FREE ON YOUTUBE Novemberkind


Today we have Anna Maria Mühe in our "Corona Home Cinema". Because she is so great! And because I always enjoy discovering German films for our video library.

FREE ON YOUTUBE If we are honest, then Germany is still struggling with the German-German past and its consequences. Of course there are still two Germany's. Of course equality looks different. So does respect. This is what Novemberkind is about. A film that lives neither from nostalgia nor feelings of hate. Robert (Ulrich Matthes) is professor for creative writing. For a long time he has been carrying around a strange story that frightens him. It is the story of Anna and her daughter Inga (both Anna Maria Mühe). In the early 80s Anna left her village in the GDR with a Russian deserter. Her child left her with her grandparents. She hoped to bring it back later. But all her plans failed. She ends up in a mental hospital, where she takes her own life. Inga doesn't know all this. She thinks her mother died during a holiday on Hiddensee. Then Robert enters her life and takes her on a journey into the past. Novemberkind lives on one look. Anna Maria Mühe plays a double role and so the past always blurs with the present. The GDR of the 80s with Germany today. The film approaches the big picture through details. The individual stories make up the tragedy of the whole system. Novemberkinder, these are the children of the Wende.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Kontroll


Today we have a not only crazy but also very stylish indie film from Hungary on our "Corona Home Cinema". By the way, one of the most rented films is in our video store. 

FREE ON YOUTUBE First of all; today I linked the stream from Kontroll on youtube (30.3.2020). With English subtitles in good quality. These YouTube links are deleted again and again - and a short time later the movie reappears under a new link. If the link no longer works, just enter the movie title on YouTube: Kontroll. Nimrod Antal staged his debut film in the stations and shafts of the Budapest subway. Anyone who has ever been to Budapest knows how deep the shafts lie underground. It is an experience in itself to descend by escalator! Antal was only allowed to film during times when there were no trains - and that's what control is all about! Here you can feel how the film team used the limited time to produce this nightmarish comedy! While watching the film, I feel how much fun it must have been! Bulcsu (Sandor Csany) used to be an architect, but couldn't stand the pressure to perform anymore. He withdrew into the parallel world of the Budapest subway, hasn't seen daylight for a long time (he also sleeps downstairs) and now works as a controller. There, fare dodgers who mock him and rival colleagues who challenge him to a murderous competition. Finally, he meets a girl driving a black car in a pink bear costume and falls in love. Her name is Szofi (Eszter Balla) and her father "uncle" Bela (Lajos Kovacs) lives underground like Bulcsu. Szofi asks Bulcsu for a date in a cafe, but he can't manage to climb up into the sun. Instead, he offers her a cup from the vending machine. But the world below is terrified by a serial killer who pushes passengers in front of trains... Control is the debut of Nimrod Antal, who designs a Kafkaesque labyrinth that works on its own rules. Not much is logical, not even within the given rules of this surreal world. Therefore everything in Antal's film pushes forward! When we opened the video store ten years ago, Kontroll was one of the first "Kiez-Blockbusters". Everybody wanted to see the film, the DVD was always on loan! -

FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Andreas Dresen - Die Polizistin


You know, during the Corona crisis we try to offer you a free streaming channel through the webpage of our video store. With a slightly different program than the usual suspects: World Cinema, Arthouse, Classics

 When I have breakfast on Hermannplatz, in the Süss bakery, in the morning, crowds of policemen and women come in to order their coffee. They are regular customers, fooling around with the baker. A bit like we used to do in the schoolyard. Then they stop you on your bike because you're dressed in black again, riding without lights and their tone of voice sounds completely different. Strict, psychologically trained. The way policemen sound.  "The policewoman" or Anne (Gabriela Maria Schmeide) is completely different.  Anne is in her late 20s and her life has reached a low point. Because she was transferred to Rostock. Behind the grey facades of the prefabricated buildings she finds no private happiness. I think she feels very alone. Therefore she works on the outskirts of the city. That's her routine, diving into the social offside. Anne is not someone who wants to make the world a better place. Sensitive yes; she helps in small ways, not ideologically. In uniform, she always remains Anne. And she always sounds like Anne. Never like a 15-year-old brat, never like a policewoman. What interests director Andreas Dresen is the conflict between the law and Anne's own sense of morality and justice. And we quickly realize that Anne is too good for this world. Once she tries to mediate between a ten-year-old boy, his mother and his father. Shortly afterwards she meets the father again. He has just robbed a gas station. How is she supposed to deal with this, since she has just made a little peace in the family? What about the boy? Andreas Dresen's film lives from such episodes. Like in Danish "DOGMA" films, the camera follows Anne. Coarse-grained, unadorned. "I like dealing with people, something solid - I thought"; Anne explains that she went to the police. But does everyday life as a police officer take into account such a beautiful attitude as Anne has towards her job and life?

