Monday, January 30, 2023

Shadow of vernal showers

Absolutely nothing new in the shark movie genre. Bunch of college idiots on jetskis just begging to be devoured by a great white shark. Done a thousand times already.

You don't beat this river

Deliverance, by John Boorman, is a whirlwind of suspense. City folk's canoeing trip going all to shit in the hillbilly territory. It's a timeless classic (from 1972) and the pain and misery almost uncomfortable to watch.

Saturday, January 28, 2023

The altar of bones

There's nothing better. Fauda is the greatest series right now. Easily. The news of hearing they're doing the season number four alone and now seeing it. Wow. Blown away. Almost literally.

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Let the dreams be real

There's a serial child abductor and murderer nicknamed "The Grabber" at large! A sadistic fuck who kidnaps school children and locks them in the basement of his house. The dungeon has a defunct phone that gives real or imaginary comfort to the locked children. We are lead to believe there's former victims on the other end of the line! A chilling story (courtesy of Joe Hill), but the unexplained bits turn down the thrills a notch.

No-one deserves the impossible

A rodeo horse trainer OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya) is on a UFO hunt! He needs to capture the perfect shot of the object, otherwise no-one believes him. With the help of his sister Emerald Haywood (Keke Palmer), tech salesman Angel Torres (Brandon Perea) and documentarian Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott) he's even going to shoot some proper video evidence. Nope, by Jordan Peele, is a creepy and strangle little thing, but oddly satisfying to watch.

Friday, January 20, 2023

Just a bullet away

Wrong Place, by Mike Burns, is yet another one of Bruce Willis's retirement plans. And again, it's one of those things. You know they are making it seriously, but oftentimes you think are they just fucking with you because it's just too shitty to be true. It's comical, looks like a crime parody, just a shit fucking movie where nothing makes sense.

Thursday, January 19, 2023

Ignore the chaos, just keep dancing

Beaches aren't safe because the fucking sand sharks prey on people. The organizers of a beach party aren't too happy, but obviously they overlook the grave danger. Brooke Hogan, the daughter of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, as the scientist Sandy Powers investigating the great beasts. I've Snow Sharks aka. Avalanche Sharks lined up, I've heard it's even worse.

Man bites man

People are slicing up specimens to understand the concept of a zombie. They are hunting these freaks down for information. Maybe they can be domesticated. It's their only hope because zombies are ruling the earth and humans have to live in bunkers. And they are losing their shit, so the research must pay off. George A. Romero's finest movie of the undead.

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

A powder keg of explosive rage

Kai is a nomadic soul. A hero and a phenomenon at first, sicko murderer the next. From hero to a cold-blooded callous killer in three months. A documentary of a drifter dude who is a cunt.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Pure motorized instinct

I don't know if zombies should have stayed this way. Down-witted, clumsy and slow as fuck, but I like the idea how the surviving humans have possibilities to fight these monsters. Even having fun while doing it. Why to panic when you are locked safely inside a supermarket and mercilessly fathom its supply from instant coffee, cigarettes, caviar, whisky and ammo? George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead from 1978 is cool, but I prefer Zack Snyder's remake from 2004. 

Sunday, January 15, 2023

A family farm

Midway the movie, there was an unexpected twist that made all the difference. Not as exciting as the first one Orphan (2009), but the story is as deranged as they come. And it's pretty bloody.

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Bamboo umbrellas for the drinks

Released in 1979, The Jerk is Steve Martin's first starring role in a feature film. His knack for both physical and verbal comedy was so smoothed and charismatic already that he could easily hold up a full-lenght movie on his shoulders. He co-wrote it too. And Carl Reiner, a legend in his own, directed the piece. Sure, some of the humour is quite out-dated, bordering on stupid even, but most of the time a hoot.

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Lust for desire

A retired school teacher orders herself a playboy. For sex. The sexworker is Leo Grande. They connect also with talking. It's interesting if you ignite into this kind of thing, but if you don't, it's a boring ordeal. Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack do their bit effortlessly though.

Monday, January 09, 2023

A passing moment of hunting humans

Another one of Bruce Willis's before the retirement gigs. And just like the rest of them, a complete waste of time. Maybe the worst movie of the century. 90 minutes felt like ages. It's not even shit for brains, just hysterically brainless junk.

