Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Magnetic Fields

It was almost like not watching a film. A radio journalist Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) travels across the U.S. with his newphew Jesse (Woody Norman). It's a hearfelt journey, nothing much happening, but the wonderful acting made it so real.

Lost in hallowed ground

Don't know why I sat this shit through. A college romcom of two students falling in love, breaking up and falling in love again. Boring and done a million times before.

Monday, October 24, 2022

Towards the infinity

The fucking cancer movies are depressing. Our Friend (directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite) is as heartbreaking as the rest of them. There's a cancer dying patient in the family and there's a special friend to help them out. Casey Affleck is surprisingly brilliant and Jason Segel, as the friend, downright terrific. Pretty sad shit though.

Giving medals for shooting the wrong people

Crime noir of a guy planning to assassinate the president of Finland, but for target practice kills his girlfriend instead! Taavi Kassila's Jäähyväiset presidentille (Farewell, Mr. President) from 1987 is an interesting Finnish attempt to deliver a proper action thriller, but unfortunately takes itself a little too seriously.

Saturday, October 22, 2022

One more drop

They became somewhat a stars later, the lead actors, Arnie Hammer, Aidan Gillen and Amber Tamblyn. In 2008 they did Blackout (directed by Rigoberto Castañeda). A story of them getting trapped inside an elevator and the situation escalating quickly into a nightmare.

Freeway into infinite terror

Started out great. Dragged in the middle. A disappointing ending. That sums it up. Plotholed psycho horror and mystery thriller that is either frustratingly stupid or immensely entertaining.

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Eating peas one at a time

The season # 7 of Seinfeld. Once again, top-notch episodes (The Seven, The Rye, The Calzone, The Invitations, The Soup Nazi) through and through. And most memorably, Susan (portrayed by Heidi Swedberg) dies. It also is incredibly funny how her death and the aftermath of her death were executed.

Travel on with the dead

A hitman seems to be having some memory issues. Not good. Not good at all. It sure helps if you can remember the face and the name of the person you are going to assassinate, if else to avoid collateral damage. Not the best of Liam Neeson's roles as a tough guy, the genre he seems particularly fond of as of late, but it passed the time alright.

Her looks are coy and cold

A rich nerdy type divorcee is kidnapped then imprisoned inside his lavish home by a sadistic psychopath. Not the most original of pieces, plotholes are aplenty, but these kind of thrillers are always a hoot. The bloodier the better. And this one's pretty bloody.

Thursday, October 06, 2022

Please mansplain sexism

They kidnap a romance novelist so she can help them to find the treasure of Montezuma. Never in a million years I would have believed I'd actually like a doofus adventure comedy with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum in the lead, but they proved me wrong. 

Have fun in Attica, dickhead

A Paul Thomas Anderson movie. Two young sweethearts (wonderful Alana Heim and Cooper Hoffman) are looking for their place in the world in the San Fernando Valley in 1973. They mix up with politics, acting, waterbed business and straighten out their relationship as well. A nostalgic but somewhat a pointless romcom, entertaining enough though. Cool cameos by Sean Penn, Tom Waits and Bradley Cooper.

Saturday, October 01, 2022

Innocent fuel

The first 30 minutes and Michael Mann's Heat (1995) turns in its grave when it sees this piece of shit. And then it proceeds into a brainless car chase flick. And it all is wrapped in migraine triggering chaotic cinematography. Ambulance's (by Michael Bay) shittiness is mesmerizing. It's almost as if they did this crap on purpose.

That kid ain't a killer

A hitchhiker leaves quite a many dead people in his wake. A young man escapes the clutches of him and is subsequently stalked by the fucker....