What’s the first thing you think of when I say Hawaii? It’s probably nice wheather, hula dancers and lots of beauty. If you think in movies you might think of Lilo and Stitch, but all these images are bright and beautiful and really makes it feel like a holiday. The Descendants is set on Hawaii too, but does away with those initial feelings about the islands and uses it as a setting for a family drama. Continue reading
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (2011)
As a kid growing up I used to be a big fan of Sesame Street and The Muppets. Sesame Street i watched every day and Muppets was broadcast Sunday evenings. Watching it I never thought about the people actually bringing these puppets to life. This documentary is about one of them, Kevin Clash and how he had a dream about working with Jim Henson and ended up puppeteering one of the most loved characters around the world, Elmo. Continue reading
Forks Over Knives (2011)
Sometimes there are documentaries that make you think about something you are doing yourself and possibly manage to change your behavior. An Inconvenient Truth did that with a lot of people and personally Collapse was a movie which impressed me a lot and was on my mind for a long time. Forks over Knives to me is another one of those documentaries that should be seen. It focuses on our food and the relationship it might have with the most common diseases like cancer and high cholesterol. It makes you think:
Would you rather change what you eat with your fork or prefer going under the knife because you didn’t? Continue reading
Pulling John (2009)
Do you know the above athlete? He has been at the top of his sports for years and a lot of his competitors don’t consider themselves good until they are able to beat him. If I say you might recognise him from the Sylvester Stallone movie Over the Top where he had a cameo. His name is John Brzenk and he is a professional arm wrestler and together with two other arm wrestlers he stars in this documentary about the world of arm wrestling. Continue reading
The Elephant Man (1980)
What’s the first thing you think of when you hear “The Elephant Man”? As I grew up in the eighties, my first response would be Michael Jackson as there were rumours then that he wanted to buy the bones of the elephant man. He even parodied it himself in his “Leave Me Alone” video. As it turns out it is also the name of this movie, which tells the story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a man who had many deformities and for a long time was lived his life as curiosity in a travelling carnival show. Continue reading
Timecrimes (2007)
Héctor (Karra Elejalde) is renovating a new house which he has just bought with his wife. After some hard work it’s time to relax a bit in the garden. He sits down, takes out his binoculars and sees something strange happening in the bushes. He decides to investigate and with it start a journey which will surprise you. It’s an experience which you will remember for a long time. Continue reading
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Night Train to Munich, written by the same team that was responsible for Hitcocks The Lady Vanishes (Frank Launder en Sidney Gilliat), is an exciting spy/action thriller.
The story is set at the beginning of the second world war. The nazis are interested in a scientist who is developing special armor plating and they decide to track him down.
The manage to locate him, but are just too late as he escapes to England. His daughter isn’t as lucky and ends up in a concentration camp. Continue reading
The Messenger (2009)
Sometimes wars are a necessary evil. You regularly see the images in the news or in movies and sometimes forget that there are men and women who choose to fight in a conflict. One of things that is certain in such a situation is that there will be people who will die fighting. When this happens the army wants to inform the next of kin about it. Of course they want to do this before the next of kin hear it through the news or read it online. For this task messengers are used, who will have to tell the bad news. Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson) and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) are two people who have to perform this difficult job. Continue reading
Kick-ass (2010)
Does a superhero need to have special powers? Various superheroes have already shown this is not necessary (Iron Man or Batman). But what if you don’t have a large bank account to create special suits to suit your needs? Well, you order a diving suit online and call yourself Kick-ass, like Dave Lizewski does in this movie.
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Tales from the script (2009)
When you look at the pictures below, you probably won’t go “Ooh, that’s him and that’s that guy!”. When i write their names, Frank Darabont and Paul Schrader, you still probably won’t know who they are. Even when i name the following movie titles: The Green Mile, The Mist, Shawshank Redemption and Raging Bull, Taxi Driver it still will be hard to think of a way to connect those movies with the pictures below.