FREE ON YOUTUBE La Haine


I know, our "Corona Home Cinema" actually follows the rule to show "Feel Good Movies". But La Haine is such a big and important movie that it fits for me as well. Okay?

FREE ON YOUTUBE  Today - on 28.3.2020 - I found La Haine with English subtitles free on YouTube. I link it now. Again and again the respective links on YouTube are deleted. Just enter the movie title in the search bar on YouTube and you will find the current link to stream La Haine for free. Remember: A movie that is free once on YouTube will appear again and again. And here is the content: Maybe most of our European problems stem from how monolithic the individual states still are? No European country is a melting pot. In France, the feeling of being "French" is even cult! Mathieu Kassovitz's third feature film was made in the banlieus of Paris, where ethnically speaking only a minority is "French". It tells the story of three friends; an Arab, a Jew and an African. They spend their days aimlessly - but then they get into social turmoil and a major police operation. La Haine prepares a gloomy vision in the knowledge of the radical right-wing leaders a la Le Pen and the French neo-Nazi movement. All this resonates in La Haine as an unspoken subtext. We now meet Vinz (Vincent Cassel), a Jew from the working class, Hubert (Hubert Kounde), a boxer from Africa and Said (Said Taghmaoui) from North Africa, who is a little more light-hearted than his friends. The fact that they hang out together at all seems to prove that in France friendships depend more on income than on "race". The world they live in doesn't seem very French. They call themselves "homeboy" and are surrounded by American style features. They probably like the US culture because it is not French and they don't feel "French". For the last 24 hours they wandered around their suburb, now they want to go over to Paris. Then they are picked up by the police on a roof that almost resembles a meeting place for the "homies". The whole area turns into a civil war zone after a policeman shoots at an Arab - until Vinz's little sister's school burns down. His grandmother warns him not to "become like that too". What does that mean? That there's nothing for her to do. No jobs, no income, no hope of financial independence. All that remains is hanging around. Basically, they're not "bad" and they're not criminals, but they're treated that way. According to their appearance, their ethnicity, they have been classified as troublemakers. And the police treat them the same way they treat troublemakers. Whether they like it or not. La Haine represents a development of Kassovitz' work in comparison to his first films - and the climax of his work. Never again should he make such a powerful film! Unlike most French feature films, La Haine is not set in doll's house cities, but in an area that is sterile and has no show value for us at all. The room is empty, an architectural desert. La Haine is also not a film in which the beginning or the end is of particular interest. This is about the case. Maybe La Haine is a kind of Generation X film, but with the distinct difference that the original US American heroes of such films have a choice: They choose a certain style so as not to belong to society. In France, however, society decides. In Germany too.

FREE ON YOUTUBE The Notebook


Doesn't that fit in well with our difficult times? A film that always believes only in the good and idealizes everything in rich colors.

To the technical aspect; if I now give you the link to YouTube for The Notebook (today, March 26, 2020), you must know that this link will be deleted soon. And then there will be a new link again. The best thing to do is just type in the search bar: The Notebook. And now to the movie: We experience the couple in the spring of their fresh love and in the autumn of their lives. She suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but he believes in her and reads to her daily from her notebook. It tells how they met and what obstacles they encountered on their way to happiness. And in rare, brief moments, she remembers them too. Then she knows who the story from her notebook is about: herself. Everyone who knows an Alzheimer's patient wishes for exactly such moments! The Notebook is wonderfully sentimental. Exactly the kind of film you need when you're feeling bad. Says your video dealer and that's me. Actually, a customer once gave me the tip to buy The Notebook. Her name was Vanessa and she only watched sentimental movies like that. I thought that was good. Allie Nelson and Noah Calhoun are the names of the two people in The Notebook. Gena Rowlands and James Garner embody them as an old couple; Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as young lovers. In the beginning passion rages, in the end deeper feelings. Actually they come from different worlds. Rich and poor. Allie doubts how this will work out at all and at some point she is even engaged to someone else. Eventually she grows up in a southern mansion in North Carolina and he works in a sawmill. Still, Noah is a poetic person and his father (Sam Shepard) gave him one thing: Noblesse. Noah falls in love at first sight. But Allie's parents are very direct. Noah is "Trash". Alllies mother once loved a worker like Noah. Nevertheless she insists on being happy with Allie's father. Really? With a faint note of regret. What our customer Vanessa likes about The Notebook is that Nick Cassavetes (yes, the son) has made a real tearjerker. A good schmaltzy song! Because The Notebook offers more than just a soap. He finds the way to truthfulness. And the great Gena Rowlands? In the old days, in her husband's movies, she was a nervous, manic person. In this film of her son, she seems completely silent and vulnerable. All this appears in bright colours, reminiscent of the southern dramas of the 50s, idealising the events. When my grandmother could no longer speak in the last years of her life, the doctors said she would not identify us. But my aunt, who was nursing her at home, was sure that Grandma recognized her shortly before she died. For a brief moment. Just like in The Notebook.

