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Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Grindhouse

In 2007, cult directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino surprised us with Grindhouse. This is a double feature film in the tradition of seventies B-movies, think exploitation and stalker films. The concept of grindhouse movies was usually a subordinate narrative containing plot holes, vicious killers

Jake Gyllenhaal as the crazy sociopath in Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler or the Story of a Strange Sociopath

Nightcrawler is a psychological thriller from 2014 starring a lean Jake Gyllenhaal and the ever charming Rene Russo. The movie is the directorial debut of Russo’s husband, screenwriter Dan Gilroy. Set in Los Angeles the film follows stringer Lou Bloom. A stringer is a freelance

Blue Velvet, A Neo-Noir Nightmare

“What would you do if you found a severed human ear in the woods?” This is the question surreal film director David Lynch asks his protégé with the unpronounceable name Kyle MacLachlan in the perverse neo-noir movie Blue Velvet from 1986. MacLachlan responds to this

Tron inside the machine

Tron, an Eighties Science Fiction Adventure for Kids

Tron is a Disney film from 1982 written and directed by Steven Lisberger. The movie could best be described as an eighties science fiction adventure for teenagers. The Academy disqualified the film for the Oscar for Best Special Effects, because computer animation was considered cheating at

Moonrise Kingdom or Boy Scout Meets Girl

Moonrise Kingdom is a fantastic coming of age movie set in the sixties by talented director Wes Anderson. The ensemble cast consists of experienced actors like Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis and Harvey Keitel completed with young newcomers Kara Hayward

Surgeon Antonio Banderas in the Spanish movie The Skin I Live In

La Piel Que Habito or The Skin I Live In

What do you do when your wife commits suicide and a junk harasses your daughter? That is the question Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar asks the surgeon Robert Ledgard in the dramatic thriller La Piel Que Habito. The shocking drama of a psychotic surgeon won a BAFTA

RoboCop: the Big Friendly Terminator

Thirty years ago, three years after Jim Cameron‘s The Terminator, another gunslinging cyborg appeared on the silver screen: RoboCop. This masterpiece by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Elle, Turkish Delight) became an instant science fiction classic and remains so three decades later.

Rubber movie poster by Mr. Oizo Quentin Dupieux

Rubber, an Absurd and Funny Horror Movie

Who are the most frightening villains in movie history? Are psychopaths Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men, Batman’s nemesis The Joker and Dr. Hannibal Lector in The Silence of the Lambs the first names that come to mind? No, aforementioned characters are all

Ex-Drummer: wicked Belgian movie

Ex Drummer: Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll

Imagine Dumb & Dumber in the universe of Trainspotting. This could be the tagline of the raw Belgian movie based on the novel Ex Drummer by Herman Brusselmans, whose sarcastic dialogues are conserved in the film. Director Koen Mortier displays the differences between the sophisticated life of a