I saw House of Flying Daggers for the first time on the plane from New York to Amsterdam if I remember correctly. It didn’t impress me that much back then probably because I was pretty tired, the sound sucked and the screen was too small ;). Now almost two years later I saw it on […]

“If you don’t follow your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.” - Burt Monro
The World’s Fastest Indian is one of those inspirational films that warms your heart and shows true humanity shining through. You know… that’s what I generally like about true stories and biographies. They have all the more impact because you […]

A few days ago I watched Lucky Number Slevin, another film noir gangster movie about a guy “Slevin” who is mistaken for someone else and finds himself wrapped in a web of debts, gangsters and personal vendetta’s. The lead roll “Slevin” is surprisingly well played by Josh Hartnett from Black Hawk Down and Pearl Harbor. […]

When I watched Inside Man a few days ago, this action-thriller with Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster and Clive Owen pleasantly surprised me. While I was expecting it to be the usual Hollywood bank robbery movie, it turned out to be quite more than that with its unexpected twists and turns and the clever use of […]

Saw a weird but nice movie yesterday: ‘Elephant‘ by director Gus van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester, Drugstore Cowboy). The story is about an average American high school, where van Sant follows a number of students literally from room to room. It seems as if there’s no point in filming it all, but it’s […]

I’m speechless… I had expected ‘Black’ - a 2005 Indian movie about a girl that is both deaf, mute, and blind - to be a good movie based on the ratings, but I didn’t expect it to be this good. I was expecting a tough but beautiful movie that would not really make me feel […]

That’s the English title of a movie I saw this week. Its original Italian title is La Meglio Gioventù. It had been on the top of my movie list since a few weeks, but I didn’t expect it to be a 6 hour movie!!! At first thought that seemed like way too long to hold […]

Time for another I-guess-not-so-weekly movie review ;)… Four movies again: Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement), Collateral, Festen (The Celebration) and Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)
I was really looking forward to seeing Audrey Tautou from Amélie in another movie again, as I really liked Amélie. Thus I did not hesitate when […]

Two days ago I watched the Hotel Rwanda with my mom and sister. It was a really really nice movie. At several points during the movie the tears were close to welling up.
Hotel Rwanda is about the conflict between the Hutu’s and the Tutsi’s in the early 90’s. It shows how both parties generate more […]

Only one movie last week… I watched it yesterday with Desiree and her boy friend ‘Mouse’.
West Side Story is a 1961 musical about a boy and a girl from two different ‘gangs’ falling in love. This pretty ’sticky’ 20th century version of Romeo and Juliet, surprisingly uses the modern 2.35:1 screen ratio. In the mean […]

Since I watch quite a lot of movies these days (I just love my screen :P), I thought I’d better put all my movie reviews in one post and post them weekly ;). So here goes… The movies I watched since my last movie post are In America, Amélie, Der Untergang (Downfall) and La Vita […]

Last Wednesday we had some kind of spontaneous house dinner accompanied with a movie. Well, it wasn’t completely spontaneous, the movie had been planned, but I didn’t expect to be having dinner with five people (Annemarie, her boy friend Egbert, Femke, Saskia and me).
We also ‘borrowed’ the room of the new housemate who hasn’t moved […]

Apart from Out of Africa I watched four other movies the last two weeks: Platoon, Rocky, The Incredibles, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Platoon is a 1986 movie about a ‘platoon’ (’peloton’ in Dutch) in the Vietnam war. It’s nothing incredibly special, but it gives a good view of the soldier’s real lives in […]

Yesterday evening I watched one of the movies that was next on my list of to-see-movies was Out Of Africa. A 1985 movie with Meryl Streep and Robert Redfort about a Danish woman moving to Africa with her husband in 1913 to see a bit more of the world. Three things that make the movie […]

Last Saturday I went to Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith in the local THX certified theater ;). I wanted to go to the digital version (which is starting to come up here in Belgium), but we were a little late, so it was almost full. I decided that I thought sitting in […]

I just watched Fight Club with Femke after we had had dinner together. I was cooking when I asked her whether she had eaten already, and she said she was about to start cooking. So I suggested to join me with my dinner, since I was cooking for two days anyway :). (pork with pasta, […]

Last Sunday evening on Mother’s Day, I went to the cinema in Kortrijk to see Million Dollar Baby. I knew from the oscars and from imdb.com that it was supposed to be a good movie. It won oscars for Best Picture, Best Actress (Hilary Swank), Best Supporting Actor (Morgan Freeman) and Best Director (Clint Eastwood). […]

Just watched Les Triplettes de Belleville on DVD. I was pretty curious about this movie since it was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars last year, and also for Best Song.
And I must say, it definitely deserved the nomination. While I don’t find it a superb movie, it is a very nice one, […]

I watched Saving Private Ryan tonight. I rented 3 dvd’s today (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List and Master & Commander). At first I was going to watch Master & Commander with Boefje, my housemate. But right before we were going to watch it, he found out he still had a lot of paperwork to do […]

I watched City of God last Saturday with Femke after having a delicious dinner ;). Very nice movie about the street criminality and gangs fighting each other in Rio de Janeiro. A very beautiful (but hard) movie with great cinematography. Definitely to be recommended!
And today I watched Hero with Boefje. I had heard it was […]

My mother, my sister and me wanted to do something fun Saturday evening. We tried to get a fourth person to play Settlers of Catan, but we didn’t find anybody, so we thought of going to the cinemas. Turned out only ‘Der Untergang’ and ‘Closer’ were worth watching, but we weren’t really interested in those, […]