Almer S. Tigelaar
A Little Bit of Everything
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300: Rise of an Empire
With a single arrow the Greek Themistocles kills the Persian king Darius. This leaves Xerxes, Darius's son, deeply troubled and determined to take revenge. Rise of an Empire is the follow up to the original 300...
RoboCop
Nearly everyone is familiar with the original 1987 RoboCop. Exploring the boundary between man and machine, that film became a critically acclaimed sci-fi classic. Hopefully many have forgotten the disappointing successor RoboCop 2 and the even...
Ender’s Game
It is 2086. Fifty years ago the earth was attacked by the Formics, an ant-like alien species. They wiped out a significant part of the Earth's population before being stopped kamikaze-style by the legendary human pilot...
Thor: The Dark World
2011’s Thor was a welcome addition to the superhero movie genre. Some characters from that first movie, Thor and Loki, also appeared in The Avengers: a decent superhero ensemble flick in its own right. Now there...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Jordan Belfort was released in 2006 after spending nearly two years in prison. Being incarcerated for stock swindling, he was left with plenty of time to write his memoirs. His autobiographical writings are the basis for...
Gravity
Every once in a while you come across a movie that is special enough that you tell everyone to go and see it. Gravity is such a movie.
Elysium
This summer was filled with major science fiction blockbusters. However, disappointments like Oblivion and Pacific Rim left me with little hope that any good original science fiction would hit the theaters this year. Luckily I was...
The Lone Ranger
I was (involuntarily) exposed to the first trailer of The Lone Ranger multiple times – prior to other movie showings – and was not particularly impressed. The prospect of Johnny Depp as a kind of Jack...
Pacific Rim
In Pacific Rim the world has to deal with giant monsters crawling out of the sea. These ugly creatures, referred to as Kaiju, enter the bottom of the Earth's oceans using portals connected to some other...
Star Trek into Darkness
2009 saw a revamped action-oriented reboot of the Star Trek franchise helmed by J.J. Abrahams (of Lost fame). This year it is time for a sequel. Indeed, all the main characters of the 2009 film return,...
The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway, a writer turned bond salesman, moves to New York. He rents a small house near a bay and starts regularly visiting his niece Daisy. She lives together with her (cheating) husband on the opposite...
World War Z
Fans of zombies rejoice: Word War Z is here, based on the book with the same name. These aren't the rather slowish zombies seen in The Walking Dead, instead they orally tackle - there's no clearer...