Monthly Archives: July 2016

All Star Trek Films. A Quick Guide (part 2)

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

Click here for Part 1! With the release of the third Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, of the new rebooted version of Star Trek, I thought it would be nice to look back at the earlier films. Maybe the … Continue reading →

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R. Scott Bakker – The White Luck Warrior (2011) Review

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 – part 2 of the Aspect-Emperor series “It’s the slog of slog, boys! Skinnies, ey!” The White Luck Warrior starts at a point in Bakker’s ongoing epic where all the stakes are raised high, and the events of the … Continue reading →

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All Star Trek Films. A Quick Guide (part 1)

Posted on July 25, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

With the release of the third Star Trek film, Star Trek Beyond, of the new rebooted version of Star Trek, I thought it would be nice to look back at the earlier films. Maybe the new films will inspire more … Continue reading →

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The Red Turtle (2016) Review

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 A pacific fairy tale of a man who is stranded on an uninhabited island. He builds rafts to escape, but every time, a red turtle destroys his handiwork. In time, he learns that the turtle is more than a … Continue reading →

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High-Rise (2015) Review

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 This could have been amazing. High-Rise is a perfectly made film, except that it is incoherent. Ultimately, it is tiring. Dr. Robert Laing just moved into an apartment of a new high-rise, and this high-rise is just about a … Continue reading →

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David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) Review & interpretation

Posted on July 20, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9.5/10 – review and interpretation One of my 10 favorite books of all time. In an alien version of Dante’s purgatory, the man Maskull traverses an alien planet in a spiritual journey of enlightenment and personal growth. This is one … Continue reading →

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The BFG (2016) Review

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Spielberg’s version of Roald Dahl’s The BFG gives us a wonderful giant and some nice imagery of dreams in glass bottles. Beautiful, but also slow and simple. The tension and danger that is often present in Dahl’s books is … Continue reading →

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Eraserhead (1977) review

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 I thought this was an Arnold Schwarzenegger film. Boy was I wrong. It’s about a man who has just become the father of a sperm-like mutant baby. From the first minutes it is clear that this is a very … Continue reading →

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Cixin Liu – The Three-Body Problem (2008)

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 The world is under a mysterious threat. Scientists disappear or go crazy, and there are strange messages in the cosmic background radiation. Saying anything more will spoil your experience, because The Three-Body Problem is a book like a magician’s … Continue reading →

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Onwards to Westeros. Drawing inspired by Game of Thrones!

Posted on July 7, 2016 by Jeroen Admiraal

Onwards to Westeros. Drawing inspired by Game of Thrones! It has been a while since I drew anything. Maybe two years have passed. I’m quite happy with it.

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