Dark-heaving, boundless, endless

Pretty fresh in my memory, but accidentally caught it from television and simply stuck watching it. Actually, better than I remembered. Flaws aside, a gripping story and Mads Mikkelsen fucking excels.

Crying over milk that spilt

After being directly involved with a fellow officer's death, a Texas Ranger relocates to countryside - a lovely little town called Horse Cave - where he can uphold the law unarmed and at peace with himself and the citizens. Until shit evil bikers arrive and disturbe this peace! There's just about everything wrong with this movie, one of those things that it's so bad that it is entertaining. But this is very bad. Probably the worst movie I've seen in twenty years. That bad. A bit embarrassing for Guy Pearce, doubt he cares though.

Destiny is a bitch

Those motherfuckers imported an invasive and uncontainable species on a tropical island just to create a hunt like no other. These animals are graboids, vicious subterranean predators, known for creating havoc and immense death from Nevada to Mexico (as reported in Tremors, Tremors 2: Aftershocks, Tremors 3: Back to Perfection, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, Tremors 5: Bloodlines and Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell). Once again, monster hunter Burt Grummer (Michael Gross) is on the case.

Eyes blaze like meteors

Tommi Korpela and Janne Reinikainen are acting fictionalized themselves. Whenever anyone of the Finnish Julmahuvi group (Korpela, Reinikainen, Petteri Summanen, Jukka Rasila or Jani Volanen) brainstorm and write a show, it's shitloads funnier than anything else. They are responsible for shows like Studio Julmahuvi, Mennen tullen, M/S Romantic and Ihmebantu. In Napamiehet (Northern Mishaps) Tommi and Janne get a grazy idea of running to North Pole, but the show is more about the journey than the destination, their somewhat awkward personalities, their acting careers, their nitpicking and all-around shithousery in Helsinki.

Calls to heaven for human blood

It's not particularly cool to get stuck in an underground cave where water is rising with a crocodile for company. This happens to five Australian adventurers and they aren't happy. They are shit-scared. Nothing else but watchable claustrophobic horror.

Salute the lustres of the stars

December 1941, somewhere in Siberia, Russian sniper Red Ghost puts fear in the hearts of an elite German death squad. Teamed up with like-minded partisans he has a whole lot of nazis to deal with. Out of nowhere, a fresh little Russian movie of people fighting for survival, against the coldness of winter and the iron claws of the Wehrmacht. Reminiscences of Quentin Tarantino and Sergio Leone westers. Definitely good stuff.

As above so below

Detective Jack Irish is looking for a red book, a photo album, of dirty little secrets. It's been a good TV film series, it's easy-going, funny and exciting enough. Not exactly fireworks all the time, but it's like a decent hard-boiled detective novel that you thoroughly enjoy reading. Looking forward to the actual television drama series (2012-2021), not just the films.

If it looks and sounds like shit, it must be shit

The line-up alone. Burt Reynolds, Luis Guzmán, Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Mark Wahlberg, Thomas Jane, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Heather Graham, Philip Baker Hall. Crazy. Another crazy thing is that it was made in 1997, makes it rougly 25 years ago. Hard to believe. Late 70's and early 80's adult entertainment people going haywire of all the porn, coke and unfilled dreams. The story is more tragic than I remembered, but amazing stuff, still.

Dressed as a court jester

This is just absolutely crazy. So over the top superhero fuckery that it's borderline tasteless. It's more whacked than Deadpool, not as funny though. A walk-on story with weird characters creating havoc on the leading roles. You are superficially entertained.

Lungs fill with blood

A high school shooting. It's perfect therapy for young student who's been depressed and rebellious lately because she still mourns the death of her mother. That's right, just before a prom night, bunch of cunts hijack a school Columbine style and a massacre begins. The hero has plenty of people to save before the whole building might blow up to kingdom come. Somewhat a plotholed thing, a littly silly too, but Run Hide Fight is an exciting thriller and a reminder how evil is this kind of shit. The lead star, Isabel May, is brilliant.

