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Alien version of Scarlett Johannsson looking for men who will not live to tell about their close encounter
Wittenberg
09-11-2014
A pleasant mystery
The mystery of not quite getting what is going on really adds to suspense and intrigue and this stylish scifi. Low profile in an effective way, but the many long scenes can be a bit much at times.RockmeNow
04-08-2014
Bit weird and unsettling, but nevertheless interesting and sensual
A must see for those interested in original alien movies, Scarlett Johansson, or both. Partially filmed with standard digital cameras, providing a successfull hidden camera experience. Visual effects from the eighties and creepy sounds throughout the movie provide the cherry on top.Dogtooth
A tale of adult children that may not leave their house and loving parents until they loose their dogtooth
Wittenberg
22-12-2023
nasty and cold, but quite interesting indeed
A cold and surreal affair, the kind that pulls of showing rather expliciet sex scenes without being arousing in the slightest, with peculiar acting and dialogues that alienate even further. I found it quite intriguing.Proxima
Female astronaut must balance her work with taking care being there for her little girl
Wittenberg
28-07-2020
Touching and intimate parenthood story with a cool context
I was lured into this by Eva Green, space and the awesome trailer music (which shadows Ryuichi Sakamoto's slightly lazy soundtrack). But what is is mostly is a struggle of career, dreams and parenthood, and a pretty good one at that. But I still want a 'real' Eva Green space movie.Serenity
In a divided universe, the crew of a rogue spacehip takes along a fugitive psychic girl who brings them great trouble but also truth
Wittenberg
16-12-2014
A little scifi gem
It's a bit campy and occasionally borderline B-movie-ish. But it never crosses that line, instead delivering many memorable and well done scifi moments, some great designs and humor that works.Superbad
Two constantly arguing but inseparable friends on a mission to get booze and laid on the last party of the year
Wittenberg
05-08-2018
The Tarantino of highschool movies
The constant and lengthy foul-mouthed dialogues and contemplations create an atmosphere reminiscent of Tarantino movies. It's kind of like an adult version of highschool movies. Cool.Ralph breaks the Internet
Guess where they're heading this time?
Wittenberg
05-09-2021
As good as you could hope for
A fine sequel. I liked how the visualized the internet. It doesn't, however, manage to overcome the sequel curse and bring back the magical atmosphere, or the refined and diverse story line from the first part.Guardians of the Galaxy
Bound by circumstance, a group of creatures sets out to prevent danger in the universe.
RockmeNow
15-01-2016
Over the top science fiction action movie (in a good way)
A bit too much of everything, but somehow just right because of that!Wittenberg
22-08-2015
Take some time to let it sink in, and start enjoying
Not familiar with this comic, I feared I'd never get into this unexplained stream of weirdness. But the humor, vivid space combat action and sympathetic characters grew on me and left me quite entertained indeed.The Lone survivor
A mission in Afghanistan by American navy seals goes awfully wrong
Wittenberg
27-02-2014
Okay these guys are tough
As these men are battered & bruised, smashed against rocks, cornered and shot, the increasing dread of death and hopelessness comes across very well. Intense movie that stuck for a while.RockmeNow
05-02-2014
Shoot 'em up between navy seals and taliban
Main part of the movie consists of Americans and Taliban chasing, shooting, injuring and killing eachother. Apparently a navy seal can sustain more injury than Iron Man ("is there a bullet in my head?"). Overall an okay movie for those of us not easily scared by bloody scenes.Ant-man and the Wasp
They want to get mum back from the quantum realm, but a new ghost enemy, mafia and the FBI are complicating things
Wittenberg
16-12-2018
Succesful formula
It successfully prolongs the mixture of snappy action, heaps of humor and self reflection whilst still being exciting the same time. "Do you guys put 'quantum' in front of everything?" Haha.Unbroken
The strory of an athletic runner who crashlands during WWII and becomes POW in Japan.
Wittenberg
05-08-2015
Sligthly unemotional
An impressive story that is filmed tidily and with class, yet is a somewhat numb and flat experience, making it miss out on the impact it should have had.After Earth
After crashlanding on a hostile planet, a boy must embark on a dangerous journey to save himself and his father.
Wittenberg
19-10-2013
Decent scifi survival adventure
I thought it was an original and good looking adventure that kept me interested all the way.Tusk
Vlogger stays at a man's mansion to do an episode on him. But the man has plans to turn his guest into something else.
