Sic vis pacem, bara bellum

The second part of Jens Lapidus Stockholm Noir. Sweden's crime syndicates and bent cops in full battle.

Fatten up the pig

Police force is someone not to fuck with in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. Top-notch no-shit depiction of corruption and crime.

Too many ornaments

Sometimes it was hilariously funny and surprisingly witty. On the other hand, Karl Pilkington is a crybaby and on a long run his whining gets to you.

Nocturnal and nameless

There are thousands of movies like this in every town. Some of these sentimental fucks are alright, some of them aren't.

Fight darkness with darkness

Vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, fairies, werepanthers (!) and witches gone amok. Sometimes TV is the cool cinema.

The odor of Kronos is killing me

In principle, this is a very-low key movie with no story whatsover, a film about nothing. But, really, only in principle, it still has four fine actors with brilliant words who make and carry the movie which, in the end, is quite exquisite, hilariously funny and clever. One of the best ones I've seen this year.

Demons are coming out

Some reasonable talent in people like Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell and Clancy Brown, but of course someone wrote them a movie that is complete turd.

Armed with a rusty nail

The twist at the end of this plotholed movie was painfully constrained and Topher Grace's charisma was breath-takingly nonexistent.

All men sin

Westerns can't get more average than this, they even brought in the Carradines to prove it.

We are the horses

Even though I've always liked war movies somehow Stalingrad has missed my radar. It was almost as cool as I've been told it to be, but I wasn't completely satisfied. It depicts nicely the hell that was the city of Stalingrad in WWII, but at times I felt I was watching a play at a theatre than a motion picture.

Just saw a duck in the shape of a cloud

A collection of comedian Steve Martin’s tweets and reader’s anwers to his tweets. The latter in particular are seriously funny sometimes, take for intance someone's comment on S.M.'s writing "I think I'm the only person in the world that truly understands you and gets your humour. That said...you're not very funny." Steve’s stuff is crazy and fucken intelligent at the same time. Here's one pick “Going out today to take pictures of paparazzi." Followed by: "Got some great pictures of paparazzi today. Man, they UGLY! Went through their garbage too. Found my own garbage in their garbage.” Gotta love the man.

Shootin' marbles at the back of the store

Quite a megalomaniac of a story, but, still, a rather impressive Norwegian thriller.

Lost servant in misery

Goat Serpent's "Trident" demo from 1994. Went through my collection of old demos tapes and this fucker of a gem popped right up. Finnish band, from Lieksa if I'm not mistaken, and it was excellent old-school Swedish-school Gothenburg Death Metal. The band produced this one single demo and disappeared. Poof.

A kid from Brooklyn

In between Hellboy and X-Men, only worse, much worse. Captain America, probably the most uninteresting comic character in movies that I've ever seen.

Abracadabra

Engaging piece of work. Christopher Nolan paints some stylish and beautiful imaginery, and even if I didn't quite hold my breath now, the second time I saw this, but I really, fucken sure, liked what I saw.

Steeped in gayness

Officially, their breakthrough season with episodes that are regarded as classics: The Contest, The Bubble Boy, The Cheever Letters and The Junior Mint. Susan Ross (Heidi Swedberg) makes her entrance.

Murder everything that moves

Understandably, as this was made in the fifties, it's all a bit silly, lacking in technical wizardry. There's certain charm, but in the end, it's bad, but in a good way, geddit?

The Whip of Gods. To my friends.

As always in an Aki Kaurismäki picture, there's some laconic beauty here. In many ways, this could be his greatest movie, for instance the first encounter dialogue between M (Markku Peltola) and Anttila (Sakari Kuosmanen) is breath-takingly funny, but towards the end the harmony and structure didn't really hold up.

Castle of clouds

A good while ago I watched the first two movies of this Swedish trilogy (the fucker's called Millennium) and I think I liked them both, this, on the other hand, I didn't get quite a grip on. At first, being on hiatus of the series, I was all fucken confused with all them conspiracies abound.

Rain it down until you got nothing left to give

Real fucken good. Reads like Lehane, Ellroy, James V. Higgins and, maybe, Jim Thompson even. Just watched the film and the adaptation, apart from the closing chapters, was alright.

Seven-point suppository

A fairly weak follow-up to Dirty Harry and Magnum Force. Clint Eastwood does his thing, but everything else is soaked up in naivety.

Pour it down the open drain

I'm currently reading the novel (by Jens Lapidus) this movie is based on. And as a matter of fact, this is the second time I've sat down with the film. First time round, it was your standard Swedish crime issue and not much has changed. Though, with the book on the side, it was a different experience, the adaptation has more depth than I could have expected and the actors did quite alright.

Graffiti with punctuation

I don't know why Steven Soderberg is allowed to make movies. I reckon, this story would have looked nice and effective in the hands of a different director, now it's just one major stars-ridden clusterfuck.

