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Rabbit Hole (2010)

The loss of someone you love can have a lot of impact on someone’s life. It’s also something everyone responds differently to. Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart) have lost their son and do their best to try to move on with their lives, which isn’t easy. There is a lot of friction between the two and they can hardly talk about it with each other.
The have joined a therapy group to listen what other parents are doing that have gone through the same thing, but even this is hard for Becca. She really can’t handle it. Continue reading →

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Machete (2010)

When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were making the Grindhouse movies (Death Proof and Planet Terror), they wanted to show some fake trailers between the movies. One of those trailers was Machete, which was about a Mexican who was hired to kill someone, but finds out it’s a trap and as a result is hunted by a lot of people. Time for him to take revenge on those responsible.

The trailer turned out to be so popular (I really liked it as well when I first saw it) that Rodriguez got a lot of questions about it. People actually wanted to see the movie so he decided to make a feature length film of it. Is the movie just as much fun as the trailer or shouldn’t Rodriguez have bothered? Continue reading →

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Black Swan (2010)

As it’s the last day of the year I think there is no better way to end it by reviewing my movie of the year by letting it skip the queue of upcoming reviews. With Black Swan I had the same feeling as I had with The Social Network. I was wondering how a movie about a specific subject, in this case ballet, could be interesting. If you check out the dance movies which came out lately you will notice that most of them are targeting a young audience with the drama in those films being equal to the levels you see in your average soap opera. As I try to never watch movie trailers and try to know as little as I can about films in advance, I was in for a big, but very pleasant, surprise. Continue reading →

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My Filmyear: 2010

2010, another year that has passed, which of course is always a nice opportunity to look back at the past year. It’s the year in which I’ve started writing this blog and have ended up with writing over 200 reviews. With all that writing my passion for watching and enjoying movies has grown even more. I want to thank everyone for reading and responding my opinion about the movies I watch. In the end I appreciate you taking the time to read it all and I especially enjoy talking about the movies, which to me is the most important reason for writing.

While looking back it is inevitable to also write down some lists. It has taken quite a lot of time to go through all the movies I’ve seen this year and decide which ones to include. If I would make the list in a month it would probably be a little different, but you have to make decisions. I’ve seen exactly 300 movies this year (which means that I saw one every 1.2 day), which makes it hard to choose your favorites. The image at the start of the article, which you can click to enlarge it, shows almost all movies I’ve seen this year. You will notice that I have not been able to review them all. Continue reading →

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13 (2010)

Sometimes a movie can have more impact on you if you don’t know anything about it. I try to do this as much as possible, because you usually won’t have high expectations and won’t be disappointed as quickly. This is also the reason I usually skip most trailers as well, unless it is for an action movie where the story is not as important.

I hardly knew anything about 13, expect that Jason Statham and Mickey Rourke were in it. For me those names are enough reason to see a movie, so I was looking forward to seeing it and really was not disappointed. I will try to tell as little as I can about the story. Continue reading →

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Barry Munday (2010)

Barry Munday was a movie I hadn’t heard anything about. After seeing the trailer, which looked like fun I decided to watch it. It also stars Patrick Wilson who can be very funny.
Enough reason to give this movie a chance. Barry Munday has got an office job, a girlfriend he hardly sees and as a result of that he is a womanizer. He has some success, until he chooses the wrong girl. This results in him being attacked by a guy with a trumpet and losing both his testicles. Yeah, definitely a painful idea, but although some jokes are being made about it at the start, not much more is done with that fact. You would expect other characters to keep making jokes about it, but this is not the case.
Barry receives a letter from a lawyer stating that one of the women he slept with is pregnant. Continue reading →

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Skyline (2010)

After District 9 and Monsters, Skyline is the next movie that has been made for a relatively low-budget (about 11 million, most of it spent on the special effects) and has been made almost independently from a big studio by some special effects experts.

Is Skyline the next District 9 or does this movie disappoint, just like Monsters did? Continue reading →

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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

When the first line of a comedy is “Poor Jacobson, they took his stapler”, it already has done something good in my book with this obvious reference to Office Space. Although this movie doesn’t have any similarities to it, the tone has been set. Paul Rudd is Tim, an analyst who is trying hard to move up the corporate ladder. During a meeting he gives a presentation which catches the eye of higher management and gets the chance to realise his dream.

There is a small precondition though. His boss regularly organizes dinners where everyone has to bring a guest along. These are not normal guests, but people with a “special gift”. It turns out that his boss expects everyone to invite the biggest losers they can find. The person who has the biggest one wins a prize. Although Tim really does not want to join this dinner, he doesn’t want to throw away his chance to play in the big league. Continue reading →

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The Town (2010)

After the fantastic Gone Baby Gone (which I gave an 8 ) Ben Affleck is back with his second movie in the director’s chair. Just like that movie, this movie is also set in Boston, where Affleck grew up. During this movie a lot of bank heists take place in the city and Doug MacRay (Ben Affleck), James Coughlin (Jeremy Renner), Albert ‘Gloansy’ Magloan (Slaine) and Desmond Elden (Owen Burke) are one of the gangs responsible for them. These bank robberies are meticulously planned and the gang is very precise and professional in their execution. They wear latex gloves, are unrecognisable because of their masks and destroy any evidence that could be used against them (like putting the harddisks that are used for the surveillance cameras in the microwave) Continue reading →