The fire that burns

Malte has an incurable brain tumor. To avoid future pain and suffering, he thinks active euthanasia is the way to go. He’s accompanied by his friends on an RV journey from Sweden to Switzerland, to complete the assisted suicide thing. It’s both laughter and tears. Dag för Dag (Day by Day) is quite a forgettable Swedish drama comedy. Coincidentally Sven Wollter, the actor portraying the dying man, died before the release of the film from complications caused by COVID-19. The movie remains his last on his remarkable career. He was 86 years old.

Saturday, January 07, 2023

Safer to be feared than loved

When the true nature of things are revealed in the end, you fast-forward all the episodes and as much of the scenes you can muster in your mind and realize how disturbing is this shit. There's a serial killer on the loose in a small town of Wind Gap, Missouri. The slaughtered girls eventually get the attention from the FBI and the press and it's a terrifying puzzle or there will be more victims. Marti Noxon's miniseries is close to a masterpiece, based on Gillian Flynn's debut novel.

Thursday, January 05, 2023

The cave-man clasps the seer

The owner of an industrial scale company the Blancos Báscules factory, Julio Blanco (Javier Barem) tries to keep the relationships with his family and co-workers and colleagues in balance, just like the product he represents, but it's dancing on a tightrope. El buen patrón (The Good Boss) is a brilliant satire written in a wonderfully sarcastic tone. Directed by Fernando León de Aranoa.

Tuesday, January 03, 2023

Waking up on the right side of dirt

A young lady woman Kya Clark lives all by herself on a swamp because her bastard father scared the rest of the family away then disappeared himself. She doesn't intend to leave the marsh, not by a long shot, she loves the place, the nature and the animals too much. She also gets attention from the lads in the neighbouring town, so it's all good. Until a body is found. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Olivia Newman, starts out great, quiets down a little too much the rest of the movie, but an intriguing story and enough a gripping drama. Based on a best-seller by Delia Owens.

Sunday, January 01, 2023

2022

MOVIES

The Velvet Queen (Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier)
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Tisdagsklubben (Annika Appelin)
Coming Home in the Dark (James Ashcroft)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)
Scream (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett)
The Red Ghost (Andrey Bogatyrev)
Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh)
The Ritual (David Bruckner)
Copshop (Joe Carnahan)
Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Orphan (Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Dry (Robert Connolly)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
The Northman (Robert Eggers)
Roadgames (Richard Franklin)
No Time to Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga)
The Comeback Trail (George Gallo)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam)
Supernature (Ricky Gervais)
Silent Night (Camille Griffin)
The Middle Man (Bent Hamer)
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin)
Mother (Bong Joon Ho)
Narrow Margin (Peter Hyams)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)
Adaptation (Spike Jonze)
Komisario Palmun erehdys (Matti Kassila)
Laitakaupungin valot (Aki Kaurismäki)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki)
Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
Herself (Phyllida Lloyd)
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay)
The Changeling (Peter Medak)
Paul (Greg Mottola)
Who killed Santa? (Laura Murphy)
The Menu (Mark Mylod)
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
The Lost City (Aaron Nee. Adam Nee)
Wrong Turn (Mike P. Nelson)
Jack Strong (Wladyslaw Pasikowski)
Arctic (Joe Penna)
Persian Lessons (Vadim Perelman)
In the Line of Fire (Wolfgang Petersen)
Run Hide Fight (Kyle Rankin)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
Tunturin tarina (Marko Röhr)
Don't Breathe 2 (Rodo Sayagues)
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
The Duel (Ridley Scott)
Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)
Dawn of the Dead (Zach Snyder)
Duel (Steven Spielberg)
The Mortuary Collection (Ryan Spindell)
The Last Execution (Franziska Stünkel)
The Royal Game (Philipp Stölzl)
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron)
Peruna (Joona Tena)
Troll (Roar Uthaug)
The King's Man (Matthew Vaughn)
Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
Witness for the Prosecution (Billy Wilder)
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)
The Father (Florian Zeller)
What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis)

SERIES

I Know This Much Is True (Derek Cianfrance)
Seinfeld (Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld)
Rake (Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh, Charles Waterstreet)
After Life (Ricky Gervais)
Norsemen (Jon Iver Helgaker, Jonas Torgersen)
Vikings (Michael Hirst)
Dexter (James Manos Jr.)
Time (Jimmy McGovern)
Money Heist (Álex Pina)
Napamiehet (Janne Reinikainen, Tommi Korpela, John Lundsten)

R.I.P.

