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Summer of My German Soldier (1978)
masterpiece on bias
It must have been 43 years ago since I watched The Summer Of My German Soldier, but I never forgot how Kristy McNichol touched me deeply. I cried all the way till the end. I remember Kristy helped a soldier into hiding but was not allowed to because he was officially an enemy of the Jews, but in real life just a nice boy. In the end Kristy is abandoned by her community because of collaboration with what her people regard tevil. Kristy is deeply lonely and although she is just een teen girl, she is already massively dissapointed in mankind.
El Hijo (2019)
Echoing Rosemary's Baby
A great thriller, The Son, which taps in on deep mythical fears about a child conceived by the devil and protected by its worshippers. This movie can compete with the likes of Rosemary's Baby and The Omen. Mark my words!
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Artistic dark comedy
A great independant dark comedy/horror movie. If you want to enjoy it you must be able to appreciate the art of pathos and absurdity. The Wolf of Snow Hollow refers to the smalltown social complexity stories of David Lynch and Stephen King. Visually delightful with breathtaking drone scenes of a little snowy town in between mountains. The lead actor is very handsome, a verbal genius and blessed with lots of dramatic talents.
Away (2020)
Gorgeous and heartfelt space drama
Dont believe all the negative comments please. This is a gorgeous and heartfelt series about the emotions which come along when human space flight will go to Mars. Wat do we expect, that once a space ship has launched heading to Mars we deattache ourselves from the crew because of the high risk they wont survive? No! Crew members have partners, family and friends. They will stay in touch with the crew, all the way along.
As as regards to comments who say there isn't enough science in Away, well, in the first 5 episodes maybe there isn't, but is the latter parts when video calls to Earth are impossible, the science gets it's righteous place.
I'm looking very much forward to season 2!
The Vast of Night (2019)
Old school scifi lunatic stories
This is a beautiful low budget scifi thriller that honors the 1950's alien invasion paranoia. The story also refers to Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama The War of the Worlds which caused a mass panic psychosis as well as Steven Spielberg's alien abduction drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The two young actors, Jake Horowitz and Sienna McCormick, are brilliant as the soon to be radio DJs who feel trapped in their little home town and dream big city adventures. Their coming of age dialogues go fast as lightning, in a half melancholic half funny atmosphere, meanwhile tossing around an old tape recorder and listening to the lunatic stories of their radio listeners.
The Rental (2020)
Evil eye is watching your mistakes
A beautiful house in the middle of nowhere is the place where 2 couples derail in an ever deepening drama with paranoid horror elements based on nowadays camera culture. I enjoyed this one thouroughly.
7500 (2019)
Emotional rollercoaster in the cockpit
Brilliant movie about a plane hijack. I defenitely recommend it. The story is well crafted, everything is told in real time. 19 years after 9/11 we come close to what it actually meant emotionally for the pilots and crew in those planes which ended so tragically.
The Hunt (2020)
Pointless drivel.
How this drivel is supposed to be a political satire is beyond me, unless politics is drivel, which could very well be true. The action is nice but the dialogues are desperately wannabe's. It starts with the 12? Sorry, guess I cant count. Rich against the poor? Who cares?
The Lodge (2019)
Broken family nightmare
The lodge, a very scary drama and slow burning thriller that will shake the foundation of what you believe family should mean for one another. No CGI, just a good story, great acting and fantastic sounds recordings will keep you at the edge of your seat.
The Cry (2018)
The burden of guild
This is a great drama thriller series about a couple who look picture perfect on the outside but the truth is far from that. The story deals with many modern issues like post partum depression, the struggle for equality between the sexes and combined parenthood. Like it is mentioned here before, this series seems like a blue print to what happened to Maddie McCann, the little Brirish girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007. As much as we all want to clear sad mysteries, it is up to the people who stay silent, to come forward, but considered the consequences, some things you better take with you to the grave.
Synonymes (2019)
Autism isnt always interesting
I really wanted to like this but after 30 minutes my cat stepped on the remote, I lost track and I just couldnt force myself to start watching again. I realized I dont care about the main character with his word fetish. The actors constantly stare too long in each others eyes. In the beginning this suggests something is going to happen, but no, and then I noticed these are directors tricks based on nothing.
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life (2018)
A torn apart handsome boy
Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life is a documentary about a handsome and sexy young man who tries to establish an identity on his good looks and sex skills. The reason why his identity is shallow and manufactured becomes transparent during family scenes of great intimacy. Together with Jonathan you discover his youth, consisting of a long process of alienation and confusion. Is Jonathan able to accept where he comes from and who he actually is?
Voyeur (2017)
2 captains on 1 ship
Voyeur is a documentary about a old journalist who becomes totally lost in the mind of a very twisted guy who is almost nearly at the end of his life. The twisted guy has spent a life time doing unlawfully things, which he wants to get off gis chest. The older journalist desires one more bestseller. Both dont realize they are on collision course. The best thing about Voyeur are the character, the 2 old foxes, themselves. They are very entertaining ego's who seem to need another 50 years of living before they are able to close their books.
We Believe in Dinosaurs (2019)
Were you there?
Ive always seen the US as a leading force of science in the world. Turns out an anti science museum, spreading the biblical message of creationism, is massively susidised by public funding.
This documentary shows how rural America, the godfearing working class, attacks science succesfully deep in the heart. The children who grow up here probably never will make it in science. They stay backwards and obviously never will become America's future leaders. Its
unbearable to see how they are set up against science and evolution. I wasnt there when evolution happened but we can still determine how old certain fossils are by radioactive decay.
