Don't sit on a wall, if you are an egg

Ricky Gervais always hides meaningful grave issues under his comic routine. Special Correspondents is a story of two journalists taken fake-hostage by the Ecuadorian rebels and the people close to them are cashing in on the misery and sorrow. Not saying Ricky Gervais is at his best on feature films, but his recognizable wit, style and humour is as entertaining as ever.

The guilty feel nothing

It was confusing and chaotic in Estonia in WWII. In between two superpowers the nazi Germany and Russia (invaded, in turn, by both), the natives had to choose sides and fight against each others. Decent enough a war movie, but tad unsuspenseful to be honest.

Fate will unite us

An erotic thriller bludgeoned to death with acting nobodies and dialogue that make you cringe. Terribly irritating little thing.

Shot at redemption

All things considered, this was not that bad. Beforehand it was on a one-way street to disaster; another Marvel filmization, a fucking ant-loving microdwarf for a superhero, fucking Paul Rudd doing it, and it's, like, funny in funny-for-kids kind of way. But I've probably got a bit soft in the head because I didn't mind that much.

Choose your poison

After his mommy passes away, a California kid travels to Polignano, Italy, and encounters a beautiful local woman who seems rather enigmatic. And sure enough, she ain't no ordinary girl because oftentimes she turns into this bloodthirsty serpentine thing and that's pretty scary. She's cute though.

Poisoning people's minds with ideas

I fucken enjoy these simple kind of thrillers. Nothing too fancy or complicated, just a former high school buddy turned a little psycho. The unsuspecting couple's life takes a turn for a fucklots worse and when you dig deep enough, there's dust at every corner. Actor Joel Edgerton's directorial debut.

Go with the gut feeling

A young university student fancies her somewhat depressed philosophy professor. It's a Woody Allen picture and all the Woody Allen shenanigans are there. Some offbeat romance and psychointellectual bullshit scattered in good measure.

Kite dancing in a hurricane

The feedback this received, it was mostly negative (for example, currently only 6,9 points in IMBD). And I'm quite surprised. It may follow the old tracks and it's traditionally silly with the obligatory romances and devices and explosions and a bit dated humour, but it's still spectacular and entertaining high octaine action.

Artificial saliva

I really don't know why I watched a movie of the author I never gave a shit, but anyways, Robert Foster Wallace apparently is a big thing for literary hipster geeks. Be it as it may, Jason Segel portraying him, makes Foster Wallace a comically weird figure and Jesse Eisenberg (as a Rolling Stone journalist Robert Lipsky) continues doing the same role he's done his entire fucking career.

Small town, everyone's eyes on ya

Needless to say perhaps  - solely because I watched the first season entirely - but I fucken enjoyed it. There has been a murder in a small coastal town, people investigate the death and suspects are aplenty. Dead on cool.

Comedic words of beauty

He did a couple of books of Russia and the countries in the overall region of that great land. He decided to release another book solely based on the country of Georgia and particularly its food because, as often cited, the Georgian cuisine is the best culinary tradition. Never had the pleasure to taste their traditional food but having read this thing, it got me intrigued.

Rain purred against the windows

I enjoy reading fictional serial killer novels to death. Usually I dump them after the first couple of dozen pages because seems that writing a fast paced and gripping thriller these days is more of a rarity. Now there's this guy on the block, he seems very good.

Little wolf skin boots

I really liked what Peter Steele accomplished, he was a phenomenal song writer and a powerful stage presence. His untimely death struck me. This book did alright. Particularly the early years, I hadn't really read about the Fallout and Carnivore days before and, sadly, the last couple of years when his decline began to take toll.

Birth is always stained by death

Three stories of different types of royalties set in some kind of medieval fantasy camp. Looks like a proper adult fairytale with bizarre characters and vile creatures, and they all are dressed up accordingly. However any proper story, or adventure, or action, were never really properly - if at all - ignited.

Medium sized phenomenom

These fellows drive from Helsinki, Finland, to Katmandu, Nepal, and back, for a charity event. The road trip takes us through the amazing (and quite dangerous) places of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, India, Pakistan. Kyrgystan, Iran and then some. I wish they'd shot the scenaries and talked with the natives more often than they did interviewing each others, altho for a good cause (helping the casteless people of Nepal) that's hardly an issue.

The outside world is only a bigger prison

Shot entirely inside a taxi, the director Jaf Panahi as the cabbie. A Persian take on Night on Earth perhaps, altho this one straight-forwardly and metaphorically attacks the political persecution of Iran. The people seem awfully nice, everything is acted, but all the same.

Punched in punched out

Back then, I took them as another poseur Glam Rock band and, quite frankly, more or less a joke, but they were fortunate enough having been penned up a few decent tunes. This is an exemplary documentary of a perseverance. I had no idea they did as much hard work as they did in the 70s and 80s NY hard rock scene. The film is about their way to success and hopefully they'll make a follow-up - a next chapter if you will - because there was some greatly interesting and tragic issues coming their way.

The beginning of abuse

Samba Cissé is an immigrant from Dagar, Senegal. He's lived in Paris, France, for 10 years without a legal residence permit. To his benefit, an immigration officer (Charlotte Gainsbourg) takes to liking him and a phoney-Brazilian walks into the mix, so things take on from there on. Ultimately, it's well done drama, not my genre, but entertaining enough to leave it playing.

The covenant with death

Never explained the reason, but the world population has dropped in drastic proportions and the survivors would live off the land with ease unless they weren't at each others throats all the time. Awfully silent bunch the chosen survivors, making the end of the world needlessly boring.

Da Vinci from Brooklyn

Didn't I just a while back watch a perfectly cool documentary feature of Bobby Fischer, the eccentric chess master? Even if Tobey Maguire does the best role of his career so far and the rest of the main cast (Liev Schreiber as Bobby's nemesis Boris Spassky, Michael Stuhlbarg and Peter Sarsgaard as the assistants) are excellent as well, this has rather little to offer. After all, it's just an arrogant brilliant mind and a game of chess.

Deep darkies in a cave

When mommy's away, two siblings go to visit their grandparents for the first time. Turns out that nanna and pappa aren't quite right in their heads. A bit funny this, lots better than the shite M. Night Shyamalan has churned out in recent years.

Strictly criminal

We can end speculations that Johnny Depp is losing his talent. His role as James 'Whitey' Bulger - ruthless real time gangster in Boston - oozes wrath, craziness and utter evil. The movie - one of the best in recent years - depicts the Boston underworld better than its close predecessors The Town, What Doesn't Kill You, Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River. It has an authentic vibe to it and as a mafia movie ranks among the very best.

Desert takes children

Somewhere in the Australian outback, in the red sand district, two children goes missing. And people try to find them. This was quite an embarrassingly boring movie to tell the truth. Funniest and craziest thing is the 10/10 review in IMDB that must have been written by one of the production members or the director herself.

Grief is new

This has a bit of Groundhog Day and Memento feel to it. Christine (Nicole Kidman) is a 40 year old amnesiac. Every time she wakes up in the morning, her memory has been erased, but with a help of a video diary, her husband (Colin Firth) and shrink (Mark Strong) she begins to understand her past. In fact, a complicated, mysterious and thrilling puzzle begins to unravel. Flawed, but alright.

The past is asking something

An Austrian born lady fights for her rights on a family painting snatched by the nazis in WWII. The legal battle that ensues is rather uncomplicated and dull, and it's not only Helen Mirren's overacting, it's also Ryan Reynolds' emotionless presence that are almost quite too painful to watch.