From cradle to grave

It was pretty desperate. I got really obsessed with finding something funny in this movie that I couldn't stop watching it. It was useless. I merely observed the decline of Hollywood comedy. Just fucking repulsive.

Apex predator all day

It's pretty fucked up in the hurricane season when there's alligator farms in the neighbourhood. It's absolute nightmare stuff if you for instance get stuck in a basement with these monsters! All things considered, Alexandre Aja has done a pretty intense alligator thriller here, it's nothing too special, but suits his résumé (Piranha 3D, Haute Tension, Horns) just fine. A threadbare genre, but managed to come by with a few fresh, hilariously gruesome scenes as well.

The farther away, the hazier it all gets

After 27 years Pennywise has fucking come back. Not cool. Not cool at all. The teenage survivors, obviously adults now, coming back to the small town they once left behind, Derry, Maine, have to live the same nightmares allover again. Or maybe they have now the knowledge to fight against the bogeyman and finish it, for good. But, petrified beyond belief, can they actually do it? Almost three hours of cheesy horror, it tries to be frightening and cool, but never ain't.

If you survive war, you survive anything

Well, it's more telling and impressive than thousands of fictional war movies put together. The World War I opens up in front of your eyes the way you could never have imagined before. You almost smell the mud and the shit and the rot and the death. Amazing breath-taking footage. Oustandingly well done in the restoration department by Peter Jackson who dedicates the movie to his grand father William Jackson, sergeant who served in the British Army from 1910 to 1919.

Hope and health

This could have been so much more. Chinese Cheng and his son Nunjo are visiting Lapland, Finland, and thus the movie kind of deals with the most obvious cultural differences - language, cuisine, behaviors - imaginable. So much so that the assets of the film; the breathtaking landscapes of the northernmost parts of the world and the Finnish heavyweight actors (Vesa-Matti Loiri and Kari Väänänen) don't get enough screentime. Still, a warm and beautiful little thing of the magic of friendship and nature.

Too qualified to be happy

A headhunter has to learn how to prioritize when his family is stricken with a tragedy. Without guns and ammo and people to kill Gerald Butler is maybe a little out of his element, but it's a sappy little film, so everything's forgiven.

Save it, wolf fucker!

A small town police officer investigates a misdemeanor case, but turns out there are evil satanists lurking in the woods and they, in a baptism of blood, turn the poor sheriff into a werewolf! A proper B-movie. Manna from heaven. The world of cinema wouldn't be the same without them. Lots more entertaining than most of the professional shit they are churning out these days.

Shamans of sperm

To serve science, radical experiments are taking place in outer space. Deathrow inmates are selected to be used as guinea pigs. Their spacecraft is heading towards a black hole to find out is there a way to utilize its energy. And the people, they are never coming back. Boring shit when they all are aboard, tough shit for Monte (Robert Pattison) and his daughter when everyone else on the vessel has perished.

Forward to the curse of dimension

Like alcoholics have their Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) fellowship, the theme of this movies is that mercenaries and hired assassins have their own similar organization Killers Anonymous (KA). Whoever brainstormed this fucking thing must have thought the idea is hilarious. Well, it isn't. Most dumbest shit of a script this year so far.

Moments of struggle define us

Once again the life of the president of The United States is in grave danger, but he's lucky to have a secret agent Mike Banning by his side. However, it seems that someone's framing Banning for the attempt of killing the big chief. Unfortunately the story is written so poorly we knew all the details of the film before we even had to see it. Pretty cool action though.

How black a heart can be

John Rambo has set foot in the Arizona desert training horses and digging tunnels for fun. That is until his friend goes missing in Mexico and it seems Mexican mafia has kidnapped her. So Rambo goes against the notorious drugs and prostitute cartel who are armed to teeth. Luckily Rambo is pretty good at the killing business.

War is not over

I understand the anger and frustration people felt with the final season of Game of Thrones. It feels awfully rushed and there's some obvious mistakes and everything. There are only six episodes and the first two were boring shit and the rest mindless chaos. But I kinda liked it anyways.

Fallen on the highway

Three Beers was a bar in a student village of Turku, Finland, for something like thirty years. I lived next door to it for few years and frequented the pub. They demolished to place and are building something more modern in its place. And people are sad and angry. And they interviewed the people who loved the place so much.

Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse

Season 2 of Mindhunter. Easily on the top 3 shows running currently. FBI profilers investigate serial killings and study the gruesome phenomenon interviewing notorious killers (Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, et al.). And it's mostly based on true events. Absolutely killer stuff.

All the best people shave twice a day

Somewhat a bore. A 14-year old Lolita (Sue Lyon) makes grown men go all crazy and get totally obsessed with her. Based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, directed by Stanley Kubrick, yet it's still waste of time.

One man euthanasia clinic

Don't bother checking it out, but I've seen a movie with the same exact concept before. A guy is so desperate to end his life, so he hires an assassin to do it for him. "Outsource a suicide", as they put it. Anyways, this makes a dark comedy and it's pretty funny as the soon-to-retire hitman (Tom Wilkinson) turns out to be somewhat of a fuck-up and the guy he's supposed to kill suddenly gets second thoughts. Nothing overly exciting, but satisfying enough.

Horror in the highlands

Didn't watch the season # 3 like a true fan and sat it through immediately. Took my time with it, too much so, and got all too confused of the plot a few times. Took the last few episodes like a trooper and liked what I saw.

Slaves of the sea

A drama of bunch of singing fishermen and a recording label honcho who falls in love with the group and one of the citizens in a picturesque village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England. A feel good film that is extremely enjoyable to watch.

Toxic moon vibrations

I don't understand the zero ratings and otherwise negative feedback. There's nothing amiss here. It's an offbeat zombie movie done with good taste and subtle black humour. It's filled up with interesting characters like Tom Waits as a hermit, Steve Buscemi as pro-Trump farmer, Iggy Pop and Sturgill Simpson as undeads and Tilda Swinton as an undertaker. Also people like Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Danny Glover and Rosie Perez in the roster. The earth has fallen off its axis and that has caused a full-on zombie apocalypse. Wicked fun. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.

When the door closes, jump out the window

Elderly Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) loves robbing banks, for nothing but pure pleasure and entertainment. He's teamed up with two other older folks Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). Local law enforcement with John Hunt (Casey Affleck) in charge and the FBI sort of at leisurely pace try to catch them. It's all easy-going, no-one's hurting anyone, all fucking smiles.

The breath of meadow

Oftentimes Lars von Trier's movies merely jerk cinephiles off. His art bizarre can be a little off-putting at times. But how well it adapts into a serial killer movie, is impeccable. Jack (amazing Matt Dillon) is a psychopath hunting down lonely women, killing them and putting them into a freezer for later use. Basic serial killer stuff. Groovy and disturbing shit. Some of the most shocking scenes in cinema I've ever witnessed.

Never is a long time

Mysterious yet heroic stranger Shane defends homesteaders from a rancher tycoon and an inevitable one last great gunfight is looming on the horizon. Classic old school western from 1953, so much so even that it's simple and terribly clichéd, but that's how it goes sometimes, it's not full on guns blazing and bloodshed all the time. A classic battle between good and evil that exemplifies principles and good values. Alan Ladd and Jack Palance as the gungslingers.

Rats among the plastic people

The Charles Manson family were murderous drugged up hippies. They were influenced by a shit musician, their beacon of light, Charles Manson who was charismatic enough to lure bunch of insecure lonely teens from broken homes and form a cult. Charlie had it well covered, they all belonged to him. While it lasted it was a pretty orgasmic feast. But then all the murders happened and several people were sentenced to life without parole. Charlie Says depicts the collective insanity and hysteria pretty well. The cult was a freak circus full of racists. Funnily though, I reckon the real reason the family murdered all those people was because Charles Manson wanted worldwide fame (wanted to become as big as The Beatles), but once he got rejected by a recording label, he threw a tantrum. Like a fucking child.

In the land of the few

Siblings are on the run from the crimes they committed. Things get even a little more complicated when they come across sheriff Pat Garrett escorting the infamous Billy The Kid to get hanged. An interesting and surprisingly well executed little western directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.