Shinzo Abe (politician) born 1954 (aged 67)
Madeline Albright (secretary of state) born 1937 (aged 84)
Kirstie Alley (actress) born 1951 (aged 71)
David Andersson (musician) born 1975 (aged 47)
Angelo Badalamenti (composer) born 1937 (aged 85)
Chris Bailey (musician) born 1957 (aged 65)
Peter Bogdanovich (director) born 1939 (aged 82)
Gary Brooker (musician) born 1945 (aged 76)
James Caan  (actor) born 1940 (aged 82)
Irene Care (singer) born 1959 (aged 63)
Manny Charlton (musician) born 1941 (aged 80)
Robbie Coltrane (actor) born 1950 (aged 72)
Julee Cruise (musician) born 1956 (aged 65)
Betty Davis (singer) born 1945 (aged 77)

Charlbi Dean (actress) born 1990 (aged 32)
Ruggero Deodato (director) born 1939 (aged 83)
Lenny von Dohlen (actor) born 1958 (aged 63)
Elizabeth II (Queen) born 1926 (aged 96)
Andy Fletcher (musician) born 1961 (aged 60)
Jean-Luc Godard (director) born 1930 (aged 91)
Mihail Gorbatshov (president) born 1931 (aged 91)
Gilbert Gottfried (comedian) born 1955 (aged 67)
Steve Grimmett (musician) born 1959 (aged 62)
Philip Baker Hall (actor) born 1931 (aged 90)
Heikki Haavisto (politician) born 1935 (aged 86)
Jussi Hakulinen (musician) born 1964 (aged 57)
Terry Hall (musician) born 1959 (aged 63)
Estelle Harris (actress) born 1928 (aged 93)
Taylor Hawkins (musician) born 1972 (aged 50)
Anne Heche (actress) born 1969 (aged 53)
Heikki Hedman (athlete, sports commentator) born 1940 (aged 81)
Janne Heiskanen (musician) born 1979 (aged 43)
Hempo Hildén (musician) born 1952 (aged 69)
Juha "Agathon" Hintikka (musician) born 1968 (aged 53)
Bo Hopkins (actor) born 1942 (aged 84)
William Hurt (actor) born 1950 (aged 71)
Wilko Johnson (musician) born 1947 (aged 75)
Maxi Jazz (musician) born 1957 (aged 65)
L.Q. Jones (actor) born 1927 (aged 94)
Ilkka Kanerva (politician) born 1948 (aged 74)
Jack Kehler (actor) born 1946 (aged 75)
Gord Kirchin (musician) born 1961 (aged 60)
Mervi Krusberg (co-worker) born 1974 (aged 48)
Jaakko Kuusisto (composer, conductor) born 1974 (aged 48)
Diane LaVey (satanist) born 1942 (aged 80)
Mark Lanegan (musician) born 1964 (aged 57)
Angela Lansbury (actress) born 1925 (aged 96)
Mariusz Lewandowski (painter) born 1960 (aged 62)
Jerry Lee Lewis (musician) born 1935 (aged 87)
Ray Liotta (actor) born 1954 (aged 67)
Antti Litja (actor) born 1938 (aged 84)
Meat Loaf (musician, actor) born 1947 (aged 74)
Vesa-Matti Loiri (entertainer) born 1945 (aged 77)
Robert LuPone (actor) born 1945 (aged 76)
Ilkka Lähteenmäki (musician) born 1942 (aged 80)
Stuart Margolin (actor) born 1940 (aged 82)
Dan McCafferty (musician) born 1946 (aged 76)
Christine McVie (musician) born 1943 (aged 79)
Siniša Mihajlovic (footballer) aged 1969 (53)
Esa Moilanen (musician) born 1961 (aged 61)
Olivia Newton-John (actress) born 1948 (aged 73)
Irene Papas (actress) born 1929 (aged 93)
Pelé (footballer) born 1940 (aged 83)
Wolfgang Petersen (director) born 1941 (aged 81)
Sidney Poitier (actor) born 1927 (aged 94)
Mino Raiola (football agent) born 1967 (aged 54)
Ivan Reitman (director) born 1946 (aged 75)
Börje Salming (ice hockey player) born 1951 (aged 71)
Anneli Sauli (actress) born 1932 (aged 89)
Edgar Savisaar (politician) born 1950 (aged 72)
Klaus Schulze (musician) born 1947 (aged 75)
Burke Shelley (musician) born 1950 (aged 71)
Liz Sheridan (actress) born 1929 (aged 93)
Dave Sherman (musician) born 1966 (aged 55)
Henry Silva (actor) born 1926 (aged 95)
Jarkko Sipilä (journalist) born 1964 (aged 57)
Tony Sirico (actor) born 1942 (aged 79)
Paul Sorvino (actor) born 1939 (aged 83)
Trevor Strnad (musician) born 1981 (aged 41)
Al Strobel (actor) born 1940 (aged 82)
Alec John Such (musician) born 1951 (aged 70)
Ilkka Suominen (politician) born 1838 (aged 89)
Aarne Tanninen (journalist) born 1931 (aged 90)
Ivana Trump (businesswoman) born 1949 (aged 73)
Nik Turner (musician) born 1940 (aged 82)
Heikki Ursin (uncle) born 1947 (aged 74)
Vangelis (composer) born 1943 (aged 79)
Fred Ward (actor) born 1942 (aged 79)
David Warner (actor) born 1941 (aged 80)
Vivienne Westwood (fashion designer) born 1941 (aged 81)
Alan White (musician) born 1949 (aged 72)
André Wilms (actor) born 1947 (aged 74)
John Zazula (music industry executive) born 1952 (aged 69)

