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“Since it did sound like an intriguing story and since it was starring Matthew McConaughey, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though there is no doubt that it was quite a fascinating story, this movie itself was not bad but not really much more than that, I’m afraid. The first mist” read more
“I wasn’t sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I didn’t remember much from the previous instalment but I have to admit that this sequel was not bad though. Anyway, I actually grew up with the Sonic games ” read more
“The main reason why I wanted to watch this movie and, in fact, also the previous instalments, was because Indiewire called it one of the best movies released in 2022, no less than that. Well, with this in mind, I actually had some rather high expectations, especially since I have fairly enjoyed this” read more
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it seems to be intriguing and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. To be honest, I have to admit that, even though I had heard about Kid Cudi, I’m not familiar at all with his work and I didn’t” read more
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since it was directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, I was quite eager to check it out. Well, I noticed that it didn’t get much love when it was released and, to be honest, I understand why. It’s too bad because Bernad” read more
Jakob
“To be honest, I have to admit that I was never a fan of this franchise but I thought I might as well check this new instalment (in fact, another sequel has already been released in the mean time so I guess I’m still a little bit behind). Well, even though the makers did their best to convince the ” read more
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but, since there was a really nice cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though the damned thing was fairly well received when it was released, to be honest, I thought it was rathe” read more
chosen by Marieke
Notes: I had no idea what to expect from this movie but, to be honest, it did hit me like a truck though. With the film club, we do watch some really heavy movies from time to time (I guess we like to torture ourselves like that…) but this movie was definitely one of the most hardcore we have seen so far. It’s interesting that some other film club members were rooting for the main character to successfully come out of this endless vicious circle of violence and despair but, as far as I was concerned, even if I did care for the poor boy, I pretty much knew from the start that he was doomed (it is so weird that he was actually played by an actor called Thibaud Dooms). I mean, how could you expect any really improvement if you take a traumatized boy out of a highly dysfunctional environment and put him in just another dysfunctional environment? I’m not blaming the educators working there, they were doing the best they could with some f*cked up situations and I really did appreciate the hyper-realistic approach they chose to depict this environment but, at the end of the day, it didn’t seem like a very efficient system. Coming back on Thibaud Dooms, wow, this guy was just incredible, so raw and so spellbinding to behold, I almost wish his career would end here just to make sure that he doesn’t have to go through something like this ever again. Eventually, the only thing that really didn’t work in this movie for me was the fact that the ‘bad’ guy, the real psycho in these group of messed up kids turned out to be Moroccan. Seriously, since it was a work of fiction, there was absolutely no need to give this character such a specific ethnicity, especially since there is already such a vile rhetoric about this matter in France, in the Netherlands and also in Belgium.
(June 2024)
“I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since it was the latest movie directed by Alex van Warmerdam, I was quite eager to check it out. I know that the members of my film club are huge fans of his work but, even though I have seen all his movies, to be honest, I usually struggle t” read more
