Nobody wears black panties to war

A group of well-doers (Aid Across Borders) are cleaning up wells from rotting corpses in war-torn Balkan region. In a conflict zone even finding a proper rope is a difficult - and dangerous - challenge, not only because of the war with warmongering people with guns and mines and whatnot, but petty UN jurisdictions as well. A great movie.

Acting is surviving

One of the greatest actors of all time. Eccentric - borderline crazy - outside and as for his private life he was very reclusive. Interestingly he recorded hours and hours of spoken audio tapes and this documentary goes 'em through and adds them up with snippets from his movies.

Innocent people don't run

The best [sic] pickpocketer of Paris is a yankee Michael Mason (Richard Madden) and he accidentally steals more than he bargained for. A bomb. And when there's a bomb in a city, there's a terrorist ring. So the French cops and the CIA cops want to bring the bad terrorist people down. Idris Elba makes everyone look like extras, no one else can act, he stands above the terribly plotholed story as well.

A magician's greatest strength is an empty fist

I remember fuck all, but I think I thought that Now You See Me (#1) was total crock of shit. Now. Double that.

Drenched days of summer

There's a backpack killer roaming about east of Caleis. One of the group of two hitchhikers and a couple living in a mansion apparently is the notorious serial killer. Perfectly ordinary mush.

It's only death

Season 4 of Vikings. It has a very good start and a decent enough ending, but fucklots of leeway in the middle. It seems like they are prolonging it for all the wrong reasons.

Please don't make fun of the disableds

David Brent, Ricky Gervais' character from the original The Office, is so deadpan awkward and embarrassing that you feel like wanting to crawl out of your own skin. And yet, he's still one of the greatest, honest and funniest characters ever created. Pure gold.

Never do anything by half

Irish buddies at school form a band - Sing Street - to become the next Duran Duran or Wham!. Even tho there's nothing that ain't said and done before, it's a perfectly watchable timepiece of the culture of the 80s and it's merely done by following the comings and goings of the wee band and the family life of the singer-songwriter.

Blue-blooded aristocrats

There's a law in this dystopian society somewhere in the near future where single unmarried people are needed to be hunted down and killed so they can resurrect as animals of their choosing. One of those bizarre movies, this. In most cases, they are stuck too deep in their weirdness and essentially fail to deliver anything entertaining. The Lobster, I'm afraid, is on that ballpark, a few interesting absurdities, but drivel otherwise.

They may already be among us

The truth about the cult of small town satanists is unraveling piece by piece. They can't believe their eyes when the dark and ghastly secrets of devil worshipping are revealed. Smart officer of the law (Ethan Hawke) is on the case, but something on it makes him question his own wits. This inspired-by-true-events -crap goes nowhere and when it tries to go somewhere it makes no fucking sense, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, resposible for one of the greatest horror movies The Others, so it's kind of sad.

Goblins and fairies up in the attic

In Grand Canyon a kid finds a secret Indian burial ground, violates a tomb and nicks a few ancient ritual stones. Big mistake. His family now is shit scared because a wicked Native American ghost is tresspassing their sweet suburban life as if their suburban problems weren't enough. To invent everyday problems the writer obviously took out a dictionary and highlighted the first ones that came up: adultery, alcoholism, anorexia and autism. And that's the script. Silly fucking thing.

Black as black

They kept saying everywhere that this was a miss. But fuck,  I enjoyed it aplenty. Based on a le Carré novel, so there's a guarantee to the story in that alone. And there's the close-enough-heavyweights - Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Damien Lewis - doing it. Some of the action had a little rushed feeling to it and because I cannot imagine the depth the actual novel has, I reckon I just have to read it now.

Very small, provincial, and mediocre

Copenhagen, Denmark, in the 70's. A group of eight friends with two children of whom one is terminally ill, decide to live together in a commune. It doesn't take too long until little cracks in the hippie lifestyle begin to take hold. A trademark Thomas Vinterberg film, wonderful realistic vibe with all life's joys and sorrows.

Rolling in the deep

To catch the criminal mastermind of Hong Kong known as 'The Matodor', the unlikeliest of pairs - a Chinese police officer and a sly yankee con artist - must team up. It's a buddy comedy and it's surprisingly well done, reminiscences of the great old Jackie Chan movies. Good move to the director, Renny Harlin (Cliffhanger, Die Hard II, Ford Fairlane) to set foot in China.

Shoveling snow in a blizzard

My doubts were unnecessary of the Breaking Bad spin-off. This is solid gold. The crazy cool attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) can bend the rules some, but he's hard-working, honest, loyal and funny. One of the most loveable characters in contemporary television.

Scorched earth tactics

A dysfunctional-family-get-together movie. There's an insecure-neurotic actress (Nicole Kidman), his brother, a writer with writer's block (Jason Bateman) and their parents (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett) who are all hyped up on weird avantgarde public performances. Tightropes between a melancholy drama and comedy and, despite great actors, falls down and fails way too often.

A fox in the henhouse

I like westerns even though the majority of them are of the downright average kind. Exactly like this. There are the good righteous people opposite the unlawful little fuckers. Everything is so black and white. Nothing out of ordinary to the stars of the show - Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland and Michael Wincott - all have plenty of this kind of shit on their resume.

Space guys

I get angry and frustrated and sometimes somewhat sad at the sheer stupidity of any religion. They are all nuts. At the same time I laugh at their expense. Like these scientology fuckers. They are mad, the lot of them. Absulutely fucking bonkers. Total idiots what-have-you.

Great knowledge comes from the humblest of origins

An ill-educated Indian accountant is good with numbers, so good in fact that the Cambridge professors want to see what he is made of. A true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, a rags-to-riches mathematician. A bit boring thing and I wish someone would finally figure out that there are other Indian actors than Dev Patel.

Present in an eternal moment

A.W. Yrjänä, poet and the frontman of Finnish band CMX, sits by the campfire and recites stories of Finnish mythology. Shamanistic humbug to some, but even so documents interesting anecdotes of animalistic nature religion and ancestral footprints.