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Online trolls get their just deserts in black comedy The Columnist


Evil star Katja Herbers), a Dutch newspaper columnist, is dealing with writers’ block, and facing daily waves of harassment from online trolls, thanks in part to her personal campaign for civility in public discourse. Meanwhile, her daughter (Claire Porro) is launching her own benefit at school to raise awareness of freedom of speech being threatened around the world, and Femke is struggling to stay off social media for her own mental health. But when she reports violent threats being made against her to the police, she’s met with a patronizing recommendation to to “not look at those websites any more.” Instead, she notices that one of her trolls lives nearby, and begins to research the people abusing her online.

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The Columnist movie review & film summary (2021)


One of the first pieces of advice you’ll get when faced with social media harassment is to not engage. Don’t give trolls your time and energy. Don’t try to dunk on vitriolic bots because fighting back seems natural. Better to mute offending accounts, log off until the storm blows over, and move on. But in Ivo van Aart’s revenge thriller “The Columnist,” our hero escalates the tension by showing up to her harassers’ residences and confronting them about their actions. Then, she fights verbal violence with physical violence. 
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Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is the type of feminist writer many trolls often target. Whether she writes about mundane things or political social issues, Boot is constantly under attack online, a situation that’s only getting worse. At first, she threatens to leave social media, but the hate keeps pouring in. She tries to report the harassment to the police, but no one takes her fears of online death threats and violence seriously. Soon, she’s consumed by the internet vitriol, unable to put her phone down in a warped masochistic version of doom scrolling. Her obsession with what strangers say about her online threatens her relationship with her high school daughter (Claire Porro) and a new boyfriend (Bram van der Kelen) who also happens to be a writer and understands some of what she’s going through. Finally, she snaps and takes actions into her own hands by killing her harassers one-by-one. After the deed is done, she severs off the troll’s middle finger as a souvenir from each troll who once used it to make her life difficult. 

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'The Columnist' Review: Confessions of a Female Troll Hunter


‘The Columnist’ Review: Confessions of a Female Troll Hunter
A writer slaughters her online nemeses in this low-stakes serial killer movie from the Netherlands.
Don’t mess with writers: Katja Herbers in Ivo van Aart’s “The Columnist.”Credit...Film Movement
By Beatrice Loayza
The Columnist
Comedy, Crime, Drama
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A writer is thrown into the cyber snake pit when her op-ed criticizing Black Pete — a traditional Dutch Christmas character who typically appears in blackface — is published. Suddenly, swarms of disinhibited men inundate her Twitter account with death threats and misogynist nastiness. Oh, to be a woman online.

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Katja Herbers and Achraf Koutet are Affected by Their Difference in Opinions in The Columnist Exclusive Clip


Katja Herbers and Achraf Koutet are Affected by Their Difference in Opinions in The Columnist Exclusive Clip
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Actress Katja Herbers stars in director Ivo van Aart’s crime horror film, ‘The Columnist.’
Actress Katja Herbers is taking matters into her own hands by fighting back against the people who are defaming her in the the upcoming Dutch horror movie, ‘The Columnist.’ The performer’s eponymous protagonist of Femke Boot has become so stressed out and consumed by the hate-filled messages she’s been receiving on social media that she decides to strike back against her attackers in real life.

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Review: Newspaper writer goes on killing spree in 'The Columnist'


Review: Newspaper writer goes on killing spree in 'The Columnist'
Dutch satire plays with issues of internet decorum and freedom of speech
Adam Graham
Don't read the comments. 
It's a lesson in self-preservation that media types have learned in the internet age when dealing with the angry vitriol that comes from comments sections and social media postings. In the witty Dutch satire "The Columnist," a newspaper writer makes the mistake of reading her feedback, and goes on a murder spree to exact revenge on the readers voicing their ugly and dissenting views about her and her columns.
Katja Herbers is terrific as Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist and struggling author whose publisher is asking for chapters on her new book. She becomes obsessed with her online haters and when she discovers one of them is her neighbor — he smiles to her face and waves from next door — she pushes him off his rooftop and watches him plummet to his death. As a trophy, she takes a finger from him — his middle finger. Hey, no one ever said she didn't have a sense of humor. 

