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Monthly Archives: December 2015
2015 in movies, Top List & Grand Overview
Wait up!!!!: since I live in the Netherlands, I haven’t been able to see many of the top acclaimed movies of this year, because most of those have been released in December in the US, meaning that films such as … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Movies
Tagged 2015, Avengers, Birdman, cinema, film, hollywood, Jurassic World, Mad Max: Fury Road, movies, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, top list
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Holiday Horror: Krampus (2015) & Trick ‘r Treat (2007)
These two horror movies are both directed by the upcoming Michael Dougherty, a writer/director who is making a name for himself for successful, holiday-themed horror films. Krampus (2015) 6/10 Krampus, a surprise holiday hit of 2015. The premise of the … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged Christmas Vacation, comedy, film, hollywood, horror, Krampus, Michael Dougherty, movies, Trick 'r Treat
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2015: books read overview
Frustratingly, I haven’t read any books published in 2015. I have in my possession two books of 2015 (The Vorrh by B. Catling and The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers) but I won’t get to … Continue reading
The End of the Tour (2015)
7/10 The End of the Tour is about an interview between journalist David Lipsky and writer David Foster Wallace that took place during the course of 5 days, after the release of his book Infinite Jest. The interview was so … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged cinema, David Foster Wallace, drama, film, hollywood, Infinite Jest, Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg, movie review, movies, The End of the Tour
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Out of Nature (2014)
8/10 A Norwegian film. We follow the 30-something Martin while he is running through the forest, alone. We hear all his private thoughts. Will he come back to his standard family and office job? The Norwegian film Mot Naturen is … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged arthouse, cinema, comedy, drama, film, Mot Naturen, movie review, movies, Norway, Ole Giæver, Out of Nature
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Crimson Peak (2015)
7.5/10 Director Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy 1&2) tries his hand at gothic romance. Young Edith is charmed by the European aristocrat Mr. Sharpe and eventually moves into his palace, where spooky things occur. Knowing that such stories are … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged cinema, Crimson Peak, Fantasy, film, Gothic, Guillermo del Toro, hollywood, horror, Jessica Chastain, Mia Wasikowska, movie review, movies, romance, Tom Hiddleston
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) Spoiler review & discussion
8.5/10 NON-SPOILER VERDICT (lets start with the conclusion) The world got a Star Wars film for Christmas! Thanks, Santa Abrams! Considering the enormous pressure and expectations to make this something good, Star Wars 7 delivers the goods. It isn’t a … Continue reading
Jack McDevitt – The Engines of God (1994)
7/10 The Engines of God is a novel about interstellar archeology. That’s right. Humanity has reached the stars and found the mysterious ruins of alien civilizations around them. It is actually to be expected. In the billions of years that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Science fiction
Tagged aliens, Arthur C. Clarke, book, book review, Books, Jack McDevitt, science, science fiction, SF, space, spaceships, The Engines of God
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Christmas movies from the 90s!!!
Underneath my hardened shell of faux-adult amiability and seriousness there is a little kid’s heart, and it is beating with joy at seeing all the Christmas lights in these movies. Jingle All the Way (1996) Wait… is that Anakin Skywalker? … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Movies
Tagged arnold schwarzenegger, Chevy Chase, Christmas, Christmas Vacation, cinema, comedy, Entertainment, film, hollywood, Home Alone, humor, Jake Lloyd, Jingle All the Way, John Williams, Macauley Culkin, movie review, movies, Rob Schneider, The Santa Clause, Tim Allen, Tim Curry
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The Tree of Life (2011)
8/10 Pretentious or profound? Crap or classic? First, eh, a little note about vague movies in general. It is rather strange that in a blog like this, we have to describe film using words. Describing one medium in the form … Continue reading
Posted in movie review, Movies
Tagged art, Brad Pitt, cinema, Evolution, family, film, hollywood, Jessica Chastain, movie review, movies, religion, Roger Ebert, Sean Penn, spirituality, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
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