Friday, December 30, 2022

A faint scent of longing and regret

This satire or dark comedy horror film is pretty bonkers. There's an exclusive restaurant on a private island owned and operated by celebrity chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) who intends to kill a group of carefully selected diners before the night is out. An added surprise on the menu is that one guests - Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) - wasn't on the list. Wonderful atmospheric, suspenseful and claustrophobic thrills.

A ghost in the water

If Renny Harlin's The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) has aged exceptionally well, the same can be said of What Lies Beneath by Robert Zemeckis, released in 2000. It's a creepy thriller of a wealthy middle-aged couple in middle of a modern-day ghost story. It's a suspenseful and mightily scary movie. A damn entertaining piece.

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Black void known as death

Of course this is stupid as shit as is the rest of the Murderville crap, but humour based on improvisation can be the coolest comedy. Jason Bateman and Maya Rudolph are called on a murder investigation as trainees. They have to solve who killed Santa. With Will Arnett, portraying detective Terry Seattle, they break characters and have a laugh. It's goofy innocent fun.

Die screaming motherfucker

Blown away. It's maybe two decades the last time I saw Renny Harlin's The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) and, damn, ain't it still the coolest thing. A great action film, no cheap punches, pure and brutal entertainment, a high octane thriller that hasn't aged a day since its release.

Blessed by the freedom of tomorrow

Marcel Marx (André Wilms) is devoted to protect an immigrant boy Idrissa Saleh (Blondin Miguel). With the help of local people, his friends, shopkeepers and restaurateurs he intends to get the kid the hell out of Le Havre (a port city in the Normandy region of northern France) and its uptight authorities. Aki Kaurismäki's laconic film making knows no equal, the art resides in its quiet and sometimes awkward parts, and you can easily succumb into its almost dreamlike reality. André Wilms died this year.

Tuesday, December 27, 2022

Lie for the truth

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, by Rian Johnson, is like a puzzle wrapped in a thriller. Unfortunately, it ain't half as funny as its predecessor, but an entertaining enough a piece of the rise and fall billionaire Miles Bron. Daniel Craig and Edward Norton are both on fire, but Janelle Monáe steals the show really. Still, a tad disappointing.

Thursday, December 22, 2022

A stain in a dying world

Kind of knew this was poor, but decided to torture myself anyways. Covid 19 has fucked the world to shit, all the imbeciles are alive, one girl is supposedly immune to the disease and that makes her a target. Bad people want to hunt her down and good people protect her. And it's a cliché-ridden fuckery and mistakes are everywhere every fucking minute. The Survivalist, by John Keeyes, is beyond shit.

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The great hunt of nighttime generation

Movie producer Max Barber (Robert DeNiro) is shooting a movie with an old western star Duke Montana (Tommy Lee Jones), but his true intention is an accident in a scene, so he can collect the insurance money. Duke Montana is a son of a bitch to kill though. Comeback Trail by George Gallo is pretty cool. Only when the slapstick gear kicks in it can be infantile and downright stupid, but otherwise it's an entertaining and pleasant comedy. A well deserved addition to the list of movies about movie making (Get Shorty, The Player, State & Main, Shadow of the Vampire, Boogie Nights and Living in Oblivion).

