Movies
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Casino Royale
This summer I decided to watch all the Daniel Craig James Bond movies again in sequence, starting with Casino Royale. The movie starts in black and white before the opening credits showing James Bond earning his 00 licence by killing 2 people. After the credits we switch to colour and the main story of the…
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Hollywood Boulevard. Een Eeuw Filmsterren, Steven de Foer (ISBN 9789463101516, Uitgeverij Polis)
This book came out in 2016 and I bought it after reading a review in the paper De Standaard. The author is a journalist that worked and wrote for De Standaard covering among other things American politics for quite a while. He is also a film enthusiast and he wrote numerous movie reviews for De…
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The Expendables
Recently watched this movie from 2010 again. It was a bit of an ironical movie project from Stallone, bringing together action movie heroes from the past: The Expendables. In the movie the expendables are a group of mercenaries that get hired by the CIA to take out another CIA operative gone rogue as a drug…
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Under Siege
After having watched Half Past Dead I decided to also watch Under Siege again, probably the best Steven Seagal movie. The whole movie takes place on a battleship that is overtaken by a group mercinaries. The crew is locked up while the mercenaries plan to remove all the warheads from the ship. Only 1 crew…
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Half Past Dead
After watching 2 Chuck Norris movies I decided it was turn to another ‘icon’ in the genre: Steven Seagal. Seagal is an atypical action movie star because he is an aikidoka and so doesn’t kick and punch like a typical karate practitioner. The fighting style with a lot of close combat grappling and limb crunching…
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Ballerina
After the final John Wick Chapter 4 movie some thought we had seen the last of John Wick. But then came Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas as Eve Maccaro, another assassin of the Ruska Roma who wants to avenge her father’s death. The character first appeared in chapter 3 and that scene comes back and…
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John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 continues where chapter 3 ended. That film ends with John Wick being betrayed by Winston who shoots him. John falls off the roof of the Continental and is rescued by the Bowery King. Based on this you know what to expect. John Wick is looking for revenge and he kills the…
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Code of Silence
When Chuck Norris died a little while ago I watched Lone Wolf McQuade again. This is one of the top ranked Chuck Norris movies on IMDB. After this I also watched Code of Silence again. This movie is from the same period and has similar ratings. It gets a higher score than the well known…
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