Duck is not a knife

Four Navy Seals in close combat against approximately two hundred Taleban soldiers. Kind of revealing title the film has, but what the heck, I was thoroughly entertained. Them two hours felt like few minutes as we watch limbs torn apart and heads blown off. Realizing when the end credits roll that this was - more or less, probably fucklots less - based on a true story, it's rather difficult to come to terms with it.

Collateral murder

In the end, Julian Assange is just a whistleblower, therefore a film after film that's been produced lately of him, is highly excessive. I honestly think that he's done good, revealed important secretive documents that in a real and honest world should easily knock off few governments and lock up hundreds of key figures and kingpins in the ivory towers of modern society. But not here, so Julian Assange will be remembered - until entirely forgotten - just as a journalist of sort. Benedict Cumberbatch does an excellent job portraying this only slightly eccentric character, but otherwise the movie was a big fucking bore.

Springbreak for adults

Upper-class American families having their vacations at the Hamptons. A drama comedy where I kept waiting on a cue to laugh or otherwise enjoy, but it never happened. Missed the Hamptons episode of Seinfeld while I watched this shit.

Like a lemming to a party

A 4-disc collection of Louis Theroux's finest documentaries. Pretty clever shit and the highlights (Louis and the Nazis, Gangsta Rap, Black Nationalism) are somewhat legendary as well. His silent intellectual style does wonders in most cases, but a few episodes were a bit lusterless and lacking in coherence.

Stay off the rooftop

Two lawyers (Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall) defend the suspect (Denis Moschitto) of a terrorist act in London. The plot thickens as things get a bit shady and they find out it wasn't just a simple bomb killing 120 people. I almost dozed off at the 20 minute mark of this conspiracy theorists' wet dream.

Some sort of bioluminescence

Astronauts venture to study Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, and they soon realize that wasn't the best idea. That they were probably better off doing something else like having a picnic at the Central Park or enjoying a cup of coffee at Khao San Road perhaps.

Everybody goes somewhere

Had there been the original Jack Ryan Harrison Ford at the helm, it wouldn't have helped too much. But honestly, this kid, this baby boyscout, Chris Pine, took the remaining life away from the flawed yet workable script.

The fog is poison

Well, I got The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire in my cv. Yippee. I reckon, I could have done the two and half hours doing something else. Charity work maybe. Fishing. Selling myself for a nickel. Any would do. Well, at least I drank a few glasses of argentinian red wine, desperately trying to drank myself to sleep.

Shave is as good as night's sleep

A whole bunch of people investigates beloved reverend's murder. An Elia Kazan film, so I though it would be a knock-out B&W classic and for some it sure is, but to me and most of the others really, the real appeal is that this is a 40s picture and you try to see how things looked back then and how people spoke, dressed and behaved.

Every dollar is green

I do not follow baseball and I am not a particular fan of movies with a sport as an underlying theme. But, hell, this thing, 42, it came from nowhere and hit a homerun. Very decent. Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, the first ever black baseball player in major league series (the year is 1947) and Harrison Ford as the owner of Brooklyn Dodgers.

Constant zero curvature

Set in Monaco, a cocktail of Russian, French and Yankee espionage fuckery. Struggle for sex, money and power. I was bored bored bored.

Carnival of pain

Teachers are the cornerstone of our civilization. They made this quite sombre little movie of those heroes who guide our youth that portrays the unthankful living hell they oftentimes have to deal with. A nice cast too w/ Adrian Brody,  James Caan, William Peterson (who I reckon doesn't say a word and ain't seen much), Lucy Liu, Tim Blake Nelson, Marcia Gay Harden and Bryan Cranston.

Big face, small razor

At some random Sundays I occasionally catch up with classic movies that has passed my radar. I didn't even realize I hadn't watched North by Northwest before, but I enjoyed it alright, not - like you all say - Alfred Hitchcock's finest piece, but a piece alright.

King Midas's idiot brother

A thriving folk musician - often frequented by a cat - jumping from one gig to another. Trademark Joel and Ethan Coen in lots of ways; quirky characters, marvellously penned dialogue and simply outstanding cinematography (hit a pause button and you have a piece of art before your very eyes). Maybe Inside Llewyn Davis is a classic in few years time, it however is one of their better works.

A mystery of unanswered questions

I had almost watched this like a few thousand times. Now that I finally did so, it left me no impact whatsover. A praised and adored motherfucker, but I still think German cinema is a bit of a drag.

Age is an abstraction, not a straitjacket

A lovely little film of a very resilient father and a husband (fantastic James Cromwell) fighting against the inevitable death and dying and the rules and regulations of a modern society.

Truth has no temperature

Starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rosie Perez, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. Written by Cormac McCarthy and directed by Ridley Scott. That should do it, the heavyweights should pull it together with ease, but I haven't seen such incoherent piece of shit for a very long time. This is a weird thriller loaded with pseudo-intellectual dialogue that makes the actors struggle so hard that you'd be ashamed for them if you weren't laughing your ass off.

Sometimes the smartest officers do the stupidest things

The surprise of the year. At first, I thought of getting uber-patriotic series in the vein of 24, Homeland, The Unit or some such shit, but this was something else. This was wickedly entertaining Cold War espionage fucker that looks authentic and that took unpredictable sometimes shockingly brutal turn of events. My new favourite series and I can't wait for the upcoming seasons.