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Road to the Well (2016) – Review

Review Road to the Well

The number of movies which reaches the cinema each year is just the tip of the iceberg. The general public usually only wants to see movies with faces they recognise (which is a shame), meaning that everyone which is below the surface often doesn’t get a chance. But the number of movies there waiting to be discovered is enormous and there are many which are worth watching but don’t have the budget to get them noticed. Road to the Well is a title which, in the world of movies, has been made on a very small budget, but shows that you can still can accomplish quite a lot. Continue reading →

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iBoy (2017) – Review

Recensie iBoy
Mobile phones have become our most loyal partners in life. There is hardly no one or anything else which you interact with as much as with this device. People can’t wait to check out the latest innovations in the field and can’t wait until they are able to order the latest iPhone or the newest flagship of a different brand. It wouldn’t surprise me that if Samsung or Apple would present a phone which you had to connect directly to your body that a lot of people wouldn’t even hesitate to do so. The thriller iBoy shows what such a symbiotic connection could look like. Continue reading →

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The Accountant (2016) – Review

Review The Accountant

A couple of years ago Ben Affleck to me wasn’t an actor who made me feel like I should immediately head to the cinema. He didn’t always manage to convince, but he’s been good in the last couple of years (Gone Girl, but also behind the camera Argo, The Town). A movie about an accountant might not immediately sound like a movie you should check out. Luckily the marketing department was smart enough to show Affleck with a rifle on the poster, which gave some different expectations. Does that result in a cool movie? Continue reading →

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De surprise (2015) – Review

Review De Surprise

Although I’m Dutch I hardly watch Dutch movies, but last year I gave a couple of them a chance and they managed to surprise me (like Waterboys and Publieke Werken). When a fellow blogger suggested to watch this one, I decided to give it a chance as it was available through Netflix, so the only thing I would lose if I didn’t like it would be some time. Continue reading →

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Moonlight (2016) – Review

Recensie Moonlight

The amount of experiences we have to process every day is huge. Yet you will have forgotten most of them within a few hours. Do you remember what you ate last Monday? Unless that was a meal which was very special or during a special occasion, you will not be able to remember. The moments that stay with you are those where there was a lot of emotion. If you look back at your own life and at the moments that are important to you, perhaps even decisive, emotion often played a very important role. Continue reading →

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Pompeii (2014) – Review

Review Pomeii

After watching the terrible The Legend of Hercules, the disaster movie Pompeii was broadcast the next day. Maybe Hercules had broken me, but I decided to give this one a chance as well, because if you have survived one sand and sandals movie why not watch another one. Even if I had strong doubts about it in advance. Would this be my second bad movie night in a row? Continue reading →

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The Legend of Hercules (2014) – Review

Review The Legend of Hercules

Each year there are these movies which give you this feeling “it’s probably better to skip this one”. It’s some sort of spidersense you have developed as a movielover and often that sense turns out to be correct. In 2014 the movie Hercules would be released, starring Dwayne Johnson. Not long before that suddenly this movie entered theaters. I don’t know if it was supposed to take some money away from that movie, but The Legend of Hercules looked like a B-movie. So I decided to skip it, but when it recently was shown on TV I decided to give it a chance. I’ve learned a wise lesson from that: Sometimes you just have to watch these type of movies to get a better perspective on the movies which are worth watching. Continue reading →

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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922) – Review

Review Nosferatu
Film has produced many iconic images, which sometimes becomes much bigger than the movie itself and become part of our collective memory. Images which everyone will know, but where not everyone will be able to tell the name of the movie. Just think of the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe holding down her dress above a subway vent. Everyone will know that picture, but from which movie is it? It is a bit of a trick question as the pose itself isn’t actually in the movie, but how many will know it is from The Seven Year Itch? The image of Nosferatu which is from this film can also be called iconic and it was a film I had never seen. Continue reading →

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Spectral (2016) – Review

Review Spectral

The amount of new content Netflix puts out is sometimes hard to keep up with. Some weeks ago they released the Netflix Original movie Spectral. It is a science fiction/action movie with supernatural elements. When the army is fighting a war in Slovenia one of the soldiers is killed in a mysterious way by something which isn’t visible to the naked eye. Dr. Mark Clyne (James Badge Dale), a researcher at DARPA, is asked to analyze the event, which was recorded by a special system, and find a solution. Are the things they are seeing advanced camouflage suits or are they dealing with something completely different? Continue reading →