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As technology is spreading its tentacles in as myriad ways as it can be possible, the fallouts are being documented cinematically as well to underline mindless adoption of technologies by humans. Danish film The Takeover is one such film in the category.

The year was 1993. We were watching Demolition Man (1993) starring Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. There was one scene where for the sake of love making Sandra Bullock wore a contraption and asked Sylvester Stallone to wear the same as well and experience the magic of love making without actually doing it. Sylvester Stallone’s character just pulled off the contraption and exclaimed – if love making is to be done like this then it is a matter of disgrace. It was a cinematic visualization of where and in what form could technology lead to!

Cut to 2022. The Takeover, a film from the Netherlands now showing on Netflix, has brought...

Leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier is directing the series.

Maze Runner star Thomas Brodie-Sangster has joined an ambitious new Netflix-backed documentary series about the Second World War.

Voices Of Liberation is an 11-part, English-language series written and directed by leading Belgian filmmaker Koen Mortier, whose credits include crime drama Ex Drummer.

UK actor Sangster, also known for roles in Game Of Thrones and The Queen’s Gambit, will front the first two episodes of the documentary that traces the “liberation route” across Europe, and will share his own family connections to the war effort.

Other hosts include Bouli Lanners, the...

Here's your first review of the film adaptation of the controversial bestseller by Dutch writer Robert Vuijsje, titled Alleen Maar Nette Mensen (or Only Decent People). The film opened today in The Netherlands, with actress Imanuelle Grives (Dutch, of Surinamese descent) and Geza Weisz playing the leads. As a reminder, here's the official synopsis for the film adaptation:  Only Decent People is a Dutch comedy based on the controversial bestseller by Robert Vuijsje. Starring Geza Weisz, Imanuelle Grives, Annet Malherbe & Jeroen Krabbe. David Samuels is from an intellectual Jewish family from the posh Amsterdam Old...