

Do we really need to explain this? The year is (almost) over, the country is yearning for redemption—for someone who can masterfully put all events into perspective, dish out sharp jokes and serve an excellent oliebol in between. But hey, Pieter Derks is still there.


Do we really need to explain this? The year is (almost) over, the country is yearning for redemption—for someone who can masterfully put all events into perspective, dish out sharp jokes and serve an excellent oliebol in between. But hey, Pieter Derks is still there.
2024-12-31
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9.1A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies.
6.1Hello explores changes in two people’s working lives: a Mexican trash picker who separates and collects recyclable materials from landfills to sell by the kilo, and a German freelance computer-animation designer working for the advertising industry in Berlin. The double interview is controlled and manipulated by a computer-generated severed hand which Maria describes as an object once discovered in the trash while working in the violent northern town of Mexicali. This CGI hand was in turn produced by Max, who was born with no arms, and sought refuge in computer-imaging as a means to operate and manipulate a digital reality.
5.5Sonic the Hedgehog must stop the evil Dr. Robotnik from ruining Christmas after Santa Claus disappears.
6.4Benny and Claire, a down-on-their-luck couple, find a discarded Chitauri weapon referred to as 'Item 47'.
7.3The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to his parents’ chagrin, quit medical school and headed for Hollywood to pursue a dream of making monsters. Together with gore masters Howard Berger and Robert Kurtzman, Nicotero went on to create KNB EFX Group, one of the most prolific makeup effects studios in the world. After twenty years as the “go to guy” for the world’s most successful horror/sci-fi films, Greg Nicotero is the first one directors like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez call.
6.8When Dev finds about his wife's affair, he starts blackmailing her and her lover but the blackmail game backfires on him.
7.1Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.
7.4Beyond the human realm, there is a magical race of beings who control the tides and the changing of the seasons. One of these beings, a young girl named Chun, seeks something more—she wants to experience the human world! At sixteen, she finally gets her chance and transforms into a dolphin in order to explore the world that has her fascinated. But she soon discovers that it's a dangerous place and nearly gets killed in a vortex. Luckily, her life is spared when a young boy sacrifices himself to save her. Moved by his kindness and courage, she uses magic to bring him back to life only to learn that this power comes at a serious price. On a new adventure, she’ll have to make her own sacrifices in order to protect his soul until it is ready to return to the human world.
7.3A thrilling journey through legends, belief and folklore, this film goes behind the scenes with the British Library as they search to tell that story through objects in their collection, in an ambitious new exhibition: Harry Potter: A History Of Magic. J.K. Rowling, who is lending unseen manuscripts, drawings and drafts from her private archives (which will sit alongside treasures from the British Library, as well as original drafts and drawings from Jim Kay) talks about some of the personal items she has lent to the exhibition and gives new insight into her writing, looking at some of the objects from the exhibition that have fired her imagination.
7.0Married at 17 and widowed at 20, Dr. Balasubrahmaniam lives with his teenage son. Son does not want to follow his father into medicine and joins an engineering college. He is killed accidentally by some seniors during ragging. The grief-stricken father tries to avenge his son's death.
6.8Agent Coulson stops at a convenience store and deals with a coincidental robbery during his visit.
6.0This is an April Fool's joke by Nitroplus. On 01.04.2011, an official website for Mahou Shoujo Sonico Magika, a parody of SoniComi (a game by Nitroplus), was opened with the announcement of it being a TV anime. On the same day, the opening video for the so called TV anime was released on YouTube by NitroPlusChannel. This opening is essentially the entire anime. The title is a clear reference to Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magika, a TV anime which screenplay was written by a Nitroplus staffer Urobuchi Gen, who also got credited for screenplay for this anime on the official page. No screenplay was ever written, of course.
6.3Shehata Abu Kaff, goes to Cairo to play for Zamalek club. The club buys him an apartment, but the owner sells the apartment to him and to another lady.
6.9Explore the myths and legends that inhabit the real world of Harry Potter. Follow award-winning documentary filmmakers as they offer insights to witches, wizards, Greek gods, ancient Celts, ghosts, magical creatures, alchemy, and ancient spells. Narrated by British actor Hugh Laurie, this fascinating documentary brings new dimensions to the historical and scientific world behind the Harry Potter series.
6.1Iron Man enlists the help of ruthless vigilante the Punisher to track down War Machine's murderer. All the while, he's being pursued by S.H.I.E.L.D. agents Black Widow and Hawkeye, who suspect his involvement in a recent terrorist plot.
