If a Dario Argento giallo paired with a Roger Moore 007 flick, got seasoned by Jaws and The Third Man, it appears that you then get this crazy unapologetically 80's Dutch murder mystery / cop actioner helmed by the man who brought us a film about a killer elevator some years earlier. Accompanied by a great synth score and shot in gloriously atmospheric cinematography, this Eurohit also includes superb stunts and even a few succesful attempts at humour. A fine…
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Gladiator II 2024
Monty Python and the Gladiators
Featuring:- kids playing football
- English quotes on ancient Roman walls
- sharks in the Colosseum (though in desperate need of freaking laserbeams)
- Romans referring to Poseidon (Greek) instead of Neptunus (Roman)
- etc.Curious that this Monty Python takes itself so serious though...
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Alexander 2004
Every movie enthusiast is familiar with the feeling of admiring a movie that everybody else seems to despise. Most of us have quite a few of those. I certainly have my fair share, but the movie that immediately pops into my mind in such discussions is Oliver Stone’s "Alexander".
Most critics panned the theatrical version, the box office was a letdown and it even got 6 Razzie Award nominations. This movie was on almost every level a complete failure. Flawed…
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Tintin in Tibet 1992
It's easy to dismiss stories that were written more than half a century ago as insensitive or inappropriate. But is it wrong to also put any work of art or entertainment in perspective by also considering the Zeitgeist in which it was written?
While doing so, there's an evident difference between early Hergé and his later works. Starting off as more or less a propaganda writer in his first few Tintin comics, Hergé shifts to a much more committed storyteller…
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