Wittenberg
19-05-2023
Sad horror, but without real impact
It's definitely out of the ordinary. Partly body horror, but I also found something very sad about it. The overall feeling however, is that of a student joke - especially after the end scroll. Somehow all the misery sort of passes you by.Ghost in the Shell: Arise - Border 2: Ghost Whispers
I think this is before the section 9 team assembled - and the major combats a hack of the entire traffic system
Wittenberg
25-01-2024
Like always, a really mixed experience
I have a strange relationship with Ghost in the Shell. Most of it I don't follow, and I might fall asleep numerous times during the tech and political babble. But it is also so irresistibly cool and tasty, often with splendid music, that I keep coming back to it. Like this episode.Drone
Familyman secretly serves as a contractor flying execution missions with drones, but he's not as save as he thinks
Wittenberg
14-04-2019
Yes, it is leading somewhere
For while I thought this movie was compensating a lack of substance with long scenes, slow montage and drifting off from the source material. But slowly the realization of what's going on is creeping in, climaxing in the agonizing dinner scene. Not what I thought it would be, but quite decent.The Expendables 2
A simple recovery job quickly turns into something big for the Hollywood A-team of self proclaimed dinosaurs
Wittenberg
18-01-2014
Guilty pleasure
I liked it. Brutal, dumb, heavy duty action with some laughs thrown in.La Nuée
Woman can barely support her family with a grashopper farm, until she finds out they yield better when fed blood
Wittenberg
07-08-2021
A sober animal horror that fails to push through
In a way, this is the eighties animal swarm horror movies re-imagined in a much more realistic, restrained and adult way. It works for the most part, but the same simple and slow atmosphere also had me yearning for some more excitement.Taeter City
In a future where criminals are turned into burgers, people hunt for an individual who seems immune to the controlling radiowaves. Or something.
Wittenberg
24-04-2024
A bizarre gore anarchy
Initially I was wondering if there was going to be any point to this, but gradually the continuous very gory executions, set against this totalitarian society with continuous advertisement for human meat.... somehow began to work. Very rebellious and sickening. For some, that is a plus.Oldboy
A man is held captive for 15 years for unknown reasons, and is out for revenge when he finally gets out.
Wittenberg
12-03-2023
curious revenge tale
A curious revenge tale that benefits from some surrealistic and disorienting elements. Highly original and quite brutal at times. But I must admit that none of it really stuck - i am having a hard time remembering it.Caligula
Caligula kills the emperor to take his place, and descents into a life orgies, paranoia, delusions of grandeur and his demise
Wittenberg
07-08-2022
Something embarrasing you keep looking at
The change of static scenery's and unapologetic overacting makes it feel theatric. The many explicit sex scenes mostly come across as clumsy and awkward, as does the jumpy, idiotic and embarrassing behavior of Caligula. Yes, embarrassing was my main sensation, but I have to admit I was intrigued tooStar Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
In a mission to save a planet from a hostile takover, two jedi stumble across a boy with great promise.
Wittenberg
26-09-2013
Majestic saga lost in space
It had everything you could possibly wish for: spaceships, droids, lightsabers, jedi's, aliens and saga. It has a phenomenal pod race. But because of multiple factors, it is a somewhat dull experience.Shadow in the Cloud
A young women with a top secret cargo rides a long an all-male bomber mission - that is being attack by strange things...
Wittenberg
04-07-2021
The individual parts are not all that, but as a whole it works
It's quite easy to point out several flaws in it, especially the first half with the endless intercom chatter. But the atmosphere is unique, and pointing out the unrealistic scenes somehow seems irrelevant, as these seem like metaphors for the struggle for womanhood in a male world.UFO
Talented math student gets obsessed with a brief UFO sighting. Not only to find out about their intentions, but also the coverup surrounding it.
Wittenberg
09-02-2019
Intriguing little UFO tale
I was sort of waiting for a movie like this. Make the UFO secondary, and focus on what it does to people. This one sort of does that, and I was quite amused by it and liked the central role of mathematics. It can feel a bit low budget at times, but overall: yeh, a smart and nice surprise.Triple 9
Corrupt agents doing one more gig get caught up in a swamp of distrust
Wittenberg
27-12-2016
Gloomy and effective but not very involving
It's good to see some dark, well-acted, sweaty, and straight up bad cop action again, with effective action/violence because it doesn't want to over dramatize or orchestrate anything. It would have helped though, if we knew a little bit more about these guys so we can sympathize a little better.Ragnarok
A simple family moves into a small Norwegain town, not knowing they will wind up in an ancient mythological battle
Wittenberg
15-07-2023
A lovely idea loosing focus
The idea of dropping antihero's into an ancient mythological epos is great, and works well in the Norwegian small town atmosphere. But it's like they didn't really know what to do with it, so they resorted to a tedious environmental issue and teenage drama as the most prominent plot points.The Campaign
Cocky congressman suddenly faces competition from an unlikely candidate in the elections
Wittenberg
30-03-2014
Nice, but could have used a smarter story
Funny and witty spoof of contemporary politics, that's probably not far from the truth either. Slightly let down by a simplistic and predictable story.Insidious
Family moves into a home, soonafter which paranormal things happen and the boy falls into a chronic sleep (but it's not a coma!)
