Working class hero

Spiderman: Homecoming. Not bad at all. Maybe underlines the issue too much that Spiderman is the least powerful of the superheroes and the story focuses on how Peter Parker fails to deliver. But even if it punches comical hooks from left and right, they usually hit the target and the action is executed in truly dazzling manner.

Something wicked this way comes

This is a bit different biography - that's both criticism and praise. The Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson knowingly leaves out a bulk of his personal background - nothing about his girlfriends or wife or wives, his family or friends - not that it's all too essential in any biographies, at least it's never too interesting. He also writes very little of the band Iron Maiden, almost nothing compared to its significance on his career and life. What's left then? His hobbies fencing and aviation. Beating cancer. His passion for writing and discovering new things. There's a whole lot of everything and virtually nothing at the same time.

Snow falls to hide the blood

Amazing how the Coen brothers' Fargo film has escalated into a TV series that is wholesomely good to watch. The wits they've put into the whole deal - and even the tiniest details - is mesmerising. Follows the trend that it's downright useless to pay any attention to feature films because there's no way they can compete with the same magnitude of brilliance and perfection in storytelling as television series.

There is more paradise in hell than we've been told

In this documentary feature Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record their "Skeleton Tree" album and in between the takes the film mourns the tragic death of Arthur Cave, the son of Nick Cave and Susie Bick. Visually engaging piece, at times you feel like you are trespassing the grieving people's privacy and at the same time there's this incredible music in the making.

You can't trust anyone but family

I liked the way they kept the story hidden. Apparently the world is fucked, some kind of disease is wiping out the mankind and the handful of people who have survived the epidemic try their dearest to stay safe. You are so fixated on keeping yourself and your family alive that everything else is suspicious and potentially deadly. There's nothing terribly new here, but good enough.

The arches of rust

Some part of me gets twisted satisfaction of seeing bullshit movies and this is right on that ballpark. Everything is fucking askew, probably the most flawed (also the worst) movie I have seen all year. Mall cops protect a witness from a group of professional contract killers. Gotta see to believe, it's like a parody of a real action movie.

Wallowing shores asunder

I cringed with second-hand embarrassment. People - Black Metal musicians - from Iran, Greece and Columbia take a worshipping journey to the Mecca of Black Metal, Norway. They meet local musicians from bands like Keep Of Kalessin and Darkthrone. Well, the Norwegian guys seem great, really down-to-earth funny people, but I hope the depiction of the other guys - the pilgrims - ain't that accurate in real life. The Iranian metalhead seems to be a fine sympathetic guy, but the Columbians are naive and too fucking serious, and the politically aware Greeks humourless gits.

Cricket behind the wheel

A Netflix original. One of the 'less is more' -films. Basically just a guy with a getaway car and a bagful of stolen money that is wanted by everyone. Everything in the movie happens in the vicinity of automobile and the wheelman (excellent Frank Grillo) is at almost every frame. Directed superbly (Jeremy Rush) hence one of hell of a thriller.

Putting on a barbecue

Vegan girl begins her studies at vet school and grows a fetish on raw meat. In fact takes carnivorism on a whole new level. Acclaimed French film ('future cult classic') that I found surprisingly tedious.

They are not like people

I looked at the cover and thought this was a family movie of zookeepers and their lovely little zoo with a group of amazingly cute animals. Soon realized this was something completely different. A zoo, but a war-torn derelict one and the animals mostly slaughtered. Set in Warsaw in the beginning of WWII and the nazi occupation. Story of people trying to save as many jews from the Holocaust as possible. Reminiscence of Schindler's List, another true story, although not quite as emotionally stirring and, quite frankly, these people couldn't deliver such powerful omnipotent presence as people like Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. But nevertheless enough an intesive piece of the harrowing times.

Don't run for the priest

Surgeon Finnur suspects his daughter's new boyfriend is up to no good and soon he's neck-deep involved with Reykjavik's criminal underworld. Particularly the son-in-law candidate is an excruciating pain in the ass, so revengeful measures must be taken. Lots of potential in the story, at times fascinating thriller, but not belonging to the finest moments in Scandinavian Film Noir.

The great darkness simmering within

I think this one doesn't pale in comparision with other superhero movies. In fact, it's quite good. It's nicely set in the time of the Great War and blends it with ancient mythology and superheroism quite alright. The lenght (2:20) was too much, but luckily it was entertaining when it wasn't boring me to death.

Road to peace

A group of Texan military men return home after a tour in Iraq. Heralded as heroes and everyone's little military puppets, it's a bit strange and unusual for the boys, so they grow a little dislike for the circus surrounding them. Fortunately the director Ang Lee doesn't gnaw too much on the patriotism bone, on the contrary perhaps, but it's still surprisingly effortless piece.

Fear is the most intoxicating sensation

A Guy Ritchie film and the trademark upbeat Guy Ritchie storytelling is put to use in the legend of the King Arhur's sword (Excalibur). Of course all the nerdy wankers with medieval fetish have said that this is a blasphemous rendition and, I reckon, they have every right, but I enjoyed immensely. Not perfect, but sufficiently cool.

Murder comes in convenient packages

A French homicide investigator investigates the gruesome death of a fellow countryman in Kiruna, Sweden. The TV series takes up to way up north amongst the native Sami people and townful of suspects. It makes an intriguing mystery, emphasized by the magical land where the sun never sets and the somewhat idiosyncratic people.

Invasion of the demonically possessed

Well, there's this demonic spirit hidden inside a wooden box. It ain't explained or anything, it's just a demon in a box. And also unexplainably it end ups in an antique store where it's purchased by the owner of Escape Room looking ways to revitalise his business. Four friends find it through the hard way when they are trying to escape from the hands of a demonically possessed madman.

Don't fuck with the dead

Arthur Bishop wants to retire his life as a mercenary, but he can't because people always find him, so he yet again has to cancel his retirement and continue killing people. Cheesy, plotholed little action thing.

The red blood of priest has flowed profusely

 

Two English-speaking Portuguese priests go to Japan to save another priest from Japanese persecution. It's also a perfect oppurtunity to infest Christian propaganda on simple minded Japanese pagans. I don't know what was Martin Scorsese's agenda on building up such a deliberately patronizing story.

A pawn being moved off the board

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is in a vendetta kind of mood for a truly good reason. His family is murdered and the culprits walk away with petty convictions. As good a reason as any to start murdering goverment officials. Altogether a very satisfying thriller with somewhat an anticlimactic ending, still one of the better ones at both Butler's and Jamie Foxx's career.