Busy making funeral arrangements

Can't believe how quickly the movie ridiculed itself. Had the makings of an intense revenge flick, but in a blink of an eye it blew out of proportions. Too excessive even for a Jason Statham movie. Full of goofs, factual errors and plot holes.

People kill for whole lot of reasons

A retired cop Ray has an Alzheimer's disease. He's contacted by a prisoner on a death row claiming to be innocent. To keep his mind active Ray starts investigating the case once again. A confusing murder mystery begins, drags along pretty boring and the end twist is nowhere as clever as it thinks it is.

Nothing but blackness below

Let's face it. It's just crap. A few has-beens (John Travolta, Kevin Dillon and Stephen Dorff) and a poorly written script in an endlessly tedious story. A generic thriller with absolutely nothing to offer.

The function of life is survival

To pay tribute to Donald Sutherland (1935-2024) and his career. Strange alien seeds drift to earth, take the form of small seed pods, grow perfectly evil and start replicating San Francisco's residents one by one. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 horror film directed by Philip Kaufman, based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatcher by Jack Finney. The novel was previously adapted into the 1956 film by Don Siegel. One of the greatest alien invasion movies, a haunting cult classic.

To live with the lie

Accidentally or not, a Russian missile, possibly armed with a nuclear warhead, is shot into Finland's airspace and is lost somewhere in Lapland. An eager journalist is ambitious finding the truth of the case, but seems no one really pays any attention except for the government's serious-looking people in suits and uniforms. Probably the biggest surprise of the year, a truly funny Finnish comedy that turns into a serious and melancholy bit midway the movie, penned to perfection, great soundtrack and the cast is crafted of the country's finest such as Oona Airola, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Tommi Korpela, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kari Väänänen, Kai Lehtinen and Ona Kamu. Written and directed by Miia Tervo.

Breathing fire on the grave

A stray bullet kills the kid. The dad is shot in the throat, losing his ability to speak. He wallows in misery and drowns his sorrow in booze until he finally realizes he's seen Death Sentence and all the John Wick movies. A revengeful action must be executed at all costs. Within a few months of self-training he's a bad-ass killing machine and the people responsible for the death of his son are soon to be dead. Silent Night is John Woo's misfire.

Longing like a fucking veil

A gifted young collage student and her teacher have so much in common that there's a danger their relationship might turn inappropriate. It's a clichéd fairytale, a shallow romantic attempt without a proper story to speak of, or ending for that matter. The leads stars Martin Freeman and Jenna Ortega are pretty good though.

Very much worth the sacrifice

The Höss family has it covered. A beautiful home with even more a beautiful garden. A swimming pool at the yard for children. Rudolf, the father, has a job right next door and while he's at work the wife keeps the house nice and clean. They enjoy life while the every second of the day, just a wall away, the concentration camp Auschwitz murders jews by the millions. The stench of death of victims exterminated by gassing and burning, the gunshots and the noise of trains bringing more people to slaughter are just a little nuisance to the Höss folks. The Zone of Interest is bizarre and inconvenient cinema at its finest.

The call of malignant gaze

Two girls disappear into the woods and they come back bewitched. The Exorcist: Believer comes with Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair, from William Friedkin's Exorcist (1973). They are in the side roles only, and everything else is an insult to the original.

The sky is falling on our heads

They have a great cast here. A strong European and Asian line-up of Guillame Ganet, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Linh-Dan Phan, Bun-hay Mean and even Zlatan Ibrahimovich. But it's a kids adventure movie with infantile jokes, not a wild and crazy cartoon, so doesn't really leave a lasting remark.

Nervous is good

Sisters Drew and May are deep-sea divers. An unfortunate accident happens and May gets stuck under a boulder by her feet. She's got mere minutes oxygen left, so Drew has to be extra resourceful - and fast - to save her sister from impending death. The Dive, by Maximilian Erlenwein, is decent but comes with a hopelessly predictable survival movie script.

Cosmic black magic rituals

A scientist, presumed dead, has a secret laboratory in the middle of a forest far away from any civilization where he seems to be opening the gates of hell! The Breach is a sympathetic little scifi horror indie. It lacks logic and leaves unexplained bits behind, but that's alright.

The furthest shore

Liam Neeson’s towering presence feels right at home where else but in a film set in 1970s volatile Ireland and the rest of the cast, particularly Jack Gleeson and Cierán Hinds, are downright fantastic as well. The movie itself started out really great too, like a brooding western, but somehow and somewhere along the line it just turned quite stupid.

Orphans always make the best recruits

A 2012 James Bond movie directed by Sam Mendes, starring Daniel Craig as the agent 007, Judi Dench as Bond's superior M (the head of M16), Ben Whishaw as Q (the head of Department Q) and Javier Bardem as the main antagonist Silva. Theme song Skyfall performed by Adele. Shit hits the fan big time, agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked forcing M to relocate with James Bond as her only trusted ally.