Spending time at the cemetery

Roman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) loses his wife and daughter when two planes crash killing 271 people. The air traffic controller of those flights, Jake (Scoot McNairy), loses his marbles. Both have to somehow cope with massive doses of sadness, therefore we witness an endlessly boring story of a pain that doesn't go away and the final scenes of retaliation.

The truth is easy to remember

Three elderly (Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman) with nothing to lose decide to live their remaining years like kings, or in prison, because they intend to rob a bank. Fine, not that it ain't done before where aging gentleman go gung-ho (The Maiden Heist, Space Cowboys, Last Vegas), but I wish they once had wisdom of doing it seriously. This one, also, looks like a cheap slapstick comedy half the time.

On gallows duty

How do you defend a boy who went out and shot seven people? They are digging up his past, talking head to head with the inner demons. Supposedly a true story of a defense lawyer with a hopeless case and a warden on a death row duty.

X marks the spot

They discover Wolverine has a daughter, so the retired and the-best-before-date long past due superheroes (Wolverine and Professor Charles Xavier) have a new purpose in their lives. The girl can summon up - and thensome - the same ungodly forces as her dad, so there's plenty of bashing of skulls ahead. But unfortunately a whole lot of moody shit as well. It was advertised as one of the greatest movies of the year, which it is not.

The broken are the more evolved

There's no two ways about it, James McAvoy makes an excellent paranoid schizophreniac and rekindles the career of wonderkid M. Night Shyamalan who after an amazing start (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs) produced flops (The Last Airbender, The Happening, After Earth) like there was no tomorrow. The story in short; a guy with 23 identities in the same body kidnaps three girls. A couple of the identities are of undesirable nature, therefore the battle of the mind and the battle of escape ensume. Quite exciting and entertaining.

History is full of darkness

A Swiss water treatment facility for the rich looks more like a mental institute or a prison. A young executive is sent there to find his boss and bring him back home to negotiate a corporate fusion. However the facility doesn't let anything go very easily. Lots of stuff should have been left out, the movie has been prolonged (two and half hours) for nothing, but when it's good, it's deliciously creepy. Most definitely influenced by Shutter Island.

Those who live beyond sunset

I watched the first season of Taboo almost at one sitting with my beloved dying cat on my lap (she saw the last two episodes in spirit only) and that adds certain mystique and privacy to the production. The series will remain very personal and unforgettable for the rest of my life. It stands well on its own as well; extremely powerful and charismatic story of a sinister, almost the devil incarnate, James Keziah Delaney (Tom Hardy) who wants to become a power figure in the trading business of the world. Hopefully the next season(s) keep up the good work and do its part on keeping the memory of my dear friend alive. Miss you dearly.

Taking a shower with a raincoat on

Jim Jarmusch's magical everydayness. Ordinary people and ordinary life. Bus driver Paterson with a knack for poetry and his cup cake designer wife living in the small town of Paterson, New Jersey. There's not much more than that but it's still great.

When the lights go out

A young woman with a drinking problem (Anne Hathaway) finds the connection between the little town she's residing and a towering monster that is destroying the city of Seoul, South Korea. Hats off to the weirdness of the script, but all the stuff around the original idea is just unimaginable humbug.

We all pee the same colour

Three bright African-American mathematicians help out NASA in a space race against Russia in the 60s. Fine enough an idea, but underlined the human issues more than was perhaps deemed necessary. There would have been shitloads more to say about the technical revolution that changed the mankind at that time, yet I also realize the focus of the movie wasn't on that, but the win the Academy Award.

Retro surf

Well, shit, this was actually rather funny. Easy to watch straight-to-DVD bullshit of a L.A. detective looking for his stolen dog. As harmless as they come.

Don't send a rabbit to kill a fox

There's a strong possibility I developed a fetish for Scarlett Johansson and her outfit in Ghost in the Shell, but I don't mind at all if I forget everything else in this cyberpunk nonsense.

No man comes home from war

Mid 70s, they've found an oddball island somewhere in the Pacific that's grown isolated from the outside world thus has its own flora and fauna. A group of scientists and mercenaries venture to map out the island and it turns out to be a life-threatening journey because the place is ruled by the king of the jungle Kong, an ape the size of a building. There are other gigantic beasts roaming about as well, skull crawlers among its deadliest animals, so a group of human beings are in constant danger zone. Great to have an adventurous movie 'midst the all the serious pictures I have seen as of late. Story was a bit wacky, but the movie looks absolutely fantastic.

A maniac, a thing no longer human

An authentic 80s slasher movie. A psychopath armed with garden shears is terrorizing a teenager summer camp. They've been doing similar horror stories for ages, the setup never fails; one creep is going after petrified young people. Curiously enough, this one is starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld's George Costanza).

Fundamentally unsound

Maybe I don't like movies any more. Lots of this year's biggest, most praised and awarded productions - Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, La La Land and Moonlight - were either repulsively bad or totally indifferent to me, most often both. And this shit? Probably most boring of the lot and rewarding Casey Affleck the Best Performance award just does not make any sense.