Feed the beast within

Esko Ketola is a veteran weightlifter. Teräsvaari is a documentary where this 72 year old iron man prepares to compete in a World Cup in Argentina. He's a confident man, resiliently fights against the hardship of getting old. Quite decent, but they just as well could have written an article somewhere instead of filming the process.

Bad vibes terminated

People are collectively seeing dreams of Paul Matthews who is an actual man, a professor, in real life. First they are normal dreams, harmless, good dreams and some of sexual nature even. And that makes Paul famous, a national phenomenon. Then the dreams turn into nightmares. And he's no longer popular. He becomes despised and ostracised. What a movie. A bloody hilarious dark comedy, a borderline horror flick. Nicolas Cage is on fire.

A chalice of poisoned blood

A Danish movie set in Greenland. And based on it the life out there is quite straightforward and nice. To Jan, a Danish nurse working there, the Greenlandic way of living gets under his skin. Kalak is based on an autobiographical novel by Kim Leine, who also contributed to the screenplay, it's directed by Isabella Eklöf. You don't get to see movies shot in places like Nuuk, Greenland, too often, so it's a treat. By the same token, had it been shot somewhere else, no one would hardly bat an eyelid.

Part science part religion

To understand and choke them, Kate studied the fuck out of tornadoes. Her friends die. Years later she's hunting them dust devils yet again, meets a charming YouTuber and things fall into place. Purely on technical terms, Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters is very well made, but everything else bit of a bore and seen so many times before.

Lured there for a reason

This is grotesque and bloody disgusting. One of the most graphic contemporary video nasties. Art the Clown ain't messing around. He doesn't talk but kills like a motherfucker. Absolute sickening bonkers the whole thing, it's horror would have been more effective and scarier without the unnecessary supernatural bits though.

Discarded headlines

A decent Danish film. But unfortunately Mikkel Serup's Mørkeland (a sequel to Nikolaj Arcel's Kongekabale) is nothing else. There's an investigative journalist (Anders W. Berthelsen) in the middle of political conspiracy. It's as exciting as the next political thriller, but hopelessly dull and carried too much by the performance of Anders W. Berthelsen only.

True king builds bridges

It feels like you are looking at a video game and you are bored out of your tits. It's like an animated feature and they plastered real people like Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman and Dolph Lundgren in it. It probably was just played out in a green room somewhere and that's it. Perhaps they just photographed the actors and let the AI generate the rest. Sure it's colorful and wild, but it's as much stupid too.