The corner of another world

Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. The film, it's many ways excellent, it's a sensitive biopic, spot-on drama on true life and a very detailed take on the 60s US space program. The life of an astronaut however is somewhat boring at times and they have it there as well.

Pain will journey with us

Basically it's just a story of the first dog. This dude 20,000 years ago gets lost from his tribe and by sheer accident tames a wild dog. And alright little thing because dogs are nice and our ancestors are pretty cool as well.

Forever bothering individuals

Tiny Marvel creatures are fighting for a superior quantum technology in molecular disequilibrium. I grew tired of the story after the first 15 minutes, but finished the rest of the movie because I had nothing better to do and I still had hope it would turn into something good. Fat chance.

Parched by the sun

A grumpy old man gets even more grumpier when his wife kicks the bucket. With nothing looming on the horizon, he prepares to die himself, making his own coffin and all. However when there's his granddaughter knocking on the door, things are about to change. Hard to get too offended by drama comedies where the acting bit is done with passion, but offers so little otherwise.

Never go on vacation

A documentary of two Finnish businesses. The other one - selling pulled oats - is a groundbreaking, inventive, modern company trying to reach international markets. And the other one sells heirloom meat and runs a derelict funfair in small Finnish villages. The movie displays the sheer hard work and extra dose of energy that is needed in entrepreneurship. And the toll it sometimes quite dramatically takes.

The wizard of thousand kings

They defend this movie saying it's 'fun' which is pretty desparate because everyone else seems to be shouting it's a travesty of the original Venom, the graphic novel of pretty violent and vile nature. I don't read graphic novels, so I don't care, but to me the funniness in the movie was just tasteless and the creature merely a household pet.

Ritches to the conjurer

The writer/author Ari Aster knows his art. Hereditary is quite near perfect old-school horror. It's rich in oppressing dark ambience, it tickles your mind with sudden shocking thrills and disturbing silent moments, allusive mysticism, ghosts and spirits. One of those movies you want to see immediately again to find and pinpoint all the hidden clues that lead to the resolution in the ending.

Slaves of lust

It ain't too tempting to be a prisoner in a Thai Department of Corrections. Heroin addict Billy Moore's last straw of survival is his boxing skills. A Prayer Before Dawn is fair and square prison movie, it looks pretty grim although I suspect doing time in Thailand is in fact even worse. In the risk of losing authenticity however I wish they'd they had done something with the story, it's a bit thin to be honest.

It's boring to talk to a corpse

There's a monster roaming around northern England. American David survives a werewolf attack, but according to a friend, Jack, who is caught up in a limbo between life and death, David will become a lycanthrope himself when the moon is full. Directed by John Landis in 1981 and it's still pretty funky and cool. And you realize its importance once you've read some trivia of the film (first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Make-up, John Landis' personal favorite film of his own, influential to Michael Jackson's Thriller video, and so on).

A killer dressed up as a hero

Confusingly fast-paced thriller of U.S. intelligence people after five pounds of highly dangerous nuclear powder. The story is suffocated under a chaotic cinematography and it's boring in its highspeed nonsense and mindless action.

Shake a tail feather

British secret service agency MI7 has been cyberattacked exposing all its secret agents therefore they need to call for a retired agent to find the terrorist. Johnny English is the man to save the British Intelligence from total humiliation and through chaos and 'funny' shit he gets things done. I have nothing against the Johnny English franchise or Rowan Atkinson comedy at such, but it is getting more and more embarrassing. At least it didn't make me laugh, not once, so perhaps my sense of humour is outdated and I am a humourless git for evermore.

An offering of blood

I haven't paid too much attention on how many Saw movies have been made because the only one that made a difference is the debut. Jigsaw is another sequeal and even though I read that the notorious culprit was killed in one of the previous sequels, he's quite well alive and murderous again. Trivial horror soap opera.

Fuhgedaboudit

FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone had to be involved in heinous things to gain confidence from crime family. Donnie Brasco is one of the greatest - yet oddly forgotten - mafia movies of all time. It's quite brutal, and the short, violent and fiery gangsta life full of paranoia is depicted to perfection. And still Al Pacino's role as a kind of sympathetic main guy stands out.

Brush the dust away

Five Yankee mercenaries have a plan to execute a heist worth of few hundred million dollars and kill a bad Brazilian drug lord. They've really thought it through, they are true professionals, it would be a miracle of anything would go wrong. However halfway through the mission they turn into morons and everything turns to shit. I don't get it how they lost so much potential in so little time in this movie. The first 30 minutes in and I thought I was in a one of the best action movies of the year, but it turned into a pretty laughable farce to be honest.

Storm the gates of the fallen ones

Robert McCall is a cab (or Lyft) driver, but whenever he has free time keeps himself occupied with neighborhood watch. Be it kidnapped children, yuppies messing with date drugs, hustlers on the block, or illegal graffiti, he's on the case. However when his friend is brutally murdered he steps into a dangerous world of international crime. The film continues where The Equalizer (#1) left off. All in all a very thin story, nothing too memorable or mind-blowing, but kind of fun and good enough.

Humans are parasites

Tina is a kooky and misshapen customs official who senses or smells if something ain't quite up to the norm. She's so sensitive in fact that the local police department quite happily utilizes her skills. However Tina ain't too happy with her current life, living deep in the woods in Sweden with her boring husband. She likes the wildlife alright, bonds with foxes and wolves and all the other Nordic creatures. Until she meets another troll-like human, bestial instincts ignite and bizarre truth of things unfold. Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One in) novel and this modern fairytale is both disgusting and scary.

Living according to bitchy mood swings

A writer with a crippling writer's block and an actress making an international career are a couple. The author hasn't done shit for his career the past few years and the actress, against her true beliefs, gets trifling roles in motion pictures. They are both frustrated and suffocated in their own artistry. The director Aleksi Salmenperä is the greatest Finnish director on the field right now, Tyhjiö equals his best works Häiriötekijä (2015) and Paha Perhe (2010). Full of crazy painful irony and witty chuckles.

Power to the people

Such a big fuzz about nothing. Started out great, but somewhere along the line BlacKkKlansman lost its focus and Spike Lee's inability as a director took the reins. Important - still valid - issues, historical embarrassments, were scrutinized and the first half of the movie looked so much like an entertaining motion picture without the underlining political agenda that took hold later and where the entertaintment simply just vanished. Lots of potential, but fucked itself blind.

From chaos to glory

One of the funniest mini series that I have ever seen. Probably won't go down to the people who haven't witnessed the absurd world in the ferries between Finland and Sweden in real life. The fact that this tragicomedy stirred in a bowl of black humour is actually out there day-in-day-out makes it even more funnier.