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vrijdag 7 januari 2022

Netflix Friday - Volume 88

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 
Action: The Revenant (2015)
A frontiersman (Leonardo DiCaprio) on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
 
Drama: The Lost Daughter (2021)
A woman’s (Olivia Colman) beach vacation takes a dark turn when she begins to confront the troubles of her past.
 
Comedy: Superbad (2007)
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
 
Animation: The House (2022)
Across different eras, a poor family, an anxious developer and a fed-up landlady become tied to the same mysterious house in this animated dark comedy.
 
Romance: Notting Hill (1999)
The life of a simple bookshop owner (Hugh Grant) changes when he meets the most famous film star (Julia Roberts) in the world.
 
Horror: Don’t Breathe (2016)
Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man (Stephen Lang) who isn’t as helpless as he seems.
 
Science Fiction: Inception (2012)
A thief (Leonardo DiCaprio) who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
 
Crime: Inglorious Basterds (2009)
A Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincide with a theater owner’s vengeful plans for the same.
 
Thriller: Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
UK, August 15, 1939: 17 days before WWII, an English teacher and his camera disappear on a coastal boarding school with 20 German teen girls. Miller (Eddie Izzard) gets the job 6 days later, secretly trying to find out what happened.
 
Documentary: The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story (2019)
A documentary on how Adam Lambert took over from the legendary Freddie Mercury as the frontman for the rock group Queen.
 
 
Family: Enola Holmes (2020)
When Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown), Sherlock’s (Henry Cavill) teen sister, discovers her mother missing, she gets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy around a mysterious young Lord.

vrijdag 19 februari 2021

Netflix Friday - Volume 42

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 
Action:
12 Strong (2018)
“12 Strong” tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain (Chris Hemsworth), the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.
 
Drama: Friends with Money (2006)
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) finds herself unsure about her future and her relationship with her successful and wealthy friends.
 
Comedy: Easy A (2010)
A clean-cut high school student (Emma Stone) relies on the school’s rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
 
Animation: Sausage Party (2016)
A sausage (Seth Rogen)strives to discover the truth about his existence.
 
Romance: El faro de las Orcas (2016)
A mother with an autistic child travel from Spain to Argentina looking to help her son connect with his emotions.
 
Horror: Don’t Breathe (2016)
Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn’t as helpless as he seems.
 
Science Fiction: Lucy (2014)
A woman (Scarlett Johansson), accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
 
Crime: The Texas Killing Fields (2011)
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) teams up with a cop from New York City (Sam Worthington) to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
 
Thriller: The Da Vinci Code (2006)
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
 
Documentary
: Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
College student and tourist Elisa Lam vanishes, leaving behind all of her possessions in her hotel room. The Cecil Hotel grows in infamy.
 
Family: We Will Be Heroes (2020)
When alien invaders capture the Earth’s superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents and the planet.

zaterdag 2 september 2017

100 Movie Challenge 2017 - # 96: Don't Breathe

Director: Fede Alvarez
Genre: Thriller/ Crime/ Horror
Runtime: 88 minutes
Year: 2016
Starring: Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Emma Bercovici, Franciska Töröcsik, Christian Zagia, Katia Bokor, Sergej Onopko, Olivia Gillies, Dayna Clark

Description: Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man (Stephen Lang) who isn't as helpless as he seems.

Review: “Don’t Breathe” is director’s Fede Alvarez second movie. The “Evil Dead” remake was his first and he surprised everybody with actually creating a solid horror remake. In “Don’t Breathe” we don’t get a blood bath, chainsaws or possessed teens, but a breaking and entering and lots of suspense.
Teen girl Rocky hates her life with her terrible mother. She kills her days by breaking into houses and steal. Rocky is planning on stealing enough to flee to California with her little sister. Her friends might have that way out. Alex knows his way around alarm systems and the street smart Money know the right addresses. They get a tip for the house of an old blind man, who hides a fortune inside. It sounds like an easy job, but the man isn’t as helpless as the three assume.
The scene of the crime is introduced with one long shot. The camera goes through the dark hallways and rooms. The spaces are used to build up the tension and it works. This looks really impressive. Because the home owner is blind, his hearing is extra sharp. That’s where the true cat and mouse game unfolds. No cheap jump scares, inventive ways of using sound and light effects, a lot of tension.
“Don’t Breathe” doesn’t focus on the line between good and evil, it just touches that theme lightly: Burglars aren’t per definition bad, the home owner is always just the victim. And the film has a very unpleasant twist. “Don’t Breathe” is an excellent film, that kept me on the edge of my seat. It feels fresh and inspiring, it’s a good and solid horror thriller.

Rating: 4/ 5