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Greyhound: In The Enemy's Eye

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Tom Hanks is back and plays again some kind of Captain in which he has to face personal and professional challenges in the chaos of his profession. We already had the actor as pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger in Sully: The Hudson River Hero back in 2016 and also as Captain Phillips in Captain Phillips (2013). And here, in his new film, Hanks plays Captain Krause in the war drama Greyhound: In the Eye of the Enemy (2020). The film is a production of Stage 6 and Sony Pictures and had a scheduled release in theaters, until the coronavirus pandemic came and disrupted everyone's plans and caused profound changes in our society. And the sale of the feature to Apple, which arrived in July, seems to serve better with the proposal that the technology giant's platform wants to be: the home of Hollywood big names in streaming. With Greyhound , it becomes clear, more and more, the intention of AppleTV + to be the HBO of the streamings, with few productions throughout each month, ...

TERMINATOR: GENISYS (2015) Review

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 In the future, the war on the machines ends: resistance leader John Connor is about to end the actions of the supercomputer Skynet. But shortly before giving up the ghost, the latter then uses a revolutionary machine to send a T-800 (original model of Terminator) in the past in order to eliminate his mother, Sarah Connor. John then has no choice: he must in turn use this machine to send someone in the past to protect his mother. Sergeant Kyle Reese volunteers and eventually lands in a temporal divide, in which Sarah has become a warrior, trained from an early childhood by another T-800 tasked with looking after her. Together, they must face a new threat, suddenly unexpected ... Films about time travel are always the same story. It is first necessary to make a choice of narration in order to make the concept credible: while some opt for a narrative loop logic like "Looper" (what is "modified" in the present is only the continuity of what will happen in the future), ...