Cooped up in iddy-biddy dark places

Mafia wants to kill a witness whose been transported to Switzerland. They send a police officer there to protect and escort her back to Phoenix. Love and Bullets includes a few iconic movie stars, namely Charles Bronson as the cop, Henry Silva as the cold-blooded assassin of the organized crime and Rod Steiger as the mob boss. Sadly, a pretty forgettable movie otherwise.

Respect the spirits

Six friends hold a seance via Zoom during COVID-19 lockdown, but things go fairly shitty really fast. Makes a terribly cool scary picture. The runtime clocking somewhere in sixty minutes is perfectly enough. Host (by Rob Savage) wastes no time in its paranormal horror.

Whispers in the pandemonium

Finnish commando and gold digger Aatami Korpi eats Nazis and Ruskies for breakfast. He's a one-man death squad. A German officer Bruno is a resilient little fucker hunting him and the purest of Lapland gold Aatami is carrying. However, good men are hard to kill as they just refuse to die. Sisu is a revenge flick like no other. A spectacular feast set in WWII northern Finland. Funny as fuck as well. And such a mad ride of a movie that I watched it twice in couple of days.

Rage turned inwards

Steve Buscemi's character - Anthony Soprano's paroled cousin Tony Blundetto - is a major figure in The Sopranos season # 5. Likewise Andriana (Drea de Matteo) who gets deeper with the Feds. There's also an alarming power struggle between the New Jersey and New York crime families. Still one of the greatest shows ever made, damn near perfect.

When the sky makes no sound

The Association is a badass institution of organized crime. It's an international crime syndicate dedicated to extortion, smuggling and murder. In Amsterdam, they kidnap a wee children Angie. Luckily Angie's family has ties to ex-military people, like a giant of a man Matteo (Rico Verhoeven). Black Lotus is a B movie fair and square, a barely watchable fucker, reminiscences of the Steven Seagal movies of the yesteryear.

Flicker in the water

Beach houses are nice. But not the ones that are by the sea infested with an alien life form that generates some kind of mysterious fog when the twilight sets in. People have to get out of there fast. Surprisingly tedious horror with only couple of deliciously nasty scenes.

Songs from the nameless road

The guy just wants to fix his piano. Then sell it. And fuck off to Europe. Anywhere safe from the ISIS fuckers in Syria. He embarks on a dangerous quest across the country to find keys to his beloved instrument. Quite harrowing and exciting, but only quite.

Knockin' on eternal flame

In the aftermath of a little murder, a bagful of suspects emerge and a one good cop (Benicio Del Toro) is caught in the crossfire. A solid crime movie. Not an amazing thing, but after a slow-moving start, the last 30 minutes were rewarding at least.

The price of giving orders

Alright but a bit annoying. A homeless gay man joins the army. At first the place is a Full Metal Jacket type purgatory, but once the initial shock and prejudices are thrown outta window, they all are good fucking Marine buddies at an amusement park. Inspired by a true story.

Entombed within your own body

Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is like glue that holds the small town of Easkey, Ireland, together. He has the answers to all the questions expect for the one that asks who wants to kill him. A strong Irish drama counterbalancing the shit I've seen of late.

The long road under the midnight sun

I read and heard that Andrei Alén's Hirttämättömät is shit. But this bad? You couldn't create anything this stupid, not even if you put an effort. It's a comedy that doesn't make you laugh, moreover it makes you hate everyone involved. If it's based on improvisational comedy, the actors don't have any sense of humor, or intelligence for that matter, if it's scripted, the same with the writers. The worst movie of the year. A travesty of cinema.

A ghost in search of a graveyard

I'm afraid the endless fights and ultra violence don't leave a lasting remark anymore. Sure, it's all executed and choreographed well, but the action is so excessive that it's downright boring. The cool and wicked John Wick character that once was has long gone. The franchise has shot itself in the leg.

Time to face gravity

A James Bond movie directed by Lee Tamahori in 2002, starring Pierce Brosnan as the agent 007, Halle Berry as the Bond girl Jinx Johnson, Judi Dench as Bond's superior 'M" (the head of M16), John Cleese as 'Q' (the head of Q division) and Toby Stephens as the main antagonist Gustav Graves. The title song performed by Madonna. North Korean terrorists, diamonds and one international space weapon endangering the future of the world. James Bond at its cartoonish worst.

Something ominous

It's a fun bloodbath. And a wicked ride. A couple head to a cabin, and each has intentions to kill the other. A dark humour comedy at its finest. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, known by his Dead Snow pieces.

Ain't gettin' no older than tomorrow

A bank robber intends to find and kill his former partner in crime (now an acting sheriff) who betrayed him. One Eyed Jacks is Marlon Brando's directional debut from 1961 and it's stellar piece of work. Amazing cinematography and damn interesting drama. One of the greatest westerns.

Magic dirt on arrival

Nazis have occupied Paris. A jeweller jew, Joseph Haffman, is stuck in a basement with nothing else to do but read. And having occasional sex. A fellow goldsmith helps him out. A captivating story, however lacks real excitement.

Blood is life

Looked like bad TV and the acting performances accordingly, but when all hell breaks loose inside an aeroplane it's kind of cool and bloody jumble of vampires and zombies. The main vampire's traits such as  baldness, enhanced eyes, pointy ears, pale blue skin, enlarged mouth and animalistic teeth, are perfectly similar to Max Schreck's Nosferatu.

Free from all you titty-sucking parasites

These poor fucks are stuck in an apartment building with the Necronomicon, the book of the dead, and an ungodly otherworldly spirit whose agenda is to kill everyone. Evil Dead Rise, by Lee Cronin, is ridden with jump-scares and unpleasant footage, but hardly pays homage to the Sam Raimi originals.

At paranoia's poison door

What an amazing documentary! Never known much about King Crimson, a progressive band formed in 1968 in London, but after witnessing this I’m like their number 1 fan! Such extremely funny yet again very sad film of a band whose musicianship is mind-blowingly exceptional, the hierarchy somewhat disciplinary (courtesy of Robert Fripp) and where all the egos are real, fragile and eccentric. And the film is so much more than a story of a long-standing (their 50th anniversary) band.

Dead people stay silent

A young woman mutilates her face on a car accident, but luckily her father is a surgeon who might succeed attaching a new face on her. You need fresh faces first though, so kidnapping, drugging and scalpelling another young women is their way to successful transplant. French-Italian horror movie from 1960. Once quoted as the sickest film ever released.