A myriad of tumors

New York in the 1930s. Publisher/editor Max Perkins is caught in the crossfire of great minds of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. A cultural feature and literary enthusiasts suck it up like lollipop, no doubt. The cast (Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce and Dominic West) is great, but unfortunately their charisma can't quite kill the boredom.

Every loser's lucky day

A former long-haul convict and alcoholic gets fucking mad angry when his estranged daughter is pursued by some lowlife gang people. Mel Gibson at his best, borderline good guy, getting his revenge and setting things straight.

As night falls and a snowstorm rages

A divorced father takes his two sons on a manlihood expedition in wintry woods. Things go sideways and mental more than they bargained for, so the situation is kind of shitty. A survival story that in the end is a silly fucking movie.

Rhythms of light

Following the 7th season, forgot to drop a line of the previous one. Can't say I remember much of it, I guess it was pseudo-exciting.

Splitting pines

Couldn't have believed that outside the Hollywood millions they were able to muster a convincing catastrophe movie. Tsunami caused by collapsing mountain destroys a Norwegian village and people act accordingly. Some decent thrills here.

Operation Overlord

Based on a massive government funded fuck-up, a mining company Talvivaara's ecocatastrophe that polluted Finnish soil for ages to come. Bunch of creedy dickheads on the company management walked hand in hand with the high ranking officials of the political power sucking each others dicks while the true nature of things was coolheadedly buried in the slow-turning wheels of bureaucracy. Liked the movie alright tho.

Dances naked with the devil

I expected sumthin else. This was heralded somewhere as one the greatest - and scariest - contemporary horror films. But I didn't expect the story to progress at desperately slow speed. A religious family of seven is all confused when a little bit of witchcraft enters their lives. Set in New England, 1630. Despite the slowness, still decent.

Better than all dead

The fourth and final season of Banshee. Still one of the greatest televised shit, but the story here took a slightly different approach after three amazing seasons. I'm not personally too fond of storytelling that's emphasized on flashbacks and they cultivated quite a lot of that it here. Nevertheless, the greatest hidden gem out there, one of the best shows I've ever witnessed. Holds absolutely no barriers.

Sometimes the law can't give justice

World's best kept secret. I yet haven't figured out why no-one seems to know about this show. Not that it matters. It's better, crazier and more entertaining than all the rest of the contemporary television series.

Buy me a night on the town

Before the opening credits, knowing Ray Liotta was there, I noticed hoping he - for once - would do a perfectly normal role, a likeable character, a good guy. Fat chance. He's performing a small town scumbag messing everyone up. Otherwise an easily forgettable thriller. Fucking nothing to it.

Religion for intellectual atheists

Just what I expected. Eddie Redmayne does a splendid (Oscar awarded) job as cosmologist Stephen Hawking, but otherwise the movie is a fucken bore because the intellectual musings were left to surprisingly minimal.

Clowns should be tortured

One of those movies, the first minutes in and you know you're in for the enjoyment. What struck me first was the heavy Scottish English - like Trainspotting and everything Irvine Welsh has ever penned - bludgeoned to your ears from left and right. Then you see these amazing people doing their work - the acting - the way it should be done, you don't register it, you take it as it comes. The story is about a barber who is losing his customers until some accidental and serial killings occur. Brilliant bloody fun.

Burning dust

Tom Hanks is Alan, an IT consultant and he's called to work in Saudi Arabia. The local customs are a pain in the ass until his buddies taxi driver Yousef and doctor Zahra educate him to local ways. Liked this fine enough, Tom Hanks is - as always - fucking cool and even if there's nothing much of anything in the story, it's a good-looking film and delivers by just being there.

Born of death

Okay, it was bound to happen that they were going to replace the more experienced - versatile & better - actors (Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen) with much younger generation of teen idols. The quality of the X-men series thus does make a little nosedive, but luckily it's not that drastic as you fear. This time around the forefather of mutants from ancient Eqypt surfaces in the 80s and it kind of freaks everyone out. 

A moment in the ripple of time

This seemed familiar. Either I had seen it before or the X-men movie series has become repetitive. Either way, it's still amazing as shit. The freaks are in the past, in the 70s, to save the future from world downfall.