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Warchief (2024)
Ambitious small budget; made for fans
Call it fan fiction or one off adventure, Warchief is made for fans. It does much with little. It is unapologeticly dedicated to its genre, a pure fantasy of action and magic. A role playing game come to life on the screen. Every scene is a labor of love and Warchief has a charm for that. Of particular note are the scenes played in Orcish, and there are many. I don't know if there were subtitles for these, but if there were, the version I saw didn't have them. Instead I got the creepy feeling of being an outsider looking into an impenetrable culture. The actors inhabit their roles. My biggest complaint is the overuse of smoke in the final scenes.
Love that it doesn't try to be all things to all people.
If you're a fan of fantasy, this one is a fun diversion.
Greenland (2020)
Who knew a disaster movie could be this good
It's amazing to compare Greenland to say, 2012. Many of the same tropes are there, almost exactly, and yet the movies a world apart. This is a serious, provocative, emotional movie, character driven and shockingly realistic. Highly recommended. An absolute gem of a story. Great acting, great direction of a story that could have gone sideways in a hundred ways but instead surpassed the formula to what is probably the best disaster movie ever made. And yes, I'm including THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE in this comparison. There's word of a sequel. I hope they do, but it'll have a hard row to hoe to be as good as this one.