Skeletons in the closet

Everything's a bit askew. What Remains is a film done by a Chinese production team (directed by Ran Huang), it's shot in Finland with a cast of mostly Swedish and Finnish actors (Stellan Skarsgård as the heavyweight) and they all speak English. It seems so unrealistic that it inevitably makes weird nordic noir. Based on the case of Thomas Quick, a Swedish man believed to have been a serial killer who confessed to more than 30 murders while detained in a mental institution. 

Sunrise hymns

A stone-cold rubbish B movie. Quite early you realize you are watching a shipwreck, so bad that you could easily think it's a parody of a thriller. And the end twist is just embarrassingly bad. 

The end of something or the start of something new

A bunch of young adults indulge in playing a Tarot card game. And their readings are coming true, but in ways no one could have imagined. They are getting killed one by one! This bad mojo must be stopped! Tarot by Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg, a few jump scares stretched out enough so you can call it a horror movie.

Lord of the idiots

Twelve episodes in season 2 only, yet the show is shaping beautifully into form. It introduces couple of significant characters, namely Jerry's uncle Leo (Len Lesser) and Jerry's neighbor Newman (Wayne Knight), although the latter makes his first physical appearance in season 3.

Abandoned to a purposeless existence

Shit. Two vampires rise from their graves after being buried for 200 years! They want to live again and foremost begin a campaign to possess the body of a beautiful princess in Moldavia! Vintage gothic horror by Mario Bava. Released in 1960. Abounds in old-fashioned horror atmosphere with plenty of darkness and shadowy evil.

Death is as unfair as is life

Not much happening in Matt Brown's Freud's Last Session. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and professor C.S. Lewis, Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode respectively, are having a talk. Mainly they debate over the existence of God. Sadly, the film delivers so little.

Justice can be a messy business

The batmobile is fucking stolen from a car museum! The actors of the Batman shows and movies, Adam West and Burt Ward, want it back. It's a mystery and to crack it they've to find clues to it by reminiscing their filmography together. Good try, but the sarcasm was left half-finished.

Sharing the same sky

A father and daughter from Scotland are on a holiday in Turkey. Aftersun, by Charlotte Wells, is shot interestingly and it's open to a whole of interpretations, but quite a fucking bore to be honest.

No one loves more than one who dies for friends

After getting caught spreading propaganda flyers, Sophie Scholl wasn't scared to say he hated the fucking Adolf Hitler. She was a fearless activist, one of the members of the anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Her interrogation, trial and sentence took place Munich in 1943. An unsettling movie, but a touching and inspiring story.

Lizards scared of entropy

Miki Liukkonen (1989-2023) was a Finnish writer and poet. A Finlandia Prize (the most prestigious literature award in Finland) nominee. The gifted and quite paradoxical young lad died by suicide at the age of 33. Heartbreaking. Documentary by Minna von Reiche.

A blade in the dark

The other main character of the movie makes one stupid decision after another, so that kind of takes the edge away of this otherwise decent thriller. At least it has the premise of becoming a decent thriller. It's flawed and predictable, annoying as shit, but entertaining enough.

Cool under heat

Senegalese cousins Seydou and Moussa want to become African immigrants to pursue their careers as musicians in Europe. They've worked hard to pay for it. They're excited. Should be a fun trip. And once they make it big in the music industry, they become superstars and their entire family is all smiles. The journey through the dangers of the desert, the horrors of detention centers and the perils of the sea  is adventurous alright. An intense, illuminating and heartbreaking rollercoaster of a film.