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The only thing to shut her up

2012-02-11T17:23:00.002+02:00

Right from the beginning I knew I was going to enjoy this. Gruffy tragicomedy with slightly offbeat characters and razor-sharp dialogue that is excellently interpreted by various quite brilliant actors.

Orange or lemon

2012-02-07T22:10:00.000+02:00

Somewhat a different breed of a war movie, it's Dutch for one thing and it's more, say, epic than gun-blazing bang bang.

Rage into calm

2012-02-07T05:56:00.000+02:00

Three romantic Italian episodes. Harmless mush. Pretty easy-going and nicely shot. Rather stupid too. And there's De Niro.

Utopian plaster

2012-02-05T17:47:00.000+02:00

Tad surreal, tad perverse, kinda trademark Almodovar.

Behold and despair

2012-02-05T13:12:00.000+02:00

There are movies which make you physically ill. This is one of those movies. There is absolutely nothing to highlight, it's bad on all areas. Horrible.

A mountain top water drop

2012-02-03T17:29:00.001+02:00

Not exactly Orson Welles' War of the Worlds, now is it? This pseudo-documentary only works as a counterpunch against all them hip hop artists (Justin Timberlake, 50 Cent, Eminem, LL Cool J et al.) turning professional actors overnight.

Neighbor for sale

2012-01-31T22:11:00.000+02:00

Perfectly watchable, but outstandingly lusterless therein.

Toe to toe with the Ruskies

2012-01-29T20:57:00.002+02:00

Seen it umpteenth times and it never fails. Funny as hell.

Painting Hannibal

2012-01-29T16:05:00.000+02:00

Don't bother with a fuck that has nothing but cliché written all over it.

Wasting tears

2012-01-24T21:58:00.002+02:00

Never liked the franchise and this was the worst of the lot.

Only part time

2012-01-24T05:36:00.002+02:00

Haven't seen the much praised motion picture yet. I didn't come to terms with the novel.

Heart on the burning sands

2012-01-22T16:57:00.001+02:00

Came from the telly and I kinda stuck watching it. Wasn't that bad, coulda wasted the Sunday morning mucha worse methinks.

Escaping from criminals

2012-01-22T09:03:00.001+02:00

This was something I was really really looking forward to and when in the end it turns out to be nothing but an average flick, I was somewhat disappointed. The pain and suffering of the supposedly true story weren't executed believably enough.

Double celebration

2012-01-22T08:59:00.000+02:00

The author's criticism and admiration for the United States of America were well founded.

Bobo wants to go to Delmar

2012-01-21T16:42:00.003+02:00

Somehow I expected so much of this, heard through the grapevine that it's the one to watch, based on a Jim Thompson novel and all. Well, it did nothing to me, pretty standard crime stuff.

Fire on the water

2012-01-19T17:46:00.001+02:00

Yet another proof that Dick Chaney and George Bush Jr. are the true heirs of the Great Satan.

Drugs are so bad

2012-01-18T23:07:00.001+02:00

A mix of E.T., Cloverfield, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Goonies.

Comets are coming

2012-01-17T22:41:00.001+02:00

A low-key hillbilly crime caper. Enjoyable enough, short enough (1:12), nicely depicts some Canadian backwoods city, interesting soundtrack to boot.

In love with a fantasy

2012-01-17T22:37:00.002+02:00

Nothing's much amiss in this Woody Allen's cultural adventure. Very joyful little movie, one of his best no doubt.

Don't turn your head

2012-01-15T23:00:00.000+02:00

People say that this is an intelligent, intriguing and frightening mystery/horror movie. I think nothing in it made any sense, pure rubbish in other words - and painful to watch.

Ten stray dogs can kill a lion

2012-01-15T20:00:00.002+02:00

Can quite well admit it. Rome is one of the very best television shows I've seen. Utterly fukkerly brilliant.

All fires are bad

2012-01-12T23:18:00.000+02:00

One of my favourite movies some 30 years ago, saw it a few dozen times back then. And, gladly, it hasn't lost much of its appeal.

Nothing is as healing as the human touch

2012-01-10T11:42:00.002+02:00

This was good. I knew about this guy's reputation, his eccentricity and, obviously, his talent, but a whole bunch of new stuff rose as well.

Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon

2012-01-09T22:42:00.003+02:00

The first time I saw this, I thought the fucker was spellbindingly great, the second time round and it ain't spellbinding, nor great.

