Like ash floating

I don't know why I got the feeling this project was rushed to finish. I like the core of the story well enough, but it wasn't kept together, the fucken structure collapsed in the beginning already, as if they'd put these major stars in WWII gear and hoped it would made the story alone. One of the worst character developments I've ever seen, they hardly had the courtesy to tell who these people were, so you took it as they are; George Clooney as George Clooney, Matt Damon as Matt Damon, some French guy, and terribly miscast John Goodman and Bill Murray as the comic relief.

The moron brigade

Four retirees take a flight to Las Vegas to party. That sounds like a really bad idea for a movie. Luckily, they made something of it. Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman are having noticeable fun and the story, it's alright.

Adventures of the aztec man

Well now, a different breed from the ones I usually pick up; a Spanish-speaking Mexican drama comedy of a single parent turn a stunt man. A welcome change, sweet little movie, with a real twist in the end.

Death is haunted by humans

Nazi Germany in the 40s, the WWII, in a small village where people talk English with a German accent, one family helds a secret in a cellar. I kinda liked this movie, didn't emphasize too much on the horrors of the nazi regime or at least tried to do it a roundabout way. The ending (the last 15 minutes) was a different story and it struck me cold.

Eating fear

With this line-up (Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch) you'd made a decent movie even without a story. And to come to think of it, it ain't that far here. A funeral and a dysfunctional family get-together. Still, quite awesome.

The darkest day of life

This fits right in the Saw and Hostel franchise -bandwagon. Couple of interesting somebodies - Lee Tergesen (Oz) and Andre Royo (The Wire) - in the roster, but all the bloodshed and butchery and killing of hundreds - no matter who clever executions you can muster - is a bit out of date by now.

Wings of hurricane

There's absolutely no need to slag off this epic piece. The dwarves are pretty cool, all those evil creatures look nasty, and the whole fucking thing is quite breathtakingly and thunderously magnificent.

In a black haze

Something fishy in Norwegian oil drilling industry. I got so much nothing out of it. It looks cheap and shitty, so terribly uninteresting, the acting is not there and you just want to yawn 'til it's fucking over.

Army of ghosts

Beforehand (I had merely seen the cover), I thought this movie was about two travellers - Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman - who fall in love on the train and chitchat to eternity about politics and literature. Well no, it wasn't like that. Eric Lomax (Firth) is a railway enthusiast alright, but with a haunting past that leads us all the way to the labor camps in WWII Thailand (Kanchanaburi) where the Japanese tortured allied forces to pulp.

Where there is iron, there is rust

Silly shit. The martial arts wackiness was fun, but just about everything else was shit. There was Russell Crowe and no matter how much I appreciate the guy, he could (or should) have been elsewhere. And, God, the director, RCA (is that even a name?) he's the lead guy here - the actual man with the iron fists (!) - and man, he's, like, terrible, the worst actor, like, ever.

You're nothing to me until you are everything

Don't know why I liked this as much as I did. Wasn't this supposed to be easily the worst of the Oscar contestants this year? They've all been great thus far - shy of Nebraska and 12 Years A Slave that I haven't seen - and, hey, American Hustle sure doesn't miss a fucking beat. An entertaining son of a bitch and Christian Bale and Robert De Niro (the latter albeit on a smaller role) are fucking top-notch.

She didn't stay dead

Shit, it was so cool at the beginning. Had all the makings of a kindred spirit of them creepy 70s and 80s horror movies, but fuckered to a boring doll hunt with rather cheap scares in the end.

A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anyone

Ok, the movie is great, you should see it. But a thing or two about the lead actor Matthew McConaughey. I used to dislike him, a sly dude with an inbred Texan accent he can't get rid of. But little by little he began to build his career stronger (Frailty, The Lincoln Lawyer, Killer Joe, Mud) and I had to give it to him - freakish Oscar speech or not - this fucking movie certifies it, he's one crazy-cool actor. And I'm still saving True Detective for the rainy days.

Don't get high on your own supply

A small town pharmasist fools around some adultery and drugs. But the sex stuff and the drugs stuff, it's all in such a small and friendly doses that you don't give a shit really, it's just some average comedy something.

Accept the mud

I'm not in the scene. I most likely have missed some important books, teenage idols, graphic novels or sitcom series because all the jokes fucken failed on me. These people, they all look so perfectly sculpted they all look the same, they talk weird and fast, and I don't get their message. I'm totally out of the loop. A teenage Californian murder mystery. Kristen Bell as the private dick.

Positively medieval

A little disturbing that everyone speaks English in absolutely stunning-looking Rome and overall Italian landscape. But otherwise I like the 3-episode/3-movie (all clocking in 90 minutes) package. The investigations, the actors, the atmosphere and the whole shit.

Thoughts in reverse

A bit pacey and rather narrow in information, but entertaining to watch as U.S. drug kingpins and entertainers and officers speak their mind of the war on drugs.

Not agreed upon a definition of liberty

This was my first Varg Veum experience and I understand they've made quite a few of these things. To the late arrivals like myself, they should have explained the reason of his existence, throughout the film - as if the story wasn't full of inane plotholes already - I kept guessing is he an ex-cop or ex-military or ex-what-the-fuck. But otherwise, almost decent Norwegian attempt to outhamilton Sweden's Hamilton.

Now it's time to leave the capsule

Maybe 30 minutes in and I was ready to pull the disc from the player and throw it out the window, but glad I didn't because it turned out alright. The story itself has a nice vibe, a warm and intense resonance and it's shot remarkably well, the magnificent views of Iceland, Greenland and Himalaya (all shot in Iceland, but who's counting) back it up. Thumbs up for the use a refreshing piece of music as well.

Only the guilty people hide

Set in New York, U.S., and Lahore, Pakistan. There's a terrorist angle, all that religion fuckadoo, 9/11 in the mix, there's also a love angle, west meets east fucking shite. Kind of trying to wrap it all around a political/finance world thriller, less than halfway decent with an interesting cast alright, but boring tempo fucks up the story telling.

Inexcusable really

After An Unfinished Life, another Robert Redford movie. Eerily silent movie this. A story of a lone sailor and brilliantly in quite an unorthodox way the character doesn't speak to himself to keep the viewers up to date and there's hardly any soundtrack, so most of the times it's only the gust of wind and the sound of thunderously pouring water that you hear.

Where the blue turns to black

This has a nice earthly tone in it. And if I'm not mistaken the director Lasse Hallström has done quite a few smoothly written dramas before. No complaints, I had a case of a proper hangover and I liked the way this movie helped me to fight it off.

What makes a good man

You see the cover of the DVD and you know  e x a c t l y  how's the movie like, how it starts, what happens in the middle, how it ends, what's the entire story like. You don't almost have to see it.

Superhuman levitation

There are hundreds of billions of these kind of shoestring budget horror movies. Probably there are the same amount of movies in the Paranormal Activity franchise, I don't know. I don't care.

Selling garbage to garbagemen

Yeah, it's a bit long, close to three hours, but Martin Scorcese is one of the few people who can get away with overlong shits. There's cocaine aplenty, dollars and girls aplenty, and Leonardo Dicaprio screams his ass off aplenty - surprisingly, it all made quite a good fucking movie.

Pink stars making constellation

I think Under The Dome is one of the finest of Stephen King's contemporary novels. It's one of the few ones I have had the patience to read through anyways. I don't bet my life on it, but I think they've made several harsh adjustments with the TV series. The show is not wholly shit, it's just about average with not too splendid a cast, but also just about enticing enough that I want to see the following seasons.