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Planet Earth (1974) IMDb TMDB
Planet Earth
director: Marc Daniels actor: John Saxon / Janet Margolin …
other title: Planète Terre
The time: the 22nd century. The place: the Confederacy, a matriarchy where men are enslaved and impotent. The hero: Dylan Hunt, a handsome, vigorous 20th-century scientist awakened from suspended animation - just the "breeder" a Confederacy dominatrix has been waiting for! Can Hunt defy the Confederacy and free his downtrodden fellow males, or is he doomed to slavery on Planet Earth? A sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II.
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The Beastmaster (1982) IMDb TMDB Skybridge WikiData
The Beastmaster
director: Don Coscarelli actor: Marc Singer / Tanya Roberts …
other title: Kaan principe guerriero / O Guerreiro Sagrado …
Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.
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Deep Cover (1992) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Deep Cover
director: Bill Duke actor: Larry / Jeff Goldblum …
other title: Massima copertura / Cobertura Total …
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
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Shadows (1960) TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Shadows
director: John Cassavetes actor: Ben Carruthers / Lelia Goldoni …
other title: Ombre / Sombras …
The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial heritage is not what he thought it was.
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Rhinestone (1984) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rhinestone
director: Bob Clark actor: Sylvester Stallone / Dolly Parton …
other title: Nick lo scatenato / Um brilho na noite …
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
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Solarbabies (1986) IMDb WikiData TMDB
Solarbabies
director: Alan Johnson actor: Richard Jordan / Jami Gertz …
other title: I guerrieri del sole / Solarfighters …
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
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Sleeper (1973) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Sleeper
director: 伍迪·艾伦 actor: 伍迪·艾伦 / 黛安·基顿 …
other title: 傻瓜大闹科学城 / Il dormiglione …
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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A Prayer Before Dawn (2018) TMDB IMDb WikiData
A Prayer Before Dawn
director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire actor: Joe Cole / Vithaya Pansringarm …
other title: Una preghiera prima dell'alba / Prece ao Nascer do Dia …
The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in prison Muay Thai tournaments.
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Wolfen (1981) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Wolfen
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Michael Wadleigh actor: Albert Finney / Diane Venora …
other title: Wolfen - La belva immortale / Cidade em Pânico …
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
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Jaws 2 (1978) IMDb WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge
Jaws 2
4.2 (5 ratings) director: Jeannot Szwarc actor: Roy Scheider / Lorraine Gary …
other title: Lo squalo 2 / Dødens gab 2 …
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
July 11, 2026 watched
Reminds me of the old Russian joke. Two old friends bump into each other in December. One asks: "How was your year?" The other replies. "So-so. Worse than last year, but better than the next!"

This entry in the Jaws franchise was definitely not as good as the 1st one, but will better than the ones to come! :D

Rewatched (for the first time in decades) in "Jaws July" in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
FridayThrillerClub 1970s Horror Sequel Jaws
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Earth vs. the Spider (1958) IMDb TMDB WikiData
Earth vs. the Spider
director: Bert I. Gordon actor: Ed Kemmer / June Kenney …
other title: La vendetta del ragno nero / Die Rache der schwarzen Spinne …
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
July 6, 2026 watched
For what it is, it wasn't too bad!

I watched it *before* the #Monsterdon watch party because of the World Cup match.
Kaiju BertIGordon 1950s USA Spider
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Independence Day (1996) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Independence Day
6.6 (16 ratings) director: Roland Emmerich actor: Will Smith / Bill Pullman …
other title: Dia da Independência / Dia de la independencia
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
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Jaws (1975) NeoDB Douban DeaDvey's Reviews IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Jaws
8.0 (42 ratings) director: Steven Spielberg actor: Roy Scheider / Robert Shaw …
other title: Lo squalo / Dødens gab …
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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To Be or Not to Be (1942) TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData NeoDB
To Be or Not to Be
8.8 (14 ratings) director: Ernst Lubitsch actor: Carole Lombard / Jack Benny …
other title: Vogliamo vivere! / At Være eller Ikke At Være …
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.