Category Archives: Suspense

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Their Finest (2017) – Review

Review Their Finest

“Film is life without the boring bits” is one of the lines from Their Finest and an important reason why we love movies so much. If they are good, they offer a world for one and a half to three hours in which something is constantly happening, whether it is a lot of action or small personal moments. It is a period in which you do not have to do anything yourself and yet experience a great deal. Really good films are able to move you or give you a different view of something that you normally do not think about. And that all starts with someone who has a good idea and knows how to turn that into a fascinating script. That is partly what this film is all about. Continue reading →

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Thelma & Louise (1991) – Review

Review Thelma & Louise2017 Blindspot filmsIt is actually bizarre that it has taken me this long to see this 1991 film. It is a very famous title, which until recently I had never taken the time to see it. Something I should have done much earlier. This film, directed by Ridley Scott, not only works well, but also made me think of a different time when films could only be shot on film. A time when projection in the cinema was still analogue and you could see if a movie had already been screened before. Not that I would want that in the cinemas again, but it evoked a bit of nostalgia. Continue reading →

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – Review

Review Resident Evil the FInal Chapter

If someone asked you to name some long running movie franchises, Resident Evil probably wouldn’t be one you’d think of. Still this movie series started in 2002 and this one is the sixth installment. Despite the fact that these movies didn’t receive many positive review, it managed to appeal to a specific audience and still made more than its production budget back. So The Resident Evil movies might not be well-regarded, but they are known for action, horror elements and of course Milla Jovovich as the protagonist. Like the title already makes clear, this is the last movie in the series (even though a reboot has already been announced). Continue reading →

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A Kind of Murder (2016) – Review

Review A Kind of Murder
When you watch as many movies as I do, there are sometimes titles which you really don’t want a review about. Movies which are nice to watch and can be good, but of which you really don’t want to be too critical (or simply don’t have much to say about). And it sometimes happens that I decide not to write about such a film, despite it deserving some attention. A Kind of Murder is a movie which does a lot of things right, but which at the same time isn’t one everyone should see. Continue reading →

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Okja (2017) – Recensie

Review Okja

Okja, by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, can be compared to a baby chimpanzee which grows up in two hours. At the start it is cute and you feel at ease letting it play with your children. But if you allow it to stay with them in those two hours it will cause some very shocking moments. In this case the movie itself isn’t about a primate, but about a specially bred superpig which could mean a lot of profit for a big multinational company. Continue reading →

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Thor: Ragnarok (2017) – Review

Review Thor Ragnarok

When you take a look at the Marvel Cinematic Universe there are some characters who are used more often for comedy than others. The Hulk is often comic relief, usually physical stuff (just think of him slamming Loki back and forth), but if you take a look at the other super heroes it’s Thor who is also the source for a lot of jokes. In the first movie he was a fish out of water who stood out because he talked differently and didn’t know how everything on earth worked. But also in the other Marvel movies a lot of comedy came from him. So it was great news to hear that Taika Waititi would be directing Ragnarok. Hunt for the Wilderpeople and What We Do in the Shadows were extremely funny and Boy was also a very good movie. But as we’ve seen in the past with Edgar Wright and Antman, there is always a risk that the comedy a director wants to bring doesn’t align with the ideas the studio has. Fortunately Waititi has been able to finish the movie and keep his brand of humour intact. Continue reading →

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The Towering Inferno (1974) – Review

Review The Towering Inferno
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When I picked out The Towering Inferno as a blindspot movie for this year, I didn’t know yet that this quote from Steve McQueen at the end of the movie, more than 40 years later, still is relevant with the events in Grenfell Tower earlier this year in the back of your mind. “You know, we were lucky tonight. Body count’s less than 200. You know, one of these days, you’re gonna kill 10,000 in one of these firetraps, and I’m gonna keep eating smoke and bringing out bodies until somebody asks us… how to build them.”

When the World Trade Center was being during the seventies it inspired a number of writers (Richard Martin Stern, Thomas N. Scortia en Frank M. Robinson) to write stories about the dangers of such high buildings in case of fire. It resulted in the books “The Tower” and “The Glass Inferno”. After the success of the disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure the studios wanted to make other ones and started looking for material they could adapt. Warner Bros bought the rights for The Tower, 20th Century Fox for The Glass Inferno. This would mean both studios would be releasing their own version of basically the same story. The studios decided to negotiate though, which resulted in the first cooperation between two big studios and the movie was filled with famous actors of the time, including Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire and Richard Chamberlain. Continue reading →

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The Wailing (2016) – Review

Review The Wailing

Maybe I’m slowly starting to sound like a broken record, but South Korean cinema has been offering the most interesting and unpredictable movies in years. An action movie can contain humour or the hero turns out not to be exactly who he seems to be. The director of The Wailing, Na Hong-jin, previously made the tense and dark The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, in which a cab driver with a debt gets an opportunity to get rid of it by committing a murder. It managed to get the adrenaline pumping. The Wailing is no exception and is a true rollercoaster ride of emotions (and genres). Continue reading →

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Dunkirk (2017) – Review

Review Dunkirk

When director Christopher Nolan releases a new movie you are more less obliged as a movie lover to go watch it as soon as you can. He’s someone who lives and breathes cinema, who won’t go near filming digitally and isn’t a fan of VOD-platforms like Netflix and the way they release movies. Besides that he also likes to do as much of the special effects practically. Although his movies are a joy to watch from a technical perspective, they sometimes feel a bit sterile. For his latest movie he wanted to bring an important seconds world war moment to the big screen: the evacuation of the troops at Dunkirk. Continue reading →