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Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness – Review

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Subcultures are sometimes able to surprise you. I can remember watching an episode of Louis Theroux dealing with exotic animals and it was unbelievable to me that some people would like to keep a tiger. Yet this is extremely popular in America. In fact, it is so popular that only in North America more tigers live in captivity than the number in the wild. Mike Tyson had a Bengal tiger for 16 years, but as the Netflix documentary Tiger King shows, there are always people who are even more extreme. Continue reading →

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Love, Death & Robots (2019) – Review

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Although a load of new content appears on Netflix every week, I generally take the time to watch what interests me. I add it to my viewing list when it is announced and I often see it a few weeks after it has been released. However, last week was a week in which I could not wait until the releases of Triple Frontier (review will follow), season 2 of The OA and this series, Love, Death & Robots. With Tim Miller (director of Deadpool) and David Fincher as executive producers and a science fiction approach, I was very curious. I had not seen the trailer and I was totally unprepared for what I would experience, but when I started watching, I couldn’t get enough of it. Continue reading →

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Rapture (2018) – Review

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When it comes to hiphop, Netflix has a pretty solid offering of interesting documentaries (Bad Rap, Hip Hop Evolution, The Defiant Ones, Fresh Dressed, Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives, The Art of Organized Noize, Sample This) and movies/series (Roxanne Roxanne, The Get Down) about this music genre. I’ve watched all of them and although some of them are disappointing, in general they provide a lot of interesting information/entertainement. The latest addition is Rapture. According to the Netflix description hip-hop stars describe what defines them as artists and the effect they’ve had on culture beyond music. During (almost) each of the episodes the focus is on one artist. These are a mix of old and new artists: Logic, Nas & Dave East, G-Eazy, 2 Chainz, T.I., Rapsody, Just Blaze and A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. As I’ve been listening to hip hop less the last couple of years I didn’t know anything about Logic, Dave East, G-Eazy, Rapsody or A Boogie, so I was interested to learn more about them. Continue reading →

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Atlanta – Season 1 – Review

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Most will know Donald Glover as an actor, but he is also an artist (Childish Gambino), director, writer, comedian and producer. He appeared in Community, The Martian, Spider-Man: Homecoming and for the Han Solo film he will play Lando Calrissian. So it is someone who has a busy life and also finds the time to make his own series in the form of Atlanta. A series that wanted to see for a while, but did not get around to. Luckily I had a long flight a while ago where the show was on the entertainment system and I could finally watch it. Continue reading →

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The OA – Review

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Brit Marling is an actress who might not be well-known to a big audience, but I have been watching her movies with great pleasure. Whether that’s Another Earth, where a second earth appears next to ours, Sound of My Voice which deals with a cult of the rebellious The East. The special thing about her is that she wasn’t only in front of the camera, but also wrote and produced these titles. They stand out by their science fiction/mysterious elements which usually it doesn’t focus on. What makes all these movies great is the personal stories that are told. Netflix only announced the show a few days before it was released and surprised everyone. Is this show just as surprising? Continue reading →

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Cooked (2016) – Series review

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If you were to look at the picture above you might assume that Netflix has now started offering cooking shows, but this isn’t the casse. After the success of Chef’s Table, which was a beautiful show that focussed on various chefs all over the world, it now has Cooked available. This four part documentary series has been made by writer Michael Pollan and filmmaker Alex Gibney (Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, The Armstrong Lie, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief) and isn’t about restaurants, top chefs or a specific way of cooking. It is about food in general and makes links to the basic elements: fire, air, water and earth and the effect they have on our daily meals. Continue reading →

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House of Cards – Season 4 – Review

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When a season of a show has finished it is always frustrating to have to wait a while for the next one. House of Cards is one of those shows where that feeling is very strong for me. Of course it doesn’t help that Netflix releases all episodes at once and for this fourth season it took me only four days to watch it all. At the end of the previous season the tension between Frank (Kevin Spacey) and Claire (Robin Wright) Underwood kept going up and the scene was set for a big battle between these two titans who both are not willing (or able) to give in. Together they reached the top, but now Claire also wants to realize her own ambitions. Continue reading →

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Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014)

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Scientist Carl Sagan was not someone who was a worldwide celebrity and therefore I had never heard of him. Reading up on him I understood her regularly visited the talkshows and presented various programmes which helped to make science more popular. One of those programs was Cosmos. I never saw the original version, but Neil deGrasse Tyson has breathed new life into the show. After seeing Interstellar I was inspired to check it out. Continue reading →

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A Young Doctor’s Notebook (2012)

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The problem with TV shows/series for me is that they generally require a huge investment of time. With long seasons and many episodes it usually means that during the time I am enjoying a TV show that I can not spend that time watching movies. It is the reason I didn’t pay much attention to series for the past few years. At the end of last year I decided to try again (watching House of Cards and Lilyhammer) and was immediately hooked. So this year I have been watching a lot more shows. A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a miniseries which has the running of the average movie. With just four 22 minute episodes this was something I could easily devour quickly without it cutting into my movie watching. So is it any good? Continue reading →