Mediatips: the new season of ‘Black Mirror and more

Dark Side of Tech

The often jet -black science fiction series Black Mirror For six seasons for six seasons, the impact of modern and future technology on humanity. The message that the internet and tech bring out the worst in people was often hammered in, without offering a solution. For season 7, makers Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones took a less dystopian and more ’emotional’ series. Every episode is a separate story with a new cast. For the first time there is a follow -up episode: ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity’, partly a homage to the series Rigid traitis the sequel to an episode from season 4. In this season there are roles for Paul Giamatti, Cristin Milioti, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin and Awkwafina, among others.

Thijs Schrik

(Un) completed life

According to the father of Iris (Julia Akkermans) you are always or too late or too early opting for euthanasia. He would rather be too early, so Jan (the two years ago died Johan Leysen) shared his daughter and son Ivan (Eelco Smits) at a collection curry that he intends to leave life at the age of 75. Before he becomes dependent on someone. Pink Moon (2022), The strong feature debut by Floor van der Meulen, dives into the given life, elderly people who want euthanasia without a medical cause. As a viewer you get the space to think about the questions that the characters raise. Is it really selfish to expect that a parent will continue to live for you? And what means that Jan cannot make clear his daughter and some viewers why he prefers this?

André Waardenburg

Gothic trip through Deep South

South of Midnight Starts with a hurricane. When the young black runner Hazel walks outside to see how the neighbors are doing, she has to watch her house and her mother dragged by the water. Then Hazel discovers that she has secret powers, anchored in local history: from the slave to the slave who helped her predecessors to the bad ambitions of the rich land holders where she is related to the father’s side. In terms of game South of Midnight Nothing special – you climb and fight and destroy corruption in the landscape. Where this game excels is in the fantastic stop-motion animation style, where the characters move like clay tops, and the atmospheric exploration of the folklore and history of the American Deep South.

Len Maessen

Wim T. Schippers’ Egmont

In Saturday matinee this time Egmont van Beethoven, performed by the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, the Groot Omroepkoor and told by Wim T. Schippers. Egmont is a composition of individual music pieces on a text by Goethe about the prelude to the Eighty Years’ War. The text is about the Dutch Count Egmont and Egmont’s heroic beloved Klärchen, who has been created by Goethe. Schippers made a contemporary version of Goethe’s text. He tells and plays almost all roles. Imagine his Ernie-voice Sesame Street For which he lets Egmont say: « Stand, you brave people. Brave to death, in which I precede you, for what we are sacred: freedom. » He lets Klärchen sighed: « Oh, would I, in his arms, are not the happiest creature in the world? The great Egmont, which the newspapers are full of! Famous, brave, loved, praised. »

Vincent Bijlo

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