If Queen had balls, she'd be King

Mean Streets is a 1973 crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. It stars Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro. A stepping stone to all of them in their remarkable careers. A depiction of the hectic street life of petty gangsters in Little Italy, New York. Keitel and De Niro showing breathtaking talent.

Either beast or an angel

The year is 2044. The global population has exploded. Resources are running low. The planet is dying. Therefore they've developed a Samsara program which aims to build Earth's first colony by the year 2052. Due to an emergency separation and the destruction of the mothership two people - both prisoners - are trapped in a spacecapsule. Solitary is tagged as 'The worst punishment imaginable' - couldn't agree more. Zero budget nonsense.

Isolation is a killer

Friends in a covid quarantine expand their minds together with LSD and celebrate through group video chat. And people die and everything turns to shit. Luckily they all are imbeciles, so no one gives a fuck. Safer at Home is a laughable flawed thriller garbage. Worst fucking actors to boot. Watch Host (2020) by Rob Savage instead.

2021

MOVIES

Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Nattevagten (Ole Bornedal)
Unhinged (Derrick Borte)
The Grey (Joe Carnahan)
Boss Level (Joe Carnahan)
Mosul (Matthew Michael Carnahan)
Pour Elle (Fred Cavayé)
Borat (Larry Charles)
Fargo (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
Scream (Wes Craven)
Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Remember (Atom Egoyan)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
The Game (David Fincher)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank)
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua)
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joo Ho)
Shorta (Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Ølholm)
Alone (John Hyams)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
Speedy Gonzales - noin 7 veljeksen poika (Ere Kokkonen)
Snowflake (Adolfo J. Kolmerer, William James)
Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul)
Karpo (Ari Matikainen)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)
Bottle Shock (Randall Miller)
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
Polar (Jonas Åkerlund)
Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack)
Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
Target Number One (Daniel Roby)
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross)
Host (Rob Savage)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Siege of Jadotville (Richie Smyth)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
Shot Caller (Ric Roman Waugh)
Death Wish (Michael Winner)
Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
Bleeder (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
The 12th Man (Harald Zwart)

SERIES

Jack Irish (Andrew Anastasios, Matt Cameron, Andrew Knight)
Trailer Park Boys (Mark Clattenburg)
Seinfeld (Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld)
Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones)
Fargo Season 2 (Noah Hawley)
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman)
Mare of Easttown (Brad Ingelsby)
Tunna blå linjen (Cilla Jackert)
The Undoing (David E. Kelley)
Snabba Cash (Jens Lapidus, Oskar Söderlund, Jesper Ganslandt)
Roy Grace (Russell Lewis)
The Night Of (Richard Price, Steven Zaillian)

R.I.P.

Nikolay Antoshkin (colonel general) born 1942 (aged 78)
Ned Beatty (actor) born 1937 (aged 83)
Jim Bembroke (musician) born 1946 (aged 75)
Teje Caldén (record laber owner) born 1953 (aged 68)
Sonny Chiba (actor) born 1939 (aged 82)
Chick Corea (musician) born 1941 (aged 79)
Malcolm Dome (music journalist) born 1955 (aged 66)
Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby aka Hank von Hell (musican) born 1972 (aged 49)
Kimmo Elomaa (businessman) born 1953 (aged 68)
Timo Eränkö (musician) born 1952 (aged 69)
Larry Flynt (publisher) born 1942 (aged 78)
Jimmy Greaves (footballer) born 1940 (aged 81)

