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My Blog in 2022 – Stats and everything

Posted on December 30, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Inspired by the recent post by Ola and Piotrek, here are my stats for the year and a list of the most popular blog posts of the year. There are some surprises in there and some I can explain and … Continue reading →

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12 Mini-Review of Films and Series from 2022

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Lightyear (2022). Buzz Lightyear’s excellent adventure is unfortunately not all that inspiring. The film makes use of numerous tropes that are endlessly reused in these animated SF films. Much of it is aping Star Wars. Every action part and every … Continue reading →

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Reviews: Persepolis (2000) by Marjane Satrapi & Persepolis (2007) the film adaption

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Persepolis is often mentioned in the same breath as that other autobiographical graphic novel Maus by Art Spiegelman. Very understandable, as Persepolis chronicles the childhood of writer Marjane Satrapi as she grew up in Iran in the 1980s as the … Continue reading →

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11 Mini-Reviews of Films and TV shows From 2022

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022). It is pretty amazing how much emotion this film could wring out of me while also being a crazy crazy rollercoaster of sci-fi craziness. This film engages in a pretty abstract sci-fi concept about … Continue reading →

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11 Mini Reviews of Films and TV Shows from 2021 & 2022

Posted on March 16, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Eternals (2021). A very long film about barely interesting superheroes. Some of the ideas and visuals are interesting if you don’t think about the story too much, but in the end it is just a randomised assortment of actors punching … Continue reading →

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Two Films: Winnie the Pooh (2011) & Christopher Robin (2018)

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

Winnie the Pooh (2011) 6.5/10 Disney produced a whole slew of Pooh related films through the 2000s. There was a Tigger movie named The Tigger Movie (2000) and a Piglet movie named Piglet’s Big Movie (2003) and a Heffalump movie … Continue reading →

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021) and 11 Other Mini-Reviews of Recent Films and TV Shows

Posted on January 10, 2022 by Jeroen Admiraal

The Matrix: Resurrections (2021). This film is so “meta”, that the writers took their own brainstorm meetings at Warner Bros and said: “you know what, let’s just make a film about these meetings. Let’s make a film about people trying … Continue reading →

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No Time To Die (2021) and mini-reviews of 7 other recent films

Posted on November 15, 2021 by Jeroen Admiraal

No Time To Die (2021). Bond, James Bond. It’s full of amazing scenery, well-choreographed action scenes, great special effects, and James Bond does a lot of James Bondey things like racing in cars, making love to women, sailing boats, shooting … Continue reading →

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Dune (2021) and mini-reviews of 10 other recent films

Posted on October 5, 2021 by Jeroen Admiraal

Dune (2021). It is very good. But far from perfect, and not even Villeneuve’s best. As an adaptation it is very faithful to the source material, which is hugely satisfying as a fan of the book, and it’s a feast … Continue reading →

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Reviews of 13 recent films from 2021

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Jeroen Admiraal

Army of the Dead (2021). More zombies than you can shake a stick at, hombre. Zack Snyder is back in the game with a new zombie film and it is exactly what you would expect from a Snyder film: long, … Continue reading →

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