FREE ON DAILYMOTION Lammbock 


During the Corona period we are almost all forced to live like slackers. Lying on the couch and watching movies. Snacking on all kinds of sweets and cakes. That's the lifestyle we know from 90s Slacker movies, isn't it? And it's paid for by the state. That's the irony of fate. That's why we have the first german slacker film with Moritz Bleibtreu here & today. To take alees not so seriously!

Sometimes it is wise to search for streams on DAILYMOTION.COM as well. Since two years lamb buck has been running free there, which you won't find on YouTube in good quality. Today - 25.3.2020 - I found the link. If it doesn't work anymore, just go to DAILYMOTION.COM and enter the movie title: Lambchop. Because often one link is deleted and the next one is posted very quickly. This is fast and without annoying money transfer you can watch one of the funniest German movies: The first German Slacker film and for those who don't know how the sub-genre of these Slacker films works anymore - it works like this: You shoot a day in the life of young, unambitious people with little budget (very important!) and nothing happens. A shopping mall, a gas station and your own stinking apartment are particularly suitable locations. As described, it always stays with the same demographic group: young, stupid, horny teenagers or twens. Time scheme as said a long day. In the world of the slackers there are no real worries, except boredom, hanging out, endless chatter and sometimes problems with the girlfriend. But conversations about the girlfriend actually deviate from the topic. We feel that Slacker films are close to life. I even know this because I own a video store. Video stores are of course part of the Slacker world. And with this world they also distinguish themselves from the so-called "adults". Because in the Slacker world, you are "Clerk" at the gas station or dealer or nothing. What Kai (Moritz Bleibtreu) makes out of Lammbock for a living should fall under "nothing". Instead, he has a lot of knowledge about the breast implants of "Erika Eleniak" (the blonde from "Baywatch", that is, before "Pamela Anderson" got into it). Kai discusses this knowledge with the permanent student Stefan (Lucas Gregorowicz). Who knows, if he wouldn't know Kai, he would already be a finished lawyer? No matter. Both of them do one thing above all: weed, weed, weed. This is what Christian Züberts first film is about. By the way, the title results from the fact that Kai and Stefan cultivate a hash plantation and have set up a marijuana delivery service. It's called "Lambbok". But apart from that they hang around and have too little sex. Like "Silent Bob" and "Jay". The originals come from New Jersey, the German slackers from Würzburg. Luckily! Because in the country and in the suburbs; that's where the slackers are at home. Although; they can also be found here in Kreuzberg. Only today I had to clean my shop, which had been dirty by the bouncers during the Corona time. I threatened them to lock the shop with a general key. So now they clean it themselves.

FREE ON YOUTUBE In Bruges

For those of us who are locked up at home, I have selected a real Feel Good film here. It worked for me immediately, because I was no longer in Berlin Kreuzberg, but suddenly in Brussels.