Stories hurt, stories heal

A group of teenagers snitch a book from a haunted house. The book features ghost stories and, amazingly, the stories in the book write themselves! It writes real nasty shit to real people and someone must put an end to this witchcraft! Pretty cool horror popcorn altough André Øvredal's previous films Troll Hunter and The Autopsy of Jane Doe were miles grittier.

Shooting and burning cars, talking about revolution

Maybe it has a cult status, but Gridlock'd is a terribly unsung movie. It's a brilliant offbeat dark comedy drama of two friends of different colour who, with their girlfriend, constitute a druggy jazz band. Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur form a wonderful chemistry as Strech and Spoon, weirdly cool lowlife junkies.

Faces of fists

I should have followed my gut instinct and not have chosen a Jesse Eisenberg black comedy. Unfunny predictable piece of shit. Street gang mugs an office geek and as a revenge he wants to learn karate. Irritated how they tried to execute offbeat humour. Nowhere near anything funny. Just a fucking waste of time.

All the streets are silent

Quentin Tarantino's latest, in spite of shitloads of characters, is really about two people and the Charles Manson Family Cult. These two people; first off, there's Rick Dalton (Leonard DiCaprio) who is a past star actor finding out he's now 'slightly more useless each day' and there's Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), the former's awfully cool stunt double. In the movie, there are also well known actors like Al Pacino, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsh, Michael Madsen and Damian Lewis, but they are cast just extras, merely dipping their feet in the water, aren't really bringing anything to the show, replaceable show-offs. For instance, Michael Madsen's own car got more screentime than the actor himself. But that's part of the charm. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a good fucking movie, trademark Tarantino entertainment altho at times times it felt like there were just bits and pieces plastered in together to masquerade a movie. Dunno. Probably the film geek Tarantino does it all just to amuse himself. Lots of things - amazing things - are there to keep your mind occupied, proper eye candy shit. And the ending is one of the craziest - and coolest - endings I have ever seen.

Pledge ever-ending loyalty

One of those movies you wish were never going to end. Maybe that's why Francis Ford Coppola did the sequels. Simply amazing.

A duel between titans

The 1974 James Bond movie, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Roger Moore as the agent 007, Britt Ekland as the Bond girl Goodnight, Bernard Lee as Bond's superior, Desmond Llewelyn as 'Q' (the head of Q division), Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Christopher Lee as Saramanga, the main antagonist. Title song performed by Lulu. James Bond is called to investigate a stolen "Solex agitator". Plenty of talent and charisma in the acting of both Roger Moore and Christopher Lee, too bad that it's one of the worst Bond movies. Lost in a plot, an attempt to make almost a comedy. Humour most often is fixed in time, and it's terribly outdated here.

All bleeding stops eventually

Didn't expect a thing. I didn't want to expect a thing. I was sourly disappointed when the show ended the way it ended. Rushed and unfinished, without a proper finale. Anyways, now 10 years later most of the old crew is back. And thankfully Deadwood the movie is bloody and violent, foulmouthed and dirty. Just like the old times, of sort. Something's missing, sure, maybe it feels like it's merely a subtle apology for the fans. Don't care much, a good effort, welcome back. Hopefully they'll be doing another.

Peace in the valley

It's there but not quite there. Lots of positives. Titus Welliwer is perfect as Harry Bosch, the famous detective from Michael Connelly novels. A good actor, nothing too flashy, a common man, coplike, suits the suit. And the story, it's all good stuff. Brilliant even. But still, at times, it feels like it's too quickly assembled together, overshadows the stories, standard issue fastly produced television.

Paradise waits for no one

I had forgotten the real shit what happened. The Taj Hotel siege and other cowardish terrorist attacks that took place simultaneously in Mumbai, India, in 2008, killing at least 174 people and wounding hundreds of others. The 9 attackers were all from Pakistan and they all now rest in hell for all eternity. In the hotel the terrorists mercilessly slaughtered its residents. The brave few employees and guests tried to escape the fuckers for several hours because the help on the way was excruciatingly slow. Pretty outstanding movie to start a new year with.

