Down the rabbit hole

Somewhere in the Australian backlands one young lad tries to come to terms with troubled family + neighbours, imbecile school friends and serial kidnapping business. It's not a happy story, pretty heavy one, thence an apt title.

Cancelling the prison dance

As I watched this movie, I couldn't wait it to finish so I could read the '101 things you learned from Escape Plan' on the IMDB forum. It's so full of that shit. Rather watchable, still.

Serial killer ghost on the loose

Quite a curious fucker. Peter Jackson directs and Michael J. Fox stars in this horror comedy that's almost in the ripe age of 20 by now. Goofy and silly, mildly entertaining.

To get million dollars

Well, this is it. Probably - or for argument's sake - most likely, the best movie I have seen this year. I haven't had so much good fun with any of the others. And, hey, it doesn't need much to make a brilliant fucking movie, some good solid acting, apt directing and a script. The leads - Bruce Dern and Will Forte - are great on the road trip of theirs, but June Squibb's character Kate Grant, that's the one to remember.

The real director of life is accident

If there's a role tailored to Jeremy Irons, it's the one right here. A professor who does not sleep well is madly intrigued by a woman with a long red coat and the peculiar book of life and death she is carrying. Thus we travel to the time of revolution which freed Portugal from the dictatorship of Antónia de Oliveira Salazar.

Granny's tired now

Initially I watched this because I saw a Harry Dean Stanton documentary a while ago and he mentioned something about a movie where he acted with his friends Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson. A nice cast alright and a decent western. Once again I was flabbercasted of Mr. Brando, as he was mental to say the least, I'm sure nothing he said or did or what he wore was scripted. And sure enough, I just read that the director (Arthur Penn) gave up on Marlon Brando after his incessant antics.

Like ash floating

I don't know why I got the feeling this project was rushed to finish. I like the core of the story well enough, but it wasn't kept together, the fucken structure collapsed in the beginning already, as if they'd put these major stars in WWII gear and hoped it would made the story alone. One of the worst character developments I've ever seen, they hardly had the courtesy to tell who these people were, so you took it as they are; George Clooney as George Clooney, Matt Damon as Matt Damon, some French guy, and terribly miscast John Goodman and Bill Murray as the comic relief.

The moron brigade

Four retirees take a flight to Las Vegas to party. That sounds like a really bad idea for a movie. Luckily, they made something of it. Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline and Morgan Freeman are having noticeable fun and the story, it's alright.

Adventures of the aztec man

Well now, a different breed from the ones I usually pick up; a Spanish-speaking Mexican drama comedy of a single parent turn a stunt man. A welcome change, sweet little movie, with a real twist in the end.

Death is haunted by humans

Nazi Germany in the 40s, the WWII, in a small village where people talk English with a German accent, one family helds a secret in a cellar. I kinda liked this movie, didn't emphasize too much on the horrors of the nazi regime or at least tried to do it a roundabout way. The ending (the last 15 minutes) was a different story and it struck me cold.

Eating fear

With this line-up (Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Dermot Mulroney, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch) you'd made a decent movie even without a story. And to come to think of it, it ain't that far here. A funeral and a dysfunctional family get-together. Still, quite awesome.

The darkest day of life

This fits right in the Saw and Hostel franchise -bandwagon. Couple of interesting somebodies - Lee Tergesen (Oz) and Andre Royo (The Wire) - in the roster, but all the bloodshed and butchery and killing of hundreds - no matter who clever executions you can muster - is a bit out of date by now.

Wings of hurricane

There's absolutely no need to slag off this epic piece. The dwarves are pretty cool, all those evil creatures look nasty, and the whole fucking thing is quite breathtakingly and thunderously magnificent.

In a black haze

Something fishy in Norwegian oil drilling industry. I got so much nothing out of it. It looks cheap and shitty, so terribly uninteresting, the acting is not there and you just want to yawn 'til it's fucking over.

Army of ghosts

Beforehand (I had merely seen the cover), I thought this movie was about two travellers - Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman - who fall in love on the train and chitchat to eternity about politics and literature. Well no, it wasn't like that. Eric Lomax (Firth) is a railway enthusiast alright, but with a haunting past that leads us all the way to the labor camps in WWII Thailand (Kanchanaburi) where the Japanese tortured allied forces to pulp.

Where there is iron, there is rust

Silly shit. The martial arts wackiness was fun, but just about everything else was shit. There was Russell Crowe and no matter how much I appreciate the guy, he could (or should) have been elsewhere. And, God, the director, RCA (is that even a name?) he's the lead guy here - the actual man with the iron fists (!) - and man, he's, like, terrible, the worst actor, like, ever.

