Netflix Friday - Volume 2

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.

Action: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins’ guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.

Drama: The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)
Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski (Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh), must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland.

Comedy: The Nice Guys (2016)
In 1970 Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes (Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling) investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star.

Animation: Early Man (2018)
Set in the dawn of time, then prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, we meet Dug (Eddie Redmayne) and his sidekick Hognob, as they unite his tribe against a might enemy Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age City to save their home.

Romance: Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
After a stint in a mental instituation, former teacher Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Horror: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s (Keanu Reeves) fiancée Mina Murray (Winona Ryder) and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

Science Fiction: Mad Max (1979)
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman (Mel Gibson) sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Crime: Sicario (2015)
An idealist FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by a government task force to aid the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the US and Mexico

Thriller: A Cure for Wellness (2016)
An ambitious young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious ‘wellness center’ at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s treatments are not what they seem.

Documentary: Behind the Curve (2018)
Meet Flat Earthers, a small but rowing contingent of people who firmly believe in a conspiracy to suppress the truth that the Earth is flat.

Family: The Land Before Time (1988)
An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in a valley.

Video of the Week (25)

Another great LEGO video. This guys really has some extra time. He decided to create famous movie scenes with lego. It amazes me how great it looks and how detailed. I would love to do this myself, I am patienced, but not this patienced! And he has more of these!

 

 

50 Books Challenge 2013 - # 3: Dracula by Bram Stoker

Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Story: Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to help him hammer out all the legal details. Harker is at first impressed by Dracula's suave politeness, but is soon creeped out by the Count's uncanny ability to communicate with wolves and by the lack of servants in the Count's huge castle. Soon after, Harker realizes that he's a prisoner in the castle.
Start: january 22nd 2013
End: january 30th 2013
Comment: I have waited to read this book much too long. But I think it was better not to start reading this horror novel after I just moved in to my new appartement. It's a scary book indeed. The book is written like a journal, Jonathan Harker's journal to be exact. He describes everything he sees and experiences with count Dracula. I liked the fact that it didn't start slow and we got to the point pretty quickly. We met the count in the beginning of the book and, like Harker, you're first charmed by him. Soon it gets creepier and eventually even terrifying. I learned to read vampire books, because I wasn't very fond of them at first. But a book like "Dracula" is how this genre should be. And how I loved Bram Stoker's writing style. Such beautiful use of words and sentences. Perfect for this novel. He's also very descriptive, I always like that. Especially in a book like this. That makes it even more scary. I highly enjoyed "Dracula", but I had to put it away once in a while. It really got on my nerves. This is a very good horror novel.
Rating: 5/ 5