Charles Grodin (actor) born 1935 (aged 86)
Johnny Gustafsson (musician) born 1948 (aged 73)
Aikka Hakala (musician) born 1957 (aged 63)
Dusty Hill (musician) born 1949 (aged 72)
Laila Hirvisaari (author) born 1938 (aged 83)
Hal Holbrook (actor) born 1925 (aged 95)
Mike Howe (musician) born 1965 (aged 55)
Sir Roger Hunt (footballer) born 1938 (aged 83)
CJ Hunter (athlete) born 1968 (aged 52)
Boris Hurtta (author) born 1945 (aged 75)
Ian St John (football player) born 1938 (aged 82)
Joey Jordison (musician) born 1975 (aged 46)
Matti "Mölli" Keinonen (ice hockey player) born 1941 (aged 80)
Larry King (television host) born 1933 (aged 87)
Yaphet Kotto (actor) born 1939 (aged 81)
Kirsi Kunnas (author) born 1924 (aged 96)
Alexi Laiho (musician) born 1979 (aged 41)
Anita Lane (musician) born 1959 (aged 61)
John Lawton (musician) born 1946 (aged 74)
Pirkko Liinamaa (TV personality) born 1932 (aged 88)
Norman Lloyd (actor) born 1914 (aged 106)
Sean Lock (comedian) born 1963 (aged 58)
Norm Macdonald (comedian) born 1959 (aged 61)
Gavin MacLeod (actor) born 1931 (aged 90)
Pave Maijanen (musician, record producer) born 1950 (aged 70)
Gerry Marsden (singer) born 1942 (aged 78)
Helen McCrory (actress) born 1968 (aged 52)
Hannu Mikkola (rally driver) born 1942 (aged 78)
Sir Thomas Moore (benefactor) born 1920 (aged 100)
Max Mosley (racing driver) born 1940 (aged 81)
Gerd Müller (footballer) born 1945 (aged 75)
Lou Ottens (the inventor of the cassette tape) born 1926 (aged 94)
Kirsti Paakkanen (business executive) born 1929 (aged 92)
Lars Göran Petrov (musician) born 1972 (aged 49)
Christopher Plummer (actor) born 1929 (aged 91)
Prince Philip (prince) born 1921 (aged 99)
Colin Powell (politician) born 1937 (aged 84)
Marion Ramsey (actress) born 1948 (aged 73)
Anne Rice (author) born 1941 (aged 80)
Lucinda Riley (author) born 1966 (aged 55)
Tanya Roberts (actress) born 1955 (aged 65)
Mick Rock (photographer) born 1948 (aged 72)
Donald Rumsfeld (politician) born 1932 (aged 88)
Matti "Fredi" Siitonen (musician) born 1942 (aged 78)
Wilbur Smith (author) born 1933 (aged 88)
Phil Spector (record producer) born 1939 (aged 81)
Leon Spinks (boxer) born 1953 (aged 67)
Jim Steinman (composer) born 1947 (aged 73)
Dean Stockwell (actor) born 1936 (aged 85)
Mika Sundqvist (musician) born 1947 (aged 74)
Kim Suominen (footballer) born 1969 (aged 52)
Sylvain Sylvain (record producer, musician) born 1951 (aged 69)
Desmond Tutu (human rights activist) born 1931 (aged 90)
Jean-Marc Vallée (director) born 1963 (aged 58)
Eric Wagner (musician) born 1959 (aged 62)
Kirsti Wallasvaara (actress) born 1942 (aged 78)
Waldemar Wallenius (journalist) born 1948 (aged 73)
Jessica Walter (actress) born 1941 (aged 80)
Charlie Watts (musician) born 1941 (aged 80)
Betty White (actress) born 1922 (aged 99)
Sir Frank Williams (F1 chief) born 1942 (aged 79)
Michael K. Williams (actor) born 1966 (aged 54)
Marsha Zazula (record label owner) born 1952 (aged 68)

That little fucker is unkillable

Obviously the sequel to The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017). Desperately tries to be hilarious, but ultimately fails. Cheap jokes everywhere and it's guns blazing all the time, action without purpose, waste of everyone's time.

Speak for the dead

After Hollywood, Finnish director Renny Harlin did a brief tour in Hong Kong and China. Bodies at Rest is his last film of that stint. Set in a morgue where, in a nutshell, gun-wielding maniacs want to dig out a bullet from one of their victims. Nothing overly special, a bit messy story, but rather fun and thrilling entertainment.

Wish upon a star

Seems like a well-crafted story of a father, mother and daughter. The father is a health inspector, the mom is dead and the daughter is in jail. Little golden nuggets are unfolding here and there as we observe their past, but in the end the film thoroughly disappoints with its unanswered questions. David Thewlis still steals the show. Directed by Atom Egoyan (Remember).