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Confront a Computer Troll in Our Exclusive Clip from THE COLUMNIST


Confront a Computer Troll in Our Exclusive Clip from THE COLUMNIST
Anyone who's battled an online troll will be able to relate to our exclusive clip from THE COLUMNIST!
In
The Columnist, a writer is pushed to the brink of insanity by malicious internet trolls. (I’ve got no idea what that feels like. Nope, not one bit!). Look for the film this Friday (May 7th) via Virtual Cinema, VOD, and Digital. A DVD release will follow on May 11th.
Evil, Westworld), confronts a particularly nasty man in our exclusive clip below the trailer and synopsis!
Synopsis:
In this darkly funny horror film, Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is a columnist and writer suffering from endless abusive posts and death threats on social media. Femke is obsessed by these hate-filled messages and spends every moment checking her Twitter feed. This obsession consumes her life and her work suffers as she fails to write her columns and novel. One day, all her pent-up anger and frustration explode in a moment of shocking and unexpected violence.

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THE COLUMNIST MOVIE REVIEW


THE COLUMNIST MOVIE REVIEW
Director: Ivo van Aart
Writer: Daan Windhorst
Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC,
Opens: May 7, 2021
This Dutch treat has a special resonance for me. A film reviewer who is a member of my critics’ group has been known to be a contrarian. He delivers his opinions and does not try to be different from others, but often he just is. As a result he had caused movies on Rotten Tomatoes to be 99% fresh or, in converse, to cause movies that are 99% rotten to be fresh. All this occurred during the years that Rotten Tomatoes allowed people to comment on the reviews, a nice, democratic policy, but young people (mainly) being young people, scores of folks probably in high school resented his “ruining” a picture by depriving it of the rare 100% accolades. They tormented him on the computer with comments that got nastier by the week and went overboard. Some began calling him at his home at all hours. I don’t know how he resolved this dilemma, but Rotten Tomatoes took action and no longer allows any comments.

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Downloads and streaming: Films and series to watch at home


Downloads and streaming: Films and series to watch at home
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Published: 13:00, 13 March 2021
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The Columnist (Cert 15, 84 mins)
Available from March 15 on Amazon Prime Video/BT TV Store/iTunes/Sky Store/TalkTalk TV Store and other download and streaming services)
The Columnist: Katja Herbers as Femke Boot. Picture: PA Photo/Vertigo Releasing.
Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is a mild-mannered Dutch newspaper columnist, who draws on personal experience for her work.
One opinion piece about a neighbour, who blithely flouts political correctness by performing in blackface, elicits a torrent of abuse on social media channels.

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The Columnist review - taking out the trolls

The Columnist review - taking out the trolls
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The Columnist review – middle class mum on a murder spree


Last modified on Thu 11 Mar 2021 10.45 EST
To paraphrase Nietzsche: gaze too long into Twitter, and Twitter will gaze into you. Anyone who writes for a living on the internet has surely fantasised about payback time for all the keyboard warriors, callous below-the-liners and unrepentant trolls out there. Ivo van Aart’s movie gives full rein to that desire and is snappily directed – but in the end there is something self-satisfied and sententious about his feminist revenge flick.
Katja Herbers plays Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist drowning in internet misogyny, especially after she steps out of her usual lifestyle remit to write an op-ed about Zwarte Piet, the Dutch blackface folkloric character. Her book publisher is pressurising her for juicier material to better compete with author-of-the-hour Steven Dood (Steven Death), a kohl-rimmed provocateur who savages her on a chatshow. Umbilically fed by her phone on a diet of shitposter abuse, she finally snaps when she realises her neighbour – partial to some Zwarte Piet himself – is one of her tormentors.

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