Normal people kill people

I'm currently reading John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker's book The Killer Across the Table, based on the true stories of FBI criminal profilers unlocking the secrets of serial killers. It inspired Joe Penhall to produce Mindhunter, the acclaimed TV Series. No Man of God is based on real life transcripts selected from conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier. It's on the same ballpark, but even if it starts out interesting, there's hardly any competition. Luke Kirby is great as Theodore Bundy though.

Old but still running

There's a new drug. Hylophedrine. Street name: Hype. It's addictive as shit. Streets are filled up with junkies. The city looks like a warzone. A group of friends, war veterans, has barricaded themselves inside a pub named VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and try to prevent druggies who look like an army of the undead entering into the establishment. Looks like a bad slasher movie from the 80s and they most likely want it that way. Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt and others having a blast.

Pay the devil's due

They are investigating the disappearance of a swim coach whose accused of child molestation. A veteran detective (Ulrich Thomsen) who is fighting with his own demons is on the case. And he finds out that the case thickens to crime including Albanian mafia, corrupt officials and fabricated beneficence. Trademark Scandinavian crime, quite boringly so, based on a Jussi Adler-Olsen novel.

Too old to run

One of the best action films of recent years. Masterfully executed full-blown frenzy involving gangsters and cops and violence. An edge-on-the-seat thriller and, alongside Taken, the most entertaining of Liam Neeson's tough guy flicks. Albeit on the masculine side, a great cast of Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce McGill, Common, Holt McCallany and Nick Nolte.

Sunshine beyond the sea

These creatures are blind and they attack anything that makes a noise. They are super-deadly sons of bitches. Humans have to be really quiet to survive, co-existing with those fuckers is impossible and you have to be extra imaginative to fight against them. The sequel to Quiet Place (2018) and it's groovy horror in the Last of Us and Alien territory. Directed by John Krasinski.

Racial equality among muggers

I just finished reading Brian Garfield's novel Death Wish (1972), so of course I had to see the original movie, Michael Winner's Death Wish (1974). I don't necessarily have the patience to watch the few sequals - also starring Charles Bronson - let alone the Bruce Willis remake, but this truly is a great film where we follow a development engineer Paul Kersey getting tired of the scum and the filth of New York City.

Heroes are necessary

At first, it felt like an offbeat teenage comedy. And I also thought of quitting it because the lead character, Scott (Pete Davidson), a deadbeat, was like an annoying little fucker. But The King of Staten Island grew on me, it's a decent coming-of-age drama. Directed by Jude Apatow.

Dig up dirt

Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is thorough with her hatred against a man - and the people like him - who hurt his friend seven years ago. She's obsessed with her vendetta, leaves no stone unturned until she gets the day of reckoning. Just about a perfect revenge flick. Somewhat different than the rest, a thought-out and startling little thing and almost a pretty cool and funny love story on the side. I expected nothing of the film, but it's easily one of the best this year.

Pull the trigger before the waterworks begin

Hutch Mansell is a nine-to-five working man, nothing out of ordinary, like the rest of us. He used to be a Nobody, an auditer for three letter companies and, when needed, he is full of explosive action. That piece of him is triggered by Yulian, a ruthless babysitter of Obstshak, pension fund of Russian mob. The movie is crazy and wild, extremely well made, lots of action, bodycount is numerous, a John Wick rip-off really, only funnier. Cool cast of Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside and Connie Nielsen.

The evening news with blood

Federal air marshal Bill Marks has his hands full when everyone thinks he is a terrorist. Whereas he, in fact, is the one who negotiates with the real terrorist threatening to kill the passangers on a transatlantic flight one by one. Like the marshal puts it, situation is quite complicated. An edge of seat thriller, a fun entertaining ride. Liam Neeson is more than the updated version of Steven Seagal.