0.0The larger themes of life have slowly found their way into Goedemondt's small, safe world. He wasn't been waiting for that at all. How long can you deal maturely with, for example, parenthood, the future, and death as a forty-something? If it's up to Goedemondt: quite a while. He still doesn't stop his childish shouting and ranting, and he still taunts, rebukes, resists, stuns and ignores. Can he get by in society with that behavior? He's quite hard headed about that.
0.0After a completely sold out and critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Festival, Andy is back with his brand new show, Bafflingly Optimistic. We’ve been visited by the Four Horsemen in the form of Disease, Death, War and overpriced Ketchup, so what hope can there be? Andy is Bafflingly Optimistic. 'For those who worry that we are going to hell in a handcart, Parsons will at least make you enjoy the ride' - The i
6.2Emmy-winning actor, writer, and comedian Brett Goldstein brings his irresistible charm and quick wit stateside for his first HBO stand-up special. Best known for the hit shows "Ted Lasso" and "Shrinking", Goldstein sheds his testy Roy Kent façade to share his hilarious insights on love, sex, masculinity, "Sesame Street", and everything in between.
7.1Taped live before a sold-out audience at the WaMu Theater at New York Citys Madison Square Garden, Ricky Gervais: Out of England The Stand-Up Special is a high-spirited hour of offbeat observations and understated humor from the actor/comedian/writer/director.
0.0Nina, a 30 year-old comedian, is haunted by an embarrassing viral video that left her in a creative slump. After abandoning her office job, with the doom of debt and the pressure to decide what to do with her life, Nina tries to dominate the art of surviving the biggest scam: adulthood.
6.6Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his rude, crude and slightly demented posse of puppets to Ireland for a gleeful skewering of family and politics.
4.0Danish singer and comedian Annika Aakjaer first one woman show.
10.0Fin Taylor's debut comedy special, recorded live at The Leicester Square Theatre in London.
6.0We fired our press release writer. He wanted 5K to write a text. Believe it! Does this guy think we can't spell? Tss... Racist! Anyway, we're doing a new show. It's time to sit down and get some wisdom crammed into your heads. If you don't listen, you're gonna be bro-style. If you don't listen, you're gonna be bro-style. The show is so sick that even the Ministry of Education has approved it as a PhD in wisdom. I swear they have! Well... come on... we live in Denmark honestly there is nothing else to do anyway! And we have made sure that the ticket price is cheap so a whole bro family of 9 has enough pairs to see the show! Seriously!!!
0.0Jatty perfoms a stand-up special in New York City.
7.0The young and extremely talented Uruguayan comedian Facu Díaz, known for personally writing the synopsis of his shows, returns to the road with a monologue full of observations that contribute between zero and nothing, typical of a person with a lot of time on his hands (Campos Elíseos Theater, Bilbao, Spain, June 2023.)
8.0Dara Ó Briain's stand-up show filmed live at London's Eventim Apollo. Topics include virtual reality, having too much technology at home and handling reports of your own demise.
6.0In keeping with tradition, the popular comedy show is back, and this time it is Red Barnet that is behind it. This year's hosts are Michael Schøt and Christian Fuhlendorff.
6.0Actor/Comedian Patrice Oneal performs stand-up in this comedy special.
6.3Dane Cook's smash-hit show Rough Around The Edges is an energetic powerhouse stand-up performance recorded live in front of a packed house at Madison Square Garden.
7.0Chris Rock takes the stage filled with searing observations on fatherhood, infidelity and politics.
7.0The great American comedian Jackie Mason entertains a celebrity audience including Bruce Forsyth, Barry Humphries, Henry Cooper and Michael Winner.
0.0Human genetics is one of the most exciting fields in science at the moment. Not only does it advance exponentially fast, it is also a field of study that will very soon affect our daily lives. We will all have to deal with the possibilities and technologies that human genetics have to offer, today and in the coming years. Quite a few questions and dilemmas still have to be answered by us. Do I want to know everything that can be found out from my DNA? And who is allowed to use and read my genetic code? My doctor? The police? The chef of my favourite restaurant? Also, what genetic technologies do I want to use? Do I want to clone my dog, choose my children’s eye colour, or genetically modify them to give them extra talents? Do I want others in society to be allowed to do that? The current and future possibilities of human genetics are simply overwhelming. They are both promising and frightening, chilling and delightful.