Fun little maritime action-comedy, a typical example of a 60's comedy, though without any of the weird extravagances. It mostly works, though non of the characters are very special and neither are most of the jokes, though some do work. The basic story is that a bumbling officer gets his clothes and identity stolen by a prostitute who now pretends she is him, he ends up being shanghiad, she ends up...
This documentary of the BBC, actually has a lot of good highlights, it doesn't just talk about historical figures, but goes into musical theory, trying to explain how cadences work for example, it comparison between classical and modern music is not always appreciated but important for the audience itself. Up until the late 19th century its a decent documentary.
But of course, if this documentary...
A old timey comedic film, which I strangely enough did not enjoy because of the main female character, though not the actress mind you. Even though its well written, the jokes are mostly enjoyable and I have very little to complain about it, overall, it just gives off a very creepy vibe. Let me explain, its supposed to be a romance film of a ditzy woman falling in love with a nerdy paleontologist,...
I was in the mood for an Audrey Hepburn film after I saw a short documentary about her, after going through her film cataloque I stumbled on this delightful little film, a musical and a romantic-comedy, its a great little piece, though primarily for the actors themselves and the Paris scenery, with the film depicting a idealised and romantic view of life, with the occasional dark underbelly. Hepburn...
The Ukrainian government, a puppet regime controlled by the United States since 2014, has been making steady progress towards the unthinkable: the complete banning of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC)....
Decided to watch an old Dutch film, picked a play list on YouTube and watched this one, Help, de Dokter Verzuipt! (Help, the Docter is Drowning!), is one I hadnt watched yet and I havent missed very much. Its a slightly fun, but overall flat romantic-comedy about a docter and the many weird and quirky character in a small Catholic town in Brabant. The film tries to tell a story about the lives of...
I watched this series with my older brother years ago and I had a big laugh when I caught him at home watching the pilot tv-film "The Gathering", which I had never seen before, the film was terrible, but I noticed that in the pilot two of the series characters where replaced by a black guy and an asian. So basically the creator of this show had a multicultural caste and decided, neh its too much, lets...
Writing this review I am planning to compare it somewhat to another film reviewed on here, Harrison Bergeron, though there are several decades between both films, both deal with similar themes, by two contemporary scifi writers. First the main theme of the film, Fahrenheit 451 is basically an dystopian drama about a vapid, sterile society where a gang of "firemen" go around burning literature, not...
I watched this film at my nephews house party, last sunday, being mostly surrounded by teenagers, chips, some beer (but not too much) and two bossy aunts, it wasnt the highlight of my weekend, I was expecting something much worse, but overal its an fairly enjoyable action-romance film, about an npc in a video-game who becomes self-aware. What was surprising about the film is, though it has this light...
For most of my adult life, I lived as a child in an adult body. I never grew out of the desire to play in a selfish way, to pack every day with something “fun” that took my mind away from the reality...
I know a guy on Telegram who keeps sending me Christian video's because he hopes to convert me to his branch of baptist creationism, usually those video's are Dutch but occasionally he sends me one in English, decided to review this one. Where to start, lets start at the positive point from this video, the maker of this short film does give a good idea that the kinds of modern, seculiar worldview...
When I started watching this series I had my hopes up for a good old-fashioned crime show and the first few episodes where good, basically its an over the top cat-and-mouse game between a division of the Chicago police department run by Lt. Mike Torello and street punk and later crimeboss Ray Lucas. Its the very example of hard-hitting, boozing, violent 60's period piece, with an over-the-top criminal...
This review is totally not relevant to anyone who doesnt speak Dutch, the humor, puns and social jokes wouldnt translate as subtitles, nope I am reviewing this cabaret show, because I want too. Toon Hermans is most likely one of our best comedians, part of an older generation, so its both smarter, less offensive and in case of Hermans, rarely political. The Dutch unlike the Germans have a sense of...
A very mixed bag documentary, supposedly it brings together several scientists from very different fields, though these fields are primarily the cutting edge of human consciousness, miscroscopic life and deep space research, yes a lot of excitement about space and half the scientists are female, which is just silly feminist promotion, equally, not every scientist is equally articulate. So when you...
I too had never seen this film before. but now that I watched it, I certainly would put it somewhere in the top 10 of dystopian scifi, the kind that shows what would happen if we take an idea to an extreme. In this case it egalitarianism and a society wide engineering project to make everyone "average". We basically get a horror view of society, where everyone is forced to wear special headbands that...
One game that gets praised a lot, but is just to dated to be really good is the original Doom, back in the days it was an innovative first person shooter, it had the right balance of game play, controls, action and atmosphere and defined the shooter genre for the next 5 years afterwards, its still a solid game and unlike Wolfenstein for example it still holds up. But, even though taking a trip through...
Another game from my youth, I haven played this one in a while, but the last time I played it it still held up. Simcity 3000 is the best on the many early citybuilding games, the game style and atmosphere are well balanced and very relaxing, you basically build a city from scratch if you want to, build roads, zome out residential, commercial and industrial, supply them with water and power and watch...
Alpha Centauri is a slightly dated (mostly graphical) and occasionally messy turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Civilization, you land on an alien planet as one of several groups of survivors, you build basis, make sure you balance your energy, nutrients and minerals, you construct buildings, terraform a map with hight differences, design your own army units, steal technology with probeteams,...
A common lament from chaste Orthodox men I meet is their lack of experience in dealing with women who are more socialized than them. How can these men understand women, identify one with strong faith,...
In my quest to find White tv-series for the family, we rewatched the first two seasons of Growing Pains, I still remember this show from my childhood and it mostly holds up, the sitcom depicts the lives of an upper middle class White family, I guess the shrink dad and journalist mother would suggest a very liberal household, but affluent people generally are affluent because they maintain certain values. Overal...
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