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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018) – Review

Review Robin Williams Come inside my mind

Although many people will know Robin Williams from his stand up and his breakthrough tv show Mork and Mindy, I personally really only knew him from the movies he was in. Whether it were his comedic roles in movies like Aladdin, Mrs. Doubtfire and Flubber or his serious roles in Awakenings, What Dreams May Come, One Hour Photo, Good Will Hunting, Dead Poets Society. He was a very versatile actor who was worth checking out a film for. It came as a shock in 2014 when it was announced that he had taken his own life. This HBO documentary takes a look at his life, both his highs and his lows. Continue reading →

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A Quiet Place (2018) – Review

Review A Quiet Place
Sound is such a big part of movies, which by many is an overlooked aspect of experiencing them. Ever since the introduction they have added a layer responsible for how you feel, enhancing it or setting the tone. A lot of time is spent on perfecting it. Just think of an animated movie. When you watch it, it is a breathing living and very real world. But just like the frames themselves, every sound needs to be created in order to make swoop audiences away, whether it’s an action scene in Incredibles 2 or an emotional scene in Your Name. In horror movies too it is used effectively, often making or breaking a scene. A jump scare wouldn’t work as well if it wasn’t accompanied by a loud sound after some silence. A Quiet Place is a horror film which uses sound in a different way… Continue reading →

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Bad Genius (2017) – Review

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For everyone there has been a moment while you were attending school where it was very attractive to cheat in order to pass that difficult exam. To make sure you don’t get caught, you think of ingenious ways to bring along information that’s hard for others to discover. When you eventually decide to actually use it, it can lead to some very tense moments. You feel like a secret agent who can’t stand out and has to copy some information. If you would translate that feeling to a movie, you’d end up with Bad Genius. A mix of The Breakfast Club and Ocean’s Eleven… Continue reading →

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The Florida Project (2017) – Review

Recensie The Florida Project
The environment in which you grow up as a child feels normal to you. It doesn’t matter in which situation you grow up, whether good or extremely bad, to you that’s the way the world is. It’s your world in which you find joy with the people around you, even if it might not be the safest or cleanest place. That’s also the case for six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), who lives in a bright purple motel together with her single mom Halley (Bria Vinaite), very close to Disneyland. Like many other families who live there, they have to make ends meet in order to be able to pay the rent at the end of the month. To Moonee the motel is her playground, where she does the naughty things children do together and sometimes gets into trouble for it. Continue reading →

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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) – Review

Review Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle

I have to confess that I did saw the original Jumanji for the first time last year. And although the CGI clearly was made in a different era, it was still a very entertaining film that not only had moments of tension, but also an emotional charge thanks to Robin Williams and his character. A board game came to life and everyone who played it was obliged to continue playing until the end, if you could at least survive the various attacks of different animals. A remake was not really necessary, but if a film is successful, you can almost guarantee nowadays that it will get made. I was not really looking forward it, but the fact that Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart (together with Jack Black) would play the leading roles and were fun to watch in Central Intelligence, I hoped that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle would turn out to be fun. Continue reading →

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Detroit (2017) – Review

review Detroit

If history has taught us something, it probably is that humanity has hardly learned anything from it. One way or another we all like to think that we are different compared to the people who lived fifty or two hundred years ago. Of course we are partly different, but the basics, the emotions and needs have not changed. You still see that some people who are in a position of power abuse it and sometimes can get away with it as well. Detroit shows events which you can imagine having happened just a week ago. Continue reading →

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The Big Sick (2017) – Review

review The Big Sick

In general, romantic comedies have a huge issue. They are very predictable and often too “sugary”. That is also the main reason that they often don’t appeal to me. Nevertheless, The Big Sick got a lot of positive reactions last year and the title also appeared on many top 10 lists. If that happens, that is enough reason to give a film a chance. And it delivered an entertaining and surprising two hours. Continue reading →

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Black Mirror – Season 4 review: Black Museum

Review Black Mirror Black Museum

By creating the world of Black Mirror, writer Charlie Brooker shows in each episode how technology can influence our lives. It shows how it can solve problems, but at the same time also how it can make people suffer by it, even if this wasn’t the purpose of that technology. That’s also the case with the final episode of season 4, which just like the episode White Christmas, consists of short stories set against a bigger backdrop. Continue reading →