2019

MOVIES

Hereditary (Ari Aster)
The Hard Way (John Badham)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
The Dictator (Larry Charles)
Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Place (Paolo Genovese)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan)
Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard)
Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)
Suomen hauskin mies (Heikki Kujanpää)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Vice (Adam McKay)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mike Newell)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Arlington Road (Mark Pellington)
Arctic (Joe Penna)
Tyhjiö (Aleksi Salmenperä)
Sicario 2: Soldado (Stefano Sollima)
U Turn (Oliver Stone)
Joe Kidd (John Sturges)
Sicario (Dennis Villeneuve)
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (Timo Vuorensola)
Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
Free Fire (Ben Wheatley)

SERIES

Conversations with a Killer: Ted Bundy Tapes (Joe Berlinger)
Derren Brown: Infamous (Derren Brown)
Mindhunter (David Fincher)
The Looming Tower (Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright)
After Life (Ricky Gervais)
Vikings (Michael Hirst)
Escape at Dannemore (Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin)
Billions  (Brian Koppelman)
Chernobyl (Craig Mazin)
True Detective (Nic Pizzolatto)
M/S Romantic (Jani Volanen)

R.I.P.

Matti Ahde (politician) born 1945 (age 73)
Danny Aiello (actor, Do the Right thing, Leon)  born 1933 (age 86)
Claes Andersson (poet, jazz musician, politician) born 1937 (age 82)
Ginger Baker (musician, Cream) born 1939 (age 80)
Gordon Banks (goalkeeper, Leicester, England) born 1937 (age 81)
Richard Brunelle (musician, Morbid Angel) born 1964 (age 55)
Paul Benjamin (actor, Escape from Alcatraz) born 1938 (age 81)
Jake Black (musician, Alabama 3) born 1960 (age 59)
Larry Carroll (painter, Reign in Blood) born 1954 (age 65)
Seymour Cassell (actor, In the Soup) born 1935 (age 84)
Jacques Chirac (president) born 1932 (age 86)
Larry Cohen (director, screenwriter, Phone Booth) borm 1936 (age 82)
Bruce Corbitt (musician, Rigor Mortis) born 1962 (age 56)
Dick Dale (The King of the Surf Guitar) born 1937 (age 81)
Doris Day (actress, The Man Who Knew Too Much) born 1922 (age 97)
Billy Drago (actor, The Untouchables, Pale Driver) born 1945 (age 73)
Dr. John (musician) born 1941 (age 77)
Roky Erickson (a heroic music icon) born 1947 (age 71)
Albert Finney (actor, Big Fish) born 1936 (age 82)
Keith Flint (musician, The Prodigy) born 1969 (age 49)
Peter Fonda (actor, Easy Rider) born 1940 (age 79)
Robert Forster (actor, Jackie Brown) born 1941 (age 78)
Marie Fredriksson (musician, Roxette) born 1958 (age 61)
Bruno Gantz (actor, Der Untergang) born 1941 (age 77)
Grumpy Cat (grumpy cat) born 2012 (age 7)
Sid Haig (actor, House of 1000 Corpses) born 1939 (age 80)
Timi Hansen (musician, Mercyful Fate) born 1958 (age 61)
Rutger Hauer (actor, Blade Runner, The Hitcher) born 1944 (age 75)
Anna-Kaisa Hermunen (journalist) born 1948 (age 71)
Peter Hobbs (musician, Hobbs' Angel of Death) born 1961 (age 58)
Ismo Kallio (actor) born 1935 (age 83)
Jorma Kinnunen (athlete) born 1941 (age 77)
Karl Lagerfeld (costume designer, Chanel) born 1933 (age 85)
Niki Lauda (Formula 1 legend, three times world champion) born 1949 (age 70)
Kari Lehtola (a major accident investigator) born 1938 (age 80)
Reino Lehväslaiho (author) born 1922 (age 96)
Charles Levin (actor, Seinfeld) born 1949 (age 70)
Olli Lindholm (musician, Appendix, Yö) born 1964 (age 54)
Peggy Lipton (actress, Twin Peaks) born 1946 (age 72)
Ross Lowell (inventor, gaffer tape) born 1926 (age 92)
Harri Marstio (musician) born 1957  (age 61)
Andre Matos (musician, Angra, Viper) born 1972 (age 47)
Peter Mayhew (actor, Chewbacca) born 1944 (age 74)
Dick Miller (actor, The 'Burbs, Gremlins) born 1928 (age 90)
Toni Morrison (author, Jazz) born 1931 (age 88)
Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe, dictator) born 1924 (age 95)
Olli Mäki (boxer) born 1936 (age 82)
Ilkka Nummisto (strongest man in Finland) born 1944 (age 75)
Matti Nykänen (ski jumper, Olympic winner) born 1963 (age 55)
Luke Perry (actor, Beverly Hills, 90210) born 1966 (age 52)
Lasse Pöysti (actor) born 1927 (age 92)
Paul Raymond (musician, UFO) born 1945 (age 73)
José Antonio Reyes (footballer, Sevilla) born 1983 (age 35)
Mikko Saarela (musician, Eppu Normaali) born 1958 (age 60)
Emiliano Sala (football player, Nantes, Cardiff) born 1990 (age 28)
Leif Salmén (journalist) born 1952 (age 67)
Jeff St. Louis (musician, DBC) born 1957 (age 62)
Roslaw Szaybo (painter, British Steel) born 1933 (age 85)
Reijo Taipale (singer) born 1940 (age 79)
Mervi Tapola (sausage heiress) born 1954 (age 65)
Anne "Heinäsirkka" Taskinen (artist) born 1958 (age 61)
Kari Toivonen (journalist, news anchor) born 1972 (age 77)
Bernie Tormé (musician, Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne) born 1952 (age 66)
Rip Torn (actor, Wonder Boys) born 1931 (age 88)
Jukka Virtanen (author, poet, actor, TV personality) born 1933 (age 86)
Scott Walker (musician) born 1943 (age 76)
Larry Wallis (musician, Motörhead) born 1949 (age 70)
Andre Williams (musician) born 1936 (age 82)
Max Wright (actor, Alf) born 1943 (age 75)

