Contagion is the movie you do not want to see when you are traveling to a far away country. It chronicles a viral outbreak with a high risk of infection and delivers 106 minutes of uncomfortable realism.
Schlagwort: Movie Advent Calendar
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It started with a planecrash on a deserted island and what followed was a television phenomenon that would span 5 seasons of intricate puzzles – and a final season which pretended that it has never been about the riddles after all.
But no matter how disappointing the “have-the-cake-and-eat-it”- finale has been before this Lost was undeniably a fantastic show and the disappointment over the ending just shows the craftsmanship behind the storytelling.
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Ricky Gervais is a man of many talents. A great comedian, a big thinker, a charismatic actor and also a fantastic mind behind TV-programs (The Office). In the 12-part TV-series Extras he once again defied expectations when he started with a simple premise: it is about a man who is an extra on movie sets and each episode features a different movie star – but by the end of the series Extras would have turned 180°.
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Christmas plays a very important role in what is probably my favorite Stephen Spielberg movie Catch Me If You Can. Based on the true story of Frank W. Abagnale it features Leonardo DiCaprio who becomes one of the most sought after counterfeiters.
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It can never hurt to recommend The Boat that Rocked a second time and seeing as there are two separate Christmas celebrations I saw it only fit to put that scene in as well.
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Writing a blog in English has one regrettable downside – recommending movies in your mother language is difficult in English – especially Austrian movies which are already incomprehensible for people from Germany left alone any other country.
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Two friends of mine managed to catch a screening of Rare Exports a Finnish Christmas movie but not your standard Christmas tale.
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I didn’t manage to catch Contagion in cinemas this year but had the joy of watching the movie on my flight to Hong Kong and surprisingly this movie about a lethal virus also has its Christmas moment.
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Family reunions can be a pain, crowded, tension everywhere and not really much of the Christmas joy to be found anywhere near aunt Mildred – but that is nothing compared to what the Joker has in store for Batman on Christmas Eve.
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Futurama on the list again. This time with the second Christmas special where the protagonists have to travel to Neptune to Robot Santa’s Christmas-base. When they trap Robot Santa Fry decides that they should have an old school Christmas and deliver presents to children like it has been tradition… only that the inhabitants of New New York are so scared of Santa they can’t imagine him being kind.