Wittenberg
12-06-2016
Half great, half ok
Starts of terrifying indeed. But then the inevitable ghost expert team moves in and sort of break the tension with misguided humor, along with the cliched medium and a tacky explanation for it all, and it sort of drifts into a slightly messy Poltergeist clone.Love and Monsters
A monster apocalypse forces people to live underground. One not so brave dude decides to travel over te surface to reunite with the love
Wittenberg
21-05-2021
Layed-back but amusing monster film
I found it to be a bit slow-ish and perhaps lacking some real suspense, but overall there is a nice, friendly atmosphere, a good sense of adventure and some well done monster brawls. Suitable for a younger audience without being childish.Titane
Woman goes on a killing spree and then hides by becoming someone's son. I kid you not. Also, something with cars.
Wittenberg
06-04-2023
Strange, unpleasant yet secretly fascinating
One of the strangest movies I have seen. I found it an unpleasant experience in ways I had not felt before. Everything is just so confusing, nasty, sweaty and ugly. But at the same time I was fascinated enough to look up the director and will keep track of her future works.Snowpiercer
Survivors of a frozen world found shelter on a selfsupporting train, driving endlessly circles. But a war of classes rages.
Wittenberg
03-08-2014
Interesting
At first I was put off by the cliched revolt of lowerclass people in dirty clothes and low lighting conditions. But as they fight their way to the higher class front of the train, color comes in literally and figuratively, bringing to live this interesting metaphor of real live society.The Wickerman
A detective travels to an island inhabited by a cult, to find his daughter
Wittenberg
13-12-2023
Creepy cult not really creepy
Sure enough, these secluded cults with weird rituals provide some creepiness and anxiety, but I felt that Cage seemed disjointed from it all (running around in a suite for some reason), and the cult almost leaned toward being goofy rather truly scary.The Last Days on Mars
Mars mission is about to wrap up, when they find something in the rocks....
Wittenberg
23-11-2013
So close to being great
This would have been a bomb if it had a more original, imaginative story. Now it's just a good, quite scary and beautiful looking movie.Suicide Club
Detectives try to figure out a pandamic of mass suicides
Wittenberg
12-06-2023
Good until the actual club shows up
The first half is quite shocking and uneasy, as we're all left in the dark as to what is causing these tragedies. Then the real 'club' shows up, which are terribly annoying characters who do annoying things and form a dissonant wedge from which the film does not recover.Earth to Echo
Distortions on telephones lead a group of friends to an extraordinary discovery, keeping them busy all night
Wittenberg
14-12-2014
The kids deliver
Not sure it needed those shaky camera shots, on top of an already restless story that is literally allover the place. Mostly though, this is a highly sympathetic, nicely done scifi adventure which radiates the same positive energy as E.T. and Super 8.Haute Tension
A woman and her girlfriend go to her parent's isolated house to study, but a brutal serial killer invades their home
Wittenberg
04-09-2023
A more 'classy' slasher.. if that means anything
After a pretty gory and nasty beginning, it switches to a cat-and-mouse game later on, and has a twist on offer as well. It's more intelligent and refined that your average popcorn slasher, but the characters left me somewhat underwhelmed.Exodus Gods and Kings
The story of Moses, who sets out to free his people from egyptian oppression, with a little help from divine intervention
Wittenberg
19-04-2015
Good yet linear and flat
Well made, acted and tightly shot, it is let by a very slow middle section, a failure to evoke deeper emotions and a rather uninspired depiction of the plagues, as if they are checking them out on a list; Yeh ok so that's the frogs, what's next? How many more?V/H/S/85
Another batch off vaul horror story's presented and grainy and buggy VHS quality
Wittenberg
08-11-2023
restless but satisfying horror and mystery in a distinctive format
The stories are dark and nasty but all have some have a pleasing element of mystery in them, really making you curious. Later on, some smart connections between the stories unfold, which shows they put in some effort instead throwing in random gore. The nervous presentation is a lot, but it workedIsn't it Romantic
no-life woman bumbs her head and wakes up in a Romatic Comedy
Wittenberg
08-04-2019
I just wish it was nastier
It's a great idea that will yield a few laughs. But ironically, it's not really funnier than the movies it is making fun of, and even comes up with the very moral lesson I thought it was revolting against.Sightseers
A rather daft couple goes on a dopey UK trip, which gradually turns into a Bonnie and Clyde rampage through the countryside
Wittenberg
06-12-2015
Unique, uncomfortably funny
An oddball movie with a strange but ultimately successful combination of comedy, violence and utterly boring vacation trips.Dante's Inferno
Animation about Dante who ventures into hell to get back his wife
Wittenberg
14-10-2020
Nice hell