Hollow lights of the ivory tower

Three lighthouse keepers in a desperately isolated island are interrupted by a dead person and a casketful of gold. And there's always people looking for missing gold. A place where no one can hear you scream is a perfect spot for some manslaughter, bashing of heads and piling up corpses. And losing marbles. Didn't buy an ounce of this based on a true story psychological thriller, but quite watchable nevertheless.

The insect beetles

What a wonderful idea for a movie. During a one minute global power failure, a striving musician Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) has a little biking accident and he wakes up in a world where The Beatles never existed. The band has been wiped out from the collective memory of all the other people in the world. Soon Jack realizes the fame and fortune he could summon. Too bad that the movie didn't utilize the original idea much further because the semi-romantic mush they also had in mind didn't bring that much value to the story.

The underwear on the outside

Dr. Staple (Sarah Paulson) treats people who think they are comic book characters. Her patients are David Dunn aka The Overseer, Kevin Wendell Crumb aka The Horde and Elijah Prince aka Mr. Glass (Bruce Willis, James McAvoy and Samuel L. Jackson respectively). Superhumans need to prove the good doctor and the rest of the world wrong. And it's utterly boring.

Wolves of the judgement time

These Vinlanders - they're a neo nazi viking group from Richmond, Virginia. They're white power supporters and they hate blacks, hispanics, everyone really who aren't them. With all the viking and all the nazi shit, they are also pretty naive and downright fucking stupid. One lad with some neurocells left wants to get out of the organization. His former associates, the white power for life people - his own mom included - aren't too happy. It gets pretty nasty and hostile. The story is a bit too rushed really, but a pretty powerful movie nevertheless.

Never loved properly

Well, this beats the Freddie Mercury movie - Bohemian Rhapsody - to shit. Elton John's life depicted - with all the misery and extravaganza - colourfully and shamelessly. It's all about the excess use of booze and drugs, the burnouts and tantrums, pain and pleasure, pure madness, difficult relationships and otherwise hectic life of the biggest rock and roll star of the universe. Taron Egerton proves how a versatile actor he is.

Wanked off being a cop groupie

This has little bit of everything. It's a buddy comedy really, but has its action and thrills, and it's pretty violent too. On the soft note, there's laughs and little romance. There's wonderfully penned dialogue motormouthed by James Woods and Michael J. Fox. Not to forget, a great psychopath (Stephen Lang). The Hard Way (1991) is one of my old favourites and it was nice to see it has aged remarkably well.

