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+1 (2013)

Plus one review

Although there are several movies which involve time travel, it is a genre which is relatively small when compared to other genres (at least that is my feeling). It is one of my favorite types of film though, so if there is any opportunity to check one out I always do so. Plus One deals with a specific subgenre, the time loop. Timecrimes and Triangle are two examples of movies which use the concept of time repeating to great effect and they are both movies I really enjoyed. How does +1 compare? Continue reading →

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1 (2013)

Review of the documentary 1

When growing up I wasn’t big on watching sports and rather played them myself. I might occasionally watch some tennis or turn on the TV when the national team was playing football, but that was about it. Except for Formula 1. During the nineties I wouldn’t miss any of it. On Sundays I would watch it on the TV I had in my room and would love all the excitement a race would bring. It was the age of drivers like Senna, Damon Hill and Michael Schumacher. The rivalries (especially between Hill and Schumacher) are something I’ll never forgot (and one of the reasons I have never been a fan of Schumacher despite him getting the world title several times). As I grew older and moved out of my parents house I wasn’t as interested in the sport anymore. I might occasionally watch a race, but the sport lost a lot of its excitement for me. Documentaries about the sport always interest me and as 2010’s Senna proved, they can be very good. The question is if 1 can match the level set by that documentary. Continue reading →