Through denial and error

These hillbilly thugs are just tremendously funny. It's season 2 of the Trailer Park Boys and it's something else. You get absorbed in its originality (there's nothing close to it really), the weird yet loveable characters, the incorrectness, the dialogue and laughs. Can't think of better entertainment right now.

Just kinda follow the instructions

When quarantined, what a better way to pass the time than conduct a little séance over Zoom. In Host, a few girls have a go of that shit and their astral plane is spooky as hell! Heck, I truly liked this, brilliant performances, cool simple horror and the film's lenght barely reach a one hour mark. Effective.

Prepare for the unexpected

A James Bond movie directed by John Glen in 1989, starring Timothy Dalton as the agent 007,  Carey Lowell as the Bond girl Pam Bouvier, Robert Brown as Bond's superior 'M' (the head of MI6), Desmond Llewelyn as 'Q' (the head of Q division), Caroline Bliss as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Robert Davi as Franz Sanchez, the main antagonist. The theme song performed by Gladys Night. The agent 007 is on a private vendetta against a drug lord who did serious harm to his buddies. Timothy Dalton did only two Bond movies and this is his last. Familiar faces such as Benicio del Toro and Everett McGill in the rank as well.

Feels like there's a hole inside

Everything's falling apart in a mining community somewhere in Lapland, Finland. Drugs and booze don't work, the only woman in a 100 mile radius is a slut and the barren landscape makes you mental. Started off slowly, as minimalistic and melancholic as the environment, but thanks to the brilliant performances by the four people in the lead (Pääru Oja, Laura Birn, Tommi Korpela and Elmer Bäck), Viimeiset gained momentum and prevailed in the end. Funnily, lots of Finnish acting heavyweights - Samuli Edelmann, Sulevi Peltola and Ilkka Koivula - were cast almost as extras.

Our war has just begun

 

An unidentified virus is spreading. The fucker turns people into zombies real fast. And the zombies, running like sprinters, they're spreading the pandemic like wildfire by biting the healthy people that's left. It's a worldwide catastrophe. Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is flying around the world to make any sense of the insane phenomenon. Another throwback to the movies I had pretty much forgotten by now. A pretty hectic - borderline chaotic - zombie movie from 2013. Directed by Marc Forster.

Two birds stoned at once

Heard a many positive comments of Trailer Park Boys, but never got around to see it. Until now. I watched the first season during couple of nights and was suitably equipped with beer and booze. And, yeah, it's freaking hilarious. Maybe one of the best shows I've ever seen.

Black forest's flaming eyes

Film students are making a zombie movie and if the frictions inside the crew weren't enough, there's something sinister and otherwordly shit endangering their lives as well! I am a fan of Norwegian offbeat cinema (Trollhunter, Død snø, Norsemen, Kraftidioten, Lilyhammer), but I reckon Prosjekt Z won't become cult horror anytime soon.

Evil does not sleep

There are three Mother Boxes hidden on Earth. If synchronized, they scorch the entire planet. Things from another universe - Steppenwolf & his parademons - serving dark power are out to get them. Bruce Wayne aka Batman is building an army or alliance because of these enemies coming from far away. He needs warriors, so gets in touch with the rightful king of Atlantis Aquaman, the princess of the amazons Wonder Woman, Cyborg Victor, The Flash and Superman back from the dead. The freakshow lasts four hours, yet it's still pretty entertaining.

In the belly of the beast

Someone has built an elaborate labyrinth - or tube - to torture his victims in various sickening ways. Through fire, water, sulphur, rotten bodies, barbed wire and painful memories, French Lisa (Gaia Weiss) crawls through the maze without an end in sight. Reckon the movie has a point in its claustrophobic horror, but I haven't registered it yet. Finnish actor Peter Franzén as a serial killer.

A badge is scarier than a gun

This was an Oscar nominee for the best picture. In Chicago 1969, in the wake of the deaths of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, the Black Panthers, the Young Lords and the Young Patriots form a rainbow coalition against the police brutality and tyranny. However one of their security captains is a rat who feeds information directly to the FBI. Haven't seen them all yet, but thus far I'd handed the Oscar to Judas and the Black Messiah rather than the mediocre Nomadland. Cool cast. Jesse Plemons is becoming the equivalent of Philip Seymour Hoffman, almost unrecognizable Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover and another strong performance by Daniel Kaluuya. LaKeith Stanfield and Dominique Fishback caught my eye as well.

Salt of the earth

There was an international settlement in Shanghai called The Shanghai International Settlement and they had a private seat the witness the massacres that took place during wars. Like surreal theatre. In 1937, across the Wusong River they watched as the Japanese forces bombarded and killed the Chinese forces defending a warehouse, their last and only fortress in the city, their last bastion of hope. Outstandinly well made historical war drama, top-notch cinematography and a gripping story of courage.

