Where greater men have fallen

Special U.S. forces kill Russian soldiers. Elite ex-Navy Seals are targeted by Russian operatives on American soil. Looks like someone wants to start a war. Brainless junk, but it's the kind of combat movie it wants to be I guess. Based on Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan universe.

Sounds like a pile of shit

A comic book artist loses his fucking hand in a cruel car accident. The severed hand then goes on a killing spree and murders people that aren't too cool. Despite all the negative feedback, Oliver Stone's The Hand (1981) is decent atmospheric horror. Michael Caine in the lead.

Can't rush inspiration

Something else. A quasi-autobiographical story of a Hollywood screen writer Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) as he battles a writer's block with his latest work adapting "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep) for the screen. No one's ever done a movie about flowers before, so it's understandly very difficult. Adaptation is manna from heaven, witty and brilliant piece of cinema. Funny as shit, too.

There's no news like bad news

A James Bond movie directed by Roger Spottiswoode in 1997, starring Pierce Brosnan as the agent 007, Michelle Yeoh as the Bond girl Wai Lin, Judi Dench as Bond's superior M (the head of M16), Desmond Llewelyn as Q (the head of Q division) and Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver, the main antagonist. The theme song performed by Sheryl Crow. A media mogul is determined to mess the minds of the great nations of the United States, the UK and China and set the world on fire! James Bond sets out to stop it.

There will always be more

There's a nazi officer in a concentration who wants to learn Farsi. A clever jew pretends to be Persian and decides to teach the nazi thus survive the inhuman conditions and, ultimately, death row. But instead of Farsi that he knows shit about, he educates the officer some proper gibberish! Splendid, a different kind of war and concentration camp movie and two really quite excellent actors Nahuel Pérez Biscayart and Lars Eidinger.

The world is coming undone

Dunno, but somewhat a mess. If you are not familiar with the Dumbledore, Grindelwald or Fantastic Beasts stories, or the Harry Potter crap what-have-you, you feel left out and don't understand a word they're sayin'. By the same token, it's spectacular, quite exquisitive looking crap and the actors (Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, Mads Mikkelsen, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Oliver Masucci) add another cool green screen experience to their resume.

No time left

Bruce Willis, stricken with aphasia, did a number of low budget movies (Wrong Place, Vendetta, A Day to Die, Gasoline Alley, Wire Room, White Elephant, Corrective Measures, Fortress: Sniper's Eye, Deadlock, Out of Death, etc.) - each shittier than the next - before his untimely retirement. If else, just to cash in what's left of his career. Megan Fox however burnt a few bridges in the past and gets now offered the shitty roles only. And Emile Hirsch - he has struggled with his profession throughout his career. Can't say stars were aligned with Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021) by Randall Emmett. But kudos to them, it has the worst serial killer script for decades.

They are dead and all messed up

George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead from 1968. People barrigade themselves inside a farmhouse because outside is crowded with zombies! They don't refer them as zombies however, flesh-eating ghouls instead. Absolutely wicked, gruesome and cool.

For shadows are not hospitable hosts

This would be an amazing revenge flick without the superstitious mumbo-jumbo and the gushing sugar-coated Norse mythology. Then it would be a 15 minutes film, but still. In the end I reckon I still liked it though, fucken brutal and beautiful at the same time.