Whose funeral is this?

The 9th James Bond film, directed by Guy Hamilton in 1973, starring Roger Moore as the agent 007, Jane Seymour as the Bond girl Solitaire, Bernard Lee as Bond's superior (the head of MI6), no-one as 'Q' (the head of Q division), Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Yaphet Kotto as Kananga/Mr. Big, the producer of heroin, as the main antagonist. Title song performed by Paul McCartney's Wings. Evil drug dealer is set to hand out free samples of his merchadise much to the dismay of international law enforcement agencies. James Bond (Roger Moore's debut as 007) to rescue.

Wolves will be the first to engage

It's still pretty good. Pretty great at the very end. All the bloodshed, pagan rituals, viking raids and shenanigans are executed amazingly. However, his legacy too prominent to be forgotten, Ragnar Lodbrok (Travis Fimmel) still overshadows all the others, particularly his successors, all the teenage Northmen. And the British noblemen follow suit. Great moments and good overall quality though.

Surrender to failure

Was I tricked into believing Steven Avery wasn't guilty for murdering journalist Teresa Halbach? Albeit entertaining, this was hopelessly one-sided, hence biased, take on a somewhat simple murder case. I mean there must be lots of stuff that was left out. Dozens of courtroom professionals must have been presented some hard evidence that makes the case pretty waterproof. But naturally because this is a case of U.S. justice system, anything is possible I guess.

Invisible dance

There's no two ways about it, this is a brilliant mini series. Took my breath away really. There's the explosion of one of the nuclear reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, but how close to global destruction and nuclear winter we were at time is frightening. Story of Russian self-esteem and paranoia, but also of bona fide heroes and villains.

Garden of idiots hand in hand

As far as movies go, I don't think there's nothing as unforgiven as a lousy war movie. And I honestly think this is the worst war movie I have ever seen! The real battle of the Bulge was an enormously powerful, vicious and dirty part of World War II in heavily overcast weather conditions in Belgian winter of 1944 - 1945 (depicted extremely well for instance in Band of Brothers). These guys in Wunderland, they looked like they'd stepped in from a luxury spa, put on recently tailored uniforms and sent into the forest to act in a bizarre and comical play spewing clichés back and forth. The movie is so stupid that it hurts. Oh and there's Tom Berenger - I guess he just ran away from a retirement home, wandered into the set and someone put a helmet on him.

Somewhere over the rainbow

Rather interesting a person, the Arctic explorer Norwegian Roald Amundsen. And it's a small wonder this is the first movie based on him that I've seen. He's the guy who was the first man on South Pole, and after that, while mapping out the North Pole, he, his ship and crew were stuck in ice for few years, and eventually led the first proven expedition there in 1926. Carried a truly a competitive and adventurous soul and spirit. Died on one his missions. Or better yet, vanished, his body was never found. A cool insightful film.

We are talking about space magic

Marvel's Avengers time travel to retrieve the so called Infinity Stones before the evil destroyer of the world Thanos gets them. They hop through times and evidently it's a crazy cool adventure, but to me it's just an overlong flashy freak circus.

The sun has failed

I skipped the season # 2. I reckon I only watched an episode or two and walked away. And never returned. Maybe I was busy doing other stuff or what I saw was shit. I don't remember. A few minutes on the third season and I was immediately hooked. And in matter of days I watched it all. And then I read all the negative feedback. And that's another mystery.

Cosmic windshield wiper

An L.A. PI is hired to investigate a mental institute in the city of Galveston where he adequately grew up. But the detective Carson Philips gets more than he came for, he finds himself in a web of fraud, personal affairs, drugs and murder! Like his voice-over says 'This trip is full of surprises'. The movie tries to be clever, an authentic 70s private dick picture, but it's a really badly xeroxed copy. Pretty strong cast - John Travolta, Robert Patrick, Morgan Freeman, Peter Stormare, Famke Janssen, Brendan Fraser - though.