Opinion as a Movie-freak

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