Travelling forever, never arriving

A guy wakes up from hibernation in a spaceship travelling from the planet earth to a distant colony called Homestead II, trouble is he wakes up 90 years too early and all the other passengers (5000 + crew) are still fast asleep. Do you start waking up other people to get company and ruin their lives within or do you opt to suffer and die alone? The whole thought-provoking concept was great, at the beginning at least, however towards the end it began suffocating in its own nonsense.

The devil never came

Troy Maxson (Denzel Washington) - currently a garbageman, a former failed baseball player - is a bitter hard man. Self-righteous bastard if you will. He relieves his frustration and anger on building a fence. A rather powerful drama altho somehow it feels like it was built for possible academy award looming on the horizon. Seemed all too calculated.

Murder smells like honeysuckle

An insurance representative falls in love with femme fatale who wants to off her husband and gain good money. Together they come up with an ingenious plan to execute a perfect murder. There's no such thing though. A perfect movie nevertheless.

The iron tongue of midnight

An agent (Daniel Radcliffe) infiltrates an Aryan brotherhood gang to gather information about domestic terrorism involving chemical weapons of mass destruction. Not bad, essentially, but never really ignited and, frankly, looked made-for-TV at times. And, in truth, Radcliffe's boyish figure and his capability of delivering convincing neo-nazism was rather uneasy to watch, compared for instance to Edward Norton in American History X.

A repulsive murderer has himself been repulsively murdered

It's just crazy the cast on this one; Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark and so on. Wanted to see the movie because there's a remake (courtesy of Kenneth Branagh) on the way. Don't know if they're going to change the ending (disclosure of the murderer) with the remake - hopefully to do, not that there's nothing wrong with the ending, but there wouldn't be a point otherwise, would there?

Tin star with a drunk pinned on

Picked a John Wayne western on a whim. Never really liked the all American sheriff that much, but backed by Robert Mitchum and James Caan, I guess he does alright. Dispute of a land leads to war between two families and a bunch of drunk and crippled officers of the law stand in the middle.

On the wings of revenge

Drug trafficking is killing innocent people in the waters of Golden Triangle. Therefore Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and China are bound to put together a joint operation to eliminate the warlords of the trafficking business. As it traditionally comes with the Asian cinema, the action is high octane, it's remarkably well executed, so well in fact that the kung-fu shit, gun fights, knife fights and explosions engulf lots of the potential of the story. Nevertheless this movie was quite nice thing to watch.

Heathens be damned to hell regardless

An officer of the law (Liam Hemsworth) investigates a series of deaths in a town called Helena governed by a cultish preacher Abraham (Woody Harrelson). It's a one man against townful of christian nuts and their sadistic games. Unfortunately it's just bullshit at every level.

The power of dreams

To weed out competition, a young A&R man of a recording label takes matters into his own hands. We are living in the mid nineties at the height of Britpop. Bands and artists sold millions and coat tailing them were the management guys and label honchos. And they all partied hard. Some with exaggerated measure. Moments of brilliance, but the satire doesn't really carry all through the movie.

The starry skydome enormous

Could just well be the greatest music documentary ever released. A story of Jorma Kääriäinen - a wonderful laid-back musician - who goes through his career - more or less - as a mere Elvis Presley impersonator. Even though Kääriäinen is passionately almost in every frame of the movie, in the end this is more about the heart and soul of Finland, the weirdness of its people and the culture of the dance halls and gas stations that these hardworking musicians go round endlessly.

A dissident under communist regime

Anti-Russian anti-Putin author Viktor Erofeyev spekas his mind. He's not too volatile or offensive to be considered a threat, just a left wing liberal who is intellectual and objective enough to go roundabout ways with his criticism. We all realize though that it's too great, the mother Russia, that anything would change in a heartbeat.

The are screaming Kumba-no!

Five young adults find themselves inside a cheesy 80s horror/slasher movie and get out! Even if they know the script inside out, they've difficulties chancing the outcome that a threat of Jason Voorhees -type of character begets. Loved this more than I should have.

A murder just for the experiment of committing it

A masterpiece of a warped sense of humour. It's been years since I've seen Rope - a story of a 'perfect' murder unravelling to pieces - before and, damn, it's still as chilling and funny as ever. Classic Hitchcock.

30 ghosts

French skinhead goes on his nazi-loving business in Paris until he realises he's a bit wrong in the head and the ideology is shite. Surprisingly lame for a movie of this concept, but a decent story even if it took time to get used to its gallopy pacing.