The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is a 1969 American science fiction comedy film starring Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn and William Schallert. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution Company. It was one of several films made by Disney using the setting of Medfield College, first used in the 1961 Disney film The Absent-Minded Professor and its sequel Son of Flubber. The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes is the first film for the series Dexter Riley.

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

Dreamscape is a 1984 American sci-fi horror-adventure film directed by Joseph Ruben from a story by David Loughery, with Chuck Russell, Loughery, and Ruben co-writing. It stars Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer and David Patrick Kelly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamscape_(1984_film)

The New Legend of Shaolin (Chinese: 洪熙官之少林五祖; pinyin: Hóng Xīguān Zhī Shàolín Wǔ Zǔ; released in the United Kingdom as Legend of the Red Dragon and in the Philippines as Once Upon a Time in China-4) is a 1994 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Wong Jing and Corey Yuen. The film stars and is produced by Jet Li.

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

I watched this for the first time the other day, and thought it was absolutely awesome.

While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.

Well acted, supremely funny and well written, and a particular joy to anyone who's worked in an office, or had a family member who did. There's not really any low or slow point in the film, it's steadily excellent the whole way through.

The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project

movie links:

• vimeo: https://vimeo.com/584593423
• archive: https://archive.org/details/colossus-the-forbin-project-1970

In Cage's hands, cartoonish moments are imbued with real emotion and real emotions become cartoons. Everything – from individual scenes down to single lines of dialogue – feel like they have been embraced as opportunities for creation. Cage is usually interesting even when his films are not.

dialogue in the bar at about 1 hours in, they're both impressive but cage is enchanting when he changes rhythm. He's a genius in that pitiful form

In a 2020 interview, Cage revealed that the released version of the film was recut by Bob Weinstein without Charles' permission and that the latter's original version remains unreleased. In 2024, Charles released his original cut of the film onto his YouTube channel, which runs over an hour longer.

Suspiria is a 1977 Italian supernatural horror art film directed by Dario Argento, who co-wrote the screenplay with Daria Nicolodi, partially based on Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay Suspiria de Profundis. The film stars Jessica Harper as an American ballet student who transfers to a prestigious European dance academy. It also features Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Alida Valli, Udo Kier, and Joan Bennett, in her final film role.

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

Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once transported a disassembled steamboat over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald.

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

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Where's the Money is a 2017 American comedy film directed by Scott Zabielski and written by Ted Sperling and Benjamin Sutor. The film stars Andrew Bachelor, Kat Graham, Logan Paul, Terry Crews, Mike Epps, Method Man, and Josh Brener. The film had a limited release in theaters by Lionsgate on October 20, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%27s_the_Money

NOTE: This is unfortunately a Youtube Free With Ads movie, which means Youtube will force you to watch it on the mobile app if you're on mobile so you cannot avoid the ads. Thankfully on desktop a good adblocker (uBlock Origin) will still work and avoid such nasty things.

Wikipedia Article of the movie.

This movie is chock full of excellent acting, witty dialog, and superb cinematography. It touches on so many aspects of history around the worker movement of the 1910's, including the IWW, famous Anarchists, and the troubles it faced.

It's quite unique in that it includes interviews with surviving people who knew John Reed and Louise interspersed with different parts of the movie, making it almost like a docu-drama, but with an incredibly high 32 million dollar budget (equivalent to 112 million today).

If you have any interest in unions, the early socialist movement in the United states, and a particularly well done romance, then I highly, highly recommend giving this a watch.

But be sure to have a good chunk of time to set aside, as the movie is 3 hours long!

EDIT: Hah, forgot I posted this here a year ago. Well, hopefully some new members will be able to see it ^^

Wiki Article of the film.

As someone who wasn't particularly a fan of westerns, I specifically sought this movie out a few years ago after reading an old western from a now forgotten series, Fargo. I was blown away by how good it was, and discovered that this film, and specifically Lee Marvin's character, basically rips off the Fargo series wholesale. So I figured, eh, let's have a go, then.

When the movie was over, I was absolutely floored with how good it was, and how well it captured the vibe of the Fargo book, like seeing everything that was in my head pop out onto the screen.

