Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a successful architect, who’s working on several development projects. When his wife and daughter fall victim to a brutal robbery in their house he’s slowly starting to change. When he’s in Arizona to give advice for a new project he receives a gun as a present. When he’s back in New York he decides to try to find the people responsible for the attack in his house. It doesn’t take long before the police start looking for him. Continue reading
In the last couple of years Judd Apaptow managed to change the face of the comedy genre.
With the humor in movies like 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall he has shown that that kind of humor, which is more oriented to older watcher is a very succesful formula. There have been a lot of movies that tried to copy it, but not all have managed to follow the success. Apatow was also involved with Superbad and you can clearly see. The movie shows a couple of teenagers who promise their fellow students they will buy booze for a party. It’s a big chance for them to be very popular at school. There is only one slight problem and it’s that they don’t have the legal age to buy alcohol yet. Continue reading
The “Rote Armee Fraktion” (RAF) was a left wing extremist group in the seventies who managed to cause chaos and create fear in Germany. Initially the group was called the Baader-Meinhof group in the media (after Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof) and got their fame by bombings and robbing banks. Continue reading
During the eighties there were a couple of movies that really managed to connect with the youth. Movies like Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s day off and the Breakfast Club manage to give, beside a view into the thoughts of teenagers, a good image of the time period. All these movies were made by John Hughes, who passed away last year. For this movie he wrote the screenplay in 2 days.
The movie shows five teenagers who all have been “sentenced” to detention. They have to spend their whole saturday at school. Continue reading
Dave Chappelle is one of my favourite comedians ever (as is Chris Rock). This movie, which was made far before he became really famous with his own show already show how good he is in his timing of jokes. In the movie Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (which i have given an 8, it really is a great music movie with lots of funny moments) he told how important timing is when he compares it to playing music.
I saw the movie ages ago and wanted to see it again. Although it’s a movie that will surely be popular to people who like to get high, it’s also a movie you can see if you don’t. Continue reading
I’m a big fan of heist and action movies. This movie, based on a comic, also is part of this genre so i definitely wanted to see it. Continue reading
After remaking Charlie and the chocolate factory, Tim Burton, using his typical look and dark humour (which i thought was not as good as the previous version) has done the same for Alice in wonderland. Does the movie with the white rabbit disappear down the black hole or does Burton manage to create a real wonderland? Continue reading
How to train your dragon is the next movie from Dreamworks, who is known for movies like Shrek, Monsters vs. Aliens and Madagascar. After reading about the very positive feedback Slashfilm gave i had to see this in the cinema in 3D to see if it deserved the hype. Continue reading
The first Iron Man film was a very good superhero movie (which i gave an 8 at the time). It was a good movie that showed the origins of Iron man. Now that we know how he came to be, part 2 can crank up the action. Does Iron Man how to fly to great highs again or is there a malfunction in the suit that makes the movie crash horribly? Continue reading
The next movie out of the IMDB top 250 that i saw for the first time.
Fast Eddie (terrifically played by Paul Newman) is a pool player who together with his manager travels through the country to earn money hustling by placing bets on his pool games.
When he has to play one of the best players in the country, a fat man named Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason), he has to face his own issues. Continue reading