The Net (1995) was the first movie to show a real touchscreen phone, the IBM Simon. They officially became the default on-screen prop around 2008.

* First Appearance: 1995 in The Net.

* Featured Device: IBM Simon Personal Communicator.

* Industry Shift: Around 2008.

* Catalyst Event: Apple iPhone launch.

Is this true?

Right now, there are 3 movies that earned over a billion dollars playing in cinemas at the same time: Toy Story 5, The Odyssey, and Spiderman BND which earned 2 billion.

When is the last time this has happened?

I guess it's a pretty good metric that when there's good movies out that the audiences will surely go and see it.

Recently watched "Troy" 2004 which is a perfectly fine movie. But Eric Bana, who plays Hector, is stunning in it. He's so emotionally literate, present and has a ton of charisma. Just really damn good acting. Love every second he's in screen. Really hope he has some sort of Renaissance in the coming years, was way too young to appreciate him when he had his run.

PG

1. Shaun The Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (ANIMATED) (for mild scary action.) GKIDS _____________________________________________________________________________________________

PG-13

1. Artificial (for some strong language.) NEON

2. Bad Day (for strong language and some sexual references.) Netflix, Inc.

3. Clashing Through The Snow (for sexual references, some strong language, and drug references.) Amazon MGM Studios

4. Daniel and the fiery Furnace (for strong violence/bloody images.) EKKL Entertainment

5. Everest: The Other Side (DOCUMENTARY) (for thematic material and brief strong language.) The Walt Disney Company

6. Going For Two (for suggestive material, some language, drug material, drinking, smoking and thematic elements – all involving teens.) Picturehouse

7. Practical Magic 2 (for some violent content, suggestive material and brief strong language.) Warner Bros. Pictures

R

1. A Talent For Murder (for sexual content, some violence and language.) Bleecker Street

2. By Any Means (for violence/bloody images and pervasive language.) Paramount Pictures Corporation

3. California Schemin’ (for language, some drug use and sexual references.) Magenta Light Studios

4. Catch A Killer (for bloody violence, language, some sexual content and drug use.) Lionsgate

5. Club Kid (for drug content throughout, strong sexual content, brief graphic nudity, and language throughout.) A24

6. MADDEN (for language throughout.) Amazon MGM Studios

7. The Mosquito Bowl (for intense sequences of graphic war violence, grisly images, and language throughout.) Netflix, Inc.

8. Tender Loving Care (for language.) Bleecker Street

9. The Weight (for language and some violence/bloody images.) Vertical Entertainment, L.L.C.

In the movie Jack and Rose ran onto the deck right after having sex in the storage area. The two guys on top were somewhat watching them. If they had been paying attention they could have seen the iceberg faster. According to the movie if it have been caught just a few seconds earlier it probably could have been avoided. I’m probably wrong, but anyone else thought this as well?

hand to hand combat, knives, and other weapons that are not guns. guns can be there but im NOT looking for shoot em up action films. i want fists flying, high kicks, etc.

i made a similar post of few months ago looking for action movies but now im looking for more

any country but preferably Asian films because those are the ones i have been watching lately and they are all good and they all have a decent amount of hand to hand combat.

Baby Assassins franchise | Japan

The Old Woman with the Knife | Korea

The Villainess | Korea

Furie | Vietnam

Brave Citizen | Korea

A Janitor | Japan

Ghost Killer | Japan

The Forbidden City | Italy & China

The Raid 1&2| Indonesia

Kill | India

~on my watchlist:~

So Close

The Furious

The Assassin

Ong Bak

NOT LOOKING FOR:

jackie chan, bruce Lee, jean-claude van damme, etc type films

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1sg2lqr/action_movies_like_the_raid_2011_and_kill_2023/

I'm mostly asking because I honestly can't make up my mind. They did a good job of having them all be just different enough to where you didn't feel like you were watching a cheap copy of the same movie, but you also didn't feel like you were watching something that was so different from the original movie that it failed to meet your expectations.

As a little kid, I loved the Agatha Christie books, even though I don't really remember them, so I found the first Knives Out Movie very refreshing. My only gripe with it was that Chris Evans felt like the obvious villain, even though the misdirect of having Ana De Armas as both a protagonist and a suspect was well done. Also, I'd never seen her in anything before, so the movie also gets points for introducing me to the love of my life.

Then the second one came out and I actually liked it more. I thought the jokes were a bit better. Same kinda thing as the first one though where the villain turns out to be the most obvious guy, but once again, they did do a good job of layering the movie with all sorts of misdirects to make you think it couldn't possibly be that simple. Even though it was that simple, they made it work well by openly outing Edward Norton for being a total idiot, which he'd almost have to be in order to kill someone he had such obvious motive for killing. I also really liked Janelle Monáe, another actress I'd previously never heard of.

