Synopsis
The Reef is a story focused on scuba diving The Great Barrier Reef. The film explores the story of Underwater Filmmaker Tom Park in his quest to re-embrace the feeling of awe and wonder he felt on his first dive at age 12. Through Tom’s story, The Reef showcases the glory of The Great Barrier Reef, and delves into the psyche of an avid scuba diver.

Director: Tom Park
Writers: Tom Park
Country: Australia
Language: English
Runtime: 6mn

The Reef (2023).mkv

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Synopsis wrote:
This ambitious TV movie by Jane Campion was heralded at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival as the arrival of a major new filmmaking voice. Two Friends’s screenplay, by renowned Australian novelist Helen Garner, is articulate, assured, and enthralling. The film begins in the present, when teenage friends Louise and Kelly, once inseparable, have already grown apart. Louise is in high school, gets good grades, and has a typical love-hate relationship with her divorced mother. Kelly, in bleached hair and punk gear, lives with friends at the beach and is experimenting with drugs and casual relationships. Campion then takes the film backward in time over the past year in the girls’ friendship. In five episodes, the film reveals the subtle changes that sent the two on their different paths. With the humor, fierce honesty, and passionate sense of humanity that are the hallmarks of Campion’s best work, she tells a story of missed opportunities and minor traumas that take on profound new meanings with the passage of time.

Two.Friends.1986.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-JUNGLIST.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

Roger Ebert wrote:
Jake Heke is a man with a hair-trigger temper, and its unpredictability is the most frightening thing about him. He likes to play the role of the genial, beer-swilling host, playing his guitar, singing songs, beloved by all, especially late at night by his drunken buddies. But let someone cross him, and he can lash out in the blink of an eye, the rage boiling over.

Jake and his wife, Beth, are Maoris, living in a housing development in New Zealand. They’re both good-looking people, and Jake, with his sunny, sleepy-eyed, self-satisfied smile, seems like he’s brimming with confidence. He is not. Beer fuels his resentments and insecurities, and masks his strength.

There is a scene early in “Once Were Warriors” where he gets into a fight in a bar and inflicts incredible damage on a muscle-bound thug who seemed, until he met Jake, able to whip anybody in sight. This is a key scene because it establishes what Jake is capable of; all through the movie, we are waiting for that violence to be unleashed again.

“Once Were Warriors” shows Jake and Beth in good times and bad.

They flirt, they sing boozy duets, they make love. But Jake is also capable of turning in a flash into a brutal monster, and Beth wakes up one morning with her face a bloody mass of bruises. “It’s the same old story,” she tells a friend. “I’ve got to learn to keep my mouth shut.” During the course of “Once Were Warriors,” she will slowly learn to stop blaming herself when she gets beaten.

Beth has a temper, too. Booze is the problem in the household, triggering terrifying personality changes. The kids learn to stay out of the way, especially the older ones: Boogie, the boy, who joins a gang, and Grace, a beautiful teenager, who retreats into her journal and into a friendship with a spaced-out boyfriend who lives with his drugs in an abandoned car. Huddled in their room one night with the sounds of anger crashing through the walls, Grace explains to her brother: “People show their true feelings when they’re drunk.” The movie has carved a reputation for itself on the festival circuit, leaving audiences shaken and silent at Telluride, Toronto, Honolulu and Park City. It is powerful and chilling, and directed by Lee Tamahori with such narrative momentum that we are swept along in the enveloping tragedy of the family’s life.

In Temuera Morrison, as Jake, the movie finds a leading actor as elemental, charismatic and brutal as the young Marlon Brando; he has instinctive star power, and it’s his likability that makes the violence of his character so shocking. Rena Owen, as Beth, supplies the moral center of the film, as a woman who finally calls a halt to the spiral of pain in her family.

The director’s key achievement is creating a convincing sense of daily life in the household and neighborhood. This is not a narrow drama that focuses on a few themes; it paints a whole style of life, the good times with the bad, and perhaps no scene is more sad than the one in which the family rents a car and sets off on a picnic, happy and in good spirits, only to have everything go wrong when Jake decides to stop for just one drink.

Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, as Grace, the pretty teenager, is also important to the film; she reflects a hope and optimism that somehow shines even on the family’s cloudiest days, and although her runaway boyfriend’s hideout under an expressway seems grim, they are able to make it into a refuge where laughter and dreams are possible.

