Monthly Archives: July 2015

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Six stories through time are all connected in small ways. Little decisions, often made out of love, impact the future in surprising ways. I guess that is the summary of the message of this movie: acts of today have … Continue reading →

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Oliver Sacks – The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

Neurologist Oliver Sacks presents 24 extraordinary stories about his patients. He tells their stories, how they deal with afflictions from Tourette to autism and beyond. Most of us hold on to the idea that our body and our spirit are … Continue reading →

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Burn After Reading (2008)

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 A nice ensemble of characters struggle with daily life and make silly decisions, leading to funny scenes. The CIA tries to make sense of it. The Coen Brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowsky, No Country For Old Men) are on … Continue reading →

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Shutter Island (2010)

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 Agent Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), a US Marshall, investigates the disappearance of a murderess from a mental hospital. I love how this movie starts. A ship appears out of the mist at sea. It blows its deep horn, and the … Continue reading →

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Project T (Tomorrowland) (2015)

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) receives a mysterious pin that allows her to travel to another dimension where a glorious future utopia is real. In her efforts to reach this wonderland, she comes across former inhabitants and helps to remove … Continue reading →

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Chappie (2015)

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

6.5/10 Robot policemen keep the peace in the South Africa of the future. Their developer creates a new version with real artificial consciousness, but the new robot gets kidnapped by gangsters who try to raise it has a fellow gang … Continue reading →

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Ex Machina (2015)

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 Employee Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) is invited to cooperate with the CEO of a Google-like organization, Nathan (Oscar Isaac). Caleb is flown to Nathan’s private abode where the CEO introduces him to his newest project, an artificial intelligence. It is … Continue reading →

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Insurgent (2015)

Posted on July 14, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

5/10 The movie starts out with a speech in which the history is narrated and all the terms are laid out. Erudite, Dauntless, Amity, Candor, Abnegation, Divergents… If you spell something with a Capital, it becomes a Thing. And a … Continue reading →

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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 After an unfortunate death within the Kingsman spy network, Harry Hart (Colin Firth) chooses the son of the deceased spy as an apprentice and replacement. The unlikely apprentice Eggsy distinguishes himself, only to get involved in stopping an evil … Continue reading →

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Mark Lawrence – Prince of Thorns (2011)

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 The first few chapters of Prince of Thorns quite surprised me. What a cruel and weird book, I thought. The main characters are cruel people doing cruel deeds and laughing about it. It reminded me of A Clockwork Orange. … Continue reading →

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