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Devil Girl from Mars (1954) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Devil Girl from Mars
director: David MacDonald actor: Patricia Laffan / Hugh McDermott …
other title: La martienne diabolique / La diabla de Marte …
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
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Thank God It's Friday (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Thank God It's Friday
director: Robert Klane actor: Jeff Goldblum / Raymond Vitte …
other title: Grazie a Dio è Venerdì / Graças a Deus É Sexta-Feira …
It's Friday and everyone is going to the hottest new disco in Los Angeles. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
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Bulletproof Monk (2003) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Bulletproof Monk
director: Paul Hunter actor: Russell Yuen / Chow Yun-Fat …
other title: Il monaco / À Prova de Bala …
A mysterious and immortal Tibetan kung fu master, who has spent the last 60 years traveling around the world protecting the ancient Scroll of the Ultimate, mentors a selfish street kid in the ancient intricacies of kung fu.
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Sister Act (1992)
Sister Act
6.6 (11 ratings) director: Emile Ardolino actor: Caryn Elaine Johnson / Maggie Smith …
other title: Sister Act - Una svitata in abito da suora / Halløj i klostret …
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
April 24, 2026 watched
Some light fun and nice songs

Thought I'd seen it years before but no, turns out this was my first watch. Watched in #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.
Comedy WhoopiGoldberg MaggieSmith 1990s Musical
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Let Him Go (2020)
Let Him Go
director: Thomas Bezucha actor: Diane Lane / Kevin Costner …
other title: Uno di noi / Um de Nós …
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
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Kid Cannabis (2014) WikiData IMDb
Kid Cannabis
director: John Stockwell actor: Jonathan Daniel Brown / Kenny Wormald …
other title: Cannabis Kid
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
April 21, 2026 watched
Went into it with very low expectations but it grew from a Temu Seth Rogen stoner comedy into a halfway decent drama.

Watched in #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon
WatchParty 2010s MondayActionMovie JohnStockwell
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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) IMDb TMDB
Earth Girls Are Easy
director: Julien Temple actor: Geena Davis / Jeff Goldblum …
other title: Le ragazze della Terra sono facili / Zebo, der dritte aus der Sternenmitte …
In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three handsome men underneath. After absorbing the native culture via television, the spacemen are ready to hit the dating scene in 1980s Los Angeles.
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Billy Elliot (2000)
Billy Elliot
8.1 (9 ratings) director: Stephen Daldry actor: Jamie Bell / Gary Lewis …
other title: Billy Elliot - I Will Dance / Billy Elliot (Quiero bailar) …
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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The Stolen Jools (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Stolen Jools
director: William C. McGann / Thomas Atkins … actor: Norma Shearer / Richard Barthelmess …
other title: I gioielli rubati / Juwelenraub in Hollywood …
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen…

Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
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Lady Snowblood (1973)
修羅雪姫
8.1 (16 ratings) director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Toshio Kurosawa …
other title: Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / 修羅雪姫 …
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
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Hard Boiled (1992)
辣手神探
7.8 (13 ratings) director: John Woo actor: Chow Yun-Fat / Tony Leung Chiu-wai …
other title: Fervura Máxima / À toute épreuve …
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
April 18, 2026 watched
Realism is overrated. Insane action all the way!

Rewatched for the umpteenth time a day after the 34th anniversary of its release (16 April 1992).
Police PhilipKwok PhilipChan Crime HongKong
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The Outfit (1973) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Outfit
director: John Flynn actor: Robert Duvall / Karen Black …
other title: Organizzazione crimini / Revolte in der Unterwelt …
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
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The Aristocats (1970)
The Aristocats
director: Wolfgang Reitherman actor: Phil Harris / Eva Gabor …
other title: Gli Aristogatti / Aristocats …
When Madame Adelaide Bonfamille leaves her fortune to Duchess and her children—Bonfamille’s beloved family of cats—the butler plots to steal the money and kidnaps the legatees, leaving them out on a country road. All seems lost until the wily Thomas O’Malley Cat and his jazz-playing alley cats come to the aristocats’ rescue.
April 17, 2026 watched
Rewatched (after 45+? years) in the #Comedon watch party on Mastodon.

It held up better than I'd have guessed, although there are brief moments with racist stereotypes.
Animated EvaGabor Comedon 1970s WatchParty
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Gunless (2010) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Gunless
director: William Phillips actor: Paul Gross / Sienna Guillory …
other title: Django Gunless / Désarmé …
American gunslinger Sean Rafferty—aka The Montana Kid—is unable to find someone to duel in a Canadian town where no one understands the brutal code of the American Wild West.
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The Octagon (1980) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
The Octagon
director: Eric Karson actor: Larry D. Mann / Chuck Norris …
other title: Mænd uden nåde / A Fortaleza Secreta …
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy and dangerous criminals, he is eager to settle old scores. Soon Scott is facing off against McCarn and the entire ninja horde in an effort to take them all down.