the present, by present I mean Juliet but also in the past with Charlotte. Even though the pacing feels a bit slow while they set up the new department heads and political structures, the payoff of that secret message makes you want to watch the next episode. I love how they are expanding the universe beyond the concrete walls with political secrecy in Washington that is a step into the direction at the origins of the Silo world, even though the show still has not confirmed what caused the toxic wasteland outside. The mystery of that strange cloud is going to keep thinking about it until the next episode and I just pray Juliette gets her mind back before Camille and the algorithm manage to bury the truth for another three hundred years.

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Hello everyone, recently I have been watching movies a lot and yesterday I have discovered a movie which is Return to Silent Hill (2026), it was released long ago but I have found it late. As I was searching for a horror movie then luckily I have found this movie. Well, if you don't know what this movie is based on then let me explain. Actually, it is a movie that brings the famous Silent Hill 2 game to the big screen. Never imagined there would be a movie on this. Of course there were many more movies of Silent Hill before this but it is the first one I'm watching for the first time. The movie begins with our main lead James Sunderland who receives a letter from the love of his life Mary. In the letter she asked him to return to the Silent Hill which used to be their home once. James hopes increased to find answers, and he dared to enter the foggy town, where every building, street and monster seems connected to his painful past.

I love the atmosphere of the movie. The game Silent Hill 2 has dark theme, thick fog, unsettling feelings and creepy creatures which always created a constant feeling of fear and in the movie they have used the same elements. It also has good music and sound track, it helped to add an emotion to many scenes which made the town feel even more mysterious. Visually film makers did a great job of bringing the world of Silent Hill to life, it was not the best but still it was similar to the game.

Jeremy Irvine if he had blonde hair then it would feel much better. Anyway, his acting performance was really amazing and delivered a solid performance as James. He successfully portrayed the character's actual fear and emotional pain in a believable way. Not for a moment I have felt that he was over doing it. To be honest, I have seen him as an actor for the first time and it was overall too good. As James moves into Silent Hill you can feel the weight of his emotions and how deep it is. The supporting cast were good but they didn't get enough screen time as I expected.

I can not blame them actually the movie was too fast paced, it can be hard to connect with some of them on an emotional level like we did as in the game. If you've played the original Silent Hill 2 game, then you will notice that the story successfully represents the game scenes and close to the main. I personally have not played the game but I have watched many live streams. There I have noticed the locations and how they monsters look. In the movie you will find the famous locations and the monsters they look exactly the same, also key moments are recreated with care. I feel Silent Hill fans will enjoy this movie.

However, this is where the movie has some flaws. The game is loved because of its deep emotional story and psychological themes. Everything in the game has connection to the main character, the strange events, monsters has a meaning that reflects James's mind and feelings. The movie shows these moments but doesn't explore them properly. As a result, some of the emotional impact feels empty.

I didn't like it how rushed it was. The movie seems more focused on showing familiar scenes from the game than fully explaining the story. As a fan of Silent Hill I would understand what's happening in the movie but newcomers may find parts of the plot confusing and not completely get the story.

Even with these flaws, Return to Silent Hill is still an enjoyable because fans would like anything related to the Silent Hill game. At least it pays respects the original game and captures its dark atmosphere better than many other video game adaptations. One thing was lacking and that is the emotional depth from Silent Hill 2, it had offered enough creepy moments and beautiful visuals to keep fans interested.

Overall, I have liked the movie but not that much. Even though I am a big fan of it but I can not ignore how empty it felt. I wanted to see more of the story. Return to Silent Hill (2026) is a good movie for the longtime followers of the game. As we all know that Silent Hill 2 game has the story which is still considered one of the greatest psychological horror story ever made but the movie can not compete to it. So, if you like mysterious and visually impressive horror film, then you should obviously watch this movie. If you have high expectations with storytelling then it's better to not watch it. I have shared my honest review, I hope you guys will like it.

Rating: 70/100

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