Legalize murder now

Let's face it, Chris Rock can't act. Spiral: From the Book of Saw - and all the other spin-offs of Saw - however really nourishes by the gruesome and innovative deaths and not the embarrassing performances by the actors. It's still painful to watch.

Pleased to meat you

Truck driver Pat Quid suspects a van driver is a serial killer. I didn't know Ozploitation (a category of low-budget horror, comedy, sexploitation and action films made in Australia) was a genre before. But now I do and Roadgames - perhaps alongside Mad Max - is my favourite Ozploitation movie now. It's an Alfred Hitchcock inspired truck driving thriller.

If a man has one friend, he's rich

After lots and lots of flashy top-quality contemporary films, it's always refreshing to hark back to the yesteryear. Winchester '73 was released in 1950, it's a good old western, a black & white movie directed by Anthony Mann, James Stewart and Shelley Winters in the lead. And it's a story of the Winchester Rifle Model 187 a.k.a. "The gun that won the west." To cowman, outlaw, peace officer or soldier, the Winchester '73 was a treasured possession. An Indian would sell his soul to own one. In the wild west of 1876, the Winchester piece was as famous - and deadly - as the stars Crazy Horse, George Custer and Wyatt Earp.

Smells like satan's asshole

Frank Grillo and Gerard Butler produced themselves in a simple violent crime film with hilariously bad ass characters that mostly takes place in a Gun Creek city police headquarters. Just solid American noir of crooks, bent cops, feds, drugs, shoot-outs, extortion and murder. The director Joe Carnahan (Narc, Smokin' Aces, Boss Level) has quite a recognizable style now.

Your primary tools are observation and imagination

Norman Nordstrom is an old blind man who defends his home yet again against intruders. And not only his home, he's also protecting a little girl Phoenix (Madelyn Grace) whose in grave danger because organ-snatching junkies want to steal her heart! Stephen Lang is a menacing figure as the predator who kills them all. 

Dreaming of gold and jewels

Sandra escapes her abusive shit husband with their two children and she has to start her life anew. She decides to build a home from scratch, with pure self-confidence and the goodness of strangers. A rewarding piece of Irish cinema, a roller coaster of emotions.

He creeps, he kills, he goes home

Michael Myers is as deadly as ever. The whole city of Haddonfield is hunting him down, but the masked apex predator is virtually indestructible. Halloween Kills is bloody and funny, but the gory scenes are all the cool thing in it.

There are idiots everywhere

Bella Cherry travels from Sweden to Hollywood to become the next big porn star. The industry however is abusive and sadistic for the 19 year old, so she must toughen her act to survive. An adventurous learning curve to the Swede. Unfortunately there's hardly a proper story or substance in Pleasure, it's more like a researched look at the profession.

Too late to figure it out

Maybe Cry Macho is just a big fuck you wave by Clint Eastwood. Oh the irony if after decades of ground-breaking masterpieces both as a director and an actor (Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, High Plains Drifter, In the Line of Fire and so on) his swangsong is a boring two-cent story of a former rodeo star, a rooster and a Mexican teenager. Cry Macho is just fucken terrible and can't decide if it's a thriller, a drama, a road movie or a romantic film.

When heaven comes down

If you tried to make the worst movie ever made, you couldn't make it worse than Collision Earth. It currently has 2.2 points in the International Movie Database (IMDB). This is breath-taking badness. Something you got to see to believe.

Pain comes from always wanting things

What's this blasphemy? Did anybody really want a pre-sequel to the Sopranos TV series? Doesn't even work as its own independent film. Easily, the only thing that stands out is Vera Farmiga, she's a splitting image of Livia Soprano, originally performed by Nancy Marchand. Absolutely nailed it. Intriguingly, Ray Liotta and Michael Gandolfini, the son of James Gandolfini, in the cast.

The evil song you sing inside your brain

Window cleaner is helpless. He's a single parent to a wee lad and he's dying. He desperately needs to find a new family to his three-year-old son, people who provide a proper life to the kid when he's gone. With declining health finding a perfect family is a labour of its own. Heartfelt and just an awfully sad story.

Weakness rots from within

In the year 2257 AD, the men think they finally have their own planet. Their own mancave where they can hang out, cultivate, read each others minds, the usual stuff, as they please. One day a girl falls out from the sky and she's - of course - instantly seen as an enemy. One of the men, Todd (Tom Holland), however wants to protect the space girl and they escape. Honestly, this movie looks like a bad joke.

