When the door closes, jump out the window

Elderly Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) loves robbing banks, for nothing but pure pleasure and entertainment. He's teamed up with two other older folks Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). Local law enforcement with John Hunt (Casey Affleck) in charge and the FBI sort of at leisurely pace try to catch them. It's all easy-going, no-one's hurting anyone, all fucking smiles.

The breath of meadow

Oftentimes Lars von Trier's movies merely jerk cinephiles off. His art bizarre can be a little off-putting at times. But how well it adapts into a serial killer movie, is impeccable. Jack (amazing Matt Dillon) is a psychopath hunting down lonely women, killing them and putting them into a freezer for later use. Basic serial killer stuff. Groovy and disturbing shit. Some of the most shocking scenes in cinema I've ever witnessed.

Never is a long time

Mysterious yet heroic stranger Shane defends homesteaders from a rancher tycoon and an inevitable one last great gunfight is looming on the horizon. Classic old school western from 1953, so much so even that it's simple and terribly clichéd, but that's how it goes sometimes, it's not full on guns blazing and bloodshed all the time. A classic battle between good and evil that exemplifies principles and good values. Alan Ladd and Jack Palance as the gungslingers.

Rats among the plastic people

The Charles Manson family were murderous drugged up hippies. They were influenced by a shit musician, their beacon of light, Charles Manson who was charismatic enough to lure bunch of insecure lonely teens from broken homes and form a cult. Charlie had it well covered, they all belonged to him. While it lasted it was a pretty orgasmic feast. But then all the murders happened and several people were sentenced to life without parole. Charlie Says depicts the collective insanity and hysteria pretty well. The cult was a freak circus full of racists. Funnily though, I reckon the real reason the family murdered all those people was because Charles Manson wanted worldwide fame (wanted to become as big as The Beatles), but once he got rejected by a recording label, he threw a tantrum. Like a fucking child.

In the land of the few

Siblings are on the run from the crimes they committed. Things get even a little more complicated when they come across sheriff Pat Garrett escorting the infamous Billy The Kid to get hanged. An interesting and surprisingly well executed little western directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.

Stories hurt, stories heal

A group of teenagers snitch a book from a haunted house. The book features ghost stories and, amazingly, the stories in the book write themselves! It writes real nasty shit to real people and someone must put an end to this witchcraft! Pretty cool horror popcorn altough André Øvredal's previous films Troll Hunter and The Autopsy of Jane Doe were miles grittier.

Shooting and burning cars, talking about revolution

Maybe it has a cult status, but Gridlock'd is a terribly unsung movie. It's a brilliant offbeat dark comedy drama of two friends of different colour who, with their girlfriend, constitute a druggy jazz band. Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur form a wonderful chemistry as Strech and Spoon, weirdly cool lowlife junkies.

Faces of fists

I should have followed my gut instinct and not have chosen a Jesse Eisenberg black comedy. Unfunny predictable piece of shit. Street gang mugs an office geek and as a revenge he wants to learn karate. Irritated how they tried to execute offbeat humour. Nowhere near anything funny. Just a fucking waste of time.

All the streets are silent

Quentin Tarantino's latest, in spite of shitloads of characters, is really about two people and the Charles Manson Family Cult. These two people; first off, there's Rick Dalton (Leonard DiCaprio) who is a past star actor finding out he's now 'slightly more useless each day' and there's Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), the former's awfully cool stunt double. In the movie, there are also well known actors like Al Pacino, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsh, Michael Madsen and Damian Lewis, but they are cast just extras, merely dipping their feet in the water, aren't really bringing anything to the show, replaceable show-offs. For instance, Michael Madsen's own car got more screentime than the actor himself. But that's part of the charm. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a good fucking movie, trademark Tarantino entertainment altho at times times it felt like there were just bits and pieces plastered in together to masquerade a movie. Dunno. Probably the film geek Tarantino does it all just to amuse himself. Lots of things - amazing things - are there to keep your mind occupied, proper eye candy shit. And the ending is one of the craziest - and coolest - endings I have ever seen.

Pledge ever-ending loyalty

One of those movies you wish were never going to end. Maybe that's why Francis Ford Coppola did the sequels. Simply amazing.

