Thursday, September 12, 2024

Thinning the herd

Architect Paul Kersey, a vigilante on free time, has kept the streets clean from scum and filth in New York and Los Angeles before. And now he returns to New York to make things right again. This time however, he has a right to vigilante! And become the neighbourhood hero if justice is brought to the streets record time! Scumbags, street gangs, drug dealers, rapists and degenerates better beware! Michael Winner's Death Wish 3 (1985) is exaggerated urban lawlessness to no end.

Sunday, September 08, 2024

Countdown to cold graves

Paul Kersey, an architect by trade, is a vigilante. In New York, wrong-doers killed his wife and raped his daughter. He took revenge on the fuckers! Paul moves to Los Angeles and eight years later, some scumbags hurt his family yet again! Retribution must be executed at all costs! Death Wish II was directed by Michael Winner in 1992, the soundtrack was composed by his then neighbor Jimmy Page and the movie stars Charles Bronson as the architect and people like Laurence Fishburne, Kevyn Major Howard and Thomas D. Duffy as the muggers.

Friday, September 06, 2024

Prophets get stronger when they die

Reckon it would be blasphemous to criticize and ridicule anything so epic and grandiose. Dune: Part Two is yet another endless journey in a sand planet somewhere where a couple of tribes fight for power and a valuable spice that is a key to interstellar travel. It's done well, stripped off some of its running time and pseudo-mythical mumbo-jumbo, it would have been better.

The return of the sun after long darkness

Everything is shrouded with factitious mystery. To be part of the True Detective franchise, they probably just decided to be super mystic and obscure. Backfires big time. It's just weird and plastic. And after all the secrecy and puzzlement a simple and silly ending top offs the stupidity of the fucking thing. Ridiculous plotholes are aplenty too. And to be perfectly honest, not sure about Jodie Foster's performance either.

Thursday, September 05, 2024

Even ghosts must have feelings

A ghost writer, completing the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister because the previous writer had been found dead, uncovers secrets and, in turn, puts himself at danger of death. The Ghost Writer is an amazing espionage thriller, courtesy of Roman Polanski. It’s old-fashioned thrills and atmosphere. Quite smart and exciting.

Burned by thousand dawns

The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion happened in Lapua in 1976. It is Finland’s worst industrial disaster. 40 workers dead and 60 injured. Lapua 1976, the movie, directed by Toni Kurkimäki, is a wishy-washy love story of two workers in the factory. They could have carved so much more of the incident, but the catastrophe is just a sideshow.

Thinning the herd

Architect Paul Kersey, a vigilante on free time, has kept the streets clean from scum and filth in New York and Los Angeles before. And now ...