Already a myth

Wasn’t this a bloody hoot. Machete is like an 80s exploitation movie gone through a modern day makeover. It has the right bits and pieces; blood runs red, babes run sexy and explosions run sky high. Honest to god, contrary to some other recent films of the same genre, this time around the jokes are funny, gags are new and stars of the yesteryear (Seagal, Fahey, Johnson and, yes him too, De Niro) do more than their bit. Truly fucken enjoyed.

Quote of the day

“Heavy Metal fans are buying Heavy Metal records, taking the records home, listening to the records and then blowing their heads off with shotguns? Where’s the problem? That’s an unemployment solution right there, folks!”

(Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer)

Hell to look forward to

Can't think of many serial killer movies more wicked than this. Awfully cool script, amazingly directed flick.

Kia kaha

I'm quite sure they are making millions of movies like this each year. An annoying twenty-something tough guy kid doesn't adopt to society's rules and we witness his struggle in overcoming his personal demons and becoming a better person, a real poster boy of a perfect young adult. Fucking pathetic.

The people are far apart

Susanne Bier equals quality. His dramas are heartfelt and sentimental, but far away from wishywashy patheticism.

Yes, a crappy memoir

Both once brilliant actors, but now it seems that Jude Law's career slowly deteriorates and Forest Whitaker's career for some time now has been buried in shit. This movie is junk, pure and simple, and with its name alone desecrates the true Repo Man (1984) with Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton in leading roles. Do yourself a favour and grab that one instead.

They dug 'em all up

A vintage Walter Hill film. Hell breaks loose in National Guard team's training session when bunch of swamp people go all vigilante on them. With Carradine, Boothe, Ward, all them stars.

Cauldron of chemical mysteries

Quite a crappy fairytale.

Dinosaurs in drags

David Lynch presents a Werner Herzog movie. Something outstanding in the making I hear you holler, right? Well, guess again.

Aftermath of the Black Death

Consists of nine episodes. Nine too many, at that.

No more elves

Worst acting, worst writing and worst everything that I have seen for some time in this boring thriller.

They got Allison

I laughed aloud a lot during this oftentimes hysterically funny slasher comedy.

I is your worst nightmare, is who I is

Amazingly good. Easily, best U.S. sitcom in the making right now.

Quote of the day

“He called her [the dog] Toots because she had a white line up her nose and she taught Wurzel to fetch sticks. He’d go outside with the dog and we’d sit and watch them. He’d throw a stick and the dog would look at him until finally he’d go and get the stick and throw it again. Actually, that dog was pretty smart.”

(Lemmy Kilmister – White Line Fever)

Sex money power

There are directors, and there are film makers, and then there are people like Caspar Noé. Visually, Enter the Void is an absolute stunner all the way, but unfortunately despite the gripping, say, 30 minutes, the story developed nowhere in this 155 minutes flick.

Brick in a pocket

Rabbit Hole didn’t really have a propor plot and sort of swayed around one topic throughout the film. To put it short, prototype of an average drama.

I was just masturbating

Typical Gervais, a harmless black comedy with a serious and sad undertone. The concept is kinda cool and it's very funny at times, but still Ricky Gervais' worst.

The crown is in peril

Quite wrongfully, Ridley Scott's Robin Hood has gotten bad press. Sure it ain't as intense, atmospheric and, most of all, epic as Gladiator (yet another Scott-Crowe colloboration) that it's endlessly compared to, but this was a surprisingly entertaining watch and its two and half hours' lenght is justifiable.

By the hammer of Thor

I'm really glad I watched this because it is very funny. In fact, best U.S. sitcom since Seinfeld.

On the threshold of hell

I like Val Kilmer as an actor and I've desperately tried to find a new Val Kilmer movie that ain't hopelessly bad. Don't bother checking, but I guess since Heat (1995) he hasn't done a movie his talent deserves. Moscow Zero, too, is crap, it's really really fucking shit.

edit. I checked it out anyways. Since Heat, Val Kilmer has performed in two noteworthy films: Spartan (2004) and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009). But then again, there's lots and lots of questionable shit and movies that I haven't seen, probably shit, them.

Buried in the earth

It's a damn shame, I tend to ignore forties and fifties movies. They are usually quite good, the classics are. This is the only Orson Welles DVD in my collection and I haven't really seen much of his works otherwise either. Judging by this movie, that will change.

Pub! Pub. Pub. Pub.

I tried to watch the U.S. rip-off, but couldn't get past the first episode. This, however, rules. I'll be joining with the second season in no time.

Update

Lately, I have been listening to these:

He hunts us like fucking dogs

Red Hill's silent hard-ass vigilante killer Jimmy Conway is quite a bit like Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men. And otherwise too, this Australian flick is somewhat in similar feel as the Coens' modern western.

We need men who can dream of things that never were

A movie made to look like a documentary and apart from the last, say, 15 minutes, it is damn well executed. The story is interesting enough yet with another take on the JFK murder.

Vampire crack

There are a few television series that I held in highest esteem. Namely, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Seinfeld, The Wire and Six Feet Under. And I'm quite prepared to add True Blood to that list.

Live for revenge

Straight-to-dvd trash, sure, but it perhaps wasn't complete shite as such, but still awfully cliché-ridden and complete waste of time.

Heightshead

What's this, a bloody amateur hour?! Funny thing about the dvd cover; apparently two critics deemed this garbage worth of five stars (*****) and seven critics think it's worth four stars. Well, fucking psychopaths or stone-cold idiots, them. One star, a dead one.

Son of a motherfucking lesbian bitch

Dunno, it looked alright, it was written alright, acting was top-notch. One of those things, nothing’s amiss, but at the same time, watching the movie was as useless an experience as you can imagine.

Solid darkness stain’d

Before I even realized I’d read some 100 pages, the progress was slower eventually, but, Henning Mankell, always a pleasure and, shy of maybe one or two books, I probably have read all his Kurt Wallander novels. If Troubled Man, as feared, is the last Wallander book, it ended up in fucken style. The story moves fast and you are bloody hooked - and even if the main Kurt Wallander’s apathy and pathos sometimes were too much to bear, close to some sort of comical misery, he still is one of my favourite fictional detectives.