Santa is out of control

2012-01-09T15:45:00.001+02:00

Loved the downtrodden black humour and the cynical anti-christmas take, but still left a little disappointed.

Future is the kingdom of horror

2012-01-07T21:12:00.002+02:00

Creepy and wicked. Bits funny.

Blood blacker than the chambers of a dead nun's heart

2012-01-06T23:18:00.000+02:00

A bit too long (2:18), but otherwise literally a jaw-dropping revenge flick.

Ambition is not a vice of little people

2012-01-06T20:23:00.001+02:00

I enjoyed this more as a history lesson than a television mini series.

Madre de Dios

2012-01-04T20:25:00.000+02:00

Be as classic as you may, but I was bored to fucking death.

Conman comes cheap

2012-01-01T20:47:00.003+02:00

My New Year's wish is that mr. Christopher Walken fires his agent.

Genocide chase

2012-01-01T18:40:00.001+02:00

Quite effortlessly the director Gilles Paquet-Brenner weaves through in between modern day and the day and age and horrors of WWII and at the same time slowly unfolds the actual riddle in the story.

Strangled by own dreams

2012-01-01T14:08:00.000+02:00

Shite.

Ever thus to deadbeats

2012-01-01T08:54:00.002+02:00

Why not finish the year and start a new one with the best there is?

Time to scratch worthless balls

2011-12-31T22:23:00.001+02:00

The script is silly and prepostorous, but at least the action hits hard the right places.

Gonna get organezized

2011-12-31T19:41:00.004+02:00

Just because the year is drawing to its end I wanted to have a proper movie experience.

Vlad, don't be a pussy

2011-12-29T22:51:00.003+02:00

Some crazy blackish comic horror of which 30 minutes or so should have been left on the floor of the editing room though.

An accomplished astral projector

2011-12-29T05:41:00.004+02:00

This was so bad that I couldn't help but watching it and its most ridiculous moments in the history of horror.

Duck hunt

2011-12-27T22:58:00.001+02:00

Probably the worst movie I've seen this year should cover it.

Stoned up

2011-12-27T21:11:00.002+02:00

Moralizing little piece of...

Long live the flightless parrot

2011-12-27T19:03:00.000+02:00

Got this as an X-mas present this year and even though I had seen it shy of one episode on TV a while back, I watched it again almost at one sitting. Animals, travelling, magnificent-looking places, lotsa sightseeing via own couch. Suits me fine.

Don't second guess an operation from an armchair

2011-12-27T00:05:00.000+02:00

These techno thrillers are making me all confused.

Thunderball was notable success

2011-12-26T13:17:00.003+02:00

Still one of the finest depictions of a junkie limbo.

One plus one

2011-12-25T19:46:00.002+02:00

Motion picture can make a difference. Harsh yet heartfelt story telling at best.

All fuckin superiah

2011-12-25T19:45:00.001+02:00

Didn't expect fuck all, but quite a cracker, this, and quite surprisingly the actual boxing parts were the movie's worst moments.

Let them bones crack

2011-12-24T11:25:00.000+02:00

Didn’t follow this when it was on the telly. I’m glad bought both seasons spontaneously a while back because, as far as the season one is concerned, this is bloody bloody good. Hands down, some of the best television shit right here.

Scum of the earth

2011-12-21T23:47:00.000+02:00

A standard issue prison movie. A remake of Scum (1977) which, I hear, is pretty good. This one wasn't.

Mi Madrid privado

2011-12-21T21:52:00.002+02:00

No bullshit old-school thriller/horror, tension and suspense crafted in excellent manner.

Clown with a machete

2011-12-20T20:58:00.001+02:00

Never liked films that try to be intentionally weird and funny, cool with shocking and blood-curdling violence and consider 'emselves art.

Wrong place wrong time

2011-12-19T10:41:00.003+02:00

Don't know about this, it has the essentials; the actors, the action, right sort of realism and it's anyways a war movie in part, but just didn't cut me the right way.

Borders of mind

2011-12-19T10:38:00.001+02:00

Without the couple of a-list actors - Murray and Duvall - in the rank, this would've been unbearable, now it's just dull and boring.

Shoot the devil in the back

2011-12-18T11:17:00.000+02:00

Just about the perfect crime movie.

Another asshole with a résumé

2011-12-15T23:39:00.001+02:00

Cleverly bullshit slightly mushy drama, didn't mind giving it a chance.

Flaunt them and throw them around

2011-12-15T21:15:00.000+02:00

It was peculiar and different kind of a dope movie in the beginning, but pretty early on dived into a downward spiral. Fairly decent tho.

