It never rains but it pours

This should get as much respect and recognition as the other Los Angeles Noir films Chinatown and The Long Goodbye. It's all good, writing is spectacular, dialogue is just spot-on and the actors, John Heard (shoulda won all the possible awards with this performance) and Jeff Bridges in particular, are making things happen.

Billions of blue blistering barnacles

Not my genre, but this was adventurous, action-ridden and spellbindingly beautiful. Quite as cool as the comic-books.

Tied with a clothesline, gagged, raped

I have seen the Swedish original and this is close to excellent albeit unnecessary remake. David Fincher kept the scenario in Sweden, swapped the language and actors, bit of a realism died along the way but do quite alright.

The journey is the destination

This was a movie of a mentally disabled, his parents and therapist. And yup, it's been done a few times. Based on a true story, but I didn't buy half of it.

Don't believe that other people believe in God

At the beginning, it was sharp and funny, it was obnoxious, but as the pages went by it wasn't such a vehement attack against God and Church and religions as it advertises itself. Instead it's a quick memoir of a stand-up comedian and magician of sort. Sure it has lots of funny bits and it's an easy read, but fistful of fire it wasn't.

The first casualty of war is truth

I guess I counted two rather impressive war scenes, all the rest was complete rubbish. I'd feel shame for the actors for being in this humbug, if they weren't acting so horribly themselves.

Through cerebro-spinal fluid samples

A remake of [Rec], which I yet haven't seen, though I've heard it's good. This is somewhere between good, hilarious and quite not that funny.

Life is too long

Bruce Willis as a booze-ridden cop escorting a convict (Mos Def) to justice and bad cops try to kill them dead.

The devil you know is better, than the devil you don't

I'm usually not much of a fan of fighting movies, but this knocked me right out me arse. The ending seems somewhat busied and unfinished, but otherwise excellent drama. Nick Nolte, Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton all do wonders.

Blame it on Finn

Solid yet pretty standard type of murder mystery with psychos and not the brightest of police officers. But it has some phenomenal nature sceneries and Peter Stormare is at his best as a lunatic lawman in the Swedish prairie.

The killer grows a conscience

If violence that makes no sense makes any sense to you, this movie could hit the right spot.

Wicked smart

A pretty witty drama that towards the end though became a tad stagnated.

One two many

When I was younger the first few Nightmare On Elm Street movies were cool and Freddy Krueger the character pretty much the perfect horror freak. This 2010 cut on the other hand is a desperate attempt to ride on the legacy, so desperate in fact that it shamelessly steals scenes and ideas of its predecessors. Well yeah, someone hollers it's a remake, but of what? The first? Didn't seem like it. The second? Don't know. Don't care.

Lawlessness grew to diabolical proportions

Not bad, better than I expected. But be it as accurate as it may, it remains somewhat a lame biopic that dances around Hoover's gayness and him being a political puppet master. Disappointingly, that's all there is to it. If he was, as I have always believed, something sort of a mad tyrant, it didn't expose here.

Away from death

Riding on the Road and The Walking Dead bandwagon, but with no budget, stars and flair for making suspense.

Truth is a luxury

Weirdly miscast a movie. Set in two time periods; Marton Csokas plays a young Tom Wilkinson and Sam Worthington plays a young Ciarán Hinds. But in truth, it looks quite the opposite. In particular, Marton Csokas is a dead-on match to young Ciarán Hinds whereas Sam Worthington seemingly depicts a log of wood. The story is about bringing a nazi doctor, the surgeon of Birkenau, to justice.

A cab ride home

Super mutants in a really long fight.

Kafka on wheels

I knew they would make a good movie of this Cormac McCarthy novel and they did. It just has an apartment and two people talking and that's it, but it still is has more stuff happening than most of today's movies. The actors Tommy Lee Jones and Samul L. Jackson sometimes even seem too enthusiastic with the wonderful dialogue, but they do alright.

Complicated, maddening mortals

Nothing that I haven't seen before. This type of comedy has come to its end.

Like a twist of rotten silk

Not that it was the first time or anything, but they were pretty ambitious, the film makers, and brought Shakespearean texts and sounds into present time. The actors were having a hoot, no doubt, Ralph Fiennes in particular was on fire, but as a whole the movie was tedious and boring experience. I just learned this was a Ralph Fiennes film, his first, so, well, good luck.

Dead men don't press charges

To tell the truth, I though of purchasing The Killing the original, the Danish one, but I got this one. But nevertheless, it was and still is a fucking intriguing who-dunnit mystery.

Thorns are on the road

Judging by the photos on the DVD cover, I thought of getting a high octane thriller with Dillem Dafoe as a hard-ass assassin, but I got a movie with enviromental issues. So the Tasmanian nature steps up, there's some drama and it's rather watchable and that's it.

Bank robbers make bank

Normally, I don't care much of these kind of comedies, but because I watched it straight after the  slow-moving Melancholia it seemed funnier than it actually is.

It tastes like ashes

Applauded and awarded as an epic masterpiece in Festival de Cannes. But not here baby. Boring shite.