Category Archives: Suspense

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Black Out (2012)

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, at least that’s how the saying goes and it seems that director Arne Toonen wants to really flatter Guy Ritchie with this Dutch version of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. It is a movie which was made for TV (financed by the Public Dutch Broadcasting Corporation), but it regularly happens that they are also shown at the cinema. This was one of them (even though it only had a short run) and I unfortunately wasn’t able to see it there. Now out on DVD I finally had a chance to check it out. Continue reading →

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Les Diaboliques (1955)

Les Diaboliques

I’m sometimes surprised that I’m able to watch movies that’s are more than 50 years old without knowing anything about it. Of course I try to do this as well with newer films, but that’s a lot more difficult. Les Diaboliques is a movie that I hadn’t heard of before and wanted to watch since it appears in the IMDB top 250. So going into this blind, does it earn its place in the list? Continue reading →

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Battleship (2012)

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Recently I read an interview with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg at Kid in the Front Row. They are the ones who wrote the Harold and Kumar movies and were also responsible for American Reunion. In that interview Jon Hurwitz said about review of movies: “reviews bring the reviewers own perspective before they walk into a movie” and I think that is often the case with some of the big action blockbusters that come out each year. Most of them seem to get trashed in reviews and I always wonder what the expectations were when going in to see it. When I go in to see them I usually expect big set pieces, lots of explosions, paper-thin characterisation and just a fun time. It’s the reason I’ve enjoyed movies like Prince of Persia, Battle L.A. and even the Transformer movies. So going into Battleship I had the same expectations. Does it deliver? Continue reading →

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Bad Ass (2012)

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Do you have a movie instinct? You know that feeling you get by looking at a poster or a trailer of a movie and forming an opinion about that movie which usually is right? I’d like to think mine is pretty good, so when I read some information on this movie I thought I’d just watch the trailer as it would be a movie I wasn’t planning on watching.

The trailer basically is a copy of the Youtube hit “Epic Beard Man” where an old bearded man gets into a verbal fight with a fellow bus passenger who thinks he can beat him. Once he takes a swing the Epic Beard Man knocks him to the ground.
I thought it was intruiging that this was used as the thing to base the movie on, with Danny Trejo taking the role of the old man and thought I’d just give it a look, but was expecting a horrible film. Turns out that my movie instinct sometimes can be wrong. Continue reading →

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Le Havre (2011)

Movies allow you to be transported into different worlds. Even when they seem to be set in a realistic world, that world can be distorted and turned into something surreal. It’s something that can surprise the viewer or throw them off-balance. Director Aki Kaurismäki shows that he can turn the city of Le Havre into a setting for a modern fairytale. Continue reading →

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The Boys from Brazil (1978)

It’s April 5th, which means it is exactly 96 years ago since actor Gregory Peck was born. Ruth over at Flixchatter, who recently added him in the Top 10 Actors of all time relay race list, asked me if I could review a movie he was in. Now looking at his filmography I was surprised that I had hardly seen anything he had been in. Surely I have seen To Kill a Mockingbird (although it’s been way too long ago to remember much about it), but that was it. Something I have to admit is that I thought I had seen him in various Hitchcock movies, but I had mixed him up with James Stewart (sorry Ruth!).

So enough movies to pick from and I finally settled on Boys From Brasil. It’s a title which I had heard mentioned several times and knew it had something to do with experiments by nazis, but that was about it. It sounded like a weird movie, so I was prepared for anything. Continue reading →

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The Grey (2012)

Liam Neeson has made quite the comeback as an action star ever since he appeared in Taken. The Grey places him in an ice cold environment with his enemies in the form of the cold weather and an angry, vicious pack of wolves. Does it have you howling at the moon or does it make your heart as cold as the snow this takes place in? Continue reading →

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The 6th Day (2000)

The 6th Day review

A while ago I really felt like revisiting Schwarzeneggers Last Action Hero. I ordered the DVD and it came with another movie of his, The 6th Day. Having seen it now I’m still not completely sure if I had seen it before, but if I had I had forgotten almost all of it. Continue reading →

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Topaz (1969)

Topaz review
This is another movie that my father in law suggested I’d watch. I had never heard of it and once I finally got around to checking it out I was happily surprised that this is a Hitchcock movie. It turns out the X-Men were not the only ones who were involved in preventing the Russian missle crisis in Cuba. Continue reading →