Thursday, July 27, 2023

Get whipped and go to bed hungry

Samurai Kuroda Jubei (Toshiro Mifune) and cowboy Link Stuart (Charles Bronson) are after a stolen golden sword and bagfuls of gold. Of course they also want to make things straight with the people who took them, particularly the leader Gauche (Alain Delon). Shouldn't be too hard for the two seasoned hardcore warriors, unless they don't kill each other first that is. Red Sun, by Terence Young, is a brilliant western movie from 1971.

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

As pure as the driven snow

Roman Polanski directs and Harrison Ford in the lead. Exciting albeit a little confusing thriller of a US doctor first losing luggage and then his wife. And instead of trusting the local police he opts to crack the case open himself. Solid but nothing overly brilliant.

Hot riding around the universe

Blob is a great ball of mucus from outer space and as it feeds on people, it grows bigger. And deadlier. And more difficult to kill. Makes a proper horror cult classic. From 1958. Starring Steve McQueen. Directed by Irwin S. Yeaworth Jr. and Russell S. Doughten Jr.

Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Hostage to the light

Tried to watch the series Sorjonen (Bordertown) but never got past the first episode. The movie The Mural Murders is even worse. It's so painfully slow that it's frustrating and so embarrassing and pathetic that it hurts.

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Stuck in revenge

Hands down, some of the craziest and the most acrobatic action sequences ever in cinema. Just mesmerizing and mind-blowing. Defies the laws of physics, I'm sure, but you're drawn into its magic. A decent enough a story too. Chock-full of bullets and unhinged gung-ho.

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Poisonous darts piercing our lungs

These climate change movies or documentaries aren't too uplifting. And they shouldn't be. Without understanding the obvious warning signs and the hardcore facts of how things stand, humans are slowly but effectively killing themselves extinct. We are running out of fresh water and clear air. If we don't scorch ourselves to death first. And it seems no one gives a shit. We are deserved to die. Invisible Demons, by Rahud Jain, deals with one of the worst cesspools, Delhi, India, where pollution is more or less a public disease. I just can't fathom the stupidity.

The part where you run

A decent thing, but on the same token, a bit lame. No surprise because it originally should be Rated R, but it’s toned down to PG-13, so not that much horror or apocryphal imaginary. Not that it matters much anyways, it’s more or less Child’s Play all over again. A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own. Nothing to see.

Sunday, July 09, 2023

God's fingers scorching the Earth

A definitely proper M. Night Shyamalan movie! Brilliant take on the four the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. A family of three confused of the fucking weird shit such as drowning cities, plagues, falling skies and everlasting darkness unfolding before their eyes. Only their sacrifice will stop it.

A disgrace to depression

Fun little shit ainnit? Prob'ly never going to be remembered as the greatest of drama comedies, but a feelgood little fucker. Directed by James L. Brooks and starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear and Cuba Gooding Jr.

Monday, July 03, 2023

The dark side of the moon

65 million years ago visitors crash land on Earth. Back then the globe was inhabited by dinosaurs. Those mean sons of bitches. Of course the intruders don't want to prolong their stay, so they need to find an escape vessel fast! As an insult to injury, a life-ending asteroid is approaching them! Or perhaps their stupidity catches them up first.

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Dream yourself away

June’s mother goes missing and she leaves no stone unturned finding her. Using online tools, her investigation throws unexpected events, surprise twists and even secrets! Similar to Aneesh Chaganty’s Searching (2018) and Missing (by Nicholas D. Johnson and Will Merrick) is almost as suspenseful and exciting as that one.

Wiping out entire timelines

Ant-Man and his posse are trapped outside space and time, in a place called the Quantum Realm. Perhaps an adventure of sort, but it's a little mystery how people like Michael Douglas and Michelle Pfeiffer participate and churn out this kind rubbish with straight face. This is how running of out gas looks like.

Asking a revived corpse five questions

Some of these fantasy movies just have to be given a chance sometimes, it may pay off. Like Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves , b...