You're nothing to me until you are everything

Don't know why I liked this as much as I did. Wasn't this supposed to be easily the worst of the Oscar contestants this year? They've all been great thus far - shy of Nebraska and 12 Years A Slave that I haven't seen - and, hey, American Hustle sure doesn't miss a fucking beat. An entertaining son of a bitch and Christian Bale and Robert De Niro (the latter albeit on a smaller role) are fucking top-notch.

She didn't stay dead

Shit, it was so cool at the beginning. Had all the makings of a kindred spirit of them creepy 70s and 80s horror movies, but fuckered to a boring doll hunt with rather cheap scares in the end.

A little tequila, sunshine and tacos never hurt anyone

Ok, the movie is great, you should see it. But a thing or two about the lead actor Matthew McConaughey. I used to dislike him, a sly dude with an inbred Texan accent he can't get rid of. But little by little he began to build his career stronger (Frailty, The Lincoln Lawyer, Killer Joe, Mud) and I had to give it to him - freakish Oscar speech or not - this fucking movie certifies it, he's one crazy-cool actor. And I'm still saving True Detective for the rainy days.

Don't get high on your own supply

A small town pharmasist fools around some adultery and drugs. But the sex stuff and the drugs stuff, it's all in such a small and friendly doses that you don't give a shit really, it's just some average comedy something.

Accept the mud

I'm not in the scene. I most likely have missed some important books, teenage idols, graphic novels or sitcom series because all the jokes fucken failed on me. These people, they all look so perfectly sculpted they all look the same, they talk weird and fast, and I don't get their message. I'm totally out of the loop. A teenage Californian murder mystery. Kristen Bell as the private dick.

Positively medieval

A little disturbing that everyone speaks English in absolutely stunning-looking Rome and overall Italian landscape. But otherwise I like the 3-episode/3-movie (all clocking in 90 minutes) package. The investigations, the actors, the atmosphere and the whole shit.

Thoughts in reverse

A bit pacey and rather narrow in information, but entertaining to watch as U.S. drug kingpins and entertainers and officers speak their mind of the war on drugs.

Not agreed upon a definition of liberty

This was my first Varg Veum experience and I understand they've made quite a few of these things. To the late arrivals like myself, they should have explained the reason of his existence, throughout the film - as if the story wasn't full of inane plotholes already - I kept guessing is he an ex-cop or ex-military or ex-what-the-fuck. But otherwise, almost decent Norwegian attempt to outhamilton Sweden's Hamilton.

Now it's time to leave the capsule

Maybe 30 minutes in and I was ready to pull the disc from the player and throw it out the window, but glad I didn't because it turned out alright. The story itself has a nice vibe, a warm and intense resonance and it's shot remarkably well, the magnificent views of Iceland, Greenland and Himalaya (all shot in Iceland, but who's counting) back it up. Thumbs up for the use a refreshing piece of music as well.

Only the guilty people hide

Set in New York, U.S., and Lahore, Pakistan. There's a terrorist angle, all that religion fuckadoo, 9/11 in the mix, there's also a love angle, west meets east fucking shite. Kind of trying to wrap it all around a political/finance world thriller, less than halfway decent with an interesting cast alright, but boring tempo fucks up the story telling.

Inexcusable really

After An Unfinished Life, another Robert Redford movie. Eerily silent movie this. A story of a lone sailor and brilliantly in quite an unorthodox way the character doesn't speak to himself to keep the viewers up to date and there's hardly any soundtrack, so most of the times it's only the gust of wind and the sound of thunderously pouring water that you hear.

Where the blue turns to black

This has a nice earthly tone in it. And if I'm not mistaken the director Lasse Hallström has done quite a few smoothly written dramas before. No complaints, I had a case of a proper hangover and I liked the way this movie helped me to fight it off.

What makes a good man

You see the cover of the DVD and you know  e x a c t l y  how's the movie like, how it starts, what happens in the middle, how it ends, what's the entire story like. You don't almost have to see it.

Superhuman levitation

There are hundreds of billions of these kind of shoestring budget horror movies. Probably there are the same amount of movies in the Paranormal Activity franchise, I don't know. I don't care.

Selling garbage to garbagemen

Yeah, it's a bit long, close to three hours, but Martin Scorcese is one of the few people who can get away with overlong shits. There's cocaine aplenty, dollars and girls aplenty, and Leonardo Dicaprio screams his ass off aplenty - surprisingly, it all made quite a good fucking movie.

Pink stars making constellation

I think Under The Dome is one of the finest of Stephen King's contemporary novels. It's one of the few ones I have had the patience to read through anyways. I don't bet my life on it, but I think they've made several harsh adjustments with the TV series. The show is not wholly shit, it's just about average with not too splendid a cast, but also just about enticing enough that I want to see the following seasons.

