Friday, May 30, 2025

Making some kind of fruity juice

Conan O'Brien is an incredibly funny and intelligent person. This year he rightfully won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. And the show was - rightly so - funny and intelligent. Honor is shown by people like Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, Stephen Colbert, Will Forte (as Mark Twain), Tracy Morgan, Adam Sandler and David Letterman

Silencing the echoes of the past

Is the sole goal of this film to set new records in the number of bullets fired, punches and deaths? Because there's nothing worth mentioning in the story. They presumably think we applaud and bow in the face of carnage only. Brainless junk. 

How little we've grown

Seinfeld is a household item. It's something you need sometimes and you just pick it up and be entertained.  The show about nothing hasn't even properly introduced Newman (Wayne Kramer), J. Peterman (John O'Hurley) and David Putty (Patrick Warburton) in the ranks and it still is riotous as hell.  

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Love holds a lot of rain

An electric ride of a thriller divided into six chapters. A serial killer is on the loose in Oregon, USA. It's terrible, but if things only were that simple. JT Mollner's Strange Darling is a brutal, but quite hilarious film in its entertainment. The plot twists are great and they happen unexpectedly. Something you haven't seen before.

Monday, May 26, 2025

No place in the Sun

A military man's wife dies in a tragic train accident. However some people think the whole thing was a carefully orchestrated assassination and the wife a random casualty. Makes a darkly humorous offbeat thriller of revenge and seemingly insignificant things having significant impacts. Amazing Danish cinema.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

On the road again

A hopelessly one-sided smear campaign. Probably no saint Brett Favre, a former professional football quarterback, but cashing in on his celebrity is a travesty. A former Playboy model and wanna-be journalist accused him of ruining her career even if they have ever met! Documentaries can't get more stupid than this little garbage.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Never hide who you are

What an amazing directorial debut by Anna Kendrick. Based on the crimes of Rodney Alcala, a serial killer and sex offender, conclusively linked to nine murders, but the true number of victims remains unknown and could be as high as 130. The oppressive atmosphere of the film sends chills down your spine. And the slow narration deepens it even more. A frightening thing.

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

A thousand dead sirens

Just when you think movies can't get any worse something like The Good Neighbor comes along. An American journalist in Latvia drinks and drives and kills a girl. A good neighbor comes to rescue to cover the crime and everyone acts like nothing really happened. Mistakes and absurdities everywhere.

Monday, May 19, 2025

Confusing ambition with morality

Embarrassingly bad. A worn out story where an older succesful woman cheats on her husband with a boy at least twice her age and fulfills some of her fantasies. It's uncomfortable to watch, not only because the nonexistent sexual thrills, but also because the stars of the show Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson are talentless mannequins all of a sudden.

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Echoes amidst the ruins

Seven years in the life of Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler. A harrowing look into the mental landscape of soulless and barbaric people. The film deals mostly with things that happened behind the iron curtain. Still, some of the authentic footage, in particular, was uncomfortable to watch. 

The rain is groovy

Close to brilliant inconvential police story by William Friedkin. All the characters are unsympathetic to the bone. Dirty, immoral and self-centered bastards really. To Live and Die in L.A. is a vintage crime thriller where nothing goes as it should. An underrated gem.

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Luck is not a strategy

Alien species killed 95% of human population. The rest 5% figured out that if you go 2438 meters (8000 feet) above sea level you are fine. The otherwise unbreakable monsters can't handle that high an altitude. The mountain forests provide food, some people are creative enough to make bullets and booze. But making medicines is a different issue, so the brave have to look for them them in the monster territories. Maybe gather usuful information of these vile creatures while at it. Essentially stupid and ridiculously flawed little film in A Quiet Place and Bird Box ballbark, but fairly interesting and entertaining. Funny popcorn suspense.

Sunday, May 11, 2025

A country without a language is only half a nation

Across the globe an ingenious language dies every 40 days. Reminding us of this is Kneecap's the most important message. The comedy-drama movie otherwise is hopelessly average. The film depicts the rise of Kneecap, an Irish hip-hop trio from Belfast and they are rapping in their native Irish. There's also drugs and anti-social shit involved.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Phantom bones bite back

A quick memory refresher because they are producing follow-up seasons as we speak. An alien on a mission to destroy humanity crash-lands on Patience, Colorado. And it's damn wicked fun.

Dark nights of peril, loss and heartache

Probably the greatest war movie ever made. An absolute masterpiece. A group of soldiers who went through hell in Normandy in WWII are asked to locate Private Ryan and bring him home safely. This powerful and at times harrowingly brutal film is directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon ja Jeremy Davies.

Monday, May 05, 2025

The faithless other side

Mysterious snowfall kills people. Thus begins quite an adventure where survivors battle an alien threat. El Eternauta (The Eternaut), created by Bruno Stagnaro, is an Argentine television series based on the comic by Héctor Gérman Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. Despite the excitement and horror, the show is incredibly beautiful to watch, one of the greatest apocalyptic little thingies. 

One-stroke deficit

Inspired by the real events of t he biggest heist of all time on Danish soil. But the filmmakers have certainly taken it easy with the facts...