2026-255 / MLZ MAP: 55.14 / Zedd MAP: 58.36 / Score Gap: 3.22

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Country of Origin: United States

CC Summary: Jonathan Demme brings an effortlessly breezy screwball verve and affectionate eye for ’80s suburban kitsch to this gloriously gaudy comic firecracker, built around a bravura performance by Michelle Pfeiffer as Long Island mob wife Angela de Marco. Fed up with organized crime, Angela sees a chance to escape when her husband (Alec Baldwin) is bumped off. But starting over isn’t so easy: she’ll have to deal with the advances of gangster boss Tony (Dean Stockwell) and the machinations of FBI agent Mike Downey (Matthew Modine), who sees her as the key to infiltrating the syndicate.

Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell.

Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) does not fit in. She’s got the house with a pool, the Mom-Mobile of a car, the gaudy furniture, the hair, the nails, and the accent, all funded by the blood-money earned by her husband, “Cucumber” Frank de Marco (Alec Baldwin) doing what else but taking care of “problems.”

Her “friends”, (played with stereotypical Jersey Mob Wives in mind by Mercedes Ruehl, Joan Cusack, Ellen Foley, and O-Lan Jones) all of the other mobster wives, think she’s just a stuck-up bitch, but no, she’s just full of anxiety and guilt, wanting better for her son, little Joey.

Suddenly, freedom is beckoning and she escapes. She is just like any other widow with a small child and no job. She gets spied on through a peephole while in an interview for a job at a fried chicken fast food joint. It’s just really depressing and sad. She ends up getting a job at a salon after begging with tears in her eyes.

Angela accidentally falls for the FBI agent surveilling her, Mike Smith aka Mike Downey (Matthew Modine) which really fouls up the plans of Mob Boss Tony “The Tiger” Russo, (Dean Stockwell) who thinks she’d be a pretty good replacement for his moll, Karen, who was also coincidentally being schtupped** **by Angela’s husband, which is what got both him and Karen killed.

Angela is told about Mike being an agent and is forced to take a trip with Tony, barely avoiding the jealous wife Connie, and a brazen hotel shootout ensues. Everything is tied up with a bow at the end, with both Tony and Angela getting what they deserve.

This film sat on the railroad tracks for me, where one side was comedy and the other was drama. As I walked along the tracks while watching the film I wanted to jump off on the comedy side, but kept getting pushed over onto the drama like a drunken sailor, listing and eventually falling.

Michelle Pfeiffer was good in the role, earning award nominations, Dean Stockwell, did too. Matthew Modine - okay folks, you may love this guy, but he exemplifies white-bread boring as fuck to me. I think I need to see him in Vision Quest because I think he was good in that. Love him if you love him.

Zedd was not fond of the film either, though he started at 50, just like every time. He said he was not excited to watch it but I had hope I’d enjoy it. I am pretty sure that I saw it when it first came out but remembered little, if anything.

Jonathan Demme was also seriously scarred, obviously, as he went straight from this to Silence of the Lambs.

As we conclude this Saturday Morning Matinee with another Criterion Channel watch, let’s just say I am grateful we streamed this one and did not do a blind-buy.

I’m not married to it, not even going on a second date. Movie On!

بدون حرق(❌🔥)with out spoiler

فلم ماينكرافت كان اول فلم ناظرته ذي السنة والصراحة كان سيء ويمكن يقل سوءه لو ناظرت الفلم على انه فلم عادي مو فلم ماينكرافت. الفلم ما اذكر اشياء كثييرة منه لكن اذكر انه اذا فلم تبي تشوفه مع اهلك او اخوانك الصغار خيار حلو كان ودي يضيفون طابع ماينكرافت بشكل اكبر زي انه اذا واحد انضرب يصير لونه احمر ولا ينقزون ويحطون ماء تحتهم اشياء زي كذا. الابطال عاديين جدا. والشرير سيء. كل شيء بالفلم عادي.
Minecraft movie was first movie I seen in this year. To be honest it was baad and maybe if you see it not like Minecraft movie will be better. I don’t really remember all things in movie but I remember if you want see it with your family it’s nice for that. I was really want from them Setting Minecraft tone like if someone take a damage be a red or someone jump puts a water underneath himself. A movie heroes was sooo normal. And villain was really bad. Everything in the movie was normal