Creatures who suck the blood of the living

The flamboyant Count comes to England because he has purchased a derelict old castle. And he lusts for fresh and delicious British blood of course. To be honest, I didn't know the existence of this Dracula movie even though there are lots of heavyweights in the cast; Frank Langella as Count Dracula, Laurence Olivier as professor Abraham Van Helsing and Donald Pleasance as Dr. Jack Seward. Directed by John Badham in 1979. Not particularly outstanding adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but a visually atmospheric little horror tale.

Sorry that everything went to shit

Mel (Celeste M Cooper) likes to run in the woods. Long distances. Ultra style. She's geared up, but when couple of desperate sons of bitches come her way, a trek in the forest turns into a struggle for survival. After initial shock, Mel is up for a revenge. And it's Rambo time. But in the end makes a shit survival/revenge flick.

God, land, oil

They are a rough bunch. Vinnie Jones, Ron Perlman, Malcolm McDowell and Bruce McGill on the same movie. But the fun ends there. One drunken night in a bar between shady American and British businessmen turns ugly. So ugly that it causes serious malfunction in the joint enterprise. Straight to DVD crime film garbage.

In the golden lightning of the sunken sun

They are trapped on a beach that is aging people at rapid rate. 60 minutes is 2 years, so you age almost 50 years in one day. Not a particularly good spot to spend your vacation. But you can't get out either. You can't swim or walk out. You try, you pass out. Quite a deliciously horrifying story and a few rather breath-taking and clever momets in it too, but too much to chew on. Bunch of shit actors to boot. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

We are on a bull run

"In the coldest regions of North America, drivers traverse man-made roads over frozen rivers, lakes and oceans of ice less than 30 inches thick in 65,000 LB. vehicles. These treks are dangerous and often fatal. Some drivers describe them as suicide missions." Thus begins The Ice Road by Jonathan Hensleigh. The story is pretty simple. Wellheads must be delivered far north through ice roads so they can save bunch of trapped miners. Mike McCann (Liam Neeson) leads truckers on a dangerous rescue mission on ice. Corny, clichéd and flawed to the hell and back.

Getting discombobulated

I'm glad it's on Netflix now, makes things much easier. Season 3 is probably the most groundbreaking of all Seinfeld seasons with classic episodes such as The Pen, The Library, The Parking Garage, The Keys, The Pez Dispenser and - probably my alltime favourite - The Limo.

More like a farewell than a reunion

Timo is a loner. A misfit. He invites couple of his childhood friends to pay him a visit in his ramshacle farm. During his lonesome years Timo has been making movies and losing his marbles a bit. Like he puts it, he's been having strange sensations and his thoughts and feelings aren't healthy. When the old friends reunite, old grudges flare up. A ruthlessly underground arthouse thriller, at times annoying but strangely captivating nevertheless.

The heels of the corpse had turned blue

A stalker they thought was dead follows a newswoman to a remote mountain resort where she's at because of her past horrors. Things get shittier and more dangerous though because the stalker has turned into a werewolf and the other residents in the resort are a tad strange too. Cult horror from 1981, directed by Joe Dante.

If you fuck an angel, elephants rape you in hell

A young woman who lost her parents seeks vengeance and hires professional killers to eliminate the murderers. Pretty simple shit. Gets a bit bizarre because the story has a dentist who is writing the same script that unfolds together with it. Anyways, it's weird and mesmerizing and outstanding. Set in anarchic Berlin. Really quite good despite zero budget.

Just the orgasm speaking

If this was, say, an American or British TV film series, it was a hopelessly average crime drama. Being Australian, it's a down-to-earth and laid-back crime series and really quite funny. The story isn't nothing remarkable, missing people, drugs involved, a few deaths, but it's nevertheless entertaining.

Weapons capable of wiping out humanity

An ordinary businessman is caught up in a middle of Cold War and the brink of thermonuclear warfare. In the dangerous world of spies where things can go sideways in a blink of an eye, he's perhaps not the right man for the job, but he still could save the world from total annihilation as the Soviets and the Yankees are threatening to shoot rockets back and forth like there was no tomorrow! A stylish and in the end pretty grim espionage thriller based on a true story.

