Broken lullabies

The war (WWI) is over, but Frantz ist tot and of course his family is grief-stricken. A mysterious French Adrien Rivoire appears on Frantz's gravesite and it's a guessing game whether he was his friend, enemy or lover - or all of them. Utterly beautiful film, stylishly shot in black and white.

Sometime yesterday morning

A young lad and a toddler, siblings, go missing during the Second Chechen War (1999 - 2009). As always in warfare, the innocent ones pay the consequences and with no means to fight back, escape and suffer. Part French part Georgian film of the heinous Checken years is captivating on its own right, but the main story of the lost children developed at frustratingly slow pace.

Talking shit is easy

Not my favourite band, I just like 'em just fine tho and appreciate the Gallagher brothers' candidness, honesty and particularly Noel's gift of songwriting.  Supersonic is a straight-forward, comprehensive and revealing documentary of the breakthrough years of Oasis.

Showtime, a-holes

The galaxy is on the brink of destruction and the guardians are going to save it, again. The first one was fucking alright, this is only partially cool. It has funny bits, strokes of genious if you will, but that doesn't cut it. Nice to see Kurt Russell, Sly Stallone, Michael Rooker and David Hasselhoff on the Marvel Studios production tho. 

The ambassador of death

John Wick wants to retire, but he can't because he is a badass and the underworld needs badasses like him. And that takes us to Rome, Italy, where he singlehandedly wipes out the local camorra. Soon he is a tagged man with a serious price on his head and the city of New York is the next battleground for John and mercenaries and assassins. Of course this is stupid as shit, but they knew what they were doing. Haven't checked, but I reckon the bodycount is somewhere in 100.

Grasping for resurrection

Already differs to its predecessors that it ain't kept entirely in closed confinement of a spaceship. So goodbye to the claustrophobic horror. It still - finally - is a Ridley Scott film, so it's a solid movie, altho at the same time it's a disappointment because it's nothing special. The alien species is freaky, deadly and scary, but the story - entwining with the Prometheus movie - alienated itself from the essence of the Alien franchise and quite frankly looks more like Prometheus 2.

What lies beyond the veil of death

A group of archaeologists and treasure hunters anger the old Egyptian Gods and one particularly nasty forsaken princesss (Ahmanet) rises from her sarcophagus to reconstruct an evil dagger or something of similar nonsensical nature. Actually the movie is smarter than the criticism it received, it certainly is more entertaining and funnier than I thought it was going to be. It's also fucklots sillier at that.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste

Not to give too much away, but Get Out is a thrilling story of white folks abducting, hypnotising and enslaving black people. The movie has a brooding atmosphere almost at Rosemary's Baby proportions, however it's from time to time dissolved with a healthy dose of black (no pun intended) comedy. One of the positive surprises of the year.

Dictating freedom

A thrill ride. Brilliantly executed film of the bombing of the 2013 Boston marathon and the manhunt that followed within. Can't think of any other 'Based on a true events' movie as of late that captures the emotions of the actual events as they happened. Works damn fine as a plain action movie too, cops go after the bad guys, and the intensity explodes before your eyes.

A bunch of meek dogs

It was surprising to see James Franco directing a serious movie based on a John Steinbeck novel of human rights activists and apple pickers who go on a strike during The Great Depression (1929-1941). It could have been worse, but frankly it could have been a thousand times better. Plethora of actors (Vincent D'Onofrio, Jack Kehler, Sam Shepard, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston) do great, but often it was like nothing but paragraphs of the Steinbeck novel plastered together.

Midnight ride

Zaid (Dar Salim) is a surgeon who have doubts the Danish Police do shit to find his brother's killer therefore he investigates the murder himself. Trouble is blending in the criminal underworld in Copenhagen ain't no walk in the park, even if he disguises himself as a masked avenger. Pretty powerful stuff.

Spiralling out of control

The villagers both side of the border between Sweden and Finland want to lynch a lad considered extremely dangerous, a former convict who wants to reconcile his past. Pretty standard crime issue added with damn beautiful northern scenaries.

Never mine to lose

Doesn't deserve a thought this. Ridiculously unfunny comedy of armored vehicle robbers, the same hacknayed faces doing it.