The movie delivers quite chilling and imaginative visions of hell, and the biblical and historical references give it intelligence and depth. However [SPOILER], the fact the Dante just hacks his way through any and all kinds of demons without ever getting into real trouble means it lacked tension.The LEGO Batman Movie
Batman must not only face the usual enemies (all at once), but also his inner self
Wittenberg
19-02-2017
Too fast and furious
A colorful blast of action and endless jokes. Maybe I am getting old, but I found everything too fast and insanely frantic, making it impossible to follow and keep up. The few moments of silence (mostly also intended as a joke) felt like I could breathe again.Crimson Peak
Woman marries a man who brings her to his spooky mansion, where she finds out what a ghost in her childhood tried to warn her for
Wittenberg
10-04-2016
The good bits are mostly a side dish
With almost every scene a piece of art, this is quiet a looker. The ghost scenes were great too. But the story holding it together is mostly a costume drama of love, crime and passion, which I found quite slow and pale by comparison. I really liked Jessica Chastain's performance, thoughThe Guilty
Police officer must do 911 operator work as a disciplinary measure, when he takes a call that will keep him up all night
Wittenberg
04-10-2021
A decent but not perfect single-person, single-location flick
One of those risky movies shot on a single location with a single actor holding everything together. It works - it is a thrilling watch. It lacks, however the craftsmanship or plot to really make it bite your nails, and would have benefited from more realism and a more likable lead character.The Avengers
Team of superhero's must save earth from an evil god with evil plans
Wittenberg
26-09-2013
Too super
A good-looking fun ride which radiates positive energy. But gees, with so many superpowers combined, a truly exciting confrontation with evil is out of the equation. It's also too plain silly to be really exciting.De Slag om de Schelde
On how the allies regained control of the Dutch Schelde during world war 2, a crucial supply route to Antwerpen harbour
Wittenberg
01-07-2021
Decent for sure, but somehow didn't really land
I quite like how it is built around more personal and intimate stories of several people involved, and was impressed by the glider footage. However, it suffers a bit from the "we have just a few sets and locations" sensation of smallness, and somehow it didn't really pack a punch emotionally.Vanishing Waves
Science team tries to save a comatose patient by connecting her brain with that of a a healthy subject.
Wittenberg
10-09-2014
Kills it's darlings
Much to my regret, this movie kills most it's wonderful, imaginative and tasteful scenes, by endlessly dwelling in them. The unprofessional and unlikely science guy and his motivations are also a dissonant I wished they had left out. Too bad, as this had potential for becoming a mesmerizing gem.John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
Because he broke some rules, John is now declared outlaw and the entire underworld seems to be after him.
Wittenberg
16-08-2020
The core of the franchise
The story serves as a carrier to deliver oodles of John Wick-style fights and not much else. It can be a bit too much and absurd at times, but I must say there is also something mesmerizing and satisfying about these endless, beautifully choreographed, flowing violent dances of death.The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Our lego friends venture into strange new worlds so there can be peace between two lego realms
Wittenberg
07-08-2019
More of the same
I could see all the things I loved about the original, yet I felt a bit indifferent about it without knowing exactly why. I guess it really is more of the same, which - even if that means more of a good thing - means the initial excitement is not here. But hey: it's still a dazzling lego movie!They/Them
A conversion camp for gays and other QHBT+ variations holds dark secrets and methods
Wittenberg
12-02-2023
Mostly fine
I wasn't sure I wanted to watch an entire movie featuring exaggerated Q+HTBI characters, but Kevin Bacon is putting on quite a show, and the slowly developing sinister undertone makes it interesting. As it draws to and end, it felt ideas ran out and it winded up as a mediocre slasher.Blue Jasmine
Woman becomes emotionally unstable after her wealthy, cheating and fraudulent husband goes to prison, but tries to get on with her life anyway
RockmeNow
17-03-2014
Typical Woody Allen movie?
I heard rumours that some Woody Allen movies are actually not that bad. This certainly is a movie aimed at character building and slow story telling, but nevertheless kept me interested till the last scene. Eventually, I even felt sorry for the main character, played by Cate Blanchett.Pacific Rim
To combat giant monsters from the sea, mankind built equally giant robots. Really GIANT.
Wittenberg
04-08-2013
Also a ferocious battle between great CGI and a great movie
Even a spectacle of this caliber, with such magnificent visuals, still would need a better story and characters to leave a lasting impression and score higher. But the dumb 'n fun factor sort of works here.Movies found: 1042 | max movies per page: 50 | Showing: 341 - 390
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