The faithless other side

Mysterious snowfall kills people. Thus begins quite an adventure where survivors battle an alien threat. El Eternauta (The Eternaut), created by Bruno Stagnaro, is an Argentine television series based on the comic by Héctor Gérman Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. Despite the excitement and horror, the show is incredibly beautiful to watch, one of the greatest apocalyptic little thingies. 

Head over heels

Any publicity is good publicity, but to confess to a murder you didn't commit to gain fame, reckon that's a bit excessive. A poor struggling actress Madeleine Verdier and her manager/lawyer Pauline Mauléon think it's a great idea to boost your career and showcase your talent in a courtroom. Soon others will follow suit. And it's a farce all written.

Repetition is hell

A college history professor Adam Bell (Jake Gyllenhaal) has a doppelgänger. Namely Anthony Claire (Jake Gyllenhaal), an actor. It makes a pretty weird yet curiously entertaining thriller. And there's a complicated ending. Enemy is a 2013 film directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Hard times for wicked dead hearts

Troma Entertainment movies are a different sort of boogie. Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High AKA Volume 2 (2017) is the fifth one in the Nuke 'Em High film series. It's disgusting and atrocious with lots of nudity, inappropriate human fluids and nuclear sludge. Classic exploitation filmmaking by Lloyd Kaufman.

Died a hundred times

Pretty groovy ghost story by Edgar Wright. Eloise is a fashion designer student with a too comfortable and close connection to 1960s London. Her life is drawn into murders in the past. Last Night in Soho is a visually arresting piece, truly bloody interesting, the fun died a little along the way, but an entertaining and unique movie. Brilliant soundtrack to boot.

A cold knife in the middle of the back

An ex-con is framed for an armored car robbery and he sets out to discover who set him up. Close to excellent film noir. A good story, great first thirty minutes, but anticlimactic narrative towards the end. Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, Neville Brand, Preston Foster, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef.

Love is the price

What a poor lad. Got mightily famous, got lost in the fucking success really. Pushed in all directions, projects and side projects and sessions, songs to write, shit to deliver, pretenders and hangers-on everywhere. Had probably a million things buzzin' in his head. Burned himself out. Big time. And couldn't take it anymore. Avicii, an enormously gifted young DJ and musician Tim Bergling from Stockholm, Sweden, chose to end his life in 2018, aged 28.

Beneath burning bridges

Bunch of young activists break into a furniture store to vandalize it to shit. Little do they know that it's guarded by a psychopath security officer who gets all fired up by these intruders. He stalks them, sets deadly traps and, most ridiculously, forces the activists to assemble a shelf even! Something else. This kind of slasher thing can be tasteless and delicious at the same time.

Pale paranoid opioids

Alongside a few other performing artists, Brian Epstein (1934-1967) was the manager of The Beatles. He had no experience of artist management before, but after witnessing them, he became a music entrepreneur in a twinkling of an eye. His story in Midas Man had a good thing going, but the film lost its focus just when something magical should be happening. Pretty outstanding performance by Jacob Fortune-Lloyd though.