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Ready Player One (2018)

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( source ) My eleven-year-old nephew loves to play BORDERLANDS , which incidentally was featured in this trailer: The movie is stupendous, spectacular, exciting, nail biting and a lot of other superlatives that you could think of in a positive way.  It's like Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION, but not.  It is designed for the younger viewers that even older ones would appreciated.  As one of the critics mentioned(not verbatim), it's a Steven Spielberg 1980s movie at its best. The music and the games are from the 1970s and 1980s.  John Hughes films are mentioned and a whole lot more. Since Ernest Cline is also one of the screenwriters, he was able to convey to Steven Spielberg how he envisioned it to be, and thankfully, Mr. Spielberg interpreted it very well and even made Mr. Cline's imagination more believable. The movie and the story is set in the future around twenty-seven years from now.  It's a dystopian future...to live in the mind or...

Dunkirk (2017) 14 and up

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In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of th is heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated. -WWW Note: All images below are from the World Wide Web We watched this in 2D and it seem real.  I could imagine that it would be more real if you watch this in IMAX or 4DX. Christopher Nolan made us all experience the terrors of war in Dunkirk.  It was real as real could be, so if your heart is faint, don't attempt to watch it for you would feel like drowning when they are drowning and you would get a glimpse of hell too. This is one of Nolan's best works ever.   The actors have expressive eyes.  The explosions are like real explosions.   Everything seem r...