Our children are our hearts

2011-12-13T21:51:00.001+02:00

Never fail. Michael Connelly's Hieronymous Bosch novels, some of the coolest detective shit out there.

The league of evil exes

2011-12-13T00:05:00.001+02:00

Unusual, original and refreshing cut in comedy. It's pretty wild, sizzling with energy.

Perfect knock-offs of God

2011-12-12T20:54:00.002+02:00

With little effort they could have made this comedy rather radical, dark and hip - quite much like the Chuck Palahniuk novel it's done upon - but obviously that didn't happen.

Smart like tractor

2011-12-12T17:45:00.004+02:00

Not good. In fact, shitloads bad.

As good as place as any

2011-12-12T10:54:00.001+02:00

You'll kinda dig this if you are 14 years of age, boy or girl does not matter, fairly stupid and think Twilight is so fucking adorable and cute.

New strain of scorn

2011-12-10T22:07:00.003+02:00

One of those mad conspiratory stories where nothing is what it seems, everything fucks you in the eye. And all is so quite laughably ridiculous.

Building biodigital jazz in utopia

2011-12-08T22:33:00.001+02:00

I am not a huge admirer of science fiction, most of the times I get all confused, puzzled and irritated with its futuristic mumbo-jumbo, but I kinda liked watching this since it's discoball-flashy at least.

Girls natter

2011-12-08T11:12:00.001+02:00

It has a realistic take, this tale, it's disturbing, powerful and violent.

Pretty rinky-dinky

2011-12-07T19:35:00.001+02:00

To come to think of it, it wasn't that bad. Just a little sceptic whether some of the scenes were for real or staged by actors, stunts or other professionals, or SFX was in play.

In between the panels

2011-12-06T23:50:00.000+02:00

Quite much like Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass, only not good, not funny.

Lucky joke

2011-12-06T15:17:00.000+02:00

If obsessive, just goes to show that everything's possible.

The sound of thunder

2011-12-06T12:56:00.001+02:00

Could quite well be the movie of the year (completed two years ago, but what the heck), if you like them things wet, fishy, immensily beautiful (shocking parts excluded) and blue.

King of the trolls

2011-12-04T23:23:00.001+02:00

A tad brainier and more entertaining than your every day comedy.

Fire and devils

2011-12-04T19:26:00.002+02:00

Perfect no-brains-time's-a-wastin'.

Mush and tasteless

2011-11-30T21:06:00.002+02:00

Boldly advertised as a “thriller of the year”. That’s what I though of getting, a thriller of some sort at least. However, Catfish is a documentary of stolen or borrowed identities and it’s vividly discussed whether it’s a fake or not. And I really don’t care.

The truth bends

2011-11-30T18:37:00.001+02:00

Has an interesting start, but after that the story just trudges along, goes nowhere and ends disappointingly.

Robin Hood of Collinwood

2011-11-30T14:49:00.000+02:00

My kind of a movie. Mafia wars a-blazing, hitmans and snitches, characters tough as nails. And it has a mob movie cast written in the stars to boot.

At war with God

2011-11-30T11:49:00.001+02:00

Charles Darwin struggles with his book, the church and his life. Paul Bettany as the killer of God.

Satan och kapitalet

2011-11-29T07:09:00.000+02:00

Hans Erik Dyvik Husby aka Hank von Helvete (ex-Turbonegro) does quite a magnificently splendid performance as Dutch-born Swedish troubadour and cult figure Cornelis Vreeswijk, unfortunately the movie does not follow his level of commitment.

Godless predators from other world

2011-11-28T14:10:00.000+02:00

Lotsa bang bang. Nothing but bang bang and barefaced pathos.

Among the chosen few

2011-11-28T11:54:00.001+02:00

A win-win on many levels, a timeless classic if there ever is one.

God is out to lunch

2011-11-25T11:16:00.000+02:00

Willem Dafoe as a nazi and Jeff Goldblum as a sad clown. That's the story in a nutshell. That, and it's a boring piece.

To be really dead must be glorious

2011-11-24T10:15:00.000+02:00

In 1931. Ust-Abakanskoye becomes Abakan. Robert Duvall and James Earl Jones are born. Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago, Illinois. And Tod Browning completes Dracula, Bela Lugosi as Count Vladimir Dracula.

The stones - the pain

2011-11-23T22:17:00.000+02:00

I wish I'd see and comprehend stories like this only as fiction.

