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About 20 years ago I was a regular customer at my local video store and they always had these catalogues for their customers with all the upcoming releases together with a synopsis of the movie’s plot and a picture of the video cover. I picked up a copy on a regular basis and never threw…

There are two kinds of special effects in movies; the ones that attract no attention at all and the ones that just do that. The first category is there to make what you see on screen believable, and because it succeeds in generating a realistic image it attracts no attention at all. We believe that…

These past few months I’ve been catching up on some of my childhood by watching the entire series of “Batman: The Animated Series” as well as its successor “The New Batman Adventures”. Having watched a fair share of episodes back in the day (the early 90’s) it occurred to me that this was regarded as…

In Machete by Robert Rodriguez Steven Seagal and Danny Trejo face off one on one for the third time now. Seeing them together in the trailer made me realize one thing; how the tables have turned. Trejo now stars while he has been a busy supporting character for over more than 20 years while Seagal…

“Avatar” has crushed a couple of records set by “Titanic”, but there is one record it can’t crush: the amount of Academy Awards it is going to take home. Simply because “Titanic” has won more Oscars than “Avatar” is nominated for. This fact made me realize that “Titanic” has won 11 Oscars while the public…

It has been 13 years since the death of the then only 25 year old Tupac “2Pac” Shakur. Now when people hear the name 2Pac, they immediately associate it with Hip-Hop, which is very logical of course. 2Pac was one of the faces of the Gangster Rap that emerged in the late 80’s and early…

When Die Hard was released in 1988 it changed the way action movies were made. Normally the star of the movie was either a muscled guy (Arnie, Sly), skilled in Martial Arts (Seagal, Norris) or both (Van Damme, Lundgren). Then Bruce Willis came, fresh of the TV-show Moonlighting in a movie depicting an everyday cop…

When a movie makes a lot of money it’s an easy call to order a sequel. The work has almost been done for you as the groundwork is already there. When the sequel is also successful you might have a possible franchise on your hand; the option to make a string of sequels each cashing…

Have you ever wandered through your local videostore, searching for that one title until you found it? You pick it from the shelve only to realise that it’s a totally different film, only the cover looks exactly the same as the cover of the movie you came for. It happens more than you think because…