Where the city starts and the suburbs end

The recipe for good horror is a brooding atmosphere - as if something remarkably sinister is about to happen at the next second - and this is full of that shit. It Follows is perfectly old school with the ominous music (as a tribute to John Carpenter, I'm sure) and an eerie visual approach. The story is as wacko and corny it can be, passing a curse (someone is following you all the time) by fucking a stranger, but just proves that done exactly right, you don't need a proper storyline to create chills.

Science the shit out of situation

Andy Weir's novel The Martian was an amazingly cool read. They have done well here, with the movie. Matt Damon does a great Mark Watney, a funny and witty astronaut lost in Mars. And Ridley Scott directs with perfection. I missed the details that were scrutinized and ripped up in the book, but it's obvious they can't do it all in a motion picture. One of the best movies this year, no doubt.

Bumper cars with the dead folks

I expected a fucking much worse to be honest. This time around the labyrinth teens (of every race & colour in perfect Hollywood quota) have to deal with evil zombies snatched up from every imaginable horror console games and there are human tribes who want to do them harm as well. It's alright, unexplained things dropped out of nowhere here and there and there's action without much thought, but alright all the same.

Monogamy isn't realistic

Apparently Amy Schumer is a famous stand-up comedian. And now she has done a feature film. Never seen any of her acts, hell, hadn't heard of her before and quite frankly she ain't much of an actress. This movie either, it isn't really anything but a thin storyline with a plethora of jokes and a romantic set-up put together. Not funny. Not nothing.

We age in dog years

The annual Poltergeist remake. A family of five movies into a new home and the parents can't see the obvious signs of ghost infestation and things happen when it's too late. And the kids should be batshit crazy of all the horrors and the department of paranormal activity is as baffled (and soaked in idiocy) as the rest of them. Contemporary horror bullshit.

Pocket symphony to God

Based on the life of Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys. As a paranoid schizophrenic he's the perfect poster boy for a movie script. Paul Dano and John Cusack (the former really sinking into the role, the latter merely acting) are doing an excellent job portraying this genious, eccentric and manic-depressive out of his mind figure and Paul Giamatti supports as a manipulative ("moro loco than Brian") doctor. Overall, the California vibrations, drugs, music and hallucinations put fucken well together.

Bandages on bullet holes

Not one of those TV series that will be watched over and over again, but got my attention well enough. And anyways, I'm a fan of the author Michael Connelly's Hieronymous Bosch novels that this show is based on, so naturally I'm interested. It was like watching a very well written novel - two novels at that - and, albeit a tad typical police procedure thing, it's all around quality.

Frozen in everlasting nuclear winter

Never explained, but I gathered here that the world has been atomfucked with handful of Mad Max -type people surving and they are stuck in some kind of handicapped Eighties. It's retro this and retro that, Kung Fury did it a million times better.

Just the right kind of crazy

Apparently they need the so called "heavy water" to build a neutron bomb. A group of Norwegian partisans - aided by the British - try to stop the production of this holy water, whereas scientist Werner Heisenberg is splitting atoms and minds in German atomic program. A six-episode TV series (original title Kampen om tungtvannet) that I watched in one day because it was so fucken interesting.

In the grip of heaven

What was this shit? The biggest shenanigan of the century masqueraded as a movie? A frustratingly tedious Finnish drama comedy wagging its own tail. Aki's brother Mika Kaurismäki merely reminiscing the days how it felt to be a director of a motion picture.

Sleep well, Napoleon

There's no two ways about it, Guy Ritchie is one of the finest directors of his generation. He - on a par with Tarantino - hasn't, for one, directed a flop movie and his style is recognizable. It's smooth, it's stylish and witty and it's fucken lot entertaining. And it's all here. Set in the Cold War Europe (Berlin - Rome), a wonderful espionage thriller that holds no barrels when it comes to good laughs and proper action.

Don't take your love to town

American family of four is in serious danger in Cambodia or some unnamed Asian country. They are caught up in a middle of a revolution and that's why running away from bullets is their only option. It's high-octaine action and in engulfing chaos everything is left hopelessly unexplained. Not one of those movies you'd expect Owen Wilson to see. Funny thing, the first 15 minutes of this movie, you'd think it was one of his stupid and silly comedies, but the rest of the film is quite the opposite.

Fucked if I know

Two backpackers get lost in the bear country and that's not exactly the breath of fresh air and getting engaged trip they had in mind. Things weren't so agonizing and frightening if Jenn and Alex weren't so stupid, but that how things roll sometimes.

Running through a shadowed place

Heroin and jazz collide in a derelict apartment building in the early 70s Los Angeles and a young girl looks amazed at the adult debauchery. The lead stars John Hawkes (Deadwood) and Elle Fanning try to save the slow-moving storytelling and they are supported by people like Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Glenn Glose and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones). Great acting, but can't help it, it's still boring as shit.

Lay this body down

A Finnish movie and it stumbles the same trademark sins as the rest of them. And even if the cinematography and the sound department are quite close to international level, it's all fucked up to death by nerve-shattering dialogue and, frankly, bad acting.

People that sit on the sand

Six Argentinian short films. I tried to find out the connection - or underlying theme - between them and "retribution" was all I could muster. Be it as it may, this was one of the greatest positive surprises of the year.

The absolute end of civilization

The L.A. screenwriter of "Paradise Misplaced" takes a teaching assignment in the university of a small town of Binghamton, New York. However his unorthodox way of teaching ain't what the town signed up for, so the comedy lies therein. A trademark Hugh Grant movie.

A steel-jacketed anti-depressant right in the back of the head

The honest to fuck truth is that The Sopranos probably is the best television series ever produced. I put the first season in the player and, once again, it fucken amazed me. Best shit.

If you are worried, you are hurried

A wanna-be author finds a shortcut to fame by stealing someone else's words and all hell breaks loose. A pretty exciting French neo-noir thriller. A simple enough a crime thing, told intriguingly, lots of hair-raising scenes, I'd see more of these, if there were any.

A living manifestation of destiny

Ethan Hunt is in exile. Meanwhile his organization (IMF) has been shut down and Hunt's hunt for evil organization called Syndicate is put to ice. But not quite because even if CIA has taken responsibility for global peace, the clever Ethan is pulling the ropes and is a step ahead of everybody. The pursue of Syndicate is never laid to rest in fact. Can't really hate this silly thing. Guaranteed full-blown action.

Growing up with a cloud of murder

Jeff Lang (Tobey Maguire) is in a bind because of a lunatic of a neighbour, raccoons terrorizing his lawn, his family, his friends and lovers, and internet porn. A black comedy that tries its dearest, but doesn't really go anywhere.

One town, so many scumbags

I had heard absolutely nothing of this series beforehand. All the actors (shy of Ulrich Thomsen) were unknown faces as well. I picked it up solely because of good ratings. And it sure is very good. It's built upon a small town (Banshee) that is suddenly exposed to lots of violence and deaths, stunningly lustrous bodies of women, gangster shit and all sort of indecency in general. Oftentimes series of this kind loose their grip in time, but let's keep the hopes up with this one.