FREE ON YOUTUBE I am surprised to find one of the most popular films in our video store (according to the ranking of the most rented films on rank 31), free on YouTube. Today on 25.3.2020 - that means, if the link is deleted, please enter the movie title on YouTube: In Bruges' film. In most cases a link will be deleted and another one uploaded. So much for the technical part. And to the point: The Irish contract killers might find it difficult to pronounce "Bruxelles" correctly. They're just on forced leave after a failed assassination attempt. One is a hothead who sees no reason to be anywhere but Dublin. The other one buys a travel guide and raves about the beautifully preserved old town. Have you ever been to Brussels? In fact, I like Brussels as much as I like Paris. A dirty but charming city. The opposite of "hip". This is where Martin McDonagh staged his dark, decidedly surprising and profoundly human comedy. Nothing seems predictable! We simply lack the necessary narrative building blocks! Maybe that's also because we don't get to see gentle killers that often. Brendan Gleeson, the one with the smashed face, plays Ken. His travel companion is named Ray (Colin Farrell), who murdered a priest in Dublin in the confessional. And another little boy. At least he confessed the crime before he carried it out. A confession for which he even smeared notes on a piece of paper. You notice; In Bruges is also an important film for understanding how Catholicism works. Ken and Ray work for Harry (Ralph Fiennes), who hides them in Brussels. He is Dublin's godfather. Larry criticizes that although it is part of the business to liquidate a priest, it is not part of the business to blow a little boy's head off. This is unprofessional. Since I often didn't have much money to travel, I have always loved films that illuminate foreign cities well. Not the kind of film that resembles a tourist guide, but films that show you the heart of a city. In Bruges is exactly that kind of film! Even more; the film uses the city to develop its characters. Ray refuses to climb up anywhere at all to see the sights. Paintings or sculptures don't impress him, but he is fascinated by a film shoot. There he meets the beautiful Chloe (Clemence Poesy - guess from which movie you know her...) and the dwarfish Jimmy (Jordan Prentice). And already they do cocaine with a prostitute and Ray has to be corrected not to call Jimmy a "midget". And what happens then? The inevitable, but you'll never guess... The ingenious script manages to bring all the characters together in one place by a twist of fate. And the actors? Farrell is secretly one of the world's greatest actors. Especially when he gets to be Irish, like here! And Gleeson (according to my Irish colleague David the most popular Irish actor) is the most likeable bad guy I've ever seen! So Martin McDonagh has made a thriller that is driven less by the plot than by its characters. And by their upbringing. We learn that even killers have to make ethical decisions and that they too have great emotions.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Bab Aziz


What we want to do here with our cinegeek.de is to make the Corona crisis easier for you. After only a few days I realize now that it is also about loneliness, depression and a lot of quarrelling at home. Normally we are brought up not to watch so much TV. And also not to leave our children sitting in front of the monitur all day long. But what if we all get locked up together? Then we need movies we can break out with! Movies that make us feel good! Movies that allow us to just kill time.

A sea of sand, containing two lonely hikers. The girl Ishtar and her grandfather Bab'ziz. They are on their way to Dervish, a place that opens every 30 years to those who open their hearts to the desert. On the way they meet Osman, who is eager for the beautiful girl, Zaid, who seduces the women with his singing and finally the prince, who gives up his whole empire to save Derwisch. It is an ancient fairy tale told by Bab'Aziz Ishtar. One last kiss and Bab'Aziz lets Ishtar draw with Zaid in the whirlpool of colours. For him, Bab'Aziz, the time has come to merge with the sand of the desert. With his films, the Tunisian Nacer Khemir deliberately tries to draw a different, beautiful picture of the Arab world. He allows us to look into the mystical world that stretches from Persia to the Maghreb. The motif of a fundamental truth brings all religions together and goes beyond them: Sufism, which stands above Christianity, Islam or Judaism. Sufism forms the Lot of Bab'Aziz. It becomes visible as a dream landscape in the film, beyond reality, geographical or temporal borders. Baba'Aziz is an ode to the desert and to love. It is the world of the prince who leaves the visible world to immerse himself in the innermost part of his soul - to look at himself from within.

FREE ON YOUTUBE West Beyrouth

FREE ON YOUTUBE  West Beyrouth by Ziad Doueiri from Lebanon works just like the classic Nouvelle Vague films from France. A very entertaining low budget production that takes classic film genres as its starting point - and thus tells a beautifully provocative story! Basically it's all about the complications of human relationships - with a homage to the classics from Hollywood - BUT against the background of the very special situation in Beirut during the civil war in the 70s. Nouvelle Vague from Lebanon! West Beyrouth has the swing of the great role models and therefore doesn't have to fear any comparison! The year is 1975, Lebanon is in civil war, the city of Beirut is divided. The West belongs to the Muslims, the East to the Christians. Tarek goes to an elite French school, rebels strongly against the authorities and prefers to carry his Super 8 camera around with him. Even the beginning of the war still seems to be an adventure for him! The fascination of getting from East to West unscathed! Tarek's mother wants to leave the city, his father insists on staying. While the war develops into a tragedy, Tarek prefers to spend his time with May, a Christian orphan. Finally he ends up in the most notorious brothel of the city and meets the impressive hostess, the brothel mother Oum. We remember Truffaut's "Day For Night" when the producer of a movie asks: "Aren't we one big happy family?" The actor replies, "So are the people in Greek tragedies." This is roughly how I imagine life in Beirut in 1975. More a forced community than a family. The private sphere is increasingly made impossible, everyone feels exhausted and despair grows like an epidemic. But in the middle of all this there is FILM. What can life do to you if you can still make FILMS? And doesn't FILM in West Beyrouth look like a homeless shelter? That is a basic need at least for people like Tarek! Ziad Doueiri's debut is mostly autobiographical and just bursts with lust for life! However, it not only crosses the border to adulthood, but also an invisible religious one - so playful that it is no exaggeration to consider West Beyrouth one of the most beautiful films of recent times!

