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Logan Lucky (2017) – Review

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Although director Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovic, the Ocean’s Eleven films, Che, The Informant) announced in 2013 that he would stop making films that sad news. Yet saying something and sticking to it turned out to be difficult for him. He directed the The Knick series for HBO, helped Spike Jonze to edit Her and made his own “cuts” of well-known films available online. He had never really been away and now he “officially” is back with Logan Lucky, which to quote the film itself is an Ocean’s 7-11. In other words, a “heist” film, but in a setting that is a lot less glamorous. Continue reading →

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Shot Caller (2017) – Review

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Although the end of Game of Thrones is slowly approaching, I had never seen the show until recently. That also means that I do not immediately associate Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (who plays Jaime Lannister in GoT) with that series. The film I mainly know about is the Scandinavian film Headhunters, in which he is the bad guy. A great actor whom I wanted to see in a different role and Shot Caller appealed to me. I love prison movies (see my top 10 for this genre) and since this title is partly set there and Coster-Waldau looks like a gangster on the poster, I was very curious. Continue reading →

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Going in Style (2017) – Review

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While older women generally have a harder time getting hold of roles in Hollywood, this is very different for men. Action stars from the eighties and nineties can still do the same now that they have almost reached their seventies and in most films there is room for men of age, also in the field of comedy. That occasionally produces terrible titles such as Dirty Grandpa, but also more entertaining titles such as Grumpy Old Men. Within the comedy genre there is another sub-genre, namely that of films in which old men do things they would not normally do. Think of The Bucket List, but also a Tough Guys from 1986, in which two old men who are out of prison and decide to rob a train. Going in Style is also a title that is similar in a sense. Continue reading →

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Do the Right Thing (1989) – Review

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“Do the right thing”, it is so easy to say, but it is not always easy to make the right choices in your life. There are setbacks which make it hard to make a decision, people who do not share your opinion or oppose you or you may not have what you need to achieve a goal. To occasionally make a choice that you know, deep down, is not the best in the long term, but still yielding results is tempting. But even in a situation where emotions rise, it is a challenge not to go along with it, to keep thinking. What this can lead if this doesn’t happen is something which Spike Lee shows in Do The Right Thing. Continue reading →

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Thelma & Louise (1991) – Review

Review Thelma & Louise2017 Blindspot filmsIt is actually bizarre that it has taken me this long to see this 1991 film. It is a very famous title, which until recently I had never taken the time to see it. Something I should have done much earlier. This film, directed by Ridley Scott, not only works well, but also made me think of a different time when films could only be shot on film. A time when projection in the cinema was still analogue and you could see if a movie had already been screened before. Not that I would want that in the cinemas again, but it evoked a bit of nostalgia. Continue reading →

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Firebase (2017) – Short film review

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Fans of director Neil Blomkamp have been in for a treat this year. With his new Oats Studio he has released various shorts this year (most around the 20-minute mark), which visually are on the same level as the big blockbusters. The first one was Rakka and the second he released was this one, Firebase. A story which is set in 1970, during the Vietnam war. The army has to face something supernatural. Continue reading →

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My Dinner with André (1981) – Review

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My Dinner with André didn’t have to be a film. Except for the opening, the whole movie is set in a restaurant where two men, Wally Shawn (Wallace Shawn) and André Gregory (Andre Gregory), meet each other again after a couple of years and just talk to each other for two hours. The camera hardly moves and the shots of the two men is all there is to it. It’s mainly André talking, who talks about his experiences. What he went through in the forests in Poland, how he was buried alive in England or how he ate sand in the Sahara desert. All moments he’s been through, looking for something, moments which made him think about what it means to be alive. Gregory tells the stories full of conviction and, just like for example Stephen Tobolowsky’s podcasts, you hear what he’s telling but create your own imagery to go along with it. André listens, but doesn’t always go along with Wally’s views and the two discuss their differences. One important question they ask is when can you really say you are living? Continue reading →

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The Defiant Ones (2017) – Review

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Dr.Dre and Jimmy Iovine, who both started their music careers producing music and having a lot of succes with it, sold the company which they started together, Beats Electronics, to Apple in 2014. Their company, which sells headphones and speakers and also had its own music streaming service, sold for 3 billion dollars. It was a deal which could have fallen through though. While the negotiations were still going on Dr.Dre, while drunk in the studio with Tyrese Gibson, made a video boasting about the fact he would become the first hip hop billionaire. This four-part documentary opens with that moment and shows how the son of an Italian immigrant and a boy who grew up in Compton became successful together. Despite their, sometimes controversial, but also influential past. Continue reading →

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Okja (2017) – Recensie

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Okja, by South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, can be compared to a baby chimpanzee which grows up in two hours. At the start it is cute and you feel at ease letting it play with your children. But if you allow it to stay with them in those two hours it will cause some very shocking moments. In this case the movie itself isn’t about a primate, but about a specially bred superpig which could mean a lot of profit for a big multinational company. Continue reading →