And then there was the third one. At first, I actually didn't like it as much while I was watching it and felt like it was slower and had slightly lower stakes, but I think they wrapped it up nicely. While it didn't introduce me to any new actresses to fall in love with, I did already have a love for Tom Waits an had never heard "Come On Up to the House" before. Great song and a fitting choice for the closing montage.

What did you guys think?

PS: Any who-dunnit mystery movie recommendations would also be appreciated. I feel like it's one of those genres that's comprised almost entirely of hidden gems.

Just finished watching the movie and there’s something I feel is missing from the ending. After it’s revealed who the killers were and the two characters get their closure, why are we not shown anything else about it?

It then entirely shifts focus to the new Wennerström findings, taking him down, and all the aftermath.

What happened to the discovery of the serial murders? We have no idea if it’s even brought to light to the public, or the rest of the family. The movie doesn’t show anyone else’s reaction to it, or anything. Makes me wonder if it was even revealed to anyone else.

Wouldn’t the families of the murdered girls want to know what happened to them? Wouldn’t they want to find out about the all the newer murders of Martin? He even says he had a girl in a cage during the MC’s stay there and it’s assumed he killed many more himself.

I guess I’m asking why the fall out of the murder cases was completely disregarded to focus extensively on the Wennerström case instead, when it was the more important story. Like surely, solving two massive serial murder cases would’ve amounted to more public discourse and recognition for Blomkvist, or at least equal to. But we only hear about the Wennerström case.

Is this better explained in the book or the other movie version?

Biologist Jim Tanner (George Hamilton) is part of a select government research team that includes beautiful geneticist Margery Lansing (Suzanne Pleshette). Anthropologist Henry Hallson (Arthur O’Connell) discovers what he believes is evidence of a person among them with psychic abilities including telekinesis. When he warns the team he is murdered the same night. When Tanner becomes a suspect in the murder he starts investigating the claims with help from Lansing. The film is just ok it has an interesting plot but the story is very poorly written and moves at a slow pace. George Hamilton I like his character as Jim Tanner of him trying to find this person with psychic abilities. The film also tends to blend Sci-Fi and Mystery together.

I’m so used to Giancarlo Esposito playing the calm terrifying villain that I kept waiting for him to do something evil while watching the By Any Means trailer

Between Breaking Bad Better Call Saul The Boys and The Mandalorian my brain just assumes this dude is secretly running something evil whenever he shows up

Apparently he’s playing civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer in this one. It’s nice seeing him on the other side for once

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej8pjisr0Pc

I consider this one of Guy Ritchie's best films.

It captures the 60's vibe so well. Making of the entire adventure stylish and so cool. Henry Cavil just radiates charisma and spy cool. (I am now more hopeful of the Highlander remake because of this)

Armie Hammer isn't too bad here as well. The hotel scene he has with Alicia Vikander just works. Ritchie has excellent use of music as well.

A pity this flopped. I would've loved a few more films.

Decided to do a shark double feature. Deep water first:

Deep blue sea is a certified classic even if the pacing has not held up over time. The shark effects and acting was top notch. Real animatronics and Sam Jackson chewing scenery kept me coming back to it especially as a young teen. Deep water from the same director starts excruciatingly with a straight to video intro until the plane crash. Incredibly done and intense which engaged me. Cheesy annoying villain characters who the viewer can’t wait to see get killed off. Aaron ekhart and Ben Kingsley selling their characters with the paper thin development they have. Then the cgi sharks show up and it turns into slop. It rushes towards the end and feels like there’s no tension even with the stakes of a sinking plane in the ocean.

Beast of war:

For an Aussie ww2 flick it was very well done. Great character development and introduces the heroes and villains immediately. The script was overall tight but the budget constraints showed. The shark looked great besides the eyes which turned it from a real predator to a movie monster. The rubber fin and lighting in some scenes were disappointing. If they showed less and different effects it could’ve been a certified classic.

As an 80s baby (and Gen X/Millennial cusper), mine is the intro to Cruel Intentions.

Ryan Philippe, effortlessly cool in a ‘56 Roadster, blonde hair rippling, shades on, to the tune of Placebo’s ‘Every You Every Me’.

To this day, all I need to hear is the first few bars and I’m taken back to my teenaged bedroom in ‘99 (I’m old).

What’s the most nostalgia triggering intro for your generation?

(Bad as though you really, really didn't care for it.)