Flies still eat shit

What a bummer. Hardly surprising for a Nicolas Cage thriller. He has done thousands of these. This time he's Frank, a con man on parole after 19 years in prison and he has a score to settle. Terribly poor, ridiculously acted straight-to-DVD garbage.

Fireball blues

I thought of quitting on this film after the first 15 minutes when I noticed that the fucking thing is almost two and half hours long. Should I spend that much time with a South Korean movie - and that only because I don't know about the local cinema. But I stuck on with it because it was kind of captivating. The story. Boy meets girl. The girl meets another boy. The first boy gets jealous. The second boy confesses of having a suspicious hobby. The girl disappears. The first boy desperately wants to find her. And it's a pretty good mystery.

Heartbeat of America

I don't know why I chose to watch Whitney - a 2018 documentary of Whitney Houston, pop singer. Never followed her life or career in any way. Sure, I was aware of her untimely demise and her time on the headlines like the next man, but that's about it. Ultimately you pick up documentaries because of raw brutal truth of things. You seek sensationalism. So, I guess I did just that. Whitney Houston loved God, her shithead husband Bobby Brown, greedy father and drugs. Not necessarily in that order. On a better note, she was loved by her family, millions of fans and she was a pretty good singer. Exceptional even. She was also a hopeless mother, a fucking devil incarnate. And that's fucking sad because she was such a sweet little talented girl in the beginning. Wrong fucking choices, wrong fucking people around her.

Broadsword calling Danny Boy

I have watched I Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton, 1968) a few times already, but made a memo to watch it again because I reckon it was Steven Spielberg who recently listed it as the best war movie of all time. And it's always cool to come back to classics. Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton killing nazis, flushing out double agents and bromancing in a nazi occupied castle.

Ophelia, call the police

This is real boogieman shit right here. A family's doppelgängers pay them a visit and it's stuff of nightmares. Continues the great macabre humour where Jordan Peele's previous Get Out left off. Creepily entertaining. Perhaps too persistently tried to explain the unexplainable, but still a hoot.

Don't text and swing

Elementals (air, water, fire, earth) are fucking up the planet. Or so it seems. Spiderman is travelling around Europe and meets up a supervillain Mysterio. To me, easily the worst Spider-Man movie, but read lots of good comments on this, so probably am fucken wrong.

The mind is a fragile thing

This X-Man, Jean aka Phoenix (Sophie Turner) feels betrayed by everyone, so with the recently acquired omnipotent cosmic forces, she separates herself from the organization. This is a perfect oppurtunity for an evil alien species to gain foothold on earth. Mutants fighting against each other. Total clusterfuck, but absolutely nothing new under the sun.

Killer beast on the rampage

I thought I had left the story of Dumbo - a flying elephant - on my childhood. And ordinary I wouldn't even consider seeing a Disney movie, but it however is a Tim Burton film and there's certain money back guarantee in it. And like all the good stories go, there's both the element of danger and a satisfying end. Both good characters and evil villains. A strong cast of Colin Farrell, Michael Keaton, Eva Green and Danny DeVito and, obviously, a smart baby elephant with big ears.

Haven is safe no more

There's a $14 million price tag on John Wick's head. And it guarantees that Mr. Wick leaves an innumerable body count in his wake. The way he raises hell is full of elegant and entertainment. Watching people die has never looked so groovy.

Masque of the red death

A preacher banishes alcohol, gamling and whores from a small western town Garlow. However, the first thing an outlaw gang does while residing in the town is establishing a saloon specializing on those things. The decent folks of the town - like an Irish undertaker Patrick Tate (Emily Hirsch) - are caught up in a crossfire. Literally. And the undertaker has his hands full of customers. The story in its vulgar confrontation is alright and it's pretty grim, gritty and dark, but never really properly ignites.

I heard you paint houses

Every once in a while pops up a movie that no words do enough justice. From The Good, the Bad, the Ugly to The Godfather, from Apocalypse Now to Goodfellas, from Pulp Fiction to Big Lebowski. The Irishman is one of those movies. Martin Scorsese's epic 3-hour scorcher is a masterpiece, you just sit and wonder its greatness. The quartet (Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Al Pacino) should win all the possible motion picture awards this year.