Every ritual has its purpose

It isn't a routine autopsy, the autopsy of an unknown young woman found buried in peat. As they dig deeper, her body reveals more and more secrets, and seems like the pathologists summon up evil spirits while cutting into her. A pretty macabre horror movie, but I wish the gifted director André Øvredal had fooled with bits of the black humour he did with the amazing Troll Hunter.

The natives hound and pester you to death

Blinded by gold, three mining buddies are constantly paranoid and suspicious of each other. And it's particularly dangerous in the Mexican jungle infested with wildlife, mountain police, bandits and indians. A b&w semi-classic I'm told.

Girls cry boys lie

A creepy I.T. guy is obsessed with his bosses' family, so crazily that's its downright scary. Different environment, but ultimately it's the Cape Fear story filmed again. Not bad, but nothing special either.

It was dead, but it opened its eyes

I reckon this is the first part of the rewriting of the Night Of The Living Dead movie. Not much to tell, only a handful of graphic novel pages to get the story going and that's it. Decent stuff though.

Time is nonlinear

12 alien spacecrafts ('pods') land upon earth on different locations and no one can interpret the reason for their arrival because the alien language and writing is quite impossible to decipher and, also, it's uncertain do they understand anything of human means of communication. Professors and military analysts all around the world try to figure out the answer to one simple question, do they come in peace. Can't say there's that much happening most of the time of the movie, but nevertheless one of the greatest contemporary directors Denis Villeneuve has a flair for doing everything in interesting and entertaining manner.

Punished for magic

I have no idea why and how I had the patience to sit this through. Not that this fairytale is bad or it's a children's movie, it's just that it's a little too close to both claims. Thankfully, I liked how it looks, liked those animated little creatures, and it was somewhat funny sometimes.

Aggression channeled

Well, it's almost too funky and crazy, if it weren't so cool. Tom Affleck plays an autistic accountant, a mathematician insanely good with numbers, and doesn't care the slightest who his clients are. And he's also a seriously effective hitman, just plain deadly. At first, I ridiculed the whole thing until I realized, flaws forgiven, that these are the type of action movies that rock my boat.

No one is laughing here

A war documentary from a Finnish standpoint - the Winter War and the one that quickly followed, the Continuation War - emphasized on the letters those boys wrote back home. The lads went through hell and way too often their psyche cave in. Like historian Jenni Kirves put it: 'They had no right to vote or go to a restaurant, but they had the right to die in the war'. Lots of archaic footage, a few historians speak their minds and, as always, it's disturbing, the whole concept of the unnecessary deaths.

Darker side of Sarasota

A news reporter is desperate for promotion and ever so juicier news. And because she is a bit wrong in the head, so gets way too devoted to her profession and is gradually losing her wits. All too average based-in-a-shocking-true-story.

Just a private enterprise operation

A little oldie ('70) for a change. A group of allied soldiers decide to do a bank robbery worth of 16 million in gold bars. Trouble is the bank is located behind enemy lines. But luckily Kelly (Clint Eastwood) has a plan. More or less a hidden gem with a stellar cast (Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Don Rickles, Len Lesser, Carroll O'Connor), a war movie to the core, spectacularly shot, looks not a day old.

Walk down a lonely street

The guy's got a terminal cancer and goes through the process of arranging his own death basically. Not a very uplifting a concept and too often these things are too syrupy, but I reckon this did alright.

Just a switch that gets flipped off

Once again, out of nowhere, a new TV series that beats everything else. And, once again, it comes with practically unknown actors and it's still seriously convincing. A veteran Mac 'Quarry' Conway (Logan Marshall-Green), after two tours in Vietnam, returns home to find changes in the political climate of his country and his private life as well. He gets involved in gun-for-hire business and it kicks off an intense story of eight episodes.