Rich girl meets poor boy. They fall in love and decide to get married. Of course her family doesn’t approve. Recipe for disaster… at the movies! “Just Married” was last night’s Sneak Preview at my local cinema. I was hoping it would be “Equilibrium”, so this was quite a disappointment.

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Dutch broadcaster V8 showed the South Park movie last night. I’d seen it in the cinema when it came out, but I didn’t fully remember how some parts of the story are very relevant to the situation in the world today. There’s even a very funny supporting role for Saddam Hussein

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It’s about an boy in suburban Middlesex, Iowa. He has some social and mental problems, nothing severe. Until he’s visited by an imaginary giant bunny rabbit named Frank. One night he’s called out of the house by Frank, who tells him the world will end within a month. The next morning he wakes up in a park and heads home to discover a jet engine from an airplane had crashed through his room that night. Having cheated death. After this chain of events his dillusions get worse and things escalate around Donnie.

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A young bartender’s impression of life around one of the most trendy clubs 25 years ago when disco was ‘hot’. Clearly inspired by ‘Boogie Nights’, that ran a year earlier. But not nearly as good.

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Goldmember is the third and least funny of the Austin Powers film series. Mike Myers was definitely off form with this script, reusing old gags (badly) and including scenes for no other reason than to give himself another plastic costume to wear…

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Jet Li is “The One”… well, maybe Jackie Chan might have something to say about that. But any really hardcore kung fu fan will tell you, that while both are excellent, much of what we see them doing in films for the western market are rather pass’ and much has been done, often quite better, in Hong Kong kung fu classics as well new films. Having said this, I remove myself from all previous knowledge and enjoy this film for what it is, a watered down piece of western kung fu fluff…

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This was last night’s Sneak Preview in Huizen, where I live. I’ve never seen “Shanghai Noon”, to which this is the sequel, but I’ve always wanted to. Mostly to see what the fuss was about with this Jackie Chan character, and in part to see how a comedy-kungfu-western turns out.

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This was one of the first films shown as part of the 19th Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and I went in not knowing what to expect. Japanese Manga animations had never really appealed to me, but then I’d never really seen one.

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What makes these guys tick? Were they thinking:’What TV format can we come up with next?’ Are they really this crazy? Are they smart guys taking advantage of taboo’s and values of the masses. Are they on a crusade to show the world how uptight it is? Or are they just having fun.

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An adventure-movie based on the popular 70′s TV Show with the same name. Three beautiful talented women detectives/spies have been recruted by and work for ‘Charlie’, their mysterious detective-agency-boss. They’ve never seen this Charlie and confer with him via intercoms, telephones and their Charlie-liason Bosley.

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