FREE ON YOUTUBE The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

Isn't it true that we don't really develop at all, but carry different personalities within us? One of them is probably forever that of the adolescent and for this role The Perks Of Being A Wallflower is perfect! That's why Stephen Chbosky's film adaptation of his own novel got such good reviews! The few bad ones must have been written by convinced "adults". The film is about a chronic high school geek, a freshman who wouldn't dream of living through a normal youth. He is taken up by an older couple who obviously enjoys not being conformist. Basically, my thesis is supported here: If you are too popular in school, you will never be able to find out who you really are. The story takes place in the early 90s. Performance Charlie (Logan Lerman), the outsider. From the beginning we feel the crisis of a Freeman without self-confidence. It starts in the cafeteria: at what table do you think they'll leave him sitting? Charlie gets rejected at a few tables, but then he gets to sit with a nice couple: Sam and Patrick (Emma Watson and Ezra Miller). In an almost eerie way, depressive Charlie, who seems to be surrounded by darkness, is still endearing. Sometimes he gets imaginary visits from his dead aunt. Patrick is long and lanky. And gay. Sam is friendly and lovable. Charlie immediately falls in love with her (although he is offered a quasi-punk girl to date her). We learn most about group dynamics through a school theatre performance in which Charlie plays a leading role. Here the "artists" rule, the something else and Charlie learns a lot about drugs, sex and friendship. Charlie feels most connected with his teacher Mr. Anderson (Paul Rudd). Why, in fact, does something like this always happen to the "artists", the outsiders? Probably because "artists" can hardly be the "stars" of their school. And what about Charlie later? Well, here in Kreuzberg/Neukölln it's crawling with Charlies. The "cool" athletes from the schoolyard are in Mariendorf. They got married, worked and met the old people from the schoolyard.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Mathias Glasner - The Free Will

FREE ON YOUTUBE  These are dark Corona times these days and a friend from Beijing wrote me just last week that we will probably all die not from Corona but from obesity in front of the TV. Is that so? Anyway, I have decided to post a free YouTube stream every day. What can you do when your video store has to close down for the first time in 20 years? The Free Will is a character study of two people who are desperately fighting for a life they will probably never be able to achieve. Theo (Jürgen Vogel) is a relatively sensitive serial rapist. Right at the beginning he attacks a cyclist whom he sexually abuses. The film is mainly interested in the question the title suggests: Is Theo still acting of his own free will or is he a slave to his impulses? A question of fate and freedom. After nine years in a psychiatric hospital, Theo is to be reintegrated into society. But again and again he threatens to become violent - and then Theo falls in love with Nettie (Sabine Timoteo). She moved out of her father's house and we know that Nettie was abused there. Then she meets Theo, who is irrepressibly horny for her. How did Theo become the way he is? And what happened to Nettie in the past? All of which prepares the ominous final act... Director Mathias Glasner first puts us in Theo's perspective, then takes in Nettie. Although his actions are horrible, the film tries to arouse empathy for Theo. Because Theo just doesn't manage to control himself. The Free Will is a meditation of two lonely, damaged souls after consolation. Both are powerless, united in love and death.

Virus Outbreak

How I would love to travel back in time - just a few years - to free the world from this terrible Corona disease. That's the kind of hero Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys is all about. A handful of survivors continue to exist in an underground shelter built from scrap metal and wire mesh. On the surface, only wild animals remain, after five billion people died from the plague in 1996. How do you prevent the catastrophe? Very simple: You travel back in time a few years and collect information about the virus before it mutated. Of course, Gilliam's film, so many all time travel films, contains a paradox. But with all the beautiful decorations of doom, who cares?

Dear people; unfortunately the bar has to close already today 14.3.20 - just like all other bars and clubs in Berlin. Above all, I hope for the sake of my colleagues that there will be financial injections from the city. Well then, take care of your parents and Maybe some older people in your neighbourhood and we will see you again on 20.4.

