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A closer look at the Superbowl movie trailers (part 1) 0

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A closer look at the Superbowl movie trailers (part 1)

Every year, the Superbowl half-time gives us great entertainment. Everybody remembers Justin Timberlake ripping of part of Janet Jackson’s costume, only to reveal a nice boob. Not only is there live entertainment, the adds are magnificent as well. while car manufacturers battle for funniest commercial, movie studios like to impress the audience with their upcoming films. This results in numerous trailers for movies. This year, there were eight new trailers. These eight represent some of the best films that will find a cinematic release this year. I’ll show them, judge...

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...

5 great movies you probably never heard about. 3

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5 great movies you probably never heard about.

It’s tuesday evening. You’re either planning to go to bed, or don’t know what to do yet. Eitherway, there’s always time to watch a movie, right? Don’t know what to watch? I’ve compiled a list for you to choose from – being an addict to movies  watching about ten movies per week – which I think are must see, or at least very watchable. I’m 99% sure you haven’t seen them all. Blood in, Blood out. (1993) IMDb rating: 7.7 featuring: Billy Bob Thornton (small role), rest of the cast is...

Pledges, season 2. 0

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Pledges, season 2.

Last year, a Dutch public broadcasting network called BNN came with a new series called ‘Feuten’, or pledges. It was ‘based’ upon the dealings of Dutch fraternities. It featured ridiculously bad acting, plot-holes a country the size of Monaco could sink in, and the ‘facts’ it used where bullshit, those weren’t facts at all. Previously, the writers of ‘Feuten’, called each fraternity in Holland if they could try and capture the atmosphere of the ‘pledging’, called ‘ontgroening’ or ‘kmt’. Ofcourse, every fraternity declined. We liked to watch the first season...

‘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%...