Sunday, December 18, 2022

The white sail on the lake

Roman Polanski's debut full-lenght movie is tagged as a psychological thriller. It hasn't all too well. At least all the thrills are gone. Maybe people find artistic integrity in its minimalism, free-flowing cinematography, the soundtrack (by Krzysztof Komeda) and the quiet moments, but as easily you can just ignore them.

Carved in stone

Troll movies are cool. André Øvredal's Trollhunter (2010) is my favourite. This one follows close behind. It doesn't take itself too seriously, there's stupid humour in appropriate doses. It's fun and entertaining. Great visually, too. Serious troll movies aren't so cool.

If the shortcut was a shortcut

Four British buddies hike in Sweden and are mightily scared of the forests! There's a menacing presence there stalking them! Stuff of nightmares. It's good old-fashioned survival horror where the characters are never safe and oblivious what the fuck is scaring their tits out. Directed by David Bruckner, based on an Adam Nevill novel.

Same grift different threads

Visually, just absolutely stunning. Otherwise, lots of the material should just have been left on the floor of the editing room. The story of a mentalist and a con artist with a secret could quite well be told with lesser scenes and minutes. Nicely, the cast just got bigger and better towards the end. Starring Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Rooney Mara, Ron Pearlman, David Strathairn, Holt McCallany, Cate Blanchett and Richard Jenkins.

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

It tastes like almond

Looks like Hitchcock, writes like Christie. Komisario Palmun erehdys (Inspector Palmu's Mistake), directed by Matti Kassila, based on a Mika Waltari novel, is a masterpiece. Often voted the best Finnish film of all time. A whodunnit murder mystery from 1960.

Sunday, December 11, 2022

The dawn was grey

Funny how a little Swedish romantic drama can be so captivating. The story ain't nothing out of ordinary either. Karin's husband is a schmuck, she comes across a chef Henrik and falls in love with him. If it weren't for the wonderful chemistry between Marie Richardson and Peter Stormare, the movie wouldn't be quite much of anything. Edited, it could be like a segment in Love Actually. The ending is so damn syrupy that it screams Swedish happiness like hell.

Just one big happy Zamundian-American aristocratic

Prince Akeem goes to America to retrieve the bastard son he never knew he had, so the kingdom can have a heir to the throne. Coming to America was released already in 1988 and conveniently the major bulk of the cast (Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Paul Bates, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Louie Anderson) appears in the predecessor as well. Unfortunately eighties sense of humour and the feeling of them times too.

Thursday, December 08, 2022

Anarchy of the blind

Zone 414 is a city of robots where humans go to fulfill their pleasures. One resident however ain't happy with her life as a programmable machine. Or the fact that she receives death threats. She's very afraid. Luckily she teams up with a human detective (Guy Pearce) on a missing person case. It's no secret Andrew Braid's Zone 414 tries to be the next Blade Runner (1982) and Guy Pearce enjoys pissing on his career.

Wednesday, December 07, 2022

The cruelest torture to imagine

Pretty good. And creepy. The story of an adopted child goes horribly wrong. A horror movie executed amazingly without the entities beyond the laws of nature, the story is entangled in tension and suspense only. 

The road of last goodbyes

It's exactly like John Krasinki's A Quite Place, only much much worse. So many things ridiculously wrong in the plot. You get lightheaded just spotting them, but it's pretty entertaining all the same.

Saturday, December 03, 2022

In unexplored realms of night to hide

A kidnapping case in Scotland. A helpless father is searching his son. Brian Goodman's Last Seen Alive still fresh in the memory and this is pretty much on the same ballpark. Logic is nowhere in sight, loose ends are endless and things happen solely for the benefit of the fabricated excitement.

Thursday, December 01, 2022

The bones lie whitening

Just absolutely nothing happening in the 1971 western The Hired Hand. High plains drifter Harry Collings (Peter Fonda) returns home to become a family man. Arch Harris (Warren Oates) is his best friend and Hannah Collings (Verna Bloom) his wife. Probably the most boring western movie I've ever seen. Should have fast-forwarded this little piece of shit. Directed by Peter Fonda.

