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The Happy Housewife (2010)

The arrival of a baby can have a big impact on someone’s life (as I will be a father myself in a couple of weeks, I will be able to confirm this pretty soon).
Former stewardess Lea (Carice van Houten) is a housewife who lives in a beautiful house while her husband Harry (Waldemar Torenstra) makes his living as an architect. Although Lea isn’t too excited about the idea of having a baby, she does become pregnant. Once the baby is born her world collapses. She sees the little boy as a threat to her happy life and has a nervous breakdown, which gets so bad that the baby is in danger. This is enough reason for Harry to take action and make sure that Lea gets some time to gets her thoughts together. Continue reading →

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Repo Men (2010)

In the not too distant future it will be possible to live longer by buying artificial organs on credit. At least, that’s the vision of the future according to this movie. When you can’t make your payments in time, you will be visited by employees of the Union, the company that sells these organs.
Remy (Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) are the repo men of the company and they will visit people to get the organs back. So when you see them it means you won’t be in the land of the living much longer as they take the organs right on the spot. Continue reading →