Netflix Friday - Volume 29

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

Action: Mission: Impossible – Fall Out (2018)
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
 

Drama: Little Women (2019)
Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.
 

Comedy: The Invention of Lying (2009)
A comedy set in a world where no one has ever lied, until a writer (Ricky Gervais) seizes the opportunity for personal gain.
 

Animation: Polar Express (2004)
On Christmas Eve, a young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express, while learning about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.
 

Romance: The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Two sisters (Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson) contend for the affection of King Henry VIII (Eric Bana)
 

Horror: Deliver Us From Evil (2014)
New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana) investigates a series of crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest, schooled in the rites of exorcism, to combat the possessions that are terrorizing their city.
 

Science Fiction: Land of the Lost (2009)
Paleontologist Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell) takes Will (Danny McBride) and Holly (Anna Friel) into a new world of danger, dinosaurs and big bug-eyed lizard people while trying to find their way back home and, too, save the universe and in doing so saving his reputation. With the dinosaur with brains, brawn and personality and the adventure of scientific advancement and exotic beasts in a far away land, it all adds up to time traveling fun and frolics.
 

Crime: American Gangster (2007)
An outcast New York City cop (Russell Crowe) is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington).
 

Thriller: The Iceman (2012)
The story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughters had any clue about his real profession.
 

Documentary: Holland: Natuur in de Delta (2015)
Multiple animals are followed during their life in the by humans created delta.
 

Family: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Netflix Friday - Volume 5

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

Action: Inception (2010)
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.

Drama: The Iceman (2012)
The story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor daughter had any clue about his real profession.

Comedy: The Disaster Artist (2017)
When Greg Sestero (Dave Franco), an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true.

Animation: Ponyo (2008)
A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become human after falling in love with him.

Romance: Juliet, Naked (2018)
Annie (Rose Byrne) is the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) who is obsessed with now faded singer-songwriter Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). She finds herself in an unlikely transatlantic romance with Tucker.

Horror: The Mist (2007)
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.

Science Fiction: I Am Legend (2007)
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City (Will Smith) struggles valiantly to find a cure.

Crime: The Highwaymen (2019)
The untold true story of the legendary detectives (Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson) who brought down Bonnie and Clyde.

Thriller: El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
“El Camino: A Breakin Bad Movie” follows fugitive Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) as he runs from his captors, the law and his past.

Documentary: 13th (2016)
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United Stated and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.

Family: Paddington (2014)
A young Peruvian bear (Ben Wishaw) travels to London in search of a home. Finding imself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

100 Movie Challenge 2015 - # 65: The Iceman

Director: Ariel Vromen

Genre: Drama/ Thriller/ Crime

Runtime: 103 minutes

Year: 2013

Starring: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Chris Evans, Ray Liotta, David Schwimmer, Stephen Dorff, James Franco, Robert Davi, Danny A. Abeckaser, John Ventimiglia, Ryan O’Nan, McKaly Miller, Megan Sherrill, Hecktor Hank, Zoran Radanovich, Shira Vilensky, Kelly Lind, John P. Fertitta, Erin Cummings

Description: The true story of Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), the notorious contract killer and family man. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife (Winona Ryder) nor daughters have any clue about his real profession.

Review: Hundreds of people lost their lives to relentless hitman Richard Kuklinksi aka The Iceman. In the adaptation of this story director Ariel Vromen choose Michael Shannon to portray Kuklinski. And with also Ray Liotta, Chris Evans, Winona Ryder and a small role from James Franco, this looks like a promising film. It’s the acting that makes this movie interesting, not the plot.

Working for various criminal originations Kuklinski kills almost 250 people (according to himself). This is combined with the confrontations about honor, trust and loyalty within the criminal world. Besides this dark life he is living, Kuklinski has a loving wife and two daughters, who know nothing about his job. This gets the audience in the situation where we see him as a cold blooded killer and as a loving husband and father.

Michael Shannon is a perfect choice for this role. His appearance makes it very believable and he is genuinely scary is a hitman. Like I said before, the acting in this movie is very strong. It’s better than the movie itself. Which doesn’t mean that it’s bad, because it’s a very enjoyable film. But not a movie that you will remember for a long time.