A duel between titans

The 1974 James Bond movie, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Roger Moore as the agent 007, Britt Ekland as the Bond girl Goodnight, Bernard Lee as Bond's superior, Desmond Llewelyn as 'Q' (the head of Q division), Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Christopher Lee as Saramanga, the main antagonist. Title song performed by Lulu. James Bond is called to investigate a stolen "Solex agitator". Plenty of talent and charisma in the acting of both Roger Moore and Christopher Lee, too bad that it's one of the worst Bond movies. Lost in a plot, an attempt to make almost a comedy. Humour most often is fixed in time, and it's terribly outdated here.

All bleeding stops eventually

Didn't expect a thing. I didn't want to expect a thing. I was sourly disappointed when the show ended the way it ended. Rushed and unfinished, without a proper finale. Anyways, now 10 years later most of the old crew is back. And thankfully Deadwood the movie is bloody and violent, foulmouthed and dirty. Just like the old times, of sort. Something's missing, sure, maybe it feels like it's merely a subtle apology for the fans. Don't care much, a good effort, welcome back. Hopefully they'll be doing another.

Peace in the valley

It's there but not quite there. Lots of positives. Titus Welliwer is perfect as Harry Bosch, the famous detective from Michael Connelly novels. A good actor, nothing too flashy, a common man, coplike, suits the suit. And the story, it's all good stuff. Brilliant even. But still, at times, it feels like it's too quickly assembled together, overshadows the stories, standard issue fastly produced television.

Paradise waits for no one

I had forgotten the real shit what happened. The Taj Hotel siege and other cowardish terrorist attacks that took place simultaneously in Mumbai, India, in 2008, killing at least 174 people and wounding hundreds of others. The 9 attackers were all from Pakistan and they all now rest in hell for all eternity. In the hotel the terrorists mercilessly slaughtered its residents. The brave few employees and guests tried to escape the fuckers for several hours because the help on the way was excruciatingly slow. Pretty outstanding movie to start a new year with.

2019

MOVIES

Hereditary (Ari Aster)
The Hard Way (John Badham)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker)
Searching (Aneesh Chaganty)
The Dictator (Larry Charles)
Big Lebowski (Joel and Ethan Coen)
A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper)
The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
The Mule (Clint Eastwood)
Green Book (Peter Farrelly)
Rocketman (Dexter Fletcher)
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
The Place (Paolo Genovese)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (Vince Gilligan)
Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard)
Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)
Suomen hauskin mies (Heikki Kujanpää)
Happy Death Day 2U (Christopher Landon)
Heathers (Michael Lehmann)
Vice (Adam McKay)
Donnie Brasco (Mike Newell)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mike Newell)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne)
Arlington Road (Mark Pellington)
Arctic (Joe Penna)
Tyhjiö (Aleksi Salmenperä)
Sicario 2: Soldado (Stefano Sollima)
U Turn (Oliver Stone)
Joe Kidd (John Sturges)
Sicario (Dennis Villeneuve)
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (Timo Vuorensola)
Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
Free Fire (Ben Wheatley)

SERIES

Conversations with a Killer: Ted Bundy Tapes (Joe Berlinger)
Derren Brown: Infamous (Derren Brown)
Mindhunter (David Fincher)
The Looming Tower (Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright)
After Life (Ricky Gervais)
Vikings (Michael Hirst)
Escape at Dannemore (Brett Johnson, Michael Tolkin)
Billions  (Brian Koppelman)
Chernobyl (Craig Mazin)
True Detective (Nic Pizzolatto)
M/S Romantic (Jani Volanen)

R.I.P.