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حرق (🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥) spoiler

فكرة القروي يوم يطلع اسططوووورية بس ما قدروا يضبطونه ابدا. فكرة انه ليه محد مات ويرسبن من جديد كانت بتصير حلوه النهاية عادية كل واحد رجع طبيعي. كان ودي يستخدمون الايتم اللي طلعت زين زي عين اندر مان بشكل جديد او طبيعي . كان ودي ما ينتهي الفلم بجزء واحد ودي لو العوالم تداخلت وصار فيه شرير رهيب للعالمين. وليييه ما استخدموا عالم النذر وعالم التنين
The villager idea was perfect (get out from Minecraft world) but like what is expected they couldn’t get it right. Why no one dies and get respawne again this is nice idea. I was really want from them use the item as new way or normal way. I was hoping the movie not end in one part I really wanted the two worlds overlap. And whyyyy didn’t they use the nather and the end.
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التقييم النهائي////the final rating

الشخصيات ٥/١٠ (زوده بلاك جاك)
القصة ٤.٥/١٠
العالم ٧/١٠ (لانه ماينكرافت)
الفكرة ٤/١٠ (الفكرة يعني كيف ضبطوه)
النهاية ٣.٥/١٠
المجموع ٤.٨/١٠
The character 5/10 (black jake push it)
The story 4.5/10
The world 7/10 (because it is Minecraft)
The idea 4/10 (how well they pulled it off)
The end 3.5/10
Totally 4.8/10

المراجعة الجاية first light 007

The next review first light 007

Ok, whose childhood did this just chime?

There’s nothing better than sneaking into bed early to watch Murder She Wrote!

2026-248 / Zedd MAP: 88.50 / MLZ MAP: 93.28 / Score Gap: 4.78

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Country of Origin: United States

At the end of the film, our triumphant meet at the top of the ENCOM building, Kevin Flynn yells out, “Greetings program!” and the three soak it in. They’ve beaten their enemy, honor has been restored, freedom - blessed freedom - reigns in both domains… the human and the digital. The final few seconds land and the feeling is ((shrug)) melancholy?

The somber synth melody transitions us to the credits but does little to abate that hallow feeling in our stomachs. It’s supposed to inspire but instead it’s a strange fatigue.

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From IMDb: A computer hacker is abducted into a digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.

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Mrs. Lady Zedd: You mean Cindy Morgan was standing up there in that fuzzy pink sweater, with both Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner on her arms for eye candy and you were feeling sad? Me too.

Right? That don’t sound right (now) do it?

Bad grammar (or is it bad syntax?) - or is it both?? - I’m getting distracted… I tried to track down the “Anthem” that plays us out before the hand-off to Journey’s Only Solutions while the credits roll but the exact track was elusive. As tinker toy as that version is (early 80s synthesizers were very limited compared to now), I think you can still pick up on that solemn undercurrent.

Fuzzy pink sweaters notwithstanding.

The film deals with some heavy themes - a restrictive and utterly corrupt Master Control Program, backed by a wormy, vile executive who stole his way to the top. Whether human or computer program, everyone is just trying to get by but it’s increasingly difficult. Maybe that triumphant ending, when the day is won, and friends united - perhaps it is truly bittersweet because it was a string of struggles that never should have happened. Freedom was fought for but in that final few moments of the motion picture the cost was fully felt.

There’s been plenty of “never should have been” moments in human history, I know, but there’s what’s supposed to be right and there’s the way things are. Thinking on it too hard just ((sigh)) makes you kind of tired all over.

All things in time, I suppose - including next movies too.

Movie On.