Zero tolerance for walkers

Just to refresh my memory since I'm about to continue with the season 2 in coming weeks. Shy of last two episodes, better than I remembered.

Dead-on C

Circle - Live in Groningen, 2010
There are live bands and then there are bands that perform and fucken execute.

Kiss of the scorpio

Nicolas Winding Refn does some masterful old-school cinema with modern intuition, Drive is a fine example of all that. Otherwise too, it's a cool thriller to the bone. However, my patience to see Ryan Gosling and Carey Mullingan in every second movie is deteriorating.

Single-shit pistol

I tried to give this a chance, but it was hopeless. The only fun thing about it was to witness Josh Brolin yet again killing his career.

Mortal roaring gusher

Peculiar thriller, sometimes somewhat of a slow-moving side, but really quite excellent. 

All around its margins lies the gulf

Google gives 9 610 000 hits for a "Schindler's List", hunt down the one you like.

These pretzels are making me thirsty

Never thought of it, but this could well be my favourite Seinfeld season, presenting such top-notch episodes as The Parking Garage, The Boyfriend and The Limo. Also introducing the first of one of the many regulars, Newman (Wayne Knight), Mr. Lippman (Richard Fancy) and Babu Bhatt (Brian George), the latter however appeared only in three episodes of the entire lenght of the series.

It's medieval out there

This was freaky and not in a positive sense. Who know what happened to Neil Marshall's extraordinary vision of film making, Dog Soldiers and The Descent were outstanding, this flick that tries to be Mad Max and Braveheart and 26 Days Later at the same time fails in everything, from dialogue to acting, from ludicrous story to off-kilter soundtrack. I must have missed something, maybe I'll give the movie a second chance some fine day.

At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards

I'm currently reading a very comprehensive - or what seems like a very comprehensive - book about Hunter S. Thompson, therefore the movie of 1 hour and 20 minutes seemed like a waste of time. Pretty cool talking heads here though, like Johnny Depp, Harry Dean Stanton, Sean Penn, Tom Wolfe, John Cusack, Gary Busey, et al. Narrated by Nick Nolte.

Longevity lies within the context of communication

A Jason Statham movie, there's nothing else to it really. Car chases, fights with fists, knives and guns, lotsa running around, macho fuckery abound, one compulsory yet utterly meaninglesss female role to smooth things over.

African Rambo

It just wasn't delivered right. Some things bugged me the fuck off like switching gears between gospel fuckery and the crusader business of the main character, hopping back and forth between Africa and America, and, the ever so frowning face of Gerard Butler.

I am Shiva, the god of death

Subtle, couple of unnecessities aside, near-perfect George Clooney's character-driven conspiracy thriller.

Mindless beasts of the subconscious

Cult sci-fi if there is one. I don't like the movies of the particular genre, but this is a cool figure of it's own right, a real fucken eye-candy.

In the killin' Nazi business

The second time I saw this. As remembered, wickedly funny, cool as hell film making.

Cut out of the dark

I don't know how they managed to make this so boring. Gotten off the fucken misery, I prayed the shark had hunted them all down way quicker.

Everything's illegal in Massachusetts

It was on television, so I stuck watching it. In general, I like these vigilante things, but this was never really set into motion.

The wind always dies

With Game of Thrones on a break, this fed the thirst. So, essentially, it was alright, even though the story sucked a few times and the lead actors missed all them lessons that had anything to do with charisma.

Master of the house, dolling out the charm

It's Easter time and I didn't want to bore myself senseless.

A dish best served cold

This has the makings of becoming an intense sadistic thriller, however somewhere and somehow it flopped and ended before anything actually happened.

Blood is a big expense

I just watched The Godfather.

I'm Samuel hello

I guess there's a point why George A. Romero decided to shoot this dirt-cheap in best or worst amateur style imaginable. Whatever the case, the result, fresh zombie jokes aside, is somewhat stupid.

Don't talk about Satan, just take the boat back

Perfect movie pop. Essentially a shit of a film, bad acting, clichés aplenty, lotsa girls with perfect knockers (there are no fat girls in America), some horror, severed limbs and mangled torsos.

Out of the depths, I cry to you, Oh Lord

The twist long ago revealed, I sort of believed the movie had lost it's magic and allure by now, but it was rather captivating to watch nevertheless.

Album of the week

Fit to bust

Masterful storytelling. What was it, over three hours long or something, I probably could have watched it for days.

Wear a smile

Some nudity, half-mental characters, violence, no story to speak of. Absolute rubbish.

Anything but a bay breeze

Trademark Craven. No-nonsense thriller. Definitely nothing remarkably good or different, but hits the right spot alright.

In the shade of Avalon

Plethora of hard-ass Korean mafia people, bodycount innumerable.