Seize your fucking existence

Richard has stage four lung cancer. He's got 6 to 18 months to live and somehow has to come to terms with his impending death. Drinking, not giving a shit and mending broken relationships are his way of living the remaining last days to the fullest and saying goodbye to the loved ones and all the assholes of the earth. The movie is funnier than it sounds.

Too many hallucinogenic cactuses

Martin's movie script of seven psychopaths ain't going nowhere, but with a little help from a hyperactive friend and a kidnapped Shi Tzu, the story eventually writes itself. A groovy and violent comedy with some genuine laughs where particularly Christopher Walken and Tom Waits are on fire.

Their wretched demise

It should have been lovely time. A recently engaged couple take a hiking trip in Swedish wilderness, a little together time before their first child is born. But wouldn't you know it, the fucken thing turns into a sadistic game of revenge! A gory little thriller, altho' it has a painfully pointless story without likeable characters.

In a bubble of satisfaction

They hardly are sympathetic buddies, the junkies. Finnish Joonas, Antti and Jani go all crazy in Thailand and Cambodia with all the cheap drugs and prostitutes, getting confused with something real and fantasy. Joonas Neuvonen, the film maker, documents the drugged-up life, returns home alone and a few months later comes back only to find out the other friend is dead and the other is nowhere to be found. The sequel to Reindeerspotting (2010), could easily have been to edited to mere 20 minutes as a whole, lots of useless footage masqueraded as a movie.

Out of the depths, for the greater good

The kid sees dead people and nobody believes him. Psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is there to help him, but unfortunately he has problems of his own. The Sixth Sense (1999) is still M. Night Shyamalan's most complete piece, only marginally flawed, cool atmospheric horror.

Almost anyone is capable of a crime

I hope this wasn't just a swan song and more seasons are on the way. I really liked the scruffy and hardboiled version of Perry Mason, an L.A. private eye/lawyer who lives with two cows, smokes and drinks heavily, but at the same time is observative, smart and honest. Matthew Rhys as the private dick once again proves his talent.

Disturbed by a restless soul

The villagers call her a witch, or a nazi witch, the lone folklorist doing her research and writing her books in a county of Kent during World War II. She is sent a boy Frank, an evacuee from London, the city that is attacked by German bombers every so often. It's a nice drama doused with intriguing folklore, sadness, heart warming moments and a surprise twist.

Love the land and fellow man

I don't think I've seen Tom Hanks in a western movie before. In News of the World he's Captain Kidd, a town-to-town newsreader and a Civil War veteran. On one of his journeys, he comes across a German girl Johanna (Helena Zengel) who was captured by indians and raised by their tribe for few years. Captain Kidd tries to find the most appropriate solution for her life. Nothing too memorable, a rather predictable story, but worth a watch.

She took them both to the grave

Nisse wants bury his wife secretly and in private. But the news of her death travel fast and Nisse fears unwanted guests will arrive at the funeral. He figures it's not anyone else's business. Not Klaus Härö's greatest piece, but compassionate drama of death. Translates to Life After Death.

Be gone before the echo fades

A CIA analyst Jack Ryan is being hunted down by an Irish terrorist for killing his brother and interrupting a perfecly good assassination. But when his whole family is at stake, Jack Ryan helds no barriers and leaves no stone unturned unti the Irish goon is captured or killed. Patriot Games, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, James Earl Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Harris, is one of the early nineties action thrillers that still stands the test of time.

Violence and retribution

Even though Russell Crowe is past his Maximus Decimus Meridius physique, he hasn't lost the menacing and defiant presence and makes an excellent, truly frightening, psycho as The Man, a stranger who takes road rage into a whole new level. He creates chaos and death on and off the highway. Unhinged is a damn thrilling little thing, no frills, just 100 % adrenalized action and suspense.

We die and we decay

There's nothing wrong at such with The Dig, it’s a wonderfully acted period film set in Suffolk, Britain, in 1939. A slow-burner, but interesting and historically accurate story of the Sutton Hoo cemetaries that archeologists dug open and excavated. Directed by Simon Stone, a young new talent from Australia.

All is gone except the will to be

A lobbyist is sent to his childhood village to start the layoffs at the local plywood factory. He gets all sentimental of the assignment as the memories are coming back up. Unfortunately, there's nothing much more.

Silent scream on the shore

Surprisingly and suspiciously, bull sharks are adapting to climate change faster and better than anyone else. These beasts eat white sharks and people for breakfast! It's absolutely horrifying! Luckily there are scientists, marine biologists and professional hunters trying to solve this shark problem, but it's a dangerous game. And it doesn't help when they turn against each other and the sharks just feast on their stupidity. I didn't know there were sequels to Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea (1999), but I understand why.

Fuck off, death!

It's still somewhat uncomfortable and embarrassing to watch as Sacha Baron Cohen bullshits the gullible Americans with his anti-Semite and currilous character Borat, but it's funny as hell.

Use every bullet twice

In 1961 the Cold War is at its height. The superpowers are grappling for power in Africa. In the newly formed republic of the Congo, east and west scramble for control. And it escalates into civil war. Because Ireland has chosen never to be the aggressor, they've never owned or tried conquer another sovereign nation, it's the Irish soldiers who are sent to the volatile country to serve as peacekeepers. Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against Congolese general Moïse Tshombe and his French and Belgian mercenaries. A great combat movie based on actual events that are mired in historical controversy.

See all the good memories and be happy

A huge fragmented comet is going to hit the earth and it's going to bring armageddon within. A few lucky ones are chosen to be evacuated in the bunkers of Greenland, but the ones left behind are having none of that. A structural engineer John Garrity (Gerald Butler) does his utmost to survive with his wife and diabetic son. Not only are the cities burning to ashes, but there are riots everywhere and people are acting like animals. A reasonably entertaining disaster movie.

A shot of soap

A bonafide b-movie, but not even hilarious in its cheesiness. Tried hard, but carries an incompetent speck of shit they can't rub off. It has some gory slasher stuff for a story yet it's still boring. 

The end of the legman

At first, I thought it was a political satire making mockery of the presidential election in the United States of America, but pretty soon it was perfectly clear that Bombshell is a dead serious drama. A true story of several women accusing Don Aires, the chairman of Fox News, of sexual harassment. Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, John Lithgow and Malcolm McDowell on fire.