Netflix Friday - Volume 53

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

Action: Suicide Squad (2016)
A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.
 

Drama: The Green Mile (1999)
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man (Michael Clarke Duncan) accused od child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift.
 

Comedy: Shazam! (2019)
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.
 

Animation: The Mitchell’s Vs. the Machines (2021)
A quirky, dysfunctional family’s road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity’s unlikeliest last hope.
 

Romance: Anna Karenina (2012)
In the late-19^th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley) enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson)
 

Horror: Bone Tomahawk (2015)
In the dying days of the old west, an elderly sheriff (Kurt Russell) and his posse set out to rescue their town’s doctor from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
 

Science Fiction: Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Fearing that the actions of Superman (Henry Cavill) are left unchecked, Batman (Ben Affleck) takes on the Man of Steel, while the world wrestles with what king of a hero it really needs.
 

Crime: Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
A police sergeant (Ethan Hawke) must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year’s Eve, just as corrupt policemen surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks.
 

Thriller: Wind River (2017)
A veteran hunter (Jeremy Renner) helps an FBI agent (Elisabeth Olsen) investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
 

Documentary: Seaspiracy (2021)
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species – and uncovers alarming global corruption.
 

Family: Detective Pikachu (2019)
In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu (Ryan Reynolds_ who seeks to be a detective.

 

Movie Review - Seaspiracy

Director: Ali Tabrizi
Genre: Documentary
Runtime: 89 minutes
Year: 2021
Starring: Ali Tabrizi, Richard O’Barry, Lucy Tabrizi, Peter Hammarstedt, Paul Watson
 
Description: Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species – and uncovers alarming global corruption.

Review: Dolphin hunting in Tajii, illegal fishing boats in Liberian waters and ‘bluewashing’ of products. The environment is being degraded by our global personal consumption, but that is the solution? The documentary “Seaspiracy” shines a light on the plight of the oceans. Its important message is clear and although I knew the basic facts, a lot really shocked me.
The ocean has been a source of inspiration for director Ali Tabrizi since he was a child, which is why his passion project focuses on the eight million tons of plastic that humans sump into the ocean each year. The documentary features haunting footage of whales washing up on the southeast coast of England, with hundreds of pounds of plastic in their stomachs, the degraded undersea habitat, animations of the well-known plastic soup in the North Pacific Ocean and the effect on various fish populations.
Is consumer plastic now the cause of ocean pollution Tabrizi finds that consumers are far from being the biggest contributors to environmental pollution plastic straws make u only 0,03 percent of the plastic in the ocean. The biggest source of pollution is commercial fishing. Over 46 percent of the waste in the ocean is made up of fishing nets. Fishing tackle and fishing gear can be found in stranded whales. But there is more: 40 percent of the catch from fishing vessels is ‘bycatch’, or fish that are not marketable and are thrown back into the sea. Dead. This has shrunk fish populations, slowly making the undersea climate inhospitable. And only 1 percent of the world’s oceans are set aside as reserves where fishing is prohibited, and this should be increased to 40 percent, according to the experts, so that nature (and fisheries) can recover.
Tabrizi points out that labels for sustainable fishing, for example for tuna and other seafood, do not add much. A label ‘guarantees’ that the catch of the fish has not harmed marine mammals such as dolphins or other marine animals. But given the number of fishing boats, it it’s impossible to prove how the fish was caught. In fact, the marine Stewardship Council spends most of its money on licenses for its sustainability label (the recognizable blue MSC mark). A huge conflict of interest to indicate that the products are sustainable.
Tabrizi engages in conversations with a variety of experts, such as dolphin activist Ric O’Barry, journalist George Monbiot, marin biologist Sylvia Earle and Captain of Sea Shepherd Paul Watson. Tabrizi also makes a more personal approach by focusing on himself and his journey and adapting his habits. By doing so he emphasizes individual consume responses to what is actually a global, systemic problem. The core message of “Seaspiracy” is that saving the ocean requires a global effort, in which a political response is vital. And everything is well-translated to the audience.
I already adapted my lifestyle a long time ago, by becoming a vegetarian. Which means I don’t eat any animals. What “Cowspiracy” did for meat, “Seaspiracy” does for seafood. And if you still want to eat fish or visit sea aquariums after watching this, then you really didn’t get the message.

Rating: 4,5 / 5

Netflix Friday - Volume 48

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

Action: Shooter (2007)
A marksman (Mark Wahlberg) living in exile is coaxed bac into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. After being double crossed for the attempt and on the run, he sets out for the real killer and the truth.
 

Drama: Unbroken (2014)
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and set to a prisoner-of-war camp.
 

Comedy: This is 40 (2012)
Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) are both to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their business are failing, they’re on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
 

Animation: From Up On Poppy Hill (2011)
A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school’s clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
 

Romance: The Hero (2017)
An ailing movie star (Sam Elliott) comes to terms with his past and mortality.
 

Horror: Ouija (2014)
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
 

Science Fiction: Aquaman (2018)
Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.
 

Crime: The Town (2010)
A longtime thief (Ben Affleck), planning his next job, tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager (Rebecca Hall) connected to an earlier heist, and a hell-bent F.B.I. Agent (Jon Hamm) looking to bring him and his crew down.
 

Thriller: Secret Window (2004)
A successful writer (Johnny Depp) in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe (John Turturro) who accuses him of plagiarism.
 

Documentary: Seaspiracy (2021)
Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species, and uncovers alarming global corruption.

Family: Instant Family (2018)
A couple (Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne) find themselves in over their heads when they foster three children.