Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
Vincent Downs is a cop in Las Vegas, who's partnered with a crooked cop. His partner asks him to steal some drugs, which they do. But what they don't know is that the drugs belong to a crime family, the Novaks who goes after anyone who crosses them.

Genre : Crime
Country : USA

Cast :
Jamie Foxx : Vincent

Scoot McNairy : Novak
Dermot Mulroney : Rubino

Director :
Baran bo Odar

6/10 Drama

Aftermath (2017)

maandag, mei 08, 2017

Summary
Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Inspired by actual events, "Afthermath" tells a story of guilt and revenge after an air traffic controller's error causes the death of a construction foreman's wife and daughter.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Arnold Schwarzenegger : Roman

Scoot McNairy : Jake
Maggie Grace : Christina

Director :
Elliott Lester

6/10 SF

The Discovery (2017)

donderdag, mei 04, 2017

Summary
Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Robert Redford : Thomas

Jason Segel : Will
Rooney Mara : Isla

Director :
Charlie McDowell

5/10 Horror

XX (2017)

dinsdag, mei 02, 2017

Summary
XX is a new horror anthology with a gender twist - all segments will be helmed by female directors and will star female leads. The directors have been given free creative rein within budget and time constraints, but all of the segments themselves will involve the horror genre.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA/Canada

Cast :
Natalie Brown : Susan ("The Box")

Melanie Lynskey : Mary ("The Birthday party")
Breeda Wool : Gretchen ("Don't fall")
Christina Kirk : Cora ("Her only living Son")

Director :

Jovanka Vuckovic : "The Box"
Annie Clark : "The Birthday Party"
Roxanne Benjamin : "Don't Fall"
Karyn Kusama : "Her only living Son"

Documentary Guest Blog

I am not your negro (2016)

dinsdag, april 25, 2017

Summary
Samuel L Jackson voices the writings of novelist, essayist and social critic James Baldwin as he examines the complex subject of the black experience in the USA during the Civil Rights Movement.

Genre : Documentary
Country : USA

Cast :
Samuel L. Jackson : Voice

Director : Raoul Peck

Crime Guest Blog

Frank & Lola (2016)

dinsdag, april 25, 2017

Summary
Frank, a Las Vegas chef who does not easily fall in love, meets Lola, a young fashion designer. He falls hard for her and when she cheats on him, becomes embroiled in her murky past until he no longer knows who to trust and what to believe.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Imogen Poots : Lola

Michael Shannon : Frank
Justin Long : Keith

Director : Mathhew Ross

4/10 Thriller

If there's a hell below (2016)

woensdag, april 19, 2017

Summary
Abe is an ambitious young journalist at an independent Chicago weekly. He has a lead on a story that could make his career. Debra, a woman claiming to work in national security, has a serious revelation to leak. She insists on meeting Abe in a desolate place in the American West - perhaps because it is near her undisclosed work site, or perhaps because she will only reveal her information in absolute isolation.

Genre : Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Carol Roscoe : Debra

Connor Marx : Abe

Director : Nathan Williams

6.5/10 SF

Passengers (2016)

zaterdag, april 15, 2017

Summary
The spaceship, Starship Avalon, in its 120-year voyage to a distant colony planet known as the "Homestead Colony" and transporting 5,258 people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result one hibernation pod opens prematurely and the one person that awakes, Jim Preston is stranded on the spaceship, still 90 years from his destination.

Genre : SF
Country : USA

Cast :
Chris Pratt : Jim Preston

Jennifer Lawrence : Aurora Lane
Michael Sheen : Arthur

Director : Morten Tyldum

5/10 Crime

Live by night (2016)

donderdag, april 13, 2017

Summary
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Genre : Crime/Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Ben Affleck : Joe Coughlin

Chris Messina : Dion Bartolo
Zoe Saldana : Graciela

Director : Ben Affleck

4/10 Horror

Havenhurst (2016)

dinsdag, april 11, 2017

Summary
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
Julie Benz : Jackie

Fionnula Flanagan : Eleanor
Belle Shouse : Sarah

Director : Andrew C. Erin

7/10 Drama

Collateral Beauty (2016)

maandag, april 10, 2017

Summary
When a successful New York advertising executive suffers a great tragedy, he retreats from life. While his concerned friends try desperately to reconnect with him, he seeks answers from the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death. But it's not until his notes bring unexpected personal responses that he begins to understand how these constants interlock in a life fully lived, and how even the deepest loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Will Smith : Howard

Naomie Harris : Madeline
Helen Mirren : Brigitte

Director : David Frankel

6/10 Action

My father Die (2016)

woensdag, april 05, 2017

Summary
Deaf and mute since having his hearing knocked out at the age of 12, Asher has been training for almost two decades to avenge himself on Ivan, the man that killed his older brother, 21 years ago. And now that his nemesis is out of prison, he gets his chance. But Asher's target also happens to be his father.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Joe Anderson : Asher

Gary Stretch : Ivan
Gandace Smith : Nana

Director : Sean Brosnan

7/10 Drama Indie Review

Hold me (2016)

woensdag, april 05, 2017

Summary
Hold Me is the story of Hannah, a woman whose job it is to hold and console people who are being voluntarily euthanized.

Genre : Drama
Country : Canada/USA

Cast :
Hannah Fierman : Hannah

Laura Kenny : Hannah's mother
Robert Krakovski : Vincent

Director : Tease Snyder

5/10 SF

Bokeh (2017)

zondag, april 02, 2017

Summary
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.

Genre : SF/Drama
Country : Iceland

Cast :
Maika Monroe : Jenai

Matt O’Leary : Riley

Director : Geoffrey Orthwein,Andrew Sullivan

7/10 Horror

The Devil's Candy (2015)

dinsdag, maart 28, 2017

Summary
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted-house tale.

Genre : Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
Ethan Embry : Jesse Hellman

Kiara Glasco : Zooey Hellman
Pruitt Taylor Vince : Ray Smilie

Director : Sean Byrne

3/10 Thriller

Off Piste (2016)

maandag, maart 27, 2017

Summary
An ex-military recluse, living in the mountains of France to escape a traumatic past, is hunted down by those whose lives he has destroyed.

Genre : Thriller/Drama
Country : France/Ireland

Cast :
Henry Douthwaite : Stanley Winters

Lara Lemon : Niamh O'Brian
Yvonne O'Grady : Mary Winters

Director : Glen Kirby

5/10 Drama

Shovel Buddies (2016)

zaterdag, maart 18, 2017

Summary
Jimmy's best friend Sammy has died of leukemia, leaving behind one final wish: ensure his body is buried in his favorite football jersey. Jimmy and his friends, including his ex-friend Dan, his little brother Lump, and his crush Kate join the adventure of a lifetime as they spend one unforgettable night fulfilling their friend's final request.

Genre : Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Bella Thorne : Kate

Alex Neustaedter : Jimmy
Kian Lawley : Dan

Director : Simon Atkinson, Adam Townley

5/10 Drama

Alone in Berlin (2016)

maandag, maart 13, 2017

Summary
Berlin, 1940. Working class couple Otto and Anna Quangel receive the news that their only son has lost his life in the battlefield and decide to resist the Nazi regime in their very own way. Soon the Gestapo is hunting "the threat".

Genre : Drama
Country : UK/France/Germany

Cast :
Emma Thompson : Anna Quangel

Brendan Gleeson : Otto Quangel
Daniel Brühl : Escherich

Director : Vincent Perez