First kiss is magic

Four high school teachers find out that they are at their educative best when they are inebriated. They follow the footsteps of the great masters Hemingway, Churchill, Roosevelt, Jeltsin and the theory of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud that humans are born with a blood alcohol content deficiency of 0.05%. Nothing can go wrong. Outstanding tragicomic feast by Thomas Vinterberg. Could quite well be the best movie of 2021.

Future legends on a clear day

Winston Churchill has asked to create a secret army of spies. The first field agents are women and they are sent to nazi-occupied France to gather information and help out La Résistance. The slow-moving cliched war drama is unsuspenseful and it looks cheap and hopelessly amateurish.

The dandelions still wet with morning dew

Liam Neeson is a recovering alcoholic and a former cop Matthew Scudder, a famous private investigator from Lawrence Block's novels. He's investigating cases where sick fucks pick women off the streets of New York City only to demand ransom and chop them to pieces. A dark thriller of a downbeat detective. Liam Neeson is his usual cool self and, curiously enough, David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy) in a role we're not used seeing him.

Enemies of the state

Local police do what they can in the troubled hoods of Malmö, Sweden, where thefts and rapes and killings are aplenty. An excellent series - translates to Thin Blue Line - of the men and women in blue in the turmoil of society and coming to terms with their personal lives in a city almost engulfed in flames.

Normal people kill people

I'm currently reading John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker's book The Killer Across the Table, based on the true stories of FBI criminal profilers unlocking the secrets of serial killers. It inspired Joe Penhall to produce Mindhunter, the acclaimed TV Series. No Man of God is based on real life transcripts selected from conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier. It's on the same ballpark, but even if it starts out interesting, there's hardly any competition. Luke Kirby is great as Theodore Bundy though.

Old but still running

There's a new drug. Hylophedrine. Street name: Hype. It's addictive as shit. Streets are filled up with junkies. The city looks like a warzone. A group of friends, war veterans, has barricaded themselves inside a pub named VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and try to prevent druggies who look like an army of the undead entering into the establishment. Looks like a bad slasher movie from the 80s and they most likely want it that way. Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt and others having a blast.

Pay the devil's due

They are investigating the disappearance of a swim coach whose accused of child molestation. A veteran detective (Ulrich Thomsen) who is fighting with his own demons is on the case. And he finds out that the case thickens to crime including Albanian mafia, corrupt officials and fabricated beneficence. Trademark Scandinavian crime, quite boringly so, based on a Jussi Adler-Olsen novel.

Too old to run

One of the best action films of recent years. Masterfully executed full-blown frenzy involving gangsters and cops and violence. An edge-on-the-seat thriller and, alongside Taken, the most entertaining of Liam Neeson's tough guy flicks. Albeit on the masculine side, a great cast of Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce McGill, Common, Holt McCallany and Nick Nolte.

Sunshine beyond the sea

These creatures are blind and they attack anything that makes a noise. They are super-deadly sons of bitches. Humans have to be really quiet to survive, co-existing with those fuckers is impossible and you have to be extra imaginative to fight against them. The sequel to Quiet Place (2018) and it's groovy horror in the Last of Us and Alien territory. Directed by John Krasinski.

Racial equality among muggers

I just finished reading Brian Garfield's novel Death Wish (1972), so of course I had to see the original movie, Michael Winner's Death Wish (1974). I don't necessarily have the patience to watch the few sequals - also starring Charles Bronson - let alone the Bruce Willis remake, but this truly is a great film where we follow a development engineer Paul Kersey getting tired of the scum and the filth of New York City.

Heroes are necessary

At first, it felt like an offbeat teenage comedy. And I also thought of quitting it because the lead character, Scott (Pete Davidson), a deadbeat, was like an annoying little fucker. But The King of Staten Island grew on me, it's a decent coming-of-age drama. Directed by Jude Apatow.

