In the shadow of all the president's men

I don't know do I truly want to find out whether this was based on actual events. Anyways, a wanna-be journalist comes up with an ingenious idea to make a story of the most dangerous thing he can muster. A trip to Somalia and interview the pirates who capture foreign vessels for living. Weirdly, the movie is almost a comedy thanks to the lively character Jay Bahadur performed by Evan Peters, yet there's the volatile issue of piracy, people are dying and no-one's taking Somalia's side. Kind of a distant cousin of Captain Phillips, different narrative, but really quite good.

Cause of death haunted house

A dad and son are renovating an old house they just purchased and encounter its ghastly secret. It once belonged to a wicked old lady, a witch to townspeople, and it seems her ghost occupies the house still. The oldest ghost story in the book, but genuinely spooky little thing.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here

It's a Big Brother style reality game show where contestants are literally being eliminated one by one and the last man standing wins the prize of 5 million dollars. A worldwide audience is watching as the killings unfold, either horrified or excited, but equally entertained because death is entertainment and opiate for the masses. Not a truly outstanding film, far from it, but quite watchable popcorn horror.

Into the last good fight

If you throw away common sense in the story of a plane crash survivors against a pack of wolves, Joe Carnahan's The Prey (2011) is an intense wildlife thriller and a nail-biting survival movie. Having the towering figure of Liam Neeson in the ranks helps as well.

Caveman logic

Good guys and bad guys play hide and seek in an apartment building in Puerto Rico surrounded by a Category 5 hurricane. People write shitty scripts like this on a fucking paper napkins on a lunchbreak. Mel Gibson must have done this garbage as favour for something. I read that Force of Nature cost $23 million.

A digital invisibility cloak

A quick-tempered old-school narcotics cop Rick Bowden is transferred into a cyber crime unit for bad behaviour and he's up against geeks like Ross Ulbricht who eat megabites and nerd shit for breakfast. Ross Ulbricht uses the internet as an instrument of liberty and establishes a drug superstore in dark web where you can anonymously buy and sell anything, something like an Ebay for illegal drugs. At first, Rick Bowden has hard time adapting to the cyber crime unit. He may be old and slow, but he ain't stupid. He tracks down Ulbricht and just may crack the case the old-fashioned way. Silk Road got lots of negative feedback, but against common opinion, I found nothing wrong with the movie. Jason Clark, Nick Robinson, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Elexandra Shipp were amazing in the lead. Directed by Tiller Russell (Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer).

Learn how to suffer existence

The list keeps on growing: Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow, Happy Death Day, Boss Level. Palm Strings is the latest addition to the infinite timeloop movies and it's fucking hilarious as well. Like it how they don't bother to explain the unxplained, rather just go with the flow. People are stuck in a wedding and it's kind of fun waking up to the same day again and again, you don't need to worry about tomorrow because there isn't one. Today, tomorrow, yesterday, it's all the same. Yet it's full of surprises, twists and turns.

Originality is overrated

It's much the same as The Trip ten years before. Another edited version of the series. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon talk and they eat while travelling from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus. 

Never be hot, always be warm

This is the edited version of the TV Series The Trip where actors Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves are on a restaurant tour of northern England. It's a dead simple concept yet it's somewhat brilliant. These guys have an opinion on everything, it's mostly improvised and they talk ceaselessly and, as the masters of the profession, imitate well-known people such as Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Al Pacino and others. It's fun, good entertainment.

Remain in the shadows

They were supposed to be just memorabilia and collector's items, but these little fucking nazi puppets kill hotel customers like there was no tomorrow! Pretty cool waste-of-time slasher horror.

Future before the past

There's a serial killer at large in Los Angeles, California. He's been terrorizing the city for decades and ridiculed the local police thus they are under heavy pressure to capture the sadistic killer. A team of old and new detectives is frustrated as fuck. It's been a little quiet in the serial killer cinema as of late, The Little Things is something, but after a decent start it barely goes nowhere and the story doesn't really have an ending. Surprisingly, Rami Malek - Hollywood's new favourite pet - looks like a rookie in the company of the heavy-weights Denzel Washington, Chris Bauer, Jared Leto and Terry Kinney.

Human weakness cannot be killed with a gun

Bob Lee Swagger is asked to plan a presidential assassination, so the actual assassination could be stopped. He's double crossed for the actual kill and soon the world thinks the poor sniper is the assassin and there's a relentless manhunt to catch his ass. Luckily for him and the truth, he's a proper ex-soldier and he can survive shit no-one's survived before. Antoine Fuqua's action-packed thriller is as entertaining as they come.

Without mercy or malice

Vlogger celebrates his 10th anniversary as a public favourite and his friends have surprised him with an exclusive custom made escape room experience in Moscow built just for them by a Russian billionaire. Awfully bad and predictable piece of shit.

Through darkness to the twilight air

Five Norwegian friends - young adults - go to a remote cabin by a lake. And of course the fucking cottage is haunted. The lake as well! At first the people start question their sanity and then themselves. Or are the horrific experiences they encounter orchestrated by demonic dark forces or perhaps some local lad is just pulling their leg? Another useless addition to the endless list of cabin horror.