#12 Movie Time: School of Rock (2003)

▶️ Today’s movie is an 🇺🇸American comedy about a wannabe (=wants to be but isn’t) rock star who gets kicked out of his own band. Watch how he turns his life around (=radically improves his life) by becoming a teacher!

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#21 Movie Time: The Interview (2014)

▶️ Today’s movie is a parody (=type of comedy that makes fun of sth) about 🇰🇵North Korea in which an American journalist gets permission to interview president Kim Jong-un. Check out how the two almost become best buddies (informal =friends).

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#23 Movie Time: The Truman Show (1998)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇺🇸Hollywood classic. It’s about a young man who has lived all his life in a small town that was actually built for him. His entire life is basically a TV show as his every movement is watched by a global audience. See what happens when he slowly starts realising what’s going on.

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#28 Movie Time: Mars Attacks (1996)

▶️ Today’s movie is an 🇺🇸American comedy about a Martian (=from planet Mars) invasion (=taking control of a territory by force) of Earth. Watch how Earth manages to defend itself accidentally!

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#34 Movie Time: The Circle (2017)

▶️ Today’s movie is a drama set in the not-too-faraway future of a fictitious (=fictional, not real) evil social media platform called “The Circle”. Tom Hanks plays its eccentric (=proud to be crazy) founder while Emma Watson is in the main role of a brave employee. Watch how she changes herself and the company.

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#36 Movie Time: Remember (2015)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇨🇦Canadian-🇩🇪German drama-thriller about old survivors of World War 2. An old Jewish man sets out on a journey to find the old Nazi who killed his family in Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s most notorious (=famously bad) concentration camp (=prison camp for political prisoners). See how he manages to find the culprit (=bad guy) in a surprising final showdown (=argument or fight that settles a long disagreement).

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🎉 Special Day: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

▶️ Meet Clark, the American dad who wants to give his loved ones (=family) a “fun old-fashioned family Christmas”. Unfortunately for him, doing that proves quite difficult when so many things go wrong. Watch this hilarious (=very funny) holiday classic from around the time of Home Alone.

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#51 Movie Time: Idiocracy (2006)

▶️ Today’s film is a comedy set in the future. The basic idea is that in our present times intelligent, educated people tend to have less children than unintelligent people. This means that in the future there will be less and less intelligent people. Watch just how bad things could turn out (=become) for humanity.

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#52 Movie Time: Rush Hour 1 (1998)

▶️ Today’s film is an action comedy with 🇭🇰Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and 🇺🇸Afro-American comedian Chris Tucker as a police officer dream team (=people working together very well). It’s the first movie of the Rush Hour trilogy (=series of three movies or novels).

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#54 Movie Time: Don’t Look Up (2021)

▶️ Today’s film is a black comedy (=making fun of serious problems) about the end of the world caused by an approaching (=coming closer) comet (=large rock flying in space). Scientists are trying to warn humanity but media and government create one big mess and mankind goes to the dogs (=falls into a bad condition, becomes ruined).

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#56 Movie Time: Rush Hour 2 (2001)

▶️ Today’s film is the second movie of the Rush Hour trilogy (=series of three movies or novels) with 🇭🇰Hong Kong martial arts superstar Jackie Chan and 🇺🇸Afro-American comedian Chris Tucker.

Watch Rush Hour 1

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#58 Movie Time: Freedom Writers (2007)

▶️ Today’s film is a drama about how education can make all the difference (=have a very positive influence) in the lives of neglected African-American and Latino youth in some of the worst neighbourhoods of Los Angeles. Watch how a hero teacher manages to light up the dark (=bring hope). Based on a book which itself is based on a true story.

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