Monthly Archives: April 2017

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) Review

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 Guardians of the Galaxy found the right tone the first time around and they’re sticking to it. And that is a very good decision, my lovelies, because cartoonish comedy is the only real way to sell a crazy space … Continue reading →

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The Master (2012) Review

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

8.5/10 The Master follows a lost, deranged man named Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix). Psychologically damaged in the second world war, Quell returns to the US but finds it impossible to hold on to jobs. He has violent impulses and memory … Continue reading →

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Notes on Blindness (2016) Review

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

8/10 The film begins with nothing but a tape recorder to look at and a series of disembodied voices. It struck me that being blind you must also be surrounded by seemingly disembodied voices. The scholar John Hull lost his … Continue reading →

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Tim Birkhead – Bird Sense; What It’s Like to Be a Bird (2012) Review

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

When I studied biology in the 2000s as an undergraduate at Leiden University, the first course I ever had was about Behavioral Biology. In it, our professor urged us to think about animals as black boxes, with input of the … Continue reading →

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Ghost in the Shell (2017) Review

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7/10 There is a lot of material to choose from if you want to bring Ghost in the Shell to the big screen again. There’s the manga, two anime movies and a TV series, and I may have forgotten one … Continue reading →

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Mark Lawrence – Prince of Fools (2014) Review

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

Genre: epic fantasy Series: The Red Queen’s War, 1 Pages: 355 My Rating: 7.5/10 Mark Lawrence is the current master of the first-person narrative in epic fantasy. His first series, The Broken Empire trilogy, made great use of this perspective … Continue reading →

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Split (2016) Review

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

7.5/10 Wow. I did not expect this from a director whom I have been mocking since, well, the ending of The Village in 2004. This is a quality film. Very tense, very unpredictable. A very brave approach towards storytelling. Split … Continue reading →

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Ghost in the Shell (1995) Review

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

9/10 It’s almost ridiculous how good this movie is. Ghost in the Shell (1995) should have had the impact on popular culture that The Matrix (1999) and Blade Runner (1982) had, because the movie can easily hold its own amongst … Continue reading →

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Cixin Liu – Death’s End (2016) Review

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

Genre: Science fiction Series: Remembrance of Earth’s Past, part 3 Pages: 604 My rating: 9/10 Like the Harry Potter series, Cixin Liu’s Three Body trilogy starts out with a small book, then bloats towards the end into an epic story … Continue reading →

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The ratio between movie reviews and book reviews.

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Jeroen Admiraal

I have been struggling with this since the conception of this blog. How do I make a blog about both movies and books without alienating people? Because I want to write about both. I love movies, and I love books, … Continue reading →

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