Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hell-bent on shutting down Vice, and stopping the violence once and for all.

Genre : Action/SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Thomas Jane : Roy
Bruce Willis : Julian
Ambyr Childers : Kelly

Director : Brian A Miller

3/10 Action Adventure

Last Knights (2015)

vrijdag, mei 29, 2015

Summary
A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master in a sword-clashing adventure of loyalty, honor, and vengeance.

Genre : Action/Adventure
Country : Czech Republic/South Korea

Cast :
Clive Owen : Raiden
Morgan Freeman : Bartok
Aksel Hennie : Gezza Mott

Director : Kazuaki Kiriya

6/10 Biography Drama

Big Eyes (2014)

donderdag, mei 28, 2015

Summary
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children with big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings.

Genre : Drama/Biography
Country : USA

Cast :
Amy Adams : Margaret Keane
Christoph Waltz : Walter Keane
Krysten Ritter : DeeAnn

Director : Tim Burton

6/10 Drama Thriller

Uwantme2killhim? (2013)

woensdag, mei 27, 2015

Summary
A teenage boy's descent into the dangerous world of the Internet and the harrowing consequences of his actions. A true story.

Genre : Drama/Thriller
Country : UK

Cast :
Jamie Blackley : Mark
Toby Regbo : John
Joanne Froggatt : Inspector Sarah Clayton

Director : Andrew Douglas

7/10 SF Thriller

Ex Machina (2015)

zondag, mei 24, 2015

Summary
Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Genre : SF/Thriller
Country : UK

Cast :
Oscar Isaac : Nathan
Domhnall Gleeson : Caleb
Alicia Vikander : Ava

Director : Alex Garland

1/10 SF

Project Almanac (2014)

dinsdag, mei 19, 2015

Summary
As a group of friends discover plans for a time machine, they build it and use it to fix their problems and for personal gain. But as the future falls apart with disasters, and each of them disappear little by little, they must travel back to the past to make sure they never invent the machine or face the destruction of humanity.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Jonny Weston : David Raskin
Amy Landecker : Kathy Raskin
Sofia Black-D'Elia : Jessie Pierce

Director : Dean Israelite

4/10 Comedy Drama Fantasy

The Cobbler (2014)

zondag, mei 17, 2015

Summary
Max Simkin repairs shoes in the same New York shop that has been in his family for generations. Disenchanted with the grind of daily life, Max stumbles upon a magical heirloom that allows him to step into the lives of his customers and see the world in a new way. Sometimes walking in another man's shoes is the only way one can discover who they really are.

Genre : Comedy/Drama/Fantasy
Country : USA

Cast :
Adam Sandler : Max Simkin
Steve Buscemi : Jimmy
Dustin Hoffman : Abraham Simkin

Director : Thomas McCarthy

5/10 Crime Drama Mystery

A walk among the tombstones (2014)

donderdag, mei 14, 2015

Summary
Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.

Genre : Action/Crime/Mystery
Country : USA

Cast :
Liam Neeson : Matt Scudder
Adam David Thompson : Albert
David Harbour : Ray

Director : Scott Frank

6/10 Drama

Little Accidents (2014)

dinsdag, mei 12, 2015

Summary
In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Elizabeth Banks : Diane Doyle
Boyd Holbrook : Amos Jenkins
Jacob Lofland : Owen Briggs

Director : Sara Colangelo

3/10 Crime Drama Thriller

The Gambler (2014)

woensdag, mei 06, 2015

Summary
Jim Bennett is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett's future. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance...

Genre : Drama/Crime/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Mark Wahlberg : Jim Bennett
Jessica Lange : Roberta
John Goodman : Frank

Director : Rupert Wyatt

5/10 Action

Sword of Vengeance (2015)

dinsdag, mei 05, 2015

Summary
From the creator of 'Hammer of the Gods', starring Stanley Weber and Annabelle Wallis, the subjects of a ruthless tyrant's oppression discover an unlikely freedom fighter whose code of honor demands bloody retribution.

Genre : Action
Country : UK

Cast :
Stanley Weber : Shadow Walker
Annabelle Wallis : Anna
Dave Legeno : Osgar

Director : Jim Weedon

7/10 Horror

Starry Eyes (2014)

maandag, mei 04, 2015

Summary
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA/Belgium

Cast :
Alex Essoe : Sarah
Amanda Fuller : Tracy
Noah Segan : Danny

Director : Kevin Kolsch,Dennis Widmyer

7/10 Drama

Cake (2014)

donderdag, april 30, 2015

Summary
The acerbic, hilarious Claire becomes fascinated by the suicide of a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, she also grapples with her own, very raw personal tragedy

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Jennifer Aniston : Claire Bennett
Anna Kendrick : Nina Collins
Adriana Barraza : Silvana

Director : Daniel Barnz

2/10 Action

Tracers (2015)

woensdag, april 29, 2015

Summary
Wanted by the Chinese mafia, a young New York City bike messenger down on his luck who just wants to do good, escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger and her group of Parkour trainers that get him involved in a criminal delivery service for extra money.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :

Taylor Lautner : Cam
Marie Avgeropoulos : Nikki
Adam Rayner : Miller

Director : Daniel Benmayor

6/10 Drama Thriller

Coldwater (2013)

donderdag, april 23, 2015

Summary
A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, the counselors, and with the retired war colonel in charge.

Genre : Drama/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
P.J. Boudousque : Brad Lunders
James C. Burns : Colonel Frank Reichert
Chris Petrovski : Gabriel Nunez

Director : Vincent Grashaw