FREE ON YOUTUBE Hector Babenco - Kiss Of The Spider Woman

Kiss Of The Spider Woman is one of those rare, ravishing stories that happen on the side, while something else happens on the surface. There are passages in the film that are completely self-contained, while others only hint - at something outside of the film. The struggle of two personalities, the struggle of two different ways to live life. The decision is not of a sexual nature - which most would expect. The decision lies between bondage and freedom. Hector Babenco's film begins in a prison cell somewhere in South America. A man tells his story. A story composed of memories and fragments, as if we were in a film noir of the 40s - and not in a barren cell. It is the story of a prisoner fleeing into his fantasy. The prisoner's name is Luis (William hurt), an affected homosexual who was imprisoned for sexual "offenses". His cell neighbor is Valentin (Raul Julia), a political prisoner, a macho. He has nothing but contempt for Luis' stories. For Luis' stories, the film uses fantasy sequences to describe them: A Nazi melodrama and the story of a spider woman (played by Sonia Braga). She will become Valentine's lover - reality and dream will mix. It seems as if Kiss Of The Spider Woman is the film about two opposing characters in a prison cell. They have the same experiences day after day and finally accept each other. At this point nothing is revealed, but Babenco's film offers so much more surprises! William Hurt plays Luis differently than anything we know from the cinema. He openly creates a character who comes from the theatre. However, it seems as if he is never out for mere effect. Raul Julia, at the beginning still purely physical, increasingly lends his character a poetry that makes the whole film so exciting! The beautiful Sonia Braga last; she is the spider woman! Kiss Of The Spider Woman was staged in English by the Brazilian Babenco, but still represents the rise of Brazil as a film nation. A film full of insights and surprises, a real discovery!

History Of Surreal Cinema + Roy Andersons About Endlessness

The Swedish surrealist Roy Anderson is not a pessimist per se, nor is his latest work About Endlessness a cynical film. About Endlessness offers us a series of comically gloomy sequences of images - with an uncertain outcome. Anderson proves once again to be a perfect craftsman and therefore he makes us laugh. Through his style! Often his world is not real at all. We think we see streets and buildings, but in reality they are all constructed models. Anderson's world is magically artificial! Sometimes I have the impression that nothing is alive in Anderson's world. Are these people or zombies walking through his "streets"? They are powerless figures, always on the verge of nervous breakdown. But they never go down! In truth, Anderson's characters are quite resilient - and therefore all the more human.

FREE ON DAILYMOTION The Last Dragon

FREE ON DAILYMOTION  The karate student learns from the master and reaches the last stage of his realization. This is the point where he no longer needs the master. Everything he still has to learn, he finds only in himself. When he reaches this point, his body begins to glow. In The Last Dragon the body actually glows, as if the hero had reached into the socket. If you have watched a lot, a lot of martial arts movies you know that this introduction is obligatory. During the first five minutes there is a philosophical, solemn introduction. Then it's time to get cracking. The Last Dragon, however, works more as a funny combination of karate film, romance and musical with 80s disco pop. And it offers sensational effects for the time! And two attractive and endearing stars! You don't know leading actor Taimak from any other movie. He is more sportsman than actor. Vanity is the singer from the band of "Prince". She even had half a solo hit. Vanity smiles like a sunshine and you like her immediately. While she has to fight in nightclubs and pubs, it all seems like a great joy for her. Vanity alias Laura is DJ in a club of the head villain and Taimak alias Leroy beats her out of it. So the basic situation is clear: Leroy has to defeat the gangsters and fall in love with the girl. In addition, music from "Stevie Wonder", "DeBarge", "Smokey Robinson", "Rockwell" and of course Vanity is playing. A "Saturday Night Fever" + Martial Arts. Unfortunately with few original gangsters, who constantly recite sentences that thousands of other movie gangsters have said before. And they look just like thousands of other movie gangsters. My suggestion for improvement as a video store owner: More love scenes between Vanity and Taimak please.

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Black Cinema 10s

It has taken me so long to write that the 2010s were the most successful decade of Black Cinema to date. I don't just mean that productions like Black Panther set box office records. Above all, films that challenge the system managed to reach a larger audience. For the first time, directors and scriptwriters told stories about their lives - and it resonated around the world. And filmmakers like Barry Jenkins brought their second film to the cinema with great success. Black Cinema went through the whole spectrum of all genres. There was really something for everyone!