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“The Man Who Saved the World” (Peter Anthony, 2015)

A mix of dramatization and interviews about a russian who DIDN’T fire nukes; stylish, ambitious, but also makes you wonder what is true here really?

“Branded” (Jamie Bradshaw & Aleksandr Dulerayn, 2012)

Strange Russian movie about advertising and a revolt around this; pretty un-interesting, a disappointment.

“San Andreas” (Brad Peyton, 2915)

Destruction simulations galore, when half-decent actors play out a half-decent story about a family trying to unite during an enormous earthquake.

Winter games

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
and
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens

The NEW versus the OLD. Let the games begin!

“Pom Poko” (Isao Takahata, 1994).

As always with movies from Studio Ghibli a sensible story with an ecological subtext, and very beautiful and spectacular imagery; simply wonderful!

The Forbidden Room

…looks absolutely unique, crazy and wonderful.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/theforbiddenroom/

Two movies coming up about famous social experiments that went wrong!

Experimenter (Almereyda, 2015)
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/magnolia/experimenter/

The Stanford Prison Experiment (Alvarez, 2015)
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/ifcfilms/thestanfordprisonexperiment/

”Les revenants” (The Returned / Gengångare)

A French TV series that pile mysterious super-natural events into a table of puzzle pieces, and with something Lars von Triersesque in the style of the narrative. Subtly unsettling and scary. Worth watching, season 1 is on Netflix and season 2 on SVTplay.

The Martian (Ridley Scott, 2015)

It was impressive; a tension rich joyride.

Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

Haha, great elevator pitch for this one; martial-arts gangster becoming vampires!
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/yakuzaapocalypse/