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MOVIE REVIEW: Age of Heroes 0

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MOVIE REVIEW: Age of Heroes

This one has been sitting in my download folder for ages. I didn’t find the motivation to watch it, due to the unfavourable rating on IMDB (which is a 5.5). Yesterday, my curiosity won from my scepticism, and I decided to load it into VLC player. I was pleasantly surprised. Although it clearly had to do with a small budget, this UK film isn’t that bad. It’s not your run-of-the-mill action-packed war hero movie, but a clever story fueled drama set in the later days of World War II.

Movie Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 0

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Movie Review: Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

After Batman Begins, superhero movies were booming again. Because Marvell couldn’t stay behind to DC-comics, a barrage of semi-known Marvell heroes was fired at the audience. Ghost Rider was one of those. But it was horrible. It failed to do anything, from capturing the essence of the comic to capturing the attention of the audience. Now, Ghost Rider returns for another shot at movie fame, with Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Was it any better? Hell no.

Movie Review: The Muppets 0

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Movie Review: The Muppets

I never grew up with the muppets. I did see the occasional movie now and then. ‘A Muppet Christmas Carrol’ is one of those movies that never gets old. I did, however, grow up with Sesame Street. The sketches with Kermit had always been among my favourites. So, when I heard there was a new Muppets movie in the works, I got excited. Especially when I learned that it would be written by Jason Segel (HIMYM), who had proven in ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ that he was a big fan of...

Movie review: Hugo 1

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Movie review: Hugo

Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time. With movies like ‘Gangs of New York’, ‘Shutter Island’ and many, many more, how does he perform while making a family film loosely based upon one of the greatest filmmakers of another era, Georges Méliès? To keep things short; he does very well. I’ll tell you why. Whenever Scorsese is casting for a new project, famous actors line up to feature in them. After having Leonardo DiCaprio in his last three films, he has chosen a different approach. The...

Another movie review: Tower Heist 0

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Another movie review: Tower Heist

It’s been a long time since Eddie Murphy was funny as an actor (as a voice-actor, he did okay. See Shrek). Dr. Doolittle, Norbit, The Nutty Professor… In each and everyone of them, he wasn’t funny. But that’s what he’s supposed to be as a comedian/actor; funny. The same goes for Ben Stiller. Tropic Thunder was allright, but movies like Night at the Museum 2, the ‘Meet the Parents’-trilogy, they where all swing and misses. If they would team up, what would you get? The answer is, a mildly entertaining movie....

Movie Review: Immortals 0

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Movie Review: Immortals

  When you read ‘From the Producers of (X)’, it’s almost always a trick to get you to the cinema and see the movie. They want to make you think it is from the same creators, a.k.a. directors/writers, but it’s not. It’s the same producers. The only thing producers produce, is the money needed to make the film. They put the people together whom will make the film. When Immortals started advertising about being by the same producers of ‘300’, I started suspecting this movie sucked. The director, Tarsem Singh...

‘A Dangerous Method’, reviewed. 3

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‘A Dangerous Method’, reviewed.

I stumbled upon this movie by accident. It has a 7.0 rating on IMDb and features Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Aragorn. Because it’s a costume drama, I didn’t really feel the urge to watch it. I decided to watch it with the gf, girls generally like that sort of stuff. The story itself is about Carl Jung (Fassbender), a student of Freud’s then-new psycho-analytic-theory, not about Freud as the synopsis on IMDb suggested. Ah well, Fassbender get´s a new patient, Keira Knightley. Keira is, in this movie, sometimes brilliant,...

The Rum Diary, and why today might not have been the best day to watch it 0

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The Rum Diary, and why today might not have been the best day to watch it

Before there was the Pirates trilogy, there was this film called “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”. It didn’t do exceptionally well in the box office, but it did acquire a certain cult status. It was the first book by writer Hunter S. Thompson which was turned into a movie, featuring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro on a mad drunk/high rollercoaster-ride centered around Las Vegas. Now, Johnny Depp is back; not as Raoul Duke, the protagonist from “Fear and Loathing” and a pseudonym of Thompson, but as the 100%...

‘Orcs Must Die!’ review 0

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‘Orcs Must Die!’ review

Not every game needs a big budget behind it, like Battlefield 3 and Modern Warfare 3. Lately, a lot of games achieve succes without the backing of a big company. Games like Minecraft, which has sold over 20 million downloads, are the beginning of a new age for indie developers. A lot of these games are being offered a platform on Steam, a downloadable platform for games which resembles the likes of Apple’s iTunes. One of these games is Orcs Must Die!, a tower defense-like game which features high-paced, third...