Sergio

This is a totally 80s movie. It's got cocaine, beaches, cops dressed in suits with their hair slicked back, and sex in the hot tub with a sax solo playing. I thought it was all too cheesy, but the youtube comments are full of people talking like it's the best movie ever. Anyway, it's got three of the biggest stars of the period, as well as a very entertaining Raul Julia in a supporting role, so if you're in the mood for something 80s, go for it.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjRKdaiTrQo
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tequila_Sunrise_(film)

Memory is a 2022 American action thriller film starring Liam Neeson as a hitman with early dementia who must go on the run after declining a contract on a young girl. ... Memory was theatrically released in the United States on April 29, 2022 by Open Road Films, and received mostly negative reviews from critics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_(2022_film)

Yeah it's not that great of a movie, but if you're a Liam Neeson fan you might want to watch it.

It was only uploaded yesterday, so it might be taken down pretty soon! EDIT: Looks like it was removed already...

About half of these are cyberpunk, most of the rest are kinda steampunk I guess. The music is sorta weak so just listen to some synthwave instead lel.

When, at an important moment in the story of an anime, the quality of the animation improves drastically to make more impact or to be more dramatic or memorable, you can say that this moment is sakuga or has sakuga.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sakuga

There've been a couple major sequels and re-makes that have bombed recently, namely Joker and The Crow, and so this leads to the question: how do you successfully follow up a movie that seems like it could have no sequel?

Here's the answer. The original 1992 Bad Lieutenant would seem like it could have no follow-up, but I argue this film succeeds for a couple reasons.

1. Good actors. I'm not a huge Nicholas Cage fan, but he does the job here, with his typical somewhat-unhinged burnout persona. Solid backups by people like Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, and even a memorable scene with Fairuza Balk.

2. Great director: Werner Herzog. Wikipedia sez:

French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive".

3. Low expectations. "Port of Call New Orleans" had relatively modest production budget of 25 mil so the fact that it only made 10 mil domestically was bad, but not a disaster. (I mean it only ran in 24-96 venues total so they weren't expecting much!)

4. A story that could stand alone. Apparently Herzog didn't even want to use the "Bad Lieutenant" prefix, and Abel Ferrara was mad about it, and there are no returning characters, so... Thematically there's a parallel though, and I think the movie's richer for that being made explicit in the title.

Anyway, it's not an amazing movie or anything, it gets a bit campy at times, but I'm pretty sure Herzog's doing that on purpose and it's worth watching at least once.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yDkoKoZdXY
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Lieutenant:_Port_of_Call_New_Orleans

Darkwave. https://crune.bandcamp.com/

The link goes to Episode 1 of the 1994 live action TV series. See this playlist for all 22 episodes of Season 1. There was no Season 2; apparently ratings weren't that good. But it's not that bad, given the limitations of its TV budget.

RoboCop is a 1994 cyberpunk television series based on the RoboCop franchise. It stars Richard Eden as the title character. Made to appeal primarily to children and young teenagers, it lacks the graphic violence of the original film RoboCop and its sequel RoboCop 2 and is more in line with the tone of RoboCop 3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop_(live_action_TV_series)

The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons.

...

After the film's world premiere, Allan Hunter in Screen Daily found the film to be "a well-heeled, sincere production following the memories of Ramanujan's English mentor and friend ... The film tells such a good story that it is hard to resist. The old-fashioned virtues of a well-told tale and a particularly fine performance from Jeremy Irons should endear the film to that supposedly under-served older demographic who like to turn out for a weekday matinee ... Mathematics plays a key role in the story, but in a way that is entirely accessible, allowing the viewer to comprehend the advances that Ramanujan made and why his legacy remains so important almost a century after his death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity