Swastika over Puckingham Palace

To no surprise, Gary Oldman excels as Winston Churchill. Europe is losing the battle against Hitler and nazi Germany, the British parliament with Neville Chamberlain at the helm are bunch of peace-negotiating pussies, so the right people have to step up and fight against the fascists. In Darkest Hour probably the most vital earth-changing moments of the World War II are told with great detail. Without Winston Churchill, we'd be living in a hell of a different world now.

Red wine with fish

The second James Bond film, directed by Terence Young in 1963, starring Sean Connery as the agent 007, Daniela Bianchi as the Bond girl Tatiana Romanova, Bernard Lee as Bond's superior M (the head of MI6), Desmond Llewelyn as Boothroyd or 'Q' (the head of Q division), Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Anthony Dawson as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Number 1 of SPECTRE, as the main antagonist. Title song sung by Matt Monro. SPECTRE wants Bond dead for killing their agent Dr. No and use Russian cipher machine and beautiful Soviet consulate clerk as a decoy. There's just about everything you need in a James Bond film.

Only you and Rock and Roll

Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät is a Finnish punk band consisting of people with developmental disabilities. The first documentary (Kovasikajuttu) was about introducing the band and make them known, whereas in Tokasikajuttu the band is on the brink of breaking up and still represent Finland in Eurovision Song Contest. The disabilities make members unpredictable as hell, but at the same time they are honest to the bone, without any pretentious bullshit. Not that they are the greatest artists of all time, but their willpower and love for their craftmanship is amazing.

Weak chin and soft underbelly

Big names (Mel Gibson, Will Ferrell, John Lithgow, Mark Wahlberg) gather up to launch jokes from left to right in a Christmas comedy, but too bad they are terribly out of date and mostly just not funny.

The other side of sunshine

Began to read Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novel The Pledge: Requim for the Detective Novel and the next evening the movie adaptation courtesy of Sean Penn is on TV, so I felt obliged to see it. The film is probably better than I remembered, a stomach-turning murder investigation with a truly ominous atmosphere occupying at all times.

The blues from nowhere

Neo-Nazis blow up Katja's husband and son to kingdom come, but there are overwhelming difficulties to get them convicted because the trial is ludicrous. The bereaved wife's only option is to unleash revenge and make the Nazis taste their own medicine! Nothing outstandingly spectacular, but decent enough thrills.

Unspooling brains

Nick and Amy seem like a such a perfect couple, but then Amy goes missing and when the police dug out their past, secrets come out. David Fincher masterfully peels out the excitement layer by layer, but wasn't as good as I remembered it to be.

Playing a poor hand well

A former Olympic-class skier, Molly Bloom, organized semi-illegal poker games for the ultra-rich famous people in Hollywood. Nothing too suspicious or peculiar happened at first, but when the Russians got the hang of the poker business, things got rough and the FBI had to deal with it. Pretty good while it lasted, zigzagged back and forth between different timelines and that always downgrades the outcome.

This is the one life

He is my favorite illusionist. Usually his quick-witted fast-tempo tricks blow up my mind. Miracle wasn't quite out there. At times the magic was absent and the performance looked like a Richard Dawkins lecture.

Ghosts for the deceiver

Three people's lives are intertwined through a corpse. Set in northern city of Oulu, Finland, the story is built patiently and it dissolves into a satisfying finale. Although couldn't help getting bored midway of the movie.

Never you mind

Laid-back and desolate movie at the same time. Set in the fifties in a desperately small Texas town where nothing happens, everything is dusty and derelict. Bunch of high school graduates grow up and discover sex and hopelessness and dreams that don't exist. Significant piece of American cinema.

A little knowledge does not make anyone better

A girl goes away from her devout christian family to study in the university of Oslo only to find out that she's either tripping out of the taste of forbidden pleasures or she has psychic powers that make people disappear. Joachim Trier's utterly stylish supernatural love story (aka 'telekinetic lesbian drama') where it reveals its frightening bits piece by piece.

Lives to spare

Four high school kids drop into a videogame, into its characters and, in order to survive and return back to the real world, they have to finish the game. A jungle adventure without any real excitement.

Don't underrate freedom

Truly fucking captivating documentary. The wife of author Michael Peterson falls down the stairs and dies, or that's what the author says. As the police investigates the case as murder they dug into Peterson's past that unfolds secrets that could potentially hurt the defense. I was in mixed emotions throughout the series (that spanned over 15 years), I saw the author both as the murderer and as innocent as the next man. I guess I still haven't made up my mind.

Doubt is the key thing

Two men are suspected of killing their wives in the vicinity of roadside diner Harry's Rainbow Grill. Separate cases, but detective on the case is doubtful. The other suspect is clever but poor and the other stupid but rich. It's a very old-school (courtesy of Patricia Highsmith's novel) crime noir, executed accordingly, but the style doesn't save the confusing script.

Legacy built piece by piece

I have absolutely no idea why I had the patience to watch this through. In normal circumstances I'd ejected the disc in ten minutes and thrown it to the wolves. I kept on going though, gave it a chance, but the borefest never got better. The director and writer David Lowery probably had a beautiful view how to interpret the pretentious piece of shit, but I didn't fucking get it.

Rats see no future

Not the most magnificent of movies, but pretty good excitement. Bagful of drugs drop into the hands of good people and bad people want the misplaced merchandise back and eliminate everyone involved. In Braven, they've come up with creative ways of killing people in wintry forests, not the most logical and practical ones though, and the last one involving a bear trap was hilariously stupid.

Sorry, but you are infected

The South Koreans did it. The best zombie movie of recent years. The undead are spawning like flies and a handful of survivors are trapped inside a train on its way to Busan. High quality thrills, a good story overall (for a zombie feature) and I really cared for the wellbeing of the characters.

Slaughter of the cash cow

Not too long ago I saw Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Albert Finney as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and otherwise starring such great people as Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman and so on. Not so many renowned stars in Kenneth Branagh's version, but the movie is visually breathtaking otherwise and even if the bulk of the story remained the same I loved the little things they had enriched it.

Future won't wait

I'm sure they came with good intentions. Based on the fact or fear that soon every human being on the planet is constantly being monitored, followed and thus lost their privacy completely. Too bad they didn't know it's already happened. Anyways, a shit fucking movie. Tom Hanks is wasting his time and Bill Baxton, sadly, lost his life after this.