Frumpy sounds onomatopoetically right

2011-11-21T22:28:00.003+02:00

I am a fan of this witty, educative and articulate series. It oftentimes flies above my understanding with its U.S. domestic policy jargon, but gladly it's usually style over matter. However, it ain't endlessly top-notch, when The West Wing is kind of in an idle mode it can be deadly boring. But having said that, when it's on fire, it takes your breath away.

Jar of gypsy tears

2011-11-20T22:28:00.003+02:00

"Are you telling me the man who tried to put a rubber fist in my anus was a homosexual?" Top that Seth Rogen, Tod Phillips and Adam Sandler.

Come what may

2011-11-20T19:39:00.001+02:00

Don't know if it's bad acting or what, but the chemistry between the main stars here is nonexistent, it however doesn't entirely vaporize the appeal of this adult fairytale.

Unholy grasp of Satan

2011-11-20T17:08:00.001+02:00

Lotsa cockshite superstition, bodysnatching rascals and walking stiffs. Sounds like in between funny and scary, but it wasn't.

Crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes

2011-11-20T13:43:00.001+02:00

Somewhat decent film noir, but even tho' it's a Stanley Kubrick piece, it's nothing out of ordinary.

Funeral drugs

2011-11-19T14:55:00.001+02:00

Broodingly depressive, as espected, but, as espected, real fucken good.

Extraterrestrials in the trees

2011-11-19T09:40:00.003+02:00

Despite super-monsters, high calibre machine guns, attack helicopters and fighter jets that could easily kill thousands, and fuck else, this was boring shit.

No man cannot walk out on his own story

2011-11-16T21:40:00.000+02:00

I've never been particularly interested in animated features, but if they are as entertaining, energized, funny, cleverly written, masterfully voice-acted and music-scored as Rango here, they should come around more often.

Eagles suck

2011-11-13T23:38:00.000+02:00

Irritatingly boring sports & comedy movie that lacks in action and humour. Each and every scene is painfully prolonged. I wept in frustration.

Got it late in the evening

2011-11-13T21:31:00.000+02:00

An above average British thriller, in between the likes of Hitcher and Duel, less in atmosphere, close in tension, more in gore.

Terribly busy kinging

2011-11-13T16:45:00.001+02:00

Good one, yes, but not such an overpowering force and magical piece that they all say there everywhere.

The men died wonderfully

2011-11-11T23:26:00.000+02:00

Craziness of war depicted in unfailing Kubrick virtue and wisdom.

His spirit departed

2011-11-10T21:45:00.003+02:00

I thought of putting this on as a background entertainment and start reading the latest Uncut -magazine with Tom Waits on the cover. Turning the front page of the magazine was what I found time or interest for. Huge admirer of Tom Waits, not much of a motorsport fan, but this documentary had me nailed to the fucking seat.

Unknown is among us

2011-11-09T22:37:00.002+02:00

Clumsy, poorly acted adaptation of A.C.'s novel.

Unseen tides pulling us apart

2011-11-09T06:13:00.001+02:00

Quite a wicked and twisted story, borderline original, I wish they'd told it a tad more intense manner.

Drift on numbered days

2011-11-08T09:57:00.000+02:00

This one, it desperately tries to be controversial and bring forth a breath of fresh air in black comedy, but it takes a little more than foul language and dirty jokes to cut it.

Like it sounds

2011-11-07T21:50:00.001+02:00

Javier Bardem does one of the best performances in the history of cinema and the movie, even though disquietingly melancholic, is quite equally of arresting nature.

They were among us

2011-11-07T12:36:00.002+02:00

Over three hours of material left little unsaid.

La vida loca

2011-11-05T18:46:00.000+02:00

Stupendously bad. There's no fibre in this movie that's anywhere near something alright.

Pumped up on prozac

2011-11-05T18:45:00.000+02:00

Right from the get-go, 'Will this ever end?' was my one and only thought.

Martin, Marsan, Gemma

2011-11-04T18:33:00.002+02:00

Quite a show of talentmanship to make a watchable movie full of gaping plotholes, questions unanswered and unsuspectedness hovering somewhere there in total zero.

Whipping rigor mortis

2011-11-03T06:12:00.001+02:00

I believe I've heard the term for an obsession to watch movies like this. Self-flagellation, if I'm not mistaken. Humiliation of one's self.

Do some apocalyptic doom

2011-11-02T10:04:00.001+02:00

Probably the best satire of all time. Of 'em many things, I was particularly flabbergasted by the phenomenal writing and acting.