If things can only be true because mankind faced it, then heaven, god's home, is untrue because no man ever came back from there and so the rest of religion is believe and not fact
American Factory (2019)
Chinese robots versus American oldtimers.
This documentary shows, through details, why the Chinese out do Western society as far as manufacturing and work ethics are concerned. Chinese employers live to work, while American employers work to live.
The Chinese get satisfaction from producing high quality at superspeed. Their private lives are almost non existing just like individuality. They are slim, smart, goodspirited and fast. The Chinese are happy with a 65 hour working week. They just need a room full of boxes and junk, 1 chair, 1 cold colored light and a smartphone.
The American worker is tired, burned out, overweight and negative. He misses out on social life and leisure because he expects only that part of life is fun and a necessesarily individual expressuin, yet he has no time for it. He owns a big house, a car, a horse and so on but with lower salaries and economic changes his belongings are mostly an expensive burden.
Tell Me Who I Am (2019)
Dark...
Speechless. It is very hard to accept that there are mothers in this world who...I cant finish this sentence...
The Prodigy (2019)
Terrific horror suspence movie
If you like a classic horror experience, watch The Prodigy. I've seen many many horror flicks, but this one is just perfect in all ways. The acting, the script, the musis, i loved it. The tension slowly builds up, with some shock moments jumping me out of my chair, which hasnt happenend for years!
So sad to see it gets bad reviews here. Taylor Schilling deserves better, she delivers a great performance, as well does the little boy. I dont know what modern public likes anymore. All i know people are blunted and thats why The Prodigy falls flat in their frozen minds, because it missed cgi bombing they need. Well, this movie is pure psychology, its what I like, a good story, well crafted told.
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Rediculous sequel
Doctor Sleep is everything that the original The Shining isnt: its cheap, a plot mess, badly acted! supertrashy cgi, boring, way too long, repetitive, uninteresting.
Please stay away from this modern drivel if you liked the 1980s masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick.
Ramy (2019)
Totally adorable as the hipster/ muslim boy
I am a 57 year old Dutch man who accidentally found this series as I was scrolling down the list of Golden Globe winners. I thought the premise stood out, and gave it a try. Well, I am so pleasantly surprised by Ramy! First of all Ramy himself is totally adorable as the hipster/ muslim boy. He is charming, handsome, funny and smart. Ramy wants to be a good muslim but finds himself often in situations where it is impossible to choose to be a decent muslim or a happy cityboy. This makes for bittersweet episodes that pile up prejudice upon prejudice. Ramy gives all his family member and friends their own stories, many times so confrontational it becomes painful to watch, but luckily the many funny twists make it still digestible. Ramy undeniable has deserved his Golden Globe. The stories Ramy tells are spot on. They capture American society from a muslim perspective and that is not often seen on tv. I should also mention the photography, it is gorgious and artful, and at its best in the surreal scenes.
Stockholm (2018)
Revolting annoying
Ethan Hawke is unwatchable as psychopath Kaj Hansson robbing a bank in Stockholm. I dont know who the real Hansson was, but obviously this movie fails utterly in its attempts to recapture his character. That idea should never have made it till the script. Hawke is revolting annoying, I had to quit the movie after 20 minutes, despite the charming Noomi Rapace. She deserves better.
Ad Astra (2019)
Brad Pitt's masterpiece, he nailed it!
Ad Astra is a very melancholic and existential sf movie in the tradition of Contact and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Whatever mankind wants to find in space, it is often the opposite. A losing game about time and space, leaving nothing left behind but loneliness, captured in brilliant photography and supported by a delicate and doomy soundtrack. Brad Pitt's in the role of his life as the astronaut with an iron grip on his emotions and Tommy Lee Jones as his narcistic and demonic father. Must see if you can appreciate a slow burner in space!
Serenity (2019)
Implosion after implosion
Matthew M's arms and ass become more sexy is each movie, yet his face gets deliberately uglier and uglier, and his characters more and more artificial and uninteresting.
The movie starts with a tuna fish scene that seems exiting, yet implodes totally. Then I started writing this review, watching with half an eye, so see things go deeper down the drain
Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers (2018)
Fraud and scam
I dont believe in Aliens and their spacecrafts, yet I wanted to see this documentary. I must confess, the art visuals, who work like associations, are gorgeous. However they can't hide the fact that Bob's story is not supported by one single image or artefact from the spacecrafts he disassembled. Every time when the interview becomes detailed he knows how to escape, with answers like "I was not allowed." Bobs drawings of the alien spaceships are unbelievable childlike, with no details whatsoever.
Alta mar (2019)
Not interesting
I started High Seas with high hopes. I love a good old fashioned murder mystery. Sadly, the plot goes nowhere after a few episodes, wuth way too many subplots, which is the case with so many Netflix things. The Spanish love soap operas, as well as terrible overacting. Dont know if I will finish this one.
Gran Hotel (2011)
Kitchen Maid Story
I'm at episode 9 and still the murder case, which started in episode 1, isn't solved. So it has to happen in the next episode, or I'm gone.
Gran Hotel is a perfectly styled series situated in Spain early 20th century. The plot however is very cliché and soapie, with way too much intrigue and no substance at all.
The oppression of sexuality is the main theme.
We, the Dutch, label Gran Hotel as a typical "kitchen maid novel".