Close the book if the story's over

Still doesn't cease to amaze me. One amazing heist that keeps on giving. Twists and turns to no end and the robbers are always a few steps ahead of the police. Just about the perfect series and deserves all the hype. This was Part 4 (also referred to as the second part of season 2).

Leave it in the desert

Little on the slow-moving side, but thankfully Mark Rylance, who is almost in every frame, delivers a performance that keeps it together. Johnny Depp and Robert Pattison step in when things get ugly, but pale in comparison to Rylance. Set in a colonial magistrate in an unnamed empire.

Fear is the mind-killer

Interstellar travel between the stars needs "spice" that is the most valuable substance in the universe. As expected, not bad. Not bad at all. A great flamboyant science fiction adventure that definitely sets new limits to the genre. As everyone knows it's based on Frank Herbert's novel, as was David Lynch's Dune (1984), starring Kyle MacLachan and Sting, and Denis Villeneuve will start shooting on Dune: Part Two later in 2022.

The heart of a black soul

Beforehand I kind of peeked in on the reviews and saw the shit feedback. Don't know why I chose to watch the movie still. Perhaps because of the stars Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly and Shea Whigham. But it's all bollocks. A stupid script, inane characters, all that crap. A bank robber gets out on bail, his parole officer blackmails him and everyone are neck-deep in hillbilly organized crime real quick. Give me a fucking break. That's two hours worth of wasting time.

Unveiling of the deeper self of humanity

Old friends have a tradition to spend Christmas together. This time it will be their last because everyone is going to die in an environmental catastrophe that will wipe all of humanity out. It's a perfect oppurtunity to speak their minds, party their hearts out and when the end is due, take the so called exit pill to die with dignity. An off-beat and groovy British apocalyptic horror and black comedy.

Well, fucking bye

Finnish Renny Harlin was a decent Hollywood director (Ford Fairlane, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight) until he flopped (Exorcist: The Beginning, The Legend of Hercules, The Covenant). He then fucked off to China, but failed (Skiptrace, Bodies at Rest) yet again. He came back to Finland and wisely thought that he'd be better off to start at the very bottom and jump into the worst frachise of the history of comedy Luokkakokous. This shit is horrible and I wanted to see it solely because I want to know what I hate.

Losing all the leaves

Father has his ways. He's old, stubborn to shit, mean-spirited if necessary. But his memory is a losing game. Nothing seems to be what it seems. Sometimes he doesn't recognize his own daughter and even talks to imaginative people who say he's getting on everyone's tits and should be sent to a nursing home. Sounds a bit depressive and sad, but they pulled it off remarkably well and The Father is entertaining as hell. A dazzling performance by Anthony Hopkins.

Eat more, drink more, bed more

There's three versions - beautifully constructed episodes - of the same story in The Last Duel. The truth according to either Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) or Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer). Lady Marguerite was raped and by the laws of 14th century France, the justice is implemented by a duel. Not trademark Ridley Scott action, but everything is executed to perfection.

History isn't here yet

The leisurely and quiet pace of First Cow is captivating. Cookie (John Magaro) is a cook in the damp forests of Oregon in 1820. At first teamed up with fur trappers, then befriending a Chinese immigrant King-Lu (Orion Lee) and begin a cookie enterprise with stolen milk.

Hail to the king, baby

A documentary about the fans (aka Deadites) of the Evil Dead films. Evil Dead (1981) and Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987), both etched on my memory, are my favourite horror movies as well. Bruce Campbell is an iconic figure who has done so much amazing off-beat cinema (Bubba Ho-Tep, Xena, My Name Is Bruce, Brisco County Jr., The Hudsucker Proxy) outside the franchise as well. He even wrote one hell of a memoir - If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie actor. Hail to the Deadites celebrates the movie's faithful and kinda coofy fanbase. Love the amateur homegrown feel in it, just like the original movies.

Just gushing red

Oftentimes these movies should come with an interpreter or someone who'd tell what the fuck is going on. I'm not terribly educated on things Marvel, never followed the comics, know shit of the character Black Widow's past, none of that. I felt that I was just pulled into her life and had to figure out myself where things stand. Once I got grasp of the story, I realized I was better off ignorant.

