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The Guest (2014)

Review The Guest

Usually when we deal with other people we assume they are good people. If someone approaches you with a friendly smile and is nice to be around you will quickly trust that person. When David (Dan Stevens) knocks on the door of the Peterson family he comes across as a very charming man. He tells them he was a soldier who fought together with their son, who died while serving. David promised him that he’d visit his family and give them his final message if he would pass away. From the moment David arrives though some very shocking events start taking place. Continue reading →

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Naziha’s Spring (2015)

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Behind each small news item on TV or an article in the newspaper often a bigger story is hidden than you might think at first glance. If you read about a Moroccan family with 10 children who constantly come into contact with various government organisations, including the police, the odds are that you’ll be making some assumptions. You will perhaps wonder whether the parents are really involved with their children or why they have 10 children as there is so much trouble. Naziha is the mother of such a troubled family and this documentary gives her a chance to tell her side of the story, to show that assumptions are often wrong. Continue reading →

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Beyond the Lights (2014)

Review Beyond the Lights

The entertainment industry is a tough business, in which a hit single isn’t always a guarantee for a long career and where popularity can be gone in an instant. You’ll have to work hard to get to the top…and to stay there. It’s something which the mother of Noni (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), Macy Jean (Minnie Driver), has figured out early. When her daughter wins second price in a talent competition she forces her to throw away her price, because second best isn’t good enough. Her mother’s drive to push her to be the best eventually pays off, but it also has a dark side. Continue reading →

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Hollywood Banker (2014)

Review Hollywood Banker

How was a simple banker from Rotterdam able to eventually help finance more than 900 movies, including a number of big titles including Rambo, Superman, Platoon, Dances With Wolves, Terminator and Basic Instinct? That’s the question that’s answered in the documentary Hollywood Banker, a portrait of Frans Afman, made by his daughter Rozemyn Afman. Continue reading →

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World of Tomorrow (2015)

Review World of Tomorrow

Ever since I saw the hilarious/absurd/shocking, Oscar-nominated Rejected (you can check it out on Youtube) by Don Hertzfeldt, I was a fan of both his animation style and his humour. When I heard earlier this year that he had made a new short I was curious about it. His drawings might be considered simple, but he always succeeds in getting his intention across. For this short, it’s 17 minutes, he recorded conversations he had with his 4-year-old niece, Winona Mae and used these for a story about an impressive journey to the future. Continue reading →

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Chef’s Table (2015) – Season 1

Review Chef's Table

The speed at which new shows appear on Netflix can make it hard to keep up with it all. I regularly notice that I have hardly finished one show and the next “Netflix originals” series is already available. Most of them are fictional shows, but with Chef’s Tabel Netflix has release a documentary series. The first season consists of six episodes and each one focusses on one chef and his/her restaurant, including their specialities. Continue reading →

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A Most Violent Year (2014)

Review A Most Violent Year

New York in 1981 isn’t the New York it is today. It was a year in which more than 120.000 robberies took place and 2100 people were murdered, in other words it was a place you couldn’t feel safe. A Most Violent Year is set in this year en tells the story about Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a business man who works in the oil industry. He is set on expanding his company, but this turns out to be difficult. His company is being investigated because it hasn’t been operating according to regulations. Abel himself thinks differently as he thinks that he is working according to industry rules. Besides the investigation by the government he also has to deal with robberies being executed on his oil trucks, which is losing him a lot of money. His plan to buy a new location would be able to give him an edge over the competition, but with his issues the investors are slowly having doubts about investing. Continue reading →

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Dumbo (1941)

Review Dumbo

When you have children of course you can’t escape having to watch movies with them. Of course this give you the opportunity as a parent to pick out quality movies and see how they react to them. Often watching their response is more enjoyable than the movie itself. Dumbo is an animation classic which is, especially compared to the current animated movies, relatively simple. It was a while for me since I had last seen it and was curious if I would still enjoy it, but I was also looking forward to seeing my own daughter respond to it as she saw it for the first time. Continue reading →

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Review Mad Max Fury Road

Hell has never been shot so beautifully. In the future, after several wars, the world is a nothing but a shadow of its former self. Water and oil have become scarce and the world has changed into a big desert. Max (Tom Hardy) has survived it all, but is still struggling with visions of people he wasn´t able to save. He´s captured by the War Boys, a private army of tyrannical Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) and is used as a “bloodbag” for a sick War Boy, Nux (Nicholas Hoult). Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a confidante of Immortan Joe. Her assignment is to drive a big truck, the War Rig, to a nearby town to get gasoline. She leaves, but leaves the road and when Immortan Joe realizes what she´s doing, he sends out his War Boys to stop her. Max involuntarily gets involved as he´s strapped on the front of one of the cars and he has to try to survive. Continue reading →

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Three Colors: Blue (1993)

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The second film from my Blindspot series of this year is the first movie out of the “Three Colors” trilogy. The three colors that are those of the French flag, blauw, white and red. The themes those colors represent are freedom, equality and brotherhood and each of these movies is based on these colors and its meaning. These movie have been written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and have been om my to watch list for years. And now I have seen the first one! Continue reading →