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About Time from 2013. I’m not really a fan of romantic comedies, so I had no idea what gem I would discover.
It seems like ““just”” a romantic time-travel comedy af first, but I got so much more than I expected. Can’t remember when a movie touched me as much as this one. About Time can make you smile and cry at the same time. It’s a heartwarming film about life, love, death and family, and I would recommend About Time to anyone who doesen’t have a heart of stone. 
Also a great film to watch for couples or the whole family.
6/5 points.
P.S. Bill Nighy rocks!!!
Now playing: GreedFall, Control
Recently finished: Telling Lies, The Sinking City
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
What a great Iranian film . A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ‘is what is called auteur cinema and I can not help thinking about “Only Lovers Left Alive” which also proposes a review original and very different from the vampire myth. A Girl is a hypnotic film with excellent performances, an amazing photography which does create a very powerful and enveloping atmosphere. How not love these vampires?
” I remember. Somebody died. It was me.”
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The Visit
Another try by M Night ShameAlien.
After abysmal films he redeems alot.
Still some people are hating it and reviews arent good.
But i like the setting, atmosphere and some scenes were good.
If you want to see good horror this Halloween it would still be It Follows, if you havent.
Le tout nouveau testament - 4.5/5
Jaco Van Dormael strikes again! He’s now at 4 films that are averaging 4.5 in my book, which puts him in Frank Darabont territory for me (and ahead of Nolan and even Tarantino). 
Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament) hits a delicate balance between being hilarious, absurd, emotional and philosophical. It’s an all-encompassing genre-buster (again) that’ll have you in stitches in one moment only to have you almost crying the next.
Poelvoorde is brilliant as his usual jerkass character (except that he’s also God this time), and it never ceases to amaze me how well Van Dormael gets kids to act in his films. After Toto le héros, Le huitième jour, Mr. Nobody and now this, I’ll have no problem calling the man a genius! Score for Belgium! 
And once again, the music is superb too. It’s even whimsical at times, which very much suits the film.
Movie of the year for me. Ahead of Birdman, even. Yes, I thought it was that awesome!
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Jaco Van Dormael strikes again! He’s now at 4 films that are averaging 4.5 in my book, which puts him in Frank Darabont territory for me (and ahead of Nolan and even Tarantino).
Darabont? He made of the best movies ever but he also made the terrible Mist…
I have seen two of the best films of the year in the last couple of weeks.
The Martian
Ridley Scott’s best film in years sees Matt Damon stranded on Mars while everyone thinks he’s dead. How does he survive, contact NASA and put up with Disco music makes for an engrossing movie full of laughs and tension galore.
Sicario
Emily Blunt is superb as a kidnap-response specialist in Arizona who makes a gruesome discovery on a raid. Soon she is pulled into a joint agency taskforce dealing with mexican drug cartels and the US border.
Teamed with two “DOD agents” played by Josh Brolin and a creepy as hell Benicio Del Toro. She is now a fish out of water in a morally dubious war against drugs.
It is a superb slow burning thriller that is directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy)and with some beautiful cinematography from Roger Deakins.
Expect Oscar nods.
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Roberta Williams
Darabont? He made of the best movies ever but he also made the terrible Mist…
Well, I thought The Mist was superb and its ending was simply magnificent (as well as being quite possibly the most evil ending ever).
And nobody ever seems to mention The Majestic, which is one of the most underrated films of the past 20 years. It’s the closest modern-day equivalent to a Frank Capra film I’ve ever seen!
I consider Frank Darabont to be the most talented man in Hollywood.
And I f#@%ing HATE George Lucas for nixing Darabont’s Indiana Jones 4 screenplay in favour of Lucas’s own drivel.
I still hope that Disney goes knocking on Darabont’s door for that screenplay once their Indy development gets underway…
How does he survive, contact NASA and put up with Disco music
By sciencing the shit out of this, of course.
I really want to see The Martian. 
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
Darabont? He made of the best movies ever but he also made the terrible Mist…
Well, I thought The Mist was superb and its ending was simply magnificent (as well as being quite possibly the most evil ending ever).
