There’s a point at which nostalgia stops being fun and starts feeling like exploitation. With The Expendables 3, that line is crossed, trampled on, and left in the dust. What began in 2010 as a tongue-in-cheek love letter to ‘80s and ‘90s action cinema—a franchise designed to unite aging titans…
Hayao Miyazakis Wie der Wind sich hebt (Kaze Tachinu, 2013) ist ein Film, der sich anfühlt wie der letzte, zarte Pinselstrich eines großen Künstlers. Es ist nicht nur eine Biografie, sondern eine Meditation über das Leben, die Liebe, die Kunst und die Komplexität menschlicher Träume – ein Werk, das sich…
Arnold Schwarzenegger has always been the quintessential larger-than-life action star, commanding the screen with explosive charisma and iconic one-liners in films like Commando (1985), Predator (1987), and The Terminator (1984). With Sabotage (2014), however, Schwarzenegger steps into murkier territory—an ultra-violent, morally ambiguous crime thriller that trades the fun, over-the-top escapism…
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 names alive in modern Hollywood. Escape Plan serves as a team-up vehicle for these two titans, promising a prison-break thriller that capitalizes on their combined…
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 the action hero fans loved in The Terminator (1984) and Commando (1985). Directed by South Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon, the movie mixes high-octane shootouts, small-town…
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 funktioniert, sondern auch als kraftvolles Statement gegen die brutale Realität der Sklaverei im vorbürgerkriegsamerikanischen Süden. Für mich ist dieser Film ein echtes Meisterwerk – eines…
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 französische Riviera. Unsere Tochter Emily war damals zweieinhalb – ein perfektes Alter, um die Welt mit großen Augen zu entdecken. Begleitet wurden wir von unseren…
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 some of its novelty. The first Expendables (2010) was a fun but flawed celebration of testosterone-fueled mayhem, weighed down by tonal inconsistency and a meandering…
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 You can download the book directly if you open the link from an iPhone or iPad. If you download it with a computer, just import…
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 I stumbled upon "Empire Avenue", which is an awesome stock market simulation. The twist is, you are a stock, and so are you friends. Those…
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