Monthly Archives: January 2016

The Revenant (2015), presenting nature as a symbol of the human mind.

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) gets grievously wounded while the hunting party needs his skills to plot the way home. He gets left behind to die, but Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) who is supposed to give him a burial, commits grave acts, … Continue reading →

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The Liebster Award!

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

OMG! OMG! Remco from Silver Screen Savant has nominated me for a Liebster Awawd! Thanks Remco, your blog entries are like the first rays of the new rising sun. If your gravatar were a pillow, I would put it on … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick – The Penultimate Truth (1964)

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 Science fiction. 191 p. (short, eh. Read it in a few days.) The Penultimate Truth is one of those older science fiction books that explored ideas when they were still new and fresh. But those same ideas have been … Continue reading →

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The Big Short (2015)

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 In the years before the economic crisis of 2008, we follow a couple of people who bet against the economy, against the banks. No one believes that they know what they are doing, but when the crisis hits, they … Continue reading →

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Enemy Mine (1985)

Posted on January 26, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

5.5/10 Dennis Quaid plays Willis Davidge, a fighter pilot who fights hostile aliens in outer space. He crashes on an alien planet, together with the alien that he was chasing through space. Together, they are forced to rely on each … Continue reading →

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B. Catling – The Vorrh (2012)

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10. Fantasy, surrealism. 512 p. How to explain this book? Brian Catling is a visual artist who excels in performance art and sculpture and has exhibitions in those scary and baffling modern art museums around the world. He’s also a … Continue reading →

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How The Intern (2015) manages to insult everyone.

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

In spring 2015, a comedy was released named The Intern, and it is quite inter-esting to take a closer look at this movie. It is a movie that marches proudly into the minefield that is gender issues, and steps on … Continue reading →

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Paprika (2006)

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 A fascinating psychological puzzle. When the blockbuster Inception (2010) arrived, it was said by some critics that the movie showed a curious resemblance to a lesser-known Japanese animated movie, named Paprika (2006). Nolan acknowledged that Paprika was an inspiration … Continue reading →

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Cormac McCarthy – The Road (2006)

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 Excuse me? Would you like to read some random scenes of sadness and despair? Well, I don’t mind if I do. You’ve got to be some sort of masochist to read a book like this. Or, more apt, you … Continue reading →

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Monsters (2010)

Posted on January 17, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

5/10 Photographer Andrew is asked by his superiors to escort his boss’s daughter Sam from Costa Rica back to the US. He doesn’t want to, but he’s pressed into it and moody. There is also a bigger problem: the northern … Continue reading →

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