This movie is quite different compared to most westerns of its era, feeling more a like a modern rendition than one from 1966. The pacing is excellent, the actors and acting superb, and the action and story are extremely well done, with very little suspension of disbelief needed.

I would rate this quite highly in my personal top 10 movies, right up there with 3 Days of The Condor and Where Eagles Dare.

Joe Hill (Movie) is a 1971 biopic of the Swedish-American labor activist. It was written, directed and edited by Bo Widerberg. It stars Thommy Berggren, Ania Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson, Cathy Smith and Hasse Persson. The movie won the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_(film)

The Celestine Prophecy is a 2006 American film directed by Armand Mastroianni and starring Matthew Settle, Thomas Kretschmann, and Sarah Wayne Callies. The f...

Bad Taste is a 1987 New Zealand science-fiction action comedy horror film directed, produced and filmed by Peter Jackson, who also starred in it and co-wrote the screenplay, along with Tony Hiles and Ken Hammon. Independently produced on a low budget, it is Jackson's first feature film. Jackson and friends take on most of the key roles, both on and off-screen. The plotline sees aliens invade the fictional New Zealand village of Kaihoro to harvest humans for their intergalactic fast food franchise, where they face off against a four-man paramilitary force.

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

A Town Called Bastard (also known as A Town Called Hell on DVD and Blu-ray) is a 1971 international co-production spaghetti Western. It was shot in Madrid with Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens and Martin Landau.[2][3][4]

It was released on blu-ray on 18 August 2015.[5] The film was retitled A Town Called Hell for US release as the word "bastard" was thought offensive.[6]

Plot

In 1903 Mexico, a small town is presided over by a tyrant who commands a grizzled outlaw and his men. Also in town is a priest with a violent past, who has abandoned his clerical duties. ...

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

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9i-T1aV9pI (NOTE: the sound volume is a bit low on the voices)

Toast is a 2010 British biographical comedy-drama film based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by the cookery writer Nigel Slater. The film was directed by S. J. Clarkson and written by Lee Hall. The cast includes Freddie Highmore, Helena Bonham Carter, Ken Stott and Oscar Kennedy. It received a gala at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival. As a television film it was first broadcast on BBC One on 30 December 2010 and was given a theatrical release in cinemas on 11 August 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(film)

Per the description:

My goal is to shorten the episodes; cut out bad dialogue, weird transitions, and overall make it feel more like an Indiana Jones film. This inclues adding a bit of John Williams' magical score.

Young Indiana Jones originaly included old Indy bookends with George Hall, as well as the story being told through two to three episodes. I believe that only using the teenage Indy segments of the show will help make it feel more cohesive as well as keeping it closer to what the character does in the main films (e.g. being smart, reckless, quick on his feet, etc.).

I'm not super familiar with the originals, but I recall renting a couple episodes back in the day and thinking they were pretty awful. This re-edit seems to do a pretty good job of making it more watchable.

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[3] to positive reviews.

It begins with the punk rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the rave and DJ culture and the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column and Happy Mondays.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Hour_Party_People

link to the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aQCDjX8zgo

The drama is centered on two of the leading players and their respective companies in the home computer market of the late 1970s and early 1980s focusing on the race to win a grant from the BBC to become the provider of a home computer for the BBC's programming for schools. Certain parts of the drama are based on historical fact while others are a dramatization.

The main characters are ZX Spectrum creator Clive Sinclair and BBC Micro creators Chris Curry, Sophie Wilson, Steve Furber and Hermann Hauser. The real-life Wilson also makes a brief cameo as a barmaid.

Martin Freeman does a great job as Chris Curry, and Alexander Armstrong seems to do a quite good impression of Sinclair.

Overall a great little movie for retro computer fans! Well produced and well paced, feels slightly reminiscent of Halt and Catch Fire.

Fong Sai-yuk II (also known as The Legend II and The Legend of Fong Sai-yuk II; released in the Philippines as Once Upon a Time in China-6) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts comedy film directed by Corey Yuen, and also produced by and starring Jet Li as Chinese folk hero Fong Sai-yuk. The film is a sequel to Fong Sai-yuk, which was released earlier in the same year. Two former Miss Hong Kong Pageant winners, Michelle Reis and Amy Kwok, portrayed Fong Sai-yuk's wives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fong_Sai-yuk_II