Never you mind

Laid-back and desolate movie at the same time. Set in the fifties in a desperately small Texas town where nothing happens, everything is dusty and derelict. Bunch of high school graduates grow up and discover sex and hopelessness and dreams that don't exist. Significant piece of American cinema.

A little knowledge does not make anyone better

A girl goes away from her devout christian family to study in the university of Oslo only to find out that she's either tripping out of the taste of forbidden pleasures or she has psychic powers that make people disappear. Joachim Trier's utterly stylish supernatural love story (aka 'telekinetic lesbian drama') where it reveals its frightening bits piece by piece.

Lives to spare

Four high school kids drop into a videogame, into its characters and, in order to survive and return back to the real world, they have to finish the game. A jungle adventure without any real excitement.

Don't underrate freedom

Truly fucking captivating documentary. The wife of author Michael Peterson falls down the stairs and dies, or that's what the author says. As the police investigates the case as murder they dug into Peterson's past that unfolds secrets that could potentially hurt the defense. I was in mixed emotions throughout the series (that spanned over 15 years), I saw the author both as the murderer and as innocent as the next man. I guess I still haven't made up my mind.

Doubt is the key thing

Two men are suspected of killing their wives in the vicinity of roadside diner Harry's Rainbow Grill. Separate cases, but detective on the case is doubtful. The other suspect is clever but poor and the other stupid but rich. It's a very old-school (courtesy of Patricia Highsmith's novel) crime noir, executed accordingly, but the style doesn't save the confusing script.

Legacy built piece by piece

I have absolutely no idea why I had the patience to watch this through. In normal circumstances I'd ejected the disc in ten minutes and thrown it to the wolves. I kept on going though, gave it a chance, but the borefest never got better. The director and writer David Lowery probably had a beautiful view how to interpret the pretentious piece of shit, but I didn't fucking get it.

Rats see no future

Not the most magnificent of movies, but pretty good excitement. Bagful of drugs drop into the hands of good people and bad people want the misplaced merchandise back and eliminate everyone involved. In Braven, they've come up with creative ways of killing people in wintry forests, not the most logical and practical ones though, and the last one involving a bear trap was hilariously stupid.

Sorry, but you are infected

The South Koreans did it. The best zombie movie of recent years. The undead are spawning like flies and a handful of survivors are trapped inside a train on its way to Busan. High quality thrills, a good story overall (for a zombie feature) and I really cared for the wellbeing of the characters.

Slaughter of the cash cow

Not too long ago I saw Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Albert Finney as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and otherwise starring such great people as Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman and so on. Not so many renowned stars in Kenneth Branagh's version, but the movie is visually breathtaking otherwise and even if the bulk of the story remained the same I loved the little things they had enriched it.

Future won't wait

I'm sure they came with good intentions. Based on the fact or fear that soon every human being on the planet is constantly being monitored, followed and thus lost their privacy completely. Too bad they didn't know it's already happened. Anyways, a shit fucking movie. Tom Hanks is wasting his time and Bill Baxton, sadly, lost his life after this.

Petting crocodiles

A pretty cool gritty crime caper. Robert Pattison is Connie Nikas, a lowlife criminal who can't seem to be doing anything right. For once, Robert Pattison however does something right, this is his best effort thus far. And the directors Josh and Benny Safdie - the latter also starring in this - have wrapped the movie inside an effective neon lights extravaganza, giving it an amazingly vibrant atmosphere.

Black sun rising

Veijo Haukka is an unlicensed euthanizer who kills animals by gassing or shooting them. Despite putting animals out of their misery, or maybe just because of that, he loves them. Only humans he has difficulties with. No wonder, the small Finnish village he resides has plenty of guys who aren't quite right in their heads, particularly a right-wing group called Soldiers of Finland. Outstandingly laconic dark comedy, best Finnish movie thus far this year, close to cult classic already.

The higher you go, the harder you fall

What's a better way to make lots of money fast than to disappear into the wilderness of Alaska and cash in on the publicity. Well, at least these schmucks think so. Then again, if you really think about it, these actors - Shane Coffey, Drew Roy, Haley Huxley, Cary Elwes - only hope to make any success in real life is to disappear in the woods and cash in on the story.

In the heart of nations

Since Middle Ages Finland was part of Sweden until Russia occupied it in 1809. Tammisunnuntai 1918 is a documantary of the 'wild' years when Finland started fighting for its independence. The local troops organizing to disarm Russian soldiers, Ostrobothnia (Vaasa, Ylistaro, Lapua) as the hot spot.