And nobody ever seems to mention The Majestic, which is one of the most underrated films of the past 20 years. It’s the closest modern-day equivalent to a Frank Capra film I’ve ever seen!
I consider Frank Darabont to be the most talented man in Hollywood.And I f#@&ing; HATE George Lucas for nixing Darabont’s Indiana Jones 4 screenplay in favour of Lucas’s own drivel.
I still hope that Disney goes knocking on Darabont’s door for that screenplay once their Indy development gets underway…
I didn’t like The Mist and thought the ending was bad, felt it was brutal for the sake of being brutal and didn’t make much sense which made it lose impact for me.
The others I agree are all very good and The Majestic is very underrated. (but I prefer Tarantino screenwriting and directing )
I find it weird that Drarabont has so few movies in his filmography, even writing them he only Snow White and The Huntsman 2 in the last few years according to imdb.
Majestic is a great film, esp with Jim Carrey as lead actor. Unfortunatly it totally bombed at the box office.
Darabont also does really well with Stephen King properties, Shawshank, Green Mile and Mist are all very good adaptions. Although famously he changed the ending for The Mist. I prefer the book version, I totally laughed my ass off at the movie ending.
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Roberta Williams
I didn’t like The Mist and thought the ending was bad, felt it was brutal for the sake of being brutal and didn’t make much sense which made it lose impact for me.
The ending is the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen in a film, and I loved it. But then again, I give most films and series bonus points for brutal endings. It’s why I loved The Outer Limits so much in the ‘90s.
I find it weird that Drarabont has so few movies in his filmography, even writing them he only Snow White and The Huntsman 2 in the last few years according to imdb.
He does a lot of uncredited work as a ‘script doctor’, doing rewrites and the likes. Has done that for most of his career, in fact, and he’s more or less Hollywood’s go-to-guy for it.
As for directing, I think he’s just waiting for Stephen King to write another period prison movie. 
Although famously he changed the ending for The Mist. I prefer the book version, I totally laughed my ass off at the movie ending.
King’s ending was open and Darabont wanted to avoid that. Apparently, Stephen King very much approved of Darabont’s ending, but the producers didn’t, and they cut half his budget for the film for wanting to keep it in.
The truth can’t hurt you, it’s just like the dark: it scares you witless but in time you see things clear and stark. - Elvis Costello
Maybe this time I can be strong, but since I know who I am, I’m probably wrong. Maybe this time I can go far, but thinking about where I’ve been ain’t helping me start. - Michael Kiwanuka
I find it weird that Drarabont has so few movies in his filmography, even writing them he only Snow White and The Huntsman 2 in the last few years according to imdb.
It’s sparse the last few years because of the drama with AMC over TWD. He’ll be back.
I respect the Darabont Mist ending, though I’d have been happier with the book ending.
The ending is the most brutal thing I’ve ever seen in a film, and I loved it. But then again, I give most films and series bonus points for brutal endings. It’s why I loved The Outer Limits so much in the ‘90s.
I like some brutal endings. Seven, The Descent, for example, those were quality endings that felt unconfortable. This one didn’t click.
Although famously he changed the ending for The Mist. I prefer the book version, I totally laughed my ass off at the movie ending.
This! You don’t start shooting kids because you ran out of gas
It’s sparse the last few years because of the drama with AMC over TWD.
What heppened there? Diferent opinions on where to take the series? I hope he is not responsible for the awful second season
AMC reduced his budget dramatically and he didn’t like it. Darabont is notorious for never compromising, and they fired him when he fought back. There’s probably two sides to it, but from the outside it mostly looks like AMC made poor decisions and Darabont got shafted. There are a couple different tellings of it all around the internet, but at the end of the day it all comes down to Frank being fired/stepping down because of the budget.
The second season was a result of this conflict. The single-location and all that was because there was so little money.
Seems weird AMC cutting their budget since I think it’s by far their biggest success. Fincher TV series was cancelled because of budget reasons and the Twin Peaks revival almost didn’t happen. I guess coming from big movies must weird for directors to work with such a tight budget.
But that does explain the terrible second season, at least they rebounded from it in part.
Wonder which version of the Mist story they will go with for the rumoured new TV show coming from Dimension Films and The Weinstein Company.
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Roberta Williams
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