Tag: Michiel Huisman
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The Abandons – family, love and murder
The Abandons puts Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson on horseback in big hats in a Western drama about family, love, greed, hate, murder, and revenge.
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Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire: What a disappointment
Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire looked promising. The main character was a woman, there were lots of other women in the cast, the visuals looked good. This space adventure written and directed by Zack Snyder should be good, right? Despite the good visuals the story was the same old plot using…
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Echo 3, a military thriller
Echo 3 is an overlong, drawn out military thriller about a woman captured by rebels in Colombia and the efforts of her husband and brother to get her back. Like Helen of Troy, she was worth starting a war for.
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Review: The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House will be discussed and analyzed for years to come. It’s that kind of work of art. Watching it is like peeling an onion – you think you’ve found the meat, but there’s always one more layer. You dig deeper and deeper in tighter and tighter circles until the whole opens…
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Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is quite a mouthful of a title all right. It’s quite a lot of movie as well, clocking in at over 2 hours. The length isn’t a problem if you watch it on Netflix, as I did, because pausing is easy. I might have felt differently about…
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Review: Irreplaceable You
Irreplaceable You begins in the cemetery where Abbie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is buried. In a voice over, Abbie explains her story. It began when she and Sam (Michiel Huisman) were 8 years old. They’d been together ever since.
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Watch This: Trailer for Guernsey (The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was the original title of this film, and the title of the book on which it is based. That’s been shortened to simply Guernsey for the film.
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Review: The Age of Adaline
The Age of Adaline looked so romantic in the previews. It looked like a great love story with a beautiful cast. I was right about the cast, but wrong about the story. There will be a couple of spoilers.
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Orphan Black S3 E2: Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis
Orphan Black’s “Transitory Sacrifices of Crisis” begins where the last episode left off, with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, a multitude) still looking for Helena and the male clone Rudy, AKA Scarface, (Ari Mullen, an army) freed from his basement prison and on the loose with Seth, AKA Mr. Moustache. The time between episodes appears to be…