All men sin

Westerns can't get more average than this, they even brought in the Carradines to prove it.

We are the horses

Even though I've always liked war movies somehow Stalingrad has missed my radar. It was almost as cool as I've been told it to be, but I wasn't completely satisfied. It depicts nicely the hell that was the city of Stalingrad in WWII, but at times I felt I was watching a play at a theatre than a motion picture.

Just saw a duck in the shape of a cloud

A collection of comedian Steve Martin’s tweets and reader’s anwers to his tweets. The latter in particular are seriously funny sometimes, take for intance someone's comment on S.M.'s writing "I think I'm the only person in the world that truly understands you and gets your humour. That said...you're not very funny." Steve’s stuff is crazy and fucken intelligent at the same time. Here's one pick “Going out today to take pictures of paparazzi." Followed by: "Got some great pictures of paparazzi today. Man, they UGLY! Went through their garbage too. Found my own garbage in their garbage.” Gotta love the man.

Shootin' marbles at the back of the store

Quite a megalomaniac of a story, but, still, a rather impressive Norwegian thriller.

Lost servant in misery

Goat Serpent's "Trident" demo from 1994. Went through my collection of old demos tapes and this fucker of a gem popped right up. Finnish band, from Lieksa if I'm not mistaken, and it was excellent old-school Swedish-school Gothenburg Death Metal. The band produced this one single demo and disappeared. Poof.

A kid from Brooklyn

In between Hellboy and X-Men, only worse, much worse. Captain America, probably the most uninteresting comic character in movies that I've ever seen.

Abracadabra

Engaging piece of work. Christopher Nolan paints some stylish and beautiful imaginery, and even if I didn't quite hold my breath now, the second time I saw this, but I really, fucken sure, liked what I saw.

Steeped in gayness

Officially, their breakthrough season with episodes that are regarded as classics: The Contest, The Bubble Boy, The Cheever Letters and The Junior Mint. Susan Ross (Heidi Swedberg) makes her entrance.

Murder everything that moves

Understandably, as this was made in the fifties, it's all a bit silly, lacking in technical wizardry. There's certain charm, but in the end, it's bad, but in a good way, geddit?

The Whip of Gods. To my friends.

As always in an Aki Kaurismäki picture, there's some laconic beauty here. In many ways, this could be his greatest movie, for instance the first encounter dialogue between M (Markku Peltola) and Anttila (Sakari Kuosmanen) is breath-takingly funny, but towards the end the harmony and structure didn't really hold up.

Castle of clouds

A good while ago I watched the first two movies of this Swedish trilogy (the fucker's called Millennium) and I think I liked them both, this, on the other hand, I didn't get quite a grip on. At first, being on hiatus of the series, I was all fucken confused with all them conspiracies abound.

Rain it down until you got nothing left to give

Real fucken good. Reads like Lehane, Ellroy, James V. Higgins and, maybe, Jim Thompson even. Just watched the film and the adaptation, apart from the closing chapters, was alright.

Seven-point suppository

A fairly weak follow-up to Dirty Harry and Magnum Force. Clint Eastwood does his thing, but everything else is soaked up in naivety.

Pour it down the open drain

I'm currently reading the novel (by Jens Lapidus) this movie is based on. And as a matter of fact, this is the second time I've sat down with the film. First time round, it was your standard Swedish crime issue and not much has changed. Though, with the book on the side, it was a different experience, the adaptation has more depth than I could have expected and the actors did quite alright.

Graffiti with punctuation

I don't know why Steven Soderberg is allowed to make movies. I reckon, this story would have looked nice and effective in the hands of a different director, now it's just one major stars-ridden clusterfuck.

Zero tolerance for walkers

Just to refresh my memory since I'm about to continue with the season 2 in coming weeks. Shy of last two episodes, better than I remembered.

Dead-on C

Circle - Live in Groningen, 2010
There are live bands and then there are bands that perform and fucken execute.

Kiss of the scorpio

Nicolas Winding Refn does some masterful old-school cinema with modern intuition, Drive is a fine example of all that. Otherwise too, it's a cool thriller to the bone. However, my patience to see Ryan Gosling and Carey Mullingan in every second movie is deteriorating.

Single-shit pistol

I tried to give this a chance, but it was hopeless. The only fun thing about it was to witness Josh Brolin yet again killing his career.