Friday, October 29, 2021

Live safely for one more day

The two biggest nuclear accidents are the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, caused by human error and negligence, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, caused by natural causes, triggered by earthquake and tsunami. Both filmed recently. The first, an acclaimed, truly incredible mini series Chernobyl (2019) by Craig Mazin. And the latter Fukushima by Setsurô Wakamatsu and it's not an excellent film, but at least it's informative what took place in that awful day 11 March 2011.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Accept the existence of the devil

Some sort of demonic entity enters the bodies of human beings and make them do horrendous things. The fucker must be summoned through exorcism and thrown to hell. Not entirely sure, but don't think The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It differs of its predecessors, The Conjuring franchise, or all the other similar movies since William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973). A few jump scares, but a mess of a story of the same lie that the movie is based on a true story.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

The rich really are different

Little does she now, the bride, that an initiation to an extremely wealthy family is a game. To her misfortune, it's Hide and Seek that is all too real. The rules are simple. You hide or you die. So better hide good. A horror comedy of survival and it's pretty fantastic and groovy.

Monday, October 18, 2021

A trail of shit

The adventures of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Two sick fucks - serial killers - who indulged in several murderous rampages somewhere around Florida in the early Eighties. Together or solo, they liked to kill, found insatiable pleasure in it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) hasn't lost none of its video nasty appeal, lots of the story of the true characters is fictionalized, but it's still quite impressive.

The place hates you back

A pretty intense thriller of mafia henchmen wiping out people they are paid to execute and a group of fire fighters and sheriff deputies are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. It's wicked and action-packed, but it's also hopelessly fucking loopholed and full of downright naive mistakes. Entertaining, but an extremely badly written movie. Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal and Aidan Gillen starring.

Existence is futile

The sky could have been the limit for Jere Karalahti, an ice hockey player. Talented as fuck, but essentially an asshole who wasted his talent on booze and drugs. He kind of wanted to be the rock'n'roll outlaw of ice hockey. Blew almost everything away, his own life included. Loving dad though.

Friday, October 08, 2021

Standing and peeing is kind of rad

Serial killer The Butcher changes identities with one of his victims and that's the general idea of the slasher comedy Freaky. It truly is funny and hilarious, deliciously bloody, Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn are brilliant in the lead, but the genre is pretty unforgiving. It's merely throwaway popcorn cinema and doesn't give a lasting experience.

Don't start what you can't finish

Ordinarily the leisurely pace of this movie would have scared me away. But I kept going because the charismas of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane kept the movie going. They are George and Margaret, grandparents to Jimmy, who they desperately want to see and save from a monster of a family. An emotionally charged drama thriller gradually built up towards explosive ending.

Monday, October 04, 2021

Doing something great is overrated

Funny thing with these mini series. You put the DVD into the player and it gets you in for a ride and before you know it, you've finished the fucking thing. Mare of Easttown - 7 episodes and something like 7 hours total - I binge-watched it and it's as excellent as everyone says it is.

The myths are real

They need to harvest energy from the Hollow Earth to fight against Godzilla who has behaved like shit recently. But to actually kill the gigantic beast you need something that matches its size. And that's when King Kong comes to play because Kong bows to no one except for a little deaf girl Jia. A shit for brains adventure and entertainment where the computer generated creatures expressed emotions far better than the human actors.

There is no way to say goodbye

I guess even the film makers got so bored with this movie that they happily walked out of the project after 70 minutes. It was going nowhere...