There's animosity between the original villagers and a French family in a remote rural part of Galicia, Spain. Resentment, xenophobia and tensions simmer until ending in a shocking outcome. As Bestas, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, is definitely a slow burner film, but you are succumbed into its absorbing atmosphere. Incredible piece of work.
absinther
shitkicker
Saturday, March 16, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
It's just programming
Robots
took over the world. Humans are taking it back. However, AI’s last stand is
in New Asia and they’re about to launch a new war. The people of the
west need to eradicate AI and find its source, codename Nirmata, before
the end of human civilization. The Creator is popcorn entertainment,
it’s visually impressive and looks damn amazing, but the movie could have
been so much more if the story was more engaging and thought-out.
Monday, March 11, 2024
Subpoenaed six feet under ground
Mildred Gillars was known as Axis Sally. She was an American broadcaster employed by Nazi Germany to spread propaganda during World War II. Thus she was part of the war machine of the Third Reich. American Traitor follows her capture in post-war Berlin and her trial on charges of aiding the German war effort in the United States. Nothing special as a movie, but there's the historic interest and, as often, Al Pacino in a standout performance.
Friday, March 08, 2024
The lord of death
Raeford Morton Renfield is Count Dracula's servant. After their adventures in the old Europe, they're now residing in New Orleans hoping for improvement to their lives. With a little difference. Renfield hopes his normal life back and a feeling of belonging to the world. Count Dracula wants world domination. Renfield, by Chris Mckay, is utterly funny take on the characters Bram Stoker created. Nicolas Cage shines as the prince of Wallachia and the movie is just brilliant bloody good time.
Face in the war machine
In Jordan, there's a secret facility for terrorists. Bad people are locked up and interrogated there. When the place in infiltrated, it becomes even worse. Luckily the system is built up so amazingly that it explodes two hours after its security is breached. Abigail "Abby" Trent (Michelle Monaghan) is the master hunter and Hatchet (Jason Clarke) is the hunted and they have a gunfight in the bunkers. Black Site is some next level espionage shit, but clichéd, loopholed and generic to no end.
Sailors of the last hour
The Rebels of PT-218 is
a movie where nothing works. Not a single thing. The actors, they’re
all shite. Cinematography is a humbug mess. It's on the low end of B grade movies. Absolute good-for-nothing.
Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Steadfast as the stars
A 1939 film directed by William A. Wellman. Starring Gary Cooper, Ray
Milland, Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy and Susan Hayward. Three
brothers, who fifteen years earlier were suspected of a jewel thief,
join French Foreign Legionnaires and they are up against the
disciplinary rules, attacks by Tuaregs and the desert heat. Even by
today’s standards, Beau Geste is a solid adventure piece.
Monday, March 04, 2024
A prophecy of heart-shaped world
It's dark and violent, but still smiling on the inside. A little thing, like a wee girl wanting a blue bicycle instead of a red, escalates into a violent confrontation of a criminal motorcycle gang and an army officer with bunch of offbeat scientists for a company. Riders of Justice (Retfærdighedens ryttere), by Anders Thomas Jensen, is an action-packed Danish revenge movie and underneath its straight-forward rumble is a more emotional and humorous tone.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The way of the flesh
They're shipping violent criminals from The Philippines to South Korea and the prisoners are trying to get control of the ship. They soon however have a common enemy, someone or something called Alpha, in the ship. And it turns bloody and ugly. Too bad it's the only thing Kim Hong Sun's Project Wolf Hunting has to offer.
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Ghosts of the blazing Sun
There's animosity between the original villagers and a French family in a remote rural part of Galicia, Spain. Resentment, xenophobia an...