Saturday, November 28, 2015

Hug a hobo

Couple of petty car thieves are destined to foster a 10-year old boy after his mother commits suicide. The movie is fishing for sympathy and little laughs, but it's just terribly executed.

Just hungering to feast on the flesh of man

Nazi zombies are on a mission that was never completed on WWII, so they are about to strike a small Norwegian village Talvik and slaughter its citizens, wipe it out completely. But with the help from the Zombie Squad, the locals create an army of their own (enter Russian zombie prisoners). Red vs Dead is just about as senselessly cool as its predecessor.

Monday, November 23, 2015

Fishing for sympathy

Nick Hathaway (Chris Hemsworth) is a cyber bully, but opts to fight with the good guys against evil cyber terrorists. I usually am a fan of Michael Mann's pieces, and at best this has reminiscences of his cool inimitable style, but unfortunately the story itself is a flawed bore and the actors can't deliver.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

Towards news disappointments

Wonderful homegrown documentary of players from an ice hockey team playing at Division II, the fourth level of competetive hockey in Finland. The guys who love their sport yet most of them have to cope with washed-up dreams or somehow keeping the dream alive.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

It's that stitcher

Makes a new meaning of being in "someone else's shoes". I guess this is one of those funny and harmless little movies that you watch at bottomless ease - might even enjoy a bit - and forget as soon as you let go.

Most app to succeed

A movie that solely focuses on tits and asses and balls and cocks and grade B jokes probably is overwhelming joy to some, I had difficulty breathing in disgust. Finnish comedy is at its lowest at the moment.

This is not a normal day

As shitty as they come sometimes, catastrophe movies are always welcomed. Here a bludgeoning earthquake hits the California State and people with willpower and knowledge seem to cope it with ease. Sure enough, the predictable story stinks to high heaven, but it's pretty entertaining while it lasts. It's pure popcorn with a trademark American pathos ending.

You better start singing Dixie

I still don't know what to make of this series. In many ways it disappoints me. It somewhat annoys me that it's almost great, but only almost, and the actors almost have charisma. And the issues of aplenty relationships are unnecessary in a western series. At least, I think that you don't need wishy-washy romance to make entertainment when there's cowboys and indians lurking in every doorway.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

We all are vulnerable and at war

Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) runs a legimate heating & oil business, but people around him - partners, competitors, lawyers, mobsters and cops - seem all to be no-good pains in the asses, so much in fact that it seems like it's a one man against the whole early 80s tumultuous New York. A decent enough a movie (actually, looks tremendously cool), not much to complain, other than that it sometimes seemed that the story didn't go anywhere, probably it did but I was too bored to notice.

The saints never give up

The feelgood movie of the night. Bill Murray has a magical touch when it comes to bringing sort of carefreeness into things around him. This time round his character Vincent teams up with a young new neighbour Oliver. And it's all good fun with some underlying serious issues of parenthood, poverty and being good to people around you building towards the end. Mr. Murray's talent is best witnessed when the credits roll and he's seen having a cigarette, hosing his dead garden plant and singing "Shelter From The Storm" by Bob Dylan.

Sunday, November 08, 2015

A wedding photographer who only takes selfies

I don't much follow stand-up comedy, but thanks to recommendation, I have a new performing hero now. Brilliantly vulgar jokes executed in fantastic deadpan style.

Back to the reeds

Can't say anything positive of this total and utter garbage. A trademark Finnish farce that is sadly unfunny. It doesn't go to my head why they are making movies like this. A fucking mystery of the highest fucking order.

No sin goes unpunished

Of all the Liam Neeson movies where he plays a tough-as-nails character (Taken, Non-Stop, A Walk Among Tombstones, The Grey, et al.) I reckon this is his strongest one yet. A solid built crime thriller with a high figure ammunition and body count, comes also with lots of likeable, memorable and strong characters.

Friday, November 06, 2015

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter

Finished in 1941, so I watched so much at the out of date items such as telephones, guns, tobacco, curtains, automobiles and common wardrobe that I almost forgot to follow the story. It's about a private dick (Humphrey Bogart) looking for a golden statue of a bird once given from Maltese royalty to a Spanish one. These timepieces, they always give you something special and extra.

The plains of silence

Worth every word of appraisal I heard before seeing the fucker. One of the most ball-grabbing and hair-raising and breath-taking movies ever released. Truly high-octane action engulfed in almost unspeakable visuality. Stunning.

Sunday, November 01, 2015

Abducted in Monitoba

A podcast host (Justin Long) in quest for a juicy headline story travels to Canada and comes across a man who desires to turn his unsuspecting guests into walruses. Kevin Smith's horror and comedy are combined into a sadistic mush, Johnny Depp does a cameo yet it's altogether rather a disappointing film.

All this and more

A stand-up comedian struggles to co-parent his autistic son. A simple story, seen many times before, but solid and entertaining little flick...