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Soft & Quiet (2022)
Ignore The Bad Reviews, Read The Good Ones
Well...wow. Just wow. Incredibly intense study of everyday racism and ignorance, viewed through the microcosm of a women's book club-style group. The Stepford Wives seem positively benign by comparison. It's pretty hard to sit through, but then that's the point. So is racism. Performances, editing and a subtle use of music all contribute to a deeply disquieting atmosphere of menace, which gradually heightens to a blistering final third. Of course, everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but in this case i would advise ignoring the negative (user) reviews, and just concentrate on the positive ones. Essential viewing.
Amsterdamned (1988)
Utrechtdamned!!!
What is there left to say about 'Amsterdamned'? The greatest Dutch action movie of all time? Check. The most inventive idea for a serial killer in any movie, Dutch or otherwise? Tick that box! Kills to die for? (Yeah, i know...) Some of the best you'll see.
I'm a bit of a fan of this flick, by the way(!), having moved to The Netherlands the year it was shot, and coincidentally moving to Utrecht, the city where some of the film was shot, at the time of the shoot. I thought deadly speed-boat chases were maybe the norm here in Utrecht...no such luck, of course. But it all introduced me to Dick Maas' films. And Amsterdamned surely remains the bloody cherry on the cake of his stuff.
Not appreciated over here as much he should be by the critics, this one-man film-maker (Director/Producer/Writer/composer), has made some of the most creative, funny, bloody and even, dare i say it, subversive genre films for nearly four decades, a kind of Hollands John Carpenter, except that John Carpenter doesn't make movies anymore.
Maas murder may not be to everyone's taste, but for fans of the genre, here's ketchup with relish!
She-Wolf of London (1946)
The First Giallo?!
Minor league compared to other, better and infinitely better-known Universal monster flicks of the Golden Era, She-Wolf Of London is a bit of a cheat. No she-wolves in sight I'm afraid, Of The S.S.or any other variety. (Maybe Rob Zombie could have a go at this...) A few familiar genre faces pop up from time to time to help the plot along; Dennis Hoey seems to be playing his copper as 3rd cousin to Lestrade of the Holmes/Watson movies. With a female killer, cloaked and ambiguous, using a garden rake as a means of gory (unseen) destruction, She-Wolf Of London could just be the screen's first Giallo.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
Wisdom
"We are the most intelligent species that has ever lived. But that intelligence is not enough. What we need, is wisdom." From the mouth of one of the wisest men there is.
De kuthoer (2019)
Cyber-bullying revenge romp
Fancy a bit of mindless cyber-bullying/trolling? I wouldn't point that finger too fast, you might just pick the wrong 'victim'. Such as Femke Boot, columnist and would-be novelist with a bout of writer's block
and an attack of (cyber) trolls vicious enough to make anyone head for the nearest Wi-Fi-free coldspot before you can say firefox adblocker. Femke, ( perfectly played by Katja Herbers), is not anyone, however, and the ensuing blackly comic madness, while never totally over the top, is always slightly skewed from reality, Stepford Wives-ish, so that the film could -almost- be called whimsical. Plenty of fun.