I'd like to dedicate this entry to my great-grandfather, who died of dysentery during forced labour on the Birma Railway. He and his family moved from the Netherlands to Netherlands-India, now Indonesia to become teachers before the 2nd World War. When the war broke out, my grandmother, her sisters and their mother where moved into Jap camps; the men were sent off to aid in construction of the Birma Railway where he died of something that could easily have been…
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Notes on Blindness 2016
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This is such an amazing piece of work; put in the shoes of someone who loses his sight, halfway through his lifetime, which is one of my personal worst nightmares, I felt tears well up throughout most of this film. Sight is so essential to my every being, I cannot describe how awful it felt to me, to put myself in the shoes of someone losing perhaps the most important sense of all. It was absolutely devastating…
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The Mist 2007
Watched the black & white version which Frank Darabont himself actually prefers over the color version and I can totally see why. Besides the fact that the (somewhat dated) CG looks a lot better in B&W, there's a layer of mystery and ambiguity added when viewing it in B&W. Something that works tremendously well with this film and its themes.
I saw the color version years ago and this was a completely new experience.
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Slayer: The Repentless Killogy 2019
The Repentless Killogy basically consists of 2 parts; an anthology of videoclips from the band with a thin storyline combining them, followed by a concert registration of an LA gig they did a few years ago.
The show itself is solid, what you would expect from a Slayer show.
The video clips are unfortunately quite awful. The story tying them together more so. Mindless, over the top action and gore void of a point. An attempt was made I suppose.
Overall I got out of this screening what I was expecting; Slayer on the big screen phoning in a pretty solid performance. -