A great vacation that comes to you

David Fincher's The Game from 1997 was now like a completely new movie to me because I had forgotten most of the story. I was even blown away by the double twist in the end. One of the most amazing thrillers I've ever seen, such an entertaining roller coaster ride that I would like to see it immediately again. Hopefully I don't wait for another 20 years at least.

River of no return

A girl disappers during a canoe trip. All her buddies are suspected of foul play. Järngänget (2000) is set in rural Swedish village. The sceneries are nice and picturesque, but unfortunately the story doesn't follow suit, it's predictable and weak. 

Love never dies

Emma and Henry are prisoners of their own home. They're locked inside and given orders by an unknown voice. And it's their fuckin' anniversary! It turns into terrible ordeal, downright mental torture of the highest magnitude. It's also a bullshit fucking thriller.

The archetype of the kicked kind

An entrepreneur (Guillaume Canet) organises time travel experiences. Cartoonist (Daniel Auteuil) wants to re-enact the moment in 1974 when he met the love of her life (Fanny Ardant) in cafeteria La Belle Époque. A beautifully executed romantic film. 

See you down the road

Fern is a nomad. She's without a regular job, works short shifts where she travels. There's a whole community of like-minded people. It's a lifestyle of freedom, but it's also rather hard and lonesome. Free from bureaucracy and normal society, you've all the time in the world to think about death, life and universe, the bad choices you've made and the dreams never completed. Nomadland is a slow-moving drama, a heartfelt piece, but can't grasp why it's an Oscar winner though. Must have been a bad year.

Banished from the world

Blood Quantum is a low budget piece of shit. It's a zombie movie set in Native American community. Lots of blood spattering and cutting off heads pay homage to the George Romero movies, but it's just hopelessly bad. The actors amateur acting skills and unbridled enthusiasm is pretty amusing to watch though.

Integrity of our institutions

An award-winning school in the Long Island village of Roslyn is in a world of shit. One of its superintendents is caught of embezzlement, a theft of taxpayers money, and if the truth gets out it's a scandal of the highest magnitude. It would effect the whole town, because the town is as good as its public school. The employees, can they be quiet enough, sweep the accusations under the carpet, to save their school's reputation? Luckily on the pupils in the student newspaper smells something is rotten and investigates the fraud. A well-crafted drama of the largest school theft in American history.

Soon come tomorrow

Four young adults rent a mansion by the sea. Should be a fun weekend trip, but things blow out of proportion and it's a creepy chaos that's what it is. The visitors are neck-deep in shit, tormented to death and don't know what to do. Criticized as a garbage thriller, but I kinda like this kind of simple suspense.

Siberia with family restaurants

This is why we love movies. A car salesman orchestrates a kidnapping of his wife to cover up his expenses, but of course the deal is lined up with so many unfortunate events, wrong choices and iffy characters that it's destined to end up in misery. One of those movies that has left a lasting remark in the world of cinema. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen in 1996.

Slavering wolf on the rolling prairie

Jeremiah Johnson wants to be a mountain man. He is a man of proper wit and adventurous spirit. Suited to the mountains. All he want to do is survive alone in the wilderness, hunt for living. A settler's simple life. However, it doesn't takes long until he has an adopted son and an Indian wife. And as a family they try to make do in the land of whimsical Indian tribes. Deliciously atmospheric cult western. Starring Robert Redford, directed by Sydney Pollack in 1972.

Return to the rhapsody in blue

A paradise island where you can fulfill your wildest fantasies sounds like a lot of fun. Driven by grief, revenge or amusement, five of its quests are bewildered and horrified that the island actually does that, make impossible possible. Corny semi-horror b-movie fantasy crap where absolutely nothing makes sense.

We're a very friendly people

Thought of watching the Fargo TV series and the movie in chronological order before I have the opportunity to see the latest season 4. The season 2 is set in the Upper Midwest in March 1979. It consists of the Kansas mafia and Gerhardt crime family rivalling for power and it's mind-blowingly brilliant. Well-crafted and abundant story, lots of violence, lots of laughs too. Starring people such as Patrick Wilson, Kirsten Dunst, Nick Offerman, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Zahn McClarnon, Jeffrey Donovan, Jean Smart and Angus Sampson. A roller coaster ride of excellence.

Sometimes the moon is talking to nobody

Vikings Season 6 volume 1. I read a few harsh and really negative comments of the final season of the series. I kinda jumped the bandwagon there, but it's not really all that bad. The sons of Ragnar Lodbrok aren't as cool as their dad, the actors are pretty shite really and the viking ventures outside Scandinavia are not so interesting to follow, but otherwise it's alright.