Furies (Thanh Sói: Cúc Dại Trong Đêm) is a Vietnamese film directed by Veronica Ngo. It stars Dong Anh Quynh, Tóc Tiên and Rima Thanh Vy. From Vietnam comes this action-packed film, a bit sordid and sprinkled with irony, entertaining and a bit “basic”: four female assassins ready to “deliver”. Entertaining, action-packed… and full of […]
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 movie directed by Peter Farrelly (Green Book), starring Zac Efron and special appearances by Russell Crowe and Bill Murray. An anecdotal movie about Vietnam that neither finds its own rhythm nor story. Synopsis Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as […]
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Forrest Gump is a 1994 drama movie directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Tom Hanks. With Robin Wright and Gary Sinise. Based on a novel by Winston Groom. Another delight (very patriotic, mind you) which is brilliantly narrated. Storyline Forrest Gump is a “not very smart” guy who achieves everything he sets out to do in […]
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The Deer Hunter is a film starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep. It is directed by Michael Cimino. I remember being impressed watching it as a kid. Now, less of a kid, I still love it. Plot Several friends celebrate a wedding before going off to the Vietnam War. When they return, […]
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Apocalypse Now is a movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1979 starring Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen. Once again, like in Citizen Kane, another guy who came and did as he pleased and this serves the rest of us as inspiration because it really did work out for them (some day it will work […]
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