Shooting rabbits

Federal Agent Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) travels back into his old village Kiewarra in hopelessly dry south-eastern Australia to attend to a funeral of his friend who recently committed a murder-suicide. He ain't too liked in the old farming community because of his suspected foul-play as a kid. He'd happily be elsewhere, but is asked to look into the murder case a little closely and re-open the investigation. Solid thriller, a proper mystery of two different cases, little on the slow-moving side, but that's alright.

An angel with a dirty face

Meyer Lansky was one of the most notorious gangsters in American history, up there with his buddies Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel. A clever man yet ruthless to the end. Harvey Keitel as an aging soon-to-be-dead Lansky, John Magaro as his younger self and Sam Worthington as David Stone, an author writing a biography of the dying mobster and who still attracts close interest to the FBI. As all biopics, Lansky (directed by Eytan Rockaway) has its weaknesses. Probably because they are trying to be as accurate as you can get, it's not a full-on guns-blazing mafia movie. The quiet moments are there, but luckily they're gripping enough to be interesting.

The dreams way overdue

Rain (Madison Iseman) thinks she's losing her shit. Her nightmares and the things she thinks she sees seem all too real. Everyone else thinks she's showing symptoms of schizophrenia and needs to be heavily medicated otherwise institutionalized. How to explain them that she suspects her next door neighbour is a sadistic kidnapper? A low-budget little thingy, really nothing too exciting.

A way to go until the abyss

To be perfectly honest, after the great first season, I thought they'd never pull this off. But they did. To avenge the capture of one of their comrades, the gang  orchestrates a Royal Mint of Spain heist. And it's almost as good as ever. Unstoppable entertainment. This is Part 3, also referred to as the first of part of Season 2.

Happiness is like lightning

Ok. Part 2 or the second part of Season 1 of Money Heist. I'm gulping the episodes down like hell. It's still good. Very good. Perhaps a little too much making the impossible possible and somewhat out of focus at times. But what the hell, it's downright entertaining all the same. Part 2 looks like the finale, but it's only natural to cash in on the unexpected success and there's more to come.

No right sides in hell

A bowl of surprises and twists - and sheer excitement. Sometimes too good to be fiction. Money Heist season 1 (or part 1) is absolutely fucking crazy. Phenomenal.

Enjoy Valhalla while it still lasts

It wasn't as bad as I expected - and feared - it to be, the 6th (and last?) season of the Vikings. Particularly liked the bit when they discovered the New World.

You are not gonna be around forever

I guess After Life is the greatest tragi-comic series of all time. Season 3 is even more serious than its predecessors, lots of the scenes - entire episodes almost - are devoid of the trademark Ricky Gervais comedy. Just sadness and death and misery. Life. The funny bits, they are thunderously breath-taking.

In Texas you are on your own

The directional debut of Joel and Ethan Coen. Released in 1984. Outstanding crime-noir. A simple revenge mission goes haywire from the get-go and everyone is a bit clueless what the hell is going on, but those watching the whole show are thoroughly entertained. The brothers began their career with a proper explosion.

Every corpse has a story

A somewhat ghoulish and creepy mortician (Clancy Brown) is telling ghost stories to his new assistant. A nice surprise. Atmospheric, deliciously sickening and macabre horror anthology. The new generation Creepshow.

Does this translate, pendejo?

Spring is coming and so is the Purge, the national holiday celebrating American freedom sanctioned by the U.S. government when nothing is prohibited. You can maim and slaughter people as you please. The good people of Mexico come to help because this time it seems the Purge will last forever. The 5th film in the Purge franchise and you probably watch it once.

No worries, there'll always be more endangered species

This has aged remarkably well. A funny little family comedy of Sasquatch. The versatile actor John Lithgow already had an excellent comic timing and the story is silly and innocent enough. Directed by William Dear in 1987. Besides Lithgow, people like Don Ameche, David Suchet and M. Emmet Walsh in the cast. 

The bottomless pit of human greed

One of the greatest discoveries as of late. The lawyer Cleaver Greene is bit of a rascal. He doesn't mind speaking his mind, getting wasted on alcohol or occasional lines of cocaine, shacking whoever women who comes his way, gambling and behaving like shit. But he's also quick-witted, pretty good at his profession, a decent father and a loveable, cool and funny man. Rake is an Australian television series and it's like no other. This was the first season, looking forward to catch the others. Stand-out move to cast two renowned heavy-weights Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill as guest stars portraying a cannibal and a zoophiliac. Just brilliant.

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)