Then everything goes bad for them, too.

“Once Were Warriors” has been praised as an attack on domestic violence and abuse. So it is. But I am not sure anyone needs to see this film to discover that such brutality is bad. We know that. I value it for two other reasons: its perception in showing the way alcohol triggers sudden personality shifts, and its power in presenting two great performances by Morrison and Owen. You don’t often see acting like this in the movies. They bring the Academy Awards into perspective.

	
Once.Were.Warriors.1994.576p.BluRay.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Language(s):English, Maori, Spanish
Subtitles:English, English SDH, Greek

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Hana, a lovelorn medical student, becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.

Saccharine.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-SCOPE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C53545240359CCA/Saccharine.2026.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-SCOPE.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, French

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A documentary, consisting entirely of Internet video interviews, exploring the world of webcam mask fetish performers.

“Transfigured Nights” is consistent with Blyth’s early examinations of sexuality. It is comprised entirely of webcam footage of men who derive pleasure from dressing up, mostly in rubber. Not for the faint hearted or the closed minded, there is no denying the fascination of subject matter that’s kinky, hilarious and sometimes just plain banal. Opening with the sound of laboured deep breathing that’s part Darth Vader and part Malcolm McClaren from “Filth and the Fury”, linking the various segments together with images of a full moon shot through clouds and Jed Town’s eerie, Lynchian music, Blyth’s direction is precise and sure handed throughout. While an audio sample from Ed Wood’s “Glen or Glenda” might signal that he’s not taking himself or his subjects too seriously, the tone is edgy and provocative.

Some of the men talk explicitly about enjoying bondage and discipline, the theme illustrated with images of the trussed and the tied waxing lyrical about the joys of confinement and experiencing that special kind of ecstasy that only comes with the strategic placement of a vibrating egg somewhere between the sixth and seventh layer of latex.

Others place less emphasis on the physical. One Asian gentleman is fixated on dressing up in full body suits so as to best approximate the cartoon characters popular in the Japanese market. He distances himself from any overt sexual display yet, ironically, the image of him putting multiple plastic bags over the head of his anime mask is perhaps the most disturbing in “Transfigured Nights”, evoking snuff movies and/or the fate of David Lynch’s Laura Palmer.

The concluding segment deals with ‘Miss Piggy’, a retired, 65 year old Vietnam veteran whose drag queen antics seem almost quaint next to those of the cross-dressing, Burka wearing Muslim man whose decision to convert to Islam on the day of 9/11 stands as the film’s definitive statement of self delusion. Whatever the intended political aspects of this radical act – and these would seem secondary to the aesthetics of full body coverage garments – it doesn’t seem to occur ‘Deeba’, the 38 year old IT worker, that the Taliban or Al-Qaeda might have an issue or two with the transgendered.

A deliberate choice is made to stop short of showing any sexual acts. As Blyth made clear after the screening, there was no shortage of such material to work with. What interests the director is not people getting off so much as it is the subculture as a whole and, specifically, the way the internet is being used to forge connections between members of this rarefied community. These connections are at once highly intimate and personal and distanced and dispassionate. The web becomes a huge, international confessional box, the faithful fetishists hiding behind their own self-styled masks, confiding in the world, sparing us no detail.

“Transfigured Nights” confirms Blyth’s on-going relevence on the challenging margins of the country’s film industry. On the strength of it if not other recent work it is to be hoped that future funding becomes available for this vital talent. -Art House

Transfigured Nights (David Blyth 2009).mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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imdb wrote:
During the 1950’s, a Japanese war bride arrives in a rural Australia with her husband, Frank. Still in love with her husband Frank, she begins to feel more comfortable with Frank’s Japanese speaking friend.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

Many thanks to @Evan for this copy

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Andreas (Bud Tingwell) and Claire (Julia Blake) were lovers in Belgium, soon after the Second World War. More than fifty years later, after the death of Andreas’ wife, they meet again in present-day Adelaide. Although both are over 70, they fall in love all over again. Through their relationship they discover wisdom and the joy of life – despite the anger of Claire’s husband (Terry Norris) and the inevitable shadows of sickness and death.

Innocence.2000.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 35mn
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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French

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