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Another golden egg flying through space

Yeah ok, you lose your wife at a gas station, suspect foulplay, someone's kidnapped her, contact the police, help the investigation any which way you can, but don't act all imbecile and go gung-ho on the case. These are cool movies, but only if there's some proper logic involved. Like George Sluizer's Spoorloos (1988) or its remake The Vanishing (1993) (also by George Sluizer) or Jonathan Mostow's Breakdown (1997). 

Monday, November 28, 2022

We are not alone

Two French explorers (Vincent Munier and Sylvain Tesson) are desperate to find, witness and photograph a rarely met and endangered snow leopard in the high-altitude Tibetan plateau. It makes a wonderful documentary film, incredible wild life photography shot in two three-week stay in Eastern Tibet. Warren Ellis and Nick Cave's music accompany the journey all the way through.

Sunday, November 27, 2022

The cloud shadows of midnight

A devout Christian man treats his visitors the way he treats his family. Like shit. He's a religious nutcase, as dangerous to the society as his religion. We Still Say Grace, by Brad Helmink and John Rasuchelbach, is a cheapo B movie, but it's still somewhat a creepy little horror flick of people going haywire and all stupid. A solid story too.

Friday, November 25, 2022

You die alone

There's a Stasi agent with a conscience! A scientist Franz Walter is promised a professorship at the university, but it includes working for the GDR's foreign intelligence service. German espionage thriller Nachschuss (The Last Execution) is as good as they come and, yet again, Lars Eidinger proves his talent.

When you are starving, you'll do anything

Just undisputed and unconditional wow. Not done the summary yet, but probably the best movie of the year. By a landslide, I imagine. Four buddies cheerfully enter the World War I and pretty fucking quickly find the deadliness and distress of warfare. Based on Erich Maria Remarque's landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928). Directed by Edward Berger.

Sunday, November 20, 2022

Your kind is headed for extinction

Hardly nothing wrong with it. But maybe this blockbuster is for the big screens only. Sure as shit it loses lots of its magic and omnipotence while transformed into home screen. Decent flick though. After 30 years, Maverick (Tom Cruise) is still the top-notch wild child of aviation.

Friday, November 18, 2022

Hell-bent on getting even

I guess if you throw out common sense outta window as soon as you enter into the realm of Vendetta (by Jared Cohn), you are alright. If you don't, you cringe with embarrassment. Who writes these? Kindergarden children on their lunch break? The greatest heavyweight boxer of all time, Mike Tyson, was easily the best thing in the movie.

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The mist that sleeps on a waveless desert

Better than they said it was. These two people find a chunk of gold somewhere and protect it no matter what. And that was about the only thing that was properly explained in the damn movie. Everything else was left in some kind of hazy blur and for the viewer to figure it out. A decent survival movie though. 

Monday, November 14, 2022

Climbing heaven and gazing on the earth

Hands down brilliant. Just the way thrillers should be. Packed full of suspense, action and excitement in this cat-and-mouse chase-thriller. And the cast is just thunderously cool with people like Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, Nigel Bennett, M. Emmet Walsh and J.T. Walsh. One of my all time favourite movies this one.

It's always darkest just before eternal nothingness

Brutal. Dinosaurs are among us. They are globally spread. Most of them are predators, so the fuckers are dangerous and cause egological disaster. But it works the other way as well. Humans capture them, lock them in cages, for pharmaceutical or other use. And that's animal cruelty and just plain wrong. In Jurassic World: Dominion (by Colin Trevorrow) they brought the old geezers Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum. And they all rusty. The movie, a disappointment anyways.

Thursday, November 03, 2022

Something wicked this way comes

Calling it stupid doesn't cut it. No, this Marvel piece of shit is beyond stupid. The saddest thing is that it tries to be funny and all the jokes are firing blanks. The aliens of the story - Venom and Carnage - are lame cunts. Tom Hardy and Woody Harrelson portraying as their sidekicks were better off and happier doing something else.

Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Discovering the origin of evil

Zombie movies are cool. Even if they are nonsense, they are alright. The city of Raccoon is infested with these fuckers and a group of police are petrified. A pharmaceutical enterprise Umbrella Corporation has unleashed something truly magnificently evil. An adaptation from the Resident Evil game.

All this philosophy, let's get rid of it

Absolutely fantastic. The 1966 film Fahrenheit 451 , directed by François Truffaut and starring Julie Christie and Oskar Werner .  Based ...