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Black Book (2006) Movie Review

Paul Verhoeven is a filmmaker who takes no prisoners. He wants nothing more than to fracture reality through his particularly pulpy cinematic lens and to project this grotesque image in front of as many spectators as possible. He makes no excuses for his excesses and this is one of the reasons why he has been [...]

June 10th, 2007 | Brian Holcomb | 0 Comments | Read More

Resistance (2003) Movie Review

Todd Komarnicki’s “Resistance” is a little-known 2003 movie that stars Bill Paxton (the guy from “Titanic”, not the guy from “Independence Day”) as an American World War II pilot who crashes in the Netherlands, where he is rescued by Maquis resistance fighter Henri (Philippe Volter) and cared for by Henri’s wife Claire (Julia Ormond). We [...]

February 10th, 2007 | Nix | 3 Comments | Read More

The Alzheimer Case aka Memories of a Killer (2003) Movie Review

Cop films are cop films regardless of the accents of the cops. Rather it’s Dutch, as in the case of “The Alzheimer Case”, or an American product, you can expect the usual conventions of the genre to surface. To wit: the bureaucratic process that blocks our hero’s progress; a superior that seems more interested in [...]

May 23rd, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More

Deadline (2002) Movie Review

I guess it was only a matter of time before the rest of Europe gave in and offered up their own version of a zombie movie. The Italians nearly killed off the genre in the ’70s by saturating the market, even though they did manage to create a master of the genre in Lucio Fulci. [...]

December 13th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More

Moonlight (2002) Movie Review

The Dutch movie “Moonlight” follows a young girl name Claire (Laurien Van den Broeck), an isolated girl who, as we first see her, has just gotten her period. Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious house in the woods, near an omnipresent airport; the home’s location is a source of angst for [...]

February 12th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More

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