In 2025, it was 50 years since the film Jaws premiered in cinemas. The film had an unexpectedly major impact: the image of the shark as a man-killer. The film is held responsible worldwide for the many fearful stereotypes...
There is a new animated film from 2025 titled 'Mary Anning', a Swiss-Belgian production directed by Marcel Barelli, which tells the true story of the brave young paleontologist Mary Anning, who searches for fossils on the English coast as a child and in doing so changes science....
Metropolis is a German science fiction film by Fritz Lang from 1927, and the most expensive film produced in the 1920s. The screenplay was written in 1924, but the sky-high costs of the film – over 5 million marks, converted...
What will be the movie hit of the summer of 2023? Indiana Jones (#5), Mission Impossible (#7), Oppenheimer, or Barbie? Mattel, the parent company of Barbie, also wants to score a movie hit comparable to 'The LEGO Movie'. Do you know the Barbie store in Dordrecht?...
The exhibition is an ode to love in all its forms. From romantic love to artists' obsession with their muse, and from love tragedies to love that triumphs against all odds. In more than 100 portraits, ...
Jan Wolkers was born in October 1925 and died in October 2007. This year marks 15 years since the death of the most famous writer of Oegstgeest and the Netherlands. Every year this month, Dorpsmarketing Oegstgeest organizes the Jan Wolkers...
Elton John, who doesn't know him? If young people don't know him, then the biopic film Rocket Man is a must-see glam rock film, in which his greatest hits are sung. We encounter 'Rocket Man' multiple times in world history: song and...
It was announced yesterday that actor Rutger Hauer died on Friday at his home in Beesterzwaag, Friesland, after a short illness. He was 75. Hauer had a long international career – he starred in more than 100 films, won...
Who doesn't know Harry Potter? The main character from the seven books by the English author Joanne Rowling. More than 500 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide. And the books became the basis for a series of eight films...
'The World of Pyke Koch' is on view at the Centraal Museum Utrecht until March 18. So far, this exhibition is the best I have seen in 2018. The art falls under the category 'Magical...
We have previously devoted attention to the 'Facteur Cheval' in these columns. Facteur Cheval was a postman in the small town of Hautes Rives in the Drôme department of France. He strolled his route every day, even as a young man, and...
It has been 10 years since Jan Wolkers passed away on his beloved island of Texel. In literature, there is always talk of the great '3 writers' that the Netherlands knew: Gerard Reve, Willem Frederik Hermans, and Harry Mulisch. Why did Jan Wolkers belong...
The film Dunkirk, which was partly filmed in Urk, has been heavily promoted in various media. It is a mega Hollywood production by the renowned film director Christopher Nolan (including Inception, Interstellar, and the Batman films). But what happened during...
He might well have knocked on the door on Halloween, the gruesome, creepy Count Dracula. Fortunately, such a mini version of the dark Dracula was after treats rather than blood. Enjoying himself and giggling secretly, he must have called out: "trick..."
I read it in the newspaper a while ago. The 70th anniversary of Walt Disney's Pinocchio is being celebrated. 'From March 4, just before the 70th anniversary of this overwhelming adventure, Pinocchio will be available again for a limited time.' Really just before the...
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