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ONLY 2 DAYS LEFT!! Peneflix Annual Academy Awards Contest 2018. Select and win!

To enter: 1)   To enter you MUST be a subscriber to Peneflix.com 2)   You may only enter once. 3)   You MUST answer all questions correctly, especially, the last one: # of Oscars for the Best Film. 4)   ALL ENTRIES HAVE TO BE IN NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MARCH 2nd, MIDNIGHT The winner or winners will receive $250.00. Those new to the “game” should be apprised ... Read More »

OPERATION RED SEA (CHINESE: ENGLISH SUBTITLES)

Emotionally pulverizing, exhilarating, astounding, director Dante Lam blazingly enters the realm of  “Greatest Battle Movies” ever to daunt the screen, joining the ranks of “The Bridge on the River Kwai”, “Apocalypse Now”, “Black Hawk Down”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “The Hurt Locker”, “American Sniper”; the dazzling intensity of “Operation Red Sea” kept an oversold audience in stunned silence for a two ... Read More »

ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT!! Peneflix Annual Academy Awards Contest 2018. Select and win!

To enter: 1)   To enter you MUST be a subscriber to Peneflix.com 2)   You may only enter once. 3)   You MUST answer all questions correctly, especially, the last one: # of Oscars for the Best Film. 4)   ALL ENTRIES HAVE TO BE IN NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MARCH 2nd, MIDNIGHT The winner or winners will receive $250.00. Those new to the “game” should be apprised ... Read More »

THE PARTY

It took seconds for exsanguination to squelch Sally Potter’s desperately ambitious, shrilly delivered parody on politics, infidelity and scathing commentary on British intelligentsia; it took seventy-one minutes for the protagonists to sink to the lowest common denominator: “Janet” (Kristin Scott Thomas) is celebrating her “crowning” as  Health Minister; “Bill” (Timothy Spall) her bibulous, blubbering husband; “April” (outstanding Patricia Clarkson) a ... Read More »

JUST ONE WEEK LEFT!! Peneflix Annual Academy Awards Contest 2018. Select and win!

To enter: 1)   To enter you MUST be a subscriber to Peneflix.com 2)   You may only enter once. 3)   You MUST answer all questions correctly, especially, the last one: # of Oscars for the Best Film. 4)   ALL ENTRIES HAVE TO BE IN NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MARCH 2nd, MIDNIGHT The winner or winners will receive $250.00. Those new to the “game” should be apprised ... Read More »

THE 15:17 TO PARIS

Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sandler are contemporary heroes; they fearlessly saved 500 lives at the risk of loosing their own; they will be lionized forever in the laurels of champions. On August 21st, 2015 they thwarted an armed terrorist on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Their bravery was rewarded with the French Legion d’Honneur. They are intrepid, ... Read More »

BLACK PANTHER

What clings to one’s memory is the terrifying timeliness of “Black Panther”; a country that holds the tool to enhance mankind, isolationists led by a sensitive, flawed monarch, “T’Challa, Black Panther”; he heeds the advice of women; follows the rules of warfare, acts propitiously on the scholarship of respected colleagues. “Black Panther’s” wizardry lies in its transcendence of race, creed ... Read More »

TWO WEEKS LEFT!! Peneflix Annual Academy Awards Contest 2018 – Select and win!

To enter: 1)   To enter you MUST be a subscriber to Peneflix.com 2)   You may only enter once. 3)   You MUST answer all questions correctly, especially, the last one: # of Oscars for the Best Film. 4)   ALL ENTRIES HAVE TO BE IN NO LATER THAN FRIDAY MARCH 2nd, MIDNIGHT The winner or winners will receive $250.00. Those new to the “game” should be apprised ... Read More »

50 SHADES "FINALLY" FREED

EL James successfully capitalized on sexual titillation that has been practiced by archival cultures for eons: India’s “Kama Sutra”, China’s Taoist texts during the Han Dynasty, even Confucius had opinions on the “joining of the essences”;  author James Clavell in novels “Shogun” and “Tai- Pan” gives a more contemporary twist in Eastern “pleasing pleasures”; these civilizations considered “coupling” as an ... Read More »

A FANTASTIC WOMAN (CHILE, SPANISH: ENGLISH SUBTITLES) NOMINATED FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM

Knowing nothing about the scenario I was surprised, stunned and unabashedly thrilled with the treatment of this contemporary topic. Director Sebastian Lelio and actor Daniela Vega paint a quintessential portrait of love, grief and overpowering courage. “Marina” (Daniela Vega) a waitress and part time nightclub singer is devoted to “Orlando” (Francisco Reyes), divorced and many years her senior; after a ... Read More »

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