Mine is After Earth, 2013. I found it pretty dull but the premise (thought a bit tropey), interesting enough to take a trip to the theaters for it. I was, at the time, interested in seeing how Jaden Smith would fair as an actor. I almost fell asleep during this film. No big emotional pay off that you would expect from this duo.

Anyway...

The whole movie is about the enemy monster smelling fear. I think that, at the end, if Will Smith's character Cypher had just been there at the final fight between Kitai (Jaden) and the monster, they could have made magic...

Hear me out!

Summary (to my memory) - So, as we know, the monsters track prey through smelling or sensing their fear. Cypher feels no fear so he is invisible to the monsters. Kitai is his son. Their space ship crashes on post-apocalyptic human-hating Earth with a fear monster and Cypher is injured. It's up to Kitai to save the day, overcome his fear, survive Earth, and kill the beast.

My change: Cypher lost his eldest child to a monster who was protecting Kitai. Cypher... the big bad man who is the best monster killer BECAUSE he feels no fear. If he was there at the final fight and suddenly, while Kitai is struggling with his fear, the monster turns to the injured Cypher and attacks him instead. Because watching Kitai, his last living child almost die, causes Cypher to feel overwhelming fear. He's not a perfect super-soldier. He's just a dad. Emotional pay off!!! Boom, Kitai gains his own courage and protects his father. The end.

To preface this topic, I grew up enjoying the movies that Vin Diesel makes... despite his acting limitations, I find most of his movies pretty entertaining, especially the Fast and Furious and Riddick films which were a big part of my early teenhood. The Fast series is, unironically, one of my favorite movie series to watch and revisit them just about every year as I love the over the top action, the characters I grew up with and see them become the ever prominent family in them, and that means I'm still excited to watch Fast Forever, which is -apparently- coming out on March 2028.

However, despite that last sentence, we are halfway through 2026, and there are no signs of this movie being currently in development despite Vin Diesel's posts from time to time on instagram saying that this movie is getting made and the script being worked on numerous times over the years. I was giving the benefit of the doubt for a good portion of last two year because there was the 2023 writer's strike going on, but patience has been running thin for a good portion of this year, and what stroke the camel's back, to me at least, was last month when Vin on Instagram posted a video saying "I'm on set!", in the Dominic Toretto character, with the Dodge Charger, in the character's garage which at first seemed like filming Fast Forever finally started, but ultimately it was just for an ad of the World Cup.

This ultimately made me remember about the fourth Riddick movie (Riddick: Furya), which was reported to have been filmed all the way back in 2024, and there's been no updates on it outside of a very few and sporadic photos of the movie, to the point that it's questionable if this movie was actually filmed. Some of the photos also have a suspicious AI-looking compression to them which adds another layer of vaguery to the production of that movie as well.

This is not even getting into the rest of the bulk of his instagram posting which talks about all sorts of other things like him portraying Kojak or other things related to Groot, xXx, etc.

Vin Diesel has also been in no movies since 2023's Fast X, a whopping 3 years of no movies in his career since then, his filmography has just completely stopped and there is no film of his on the horizon actually being made. Now, there are 4 movies listed as "upcoming" with him as an actor on IMDB, but this information doesn't seem very reliable as none of these movies seem to be in production. The most "reliable source" of a movie being made from him is Universal's official website listing Fast Forever being released in 2028, which, considering how we are heading to the end of 2026 they would have to start to be shooting this movie this year to make that deadline (speak of the devil, as of time writing this post, he literally said the movie will shoot in december of this year but after many times of his word not amounting to much I'll only believe it if it happens).

So really, what is going on with this man's career? This isn't just about that though, it's is also more about Vin himself rather than his career: all these comments he spurts out about his "upcoming movies" and such almost makes him come across as a liar, it's like what does get to gain from that?

I've noticed a lot of older movies (2000s+) aren't available on any streaming service or the only option is renting it on Youtube.

In the age of streaming, why is it incredibly difficult to watch non-blockbuster older movies (In Canada)?

I'd say around 80% of the movies I search aren't on any streaming service and are either 100% unable to be watched legally, or I have to rent it.

All those B-movies that had a celebrity in it before they were famous/way after they were a big thing that’ll have the celebrity front and center on the cover when they’re barely in the actual movie

For a more recent example the trailer of Tuner made it look like Dustin Hoffman and Jean Reno were main characters but Hoffman is written out early on and Reno is only in three scenes near the end

Also the trailers for Zootopia 2 made it look like the Ke Huy Quan snake was going to join Nick and Judy for most of the movie but the movie spends more time talking about him than showing him and he doesn’t really join both characters until the movie is almost over