Categorie: filmblog
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: M:I Ghost Protocol (2011)
Review: Ghost Protocol is the fourth instalment in the Mission: Impossible series, with Tom Cruise reprising his role as Ethan Hunt. This time Brad Bird is in the director’s seat. Benji (Simon Pegg), who is now an active operative for I.M.F. is part of a two person team to get Ethan Hunt out of a…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission: Impossible III (M:I III) (2006)
Review: Life can take turns and twists and when you think you have a goal reached in your life something can come up that kicks the good things from underneath your feet and before you know it, you’re dragged into someone else’s dirty games… this happens to Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) in M:I III. Hunt…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: M:I II (Mission: Impossible II) (2000)
Review: How opinions on movies can change with time passing… I remember seeing this with a friend in the cinema in 2000 thinking it was one of the best action movies of its time… and now rewatching it… my opinion has turned to the opposite to be honest… it’s the worst movie in the M:I…
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Mission: Impossible Movie Marathon: Mission: Impossible (1996)
Review: The spy game has just added a few new rules and it’s up to Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) to uphold them or break them! So the new M:I movie (Dead Reckoning, Part 1) was just released on DVD and Bluray and I decided to rewatch the entire series. When after all those years of…
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February 2024
Another month has gone by so here’s what I’ve been up to: 1. Books Not the best reading month, mainly because I started a few books that drive me into a reading slump. I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and wanted to read some fantasy novels but had to stop reading them…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Salem’s Lot (1979)
Plot: (from IMDB) The successful writer Benjamin “Ben” Mears returns to his hometown Salem’s Lot, Maine, expecting to write a new novel about the Marsten House. Ben believes that the manor is an evil house that attracts evil men since the place has many tragic stories and Ben saw a ghostly creature inside the house…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: Carrie (1976)
Review: So I decided to do a Stephen King Movie Marathon in 2024. It’ll probably take me a lot of months and I might not be able to see/find all the movies/miniseries but I’ll do my best… and where better to start than at the beginning: with Carrie! Carrie was King’s first novel, he almost…
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Asterix 12. Asterix en de Olympische Spelen
Review: In het Romeinse kamp heerst een feestelijke sfeer als een ‘kampioen’ wordt geselecteerd om mee te doen met de Olympische Spelen in Athene. Maar bij de training loopt het spaak als Tulius Torsus, de Romeinse kampioen, Asterix en Obelix tegenkomt. De ‘onverslaanbare’ kampioen blijkt het onderspit te moeten delven tegen beide Galliërs. Als de…
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Full Throttle: Throttle
Review: This is Hill & King’s own take on a road trip gone bad with a truck and a few bikers! Joe Hill was asked to write a story for a Richard Matheson tribute collection. Immediately he knew what to write, a tribute to Matheson’s Duel (later adapted into a movie, the debut film of…
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Movie Marathon: Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Synopsis: After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror. Review: Well, these movies certainly don’t get better with each instalment. It’s the bad acting…
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