ESCAPE PLAN (2013): A Decent Action Thriller That Relies on Star Power Over Ingenuity
By 2013, the golden era of ’80s action heroes was long gone, but Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger had found ways to keep their legendary…
AuthorJakob Montrasio (555)
Frontend developer at DIE RHEINPFALZ, photographer under @yakobusan, occasional filmmaker — directed The Way of the Spur in Shanghai, co-directed the Golden Eye–nominated Souls of Zen. Started in Freiburg in 1982, still hasn't picked just one thing.
Grand Theft Auto V – Über zehn Jahre in Los Santos
Es ist fast unheimlich, wie lange mich dieses Spiel begleitet. Grand Theft Auto V war nie „nur“ der fünfte Teil einer Reihe, sondern so etwas…
THE LAST STAND (2013): Arnold’s Small-Town Showdown Packs Some Fun
The Last Stand marked Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first starring role after his tenure as the Governor of California, and it seemed designed to reintroduce him as…
Django Unchained – Tarantinos meisterhafte Rache-Odyssee in den Tiefen der amerikanischen Geschichte
Quentin Tarantino hat es wieder einmal geschafft: Mit Django Unchained erschafft er einen Western, der nicht nur als Genre-Hommage an die italienischen Spaghetti-Westerns seines Lebens…
Spätsommer an der Côte d’Azur – Familienurlaub mit Freunden & französischem Flair
Im September 2012 machten wir uns auf den Weg an die traumhafte Côte d’Azur, genauer gesagt in die Umgebung rund um Saint-Tropez, Ramatuelle und die…
THE EXPENDABLES 2 (2012): A Nostalgic, Over-the-Top Blast That Struggles to Fully Deliver
By the time The Expendables 2 hit theaters in 2012, the idea of reuniting every major action star of the ‘80s and ‘90s had lost…
Merry Christmas! Here's a gift for everyone, the free iBook 'ASIA' with my best photos from 2005-2010.
Check out a preview from the book ASIA: You can download the iBook version for the iPhone and iPad free of charge right here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/533526/Asia-by_Jakob_Montrasio.epub…
Empire Avenue, a cool stock market simulation social network game.
Nowadays it's rare that you miss out on something, thanks to the internet and its many sudden notification systems. The more stunned I was when…
Music Video: Yang Baby - "Kiss You Again"
I've been so busy in the last months that I even forgot to post this music "Kiss You Again" video which we shot. It was…
Standing while editing.
Since Monday, I've been working while standing. No more seat for me. There are various reasons for this, among the top ones are my (over-)weight…
Souls of Zen - Teaser Trailer.
Check out the teaser trailer to my upcoming documentary "Souls of Zen - Ancestors and Agency in Contemporary Japanese Temple Buddhism": You can visit the…
A DHL Book Review: Social Memories.
The Social Memories of Jakob Montrasio. Review Today my "Social Memories" book arrived. It's a new book service that DHL offers. The Facebook application diggs…