Rating: 3/ 5

Movie Trailer Sunday (50)

This weeks trailers are about a reporter hunting down a former robber, a cold blooded killer who wants to live a normal life, an American soldier helping his friend to find the girl of his dreams, a singing group and a ten year reunion.

The Company You Keep
Description: When Jason Sinai (Robert Redford), one of the last Vietnam-era fugitives still wanted on murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974, encounters a young newspaper reporter (Shia LaBeouf) in search of a story, he must abandon years of safe underground life for the dangerous life of the road, traveling across American and deep into his past.
Director: RObert Redford
Starring: Shia LaBeaouf, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, Stephen Root, Sam Elliott, Brendan Gleeson, Terence Howar, Anna Kendrick, Richard Jenkins
Trailer: Trailer "The Company You Keep"

The Iceman
Description: We follow Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) from his early days in the mob until his arrest in 1986. Appearing to be living the American dream with his beautiful wife, Deborah Pellicotti (Winona Ryder) and their children, in reality he is a killer-for-hire able to keep his "job" hidden from his family. When he is finally arrested by the feds in 1986, neither his wife and daughters nor their neighbors have any clue that he is a murderer. Why did he do it and how did he get away with it for so long?
Director: Ariel Vromen
Starring: Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta, Chris Evans , James Franco
Trailer: Trailer "The Iceman"
Comment: Michael Shannon is in almost everyhting.

Love and Honor
Description: A young soldier (Liam Hemsworth) helps his best friend re-capture the heart of his girlfriend on a clandestine trip home from the warfront in Vietnam during a time of protest and social revolution, and in the process finds true love for the first time.
Director: Danny Mooney
Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Teresa Palmer, Austin Stowell, Aimee Teegarden, Chris Powell, Wyatt Russell
Trailer: Trailer "Love and Honor"
Comment: I only posted this because of Liam Hemsworth and that one moment where he doesn't wear a shirt... Because it actually looks pretty cheesy to me.

Pitch Perfect
Description: Beca (Anna Kendrick) is that girl who'd rather listen to what's coming out of her headphones than what's coming out of you. Arriving at her new college, she finds herself not right for any clique but somehow is muscled into one that she never would have picked on her own: alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls whose only thing in common is how good they sound when they sing together. When Beca takes this acoustic singing group out of their world of traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into all-new mash-ups, they fight to climb their way to the top of the cutthroat world of college a cappella. This could wind up either the coolest thing they'll ever do or the most insane, and it will probably be a little of both.
Director: Jason Moore
Starring: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, Rebel Wilson, Alexis Knapp, Adam DeVine, Freddie Stroma
Trailer: Trailer "Pitch Perfect"
Comment: Tried to avoid posting this movie, but I have to admit that I really like this trailer. And Anna Kendrick.

10 Years
Description: We follow a group of friends on the night of their high school reunion who, a decade later, still haven't quite grown up. Jake (Channing Tatum), who is deeply in love with his girlfriend (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) and ready to propose, until he runs into his high school flame (Rosario Dawson) for the first time in ten years. Jake's friend Cully (Chris Pratt) married his cheerleader girlfriend (Ari Graynor), and has been looking forward to the reunion so he can finally apologize to all the classmates he bullied in high school. However, after a few too many drinks, the jock-turned-family man ends up reverting back to his old ways instead. Meanwhile, longtime rivals Marty (Justin Long) and A.J (Max Minghella) spend the night still trying to one-up each other to impress the coolest girl in class (Lynn Collins), who now has a secret. The famous one of the group, Reeves (Oscar Isaac) is now well-known musician, but is still too shy to talk to the high school crush (Kate Mara) who inspired his one hit wonder.
Director: Jamie Linden
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Chris Pratt, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Oscar Isaac, Kate Mara, Ron Livingston, Lynn Collins, Ari Graynor, Anthony Mackie, Max Minghella, Aubrey Plaza, Scott Porter, Brian Geraghty, Aaron Yoo, Eiko Nijo, Nick Zano
Trailer: Trailer "10 Years"
Comment: Pff... why not.