Dig up dirt

Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is thorough with her hatred against a man - and the people like him - who hurt his friend seven years ago. She's obsessed with her vendetta, leaves no stone unturned until she gets the day of reckoning. Just about a perfect revenge flick. Somewhat different than the rest, a thought-out and startling little thing and almost a pretty cool and funny love story on the side. I expected nothing of the film, but it's easily one of the best this year.

Pull the trigger before the waterworks begin

Hutch Mansell is a nine-to-five working man, nothing out of ordinary, like the rest of us. He used to be a Nobody, an auditer for three letter companies and, when needed, he is full of explosive action. That piece of him is triggered by Yulian, a ruthless babysitter of Obstshak, pension fund of Russian mob. The movie is crazy and wild, extremely well made, lots of action, bodycount is numerous, a John Wick rip-off really, only funnier. Cool cast of Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside and Connie Nielsen.

The evening news with blood

Federal air marshal Bill Marks has his hands full when everyone thinks he is a terrorist. Whereas he, in fact, is the one who negotiates with the real terrorist threatening to kill the passangers on a transatlantic flight one by one. Like the marshal puts it, situation is quite complicated. An edge of seat thriller, a fun entertaining ride. Liam Neeson is more than the updated version of Steven Seagal.

Live safely for one more day

The two biggest nuclear accidents are the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, caused by human error and negligence, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, caused by natural causes, triggered by earthquake and tsunami. Both filmed recently. The first, an acclaimed, truly incredible mini series Chernobyl (2019) by Craig Mazin. And the latter Fukushima by Setsurô Wakamatsu and it's not an excellent film, but at least it's informative what took place in that awful day 11 March 2011.

Accept the existence of the devil

Some sort of demonic entity enters the bodies of human beings and make them do horrendous things. The fucker must be summoned through exorcism and thrown to hell. Not entirely sure, but don't think The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It differs of its predecessors, The Conjuring franchise, or all the other similar movies since William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973). A few jump scares, but a mess of a story of the same lie that the movie is based on a true story.

The rich really are different

Little does she now, the bride, that an initiation to an extremely wealthy family is a game. To her misfortune, it's Hide and Seek that is all too real. The rules are simple. You hide or you die. So better hide good. A horror comedy of survival and it's pretty fantastic and groovy.

A trail of shit

The adventures of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Two sick fucks - serial killers - who indulged in several murderous rampages somewhere around Florida in the early Eighties. Together or solo, they liked to kill, found insatiable pleasure in it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) hasn't lost none of its video nasty appeal, lots of the story of the true characters is fictionalized, but it's still quite impressive.

The place hates you back

A pretty intense thriller of mafia henchmen wiping out people they are paid to execute and a group of fire fighters and sheriff deputies are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. It's wicked and action-packed, but it's also hopelessly fucking loopholed and full of downright naive mistakes. Entertaining, but an extremely badly written movie. Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal and Aidan Gillen starring.

Existence is futile

The sky could have been the limit for Jere Karalahti, an ice hockey player. Talented as fuck, but essentially an asshole who wasted his talent on booze and drugs. He kind of wanted to be the rock'n'roll outlaw of ice hockey. Blew almost everything away, his own life included. Loving dad though.

Standing and peeing is kind of rad

Serial killer The Butcher changes identities with one of his victims and that's the general idea of the slasher comedy Freaky. It truly is funny and hilarious, deliciously bloody, Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn are brilliant in the lead, but the genre is pretty unforgiving. It's merely throwaway popcorn cinema and doesn't give a lasting experience.

Don't start what you can't finish

Ordinarily the leisurely pace of this movie would have scared me away. But I kept going because the charismas of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane kept the movie going. They are George and Margaret, grandparents to Jimmy, who they desperately want to see and save from a monster of a family. An emotionally charged drama thriller gradually built up towards explosive ending.

Doing something great is overrated

Funny thing with these mini series. You put the DVD into the player and it gets you in for a ride and before you know it, you've finished the fucking thing. Mare of Easttown - 7 episodes and something like 7 hours total - I binge-watched it and it's as excellent as everyone says it is.