Although Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci are the most 35+ looking 20somethings in the history of film (okay, perhaps after Grease) - not to mention Robert De Niro supposedly being 28-29 years old - Goodfellas is mostly as good as they say. If only incels could understand that gangster films are cautionary tales, and not "OMG, he's literally me" material.
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Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood 2001
Thoroughly informative, entertaining and with an excellent footage corpus, this 2-hour documentary finely tells a story that's more infamous than Cleopatra itself - and that's quite a feat.
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Wake up Vassili 1969
It's a miracle how this sly piece of social satire passed censorship under the Greek dictatorship of the late-60/early-70s, but Ξύπνα Βασίλη is a funny film with an always-relevant message about how social status and money can provide people with a false sense of safety, even if its formula is a little too familiar for Greek audiences. All in all, act your wage, people!
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My Fair Lady 1964
Even though this film has a duration of almost three hours, it's so entertaining that you hardly notice. As one of the last 'big' old-school musical films, My Fair Lady makes prominent use of theatrical tropes and contains a message that holds up for the most part - apart from Henry Higgins sexist mentality, but that was 1964 and this is 2024.
Although I would like to see Julie Andrews in the title role - as she was the first…
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