Matti Ahde (politician) born 1945 (age 73)
Danny Aiello (actor, Do the Right thing, Leon)  born 1933 (age 86)
Claes Andersson (poet, jazz musician, politician) born 1937 (age 82)
Ginger Baker (musician, Cream) born 1939 (age 80)
Gordon Banks (goalkeeper, Leicester, England) born 1937 (age 81)
Richard Brunelle (musician, Morbid Angel) born 1964 (age 55)
Paul Benjamin (actor, Escape from Alcatraz) born 1938 (age 81)
Jake Black (musician, Alabama 3) born 1960 (age 59)
Larry Carroll (painter, Reign in Blood) born 1954 (age 65)
Seymour Cassell (actor, In the Soup) born 1935 (age 84)
Jacques Chirac (president) born 1932 (age 86)
Larry Cohen (director, screenwriter, Phone Booth) borm 1936 (age 82)
Bruce Corbitt (musician, Rigor Mortis) born 1962 (age 56)
Dick Dale (The King of the Surf Guitar) born 1937 (age 81)
Doris Day (actress, The Man Who Knew Too Much) born 1922 (age 97)
Billy Drago (actor, The Untouchables, Pale Driver) born 1945 (age 73)
Dr. John (musician) born 1941 (age 77)
Roky Erickson (a heroic music icon) born 1947 (age 71)
Albert Finney (actor, Big Fish) born 1936 (age 82)
Keith Flint (musician, The Prodigy) born 1969 (age 49)
Peter Fonda (actor, Easy Rider) born 1940 (age 79)
Robert Forster (actor, Jackie Brown) born 1941 (age 78)
Marie Fredriksson (musician, Roxette) born 1958 (age 61)
Bruno Gantz (actor, Der Untergang) born 1941 (age 77)
Grumpy Cat (grumpy cat) born 2012 (age 7)
Sid Haig (actor, House of 1000 Corpses) born 1939 (age 80)
Timi Hansen (musician, Mercyful Fate) born 1958 (age 61)
Rutger Hauer (actor, Blade Runner, The Hitcher) born 1944 (age 75)
Anna-Kaisa Hermunen (journalist) born 1948 (age 71)
Peter Hobbs (musician, Hobbs' Angel of Death) born 1961 (age 58)
Ismo Kallio (actor) born 1935 (age 83)
Jorma Kinnunen (athlete) born 1941 (age 77)
Karl Lagerfeld (costume designer, Chanel) born 1933 (age 85)
Niki Lauda (Formula 1 legend, three times world champion) born 1949 (age 70)
Kari Lehtola (a major accident investigator) born 1938 (age 80)
Reino Lehväslaiho (author) born 1922 (age 96)
Charles Levin (actor, Seinfeld) born 1949 (age 70)
Olli Lindholm (musician, Appendix, Yö) born 1964 (age 54)
Peggy Lipton (actress, Twin Peaks) born 1946 (age 72)
Ross Lowell (inventor, gaffer tape) born 1926 (age 92)
Harri Marstio (musician) born 1957  (age 61)
Andre Matos (musician, Angra, Viper) born 1972 (age 47)
Peter Mayhew (actor, Chewbacca) born 1944 (age 74)
Dick Miller (actor, The 'Burbs, Gremlins) born 1928 (age 90)
Toni Morrison (author, Jazz) born 1931 (age 88)
Robert Mugabe (President of Zimbabwe, dictator) born 1924 (age 95)
Olli Mäki (boxer) born 1936 (age 82)
Ilkka Nummisto (strongest man in Finland) born 1944 (age 75)
Matti Nykänen (ski jumper, Olympic winner) born 1963 (age 55)
Luke Perry (actor, Beverly Hills, 90210) born 1966 (age 52)
Lasse Pöysti (actor) born 1927 (age 92)
Paul Raymond (musician, UFO) born 1945 (age 73)
José Antonio Reyes (footballer, Sevilla) born 1983 (age 35)
Mikko Saarela (musician, Eppu Normaali) born 1958 (age 60)
Emiliano Sala (football player, Nantes, Cardiff) born 1990 (age 28)
Leif Salmén (journalist) born 1952 (age 67)
Jeff St. Louis (musician, DBC) born 1957 (age 62)
Roslaw Szaybo (painter, British Steel) born 1933 (age 85)
Reijo Taipale (singer) born 1940 (age 79)
Mervi Tapola (sausage heiress) born 1954 (age 65)
Anne "Heinäsirkka" Taskinen (artist) born 1958 (age 61)
Kari Toivonen (journalist, news anchor) born 1972 (age 77)
Bernie Tormé (musician, Gillan, Ozzy Osbourne) born 1952 (age 66)
Rip Torn (actor, Wonder Boys) born 1931 (age 88)
Jukka Virtanen (author, poet, actor, TV personality) born 1933 (age 86)
Scott Walker (musician) born 1943 (age 76)
Larry Wallis (musician, Motörhead) born 1949 (age 70)
Andre Williams (musician) born 1936 (age 82)
Max Wright (actor, Alf) born 1943 (age 75)