Duck is not a knife

Four Navy Seals in close combat against approximately two hundred Taleban soldiers. Kind of revealing title the film has, but what the heck, I was thoroughly entertained. Them two hours felt like few minutes as we watch limbs torn apart and heads blown off. Realizing when the end credits roll that this was - more or less, probably fucklots less - based on a true story, it's rather difficult to come to terms with it.

Collateral murder

In the end, Julian Assange is just a whistleblower, therefore a film after film that's been produced lately of him, is highly excessive. I honestly think that he's done good, revealed important secretive documents that in a real and honest world should easily knock off few governments and lock up hundreds of key figures and kingpins in the ivory towers of modern society. But not here, so Julian Assange will be remembered - until entirely forgotten - just as a journalist of sort. Benedict Cumberbatch does an excellent job portraying this only slightly eccentric character, but otherwise the movie was a big fucking bore.

Springbreak for adults

Upper-class American families having their vacations at the Hamptons. A drama comedy where I kept waiting on a cue to laugh or otherwise enjoy, but it never happened. Missed the Hamptons episode of Seinfeld while I watched this shit.

Like a lemming to a party

A 4-disc collection of Louis Theroux's finest documentaries. Pretty clever shit and the highlights (Louis and the Nazis, Gangsta Rap, Black Nationalism) are somewhat legendary as well. His silent intellectual style does wonders in most cases, but a few episodes were a bit lusterless and lacking in coherence.

Stay off the rooftop

Two lawyers (Eric Bana and Rebecca Hall) defend the suspect (Denis Moschitto) of a terrorist act in London. The plot thickens as things get a bit shady and they find out it wasn't just a simple bomb killing 120 people. I almost dozed off at the 20 minute mark of this conspiracy theorists' wet dream.

Some sort of bioluminescence

Astronauts venture to study Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, and they soon realize that wasn't the best idea. That they were probably better off doing something else like having a picnic at the Central Park or enjoying a cup of coffee at Khao San Road perhaps.

Everybody goes somewhere

Had there been the original Jack Ryan Harrison Ford at the helm, it wouldn't have helped too much. But honestly, this kid, this baby boyscout, Chris Pine, took the remaining life away from the flawed yet workable script.

The fog is poison

Well, I got The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire in my cv. Yippee. I reckon, I could have done the two and half hours doing something else. Charity work maybe. Fishing. Selling myself for a nickel. Any would do. Well, at least I drank a few glasses of argentinian red wine, desperately trying to drank myself to sleep.

Shave is as good as night's sleep

A whole bunch of people investigates beloved reverend's murder. An Elia Kazan film, so I though it would be a knock-out B&W classic and for some it sure is, but to me and most of the others really, the real appeal is that this is a 40s picture and you try to see how things looked back then and how people spoke, dressed and behaved.

Every dollar is green

I do not follow baseball and I am not a particular fan of movies with a sport as an underlying theme. But, hell, this thing, 42, it came from nowhere and hit a homerun. Very decent. Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson, the first ever black baseball player in major league series (the year is 1947) and Harrison Ford as the owner of Brooklyn Dodgers.

Constant zero curvature

Set in Monaco, a cocktail of Russian, French and Yankee espionage fuckery. Struggle for sex, money and power. I was bored bored bored.

Carnival of pain

Teachers are the cornerstone of our civilization. They made this quite sombre little movie of those heroes who guide our youth that portrays the unthankful living hell they oftentimes have to deal with. A nice cast too w/ Adrian Brody,  James Caan, William Peterson (who I reckon doesn't say a word and ain't seen much), Lucy Liu, Tim Blake Nelson, Marcia Gay Harden and Bryan Cranston.

Big face, small razor

At some random Sundays I occasionally catch up with classic movies that has passed my radar. I didn't even realize I hadn't watched North by Northwest before, but I enjoyed it alright, not - like you all say - Alfred Hitchcock's finest piece, but a piece alright.

King Midas's idiot brother

A thriving folk musician - often frequented by a cat - jumping from one gig to another. Trademark Joel and Ethan Coen in lots of ways; quirky characters, marvellously penned dialogue and simply outstanding cinematography (hit a pause button and you have a piece of art before your very eyes). Maybe Inside Llewyn Davis is a classic in few years time, it however is one of their better works.

A mystery of unanswered questions

I had almost watched this like a few thousand times. Now that I finally did so, it left me no impact whatsover. A praised and adored motherfucker, but I still think German cinema is a bit of a drag.

Age is an abstraction, not a straitjacket

A lovely little film of a very resilient father and a husband (fantastic James Cromwell) fighting against the inevitable death and dying and the rules and regulations of a modern society.

Truth has no temperature

Starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Rosie Perez, Cameron Diaz and Brad Pitt. Written by Cormac McCarthy and directed by Ridley Scott. That should do it, the heavyweights should pull it together with ease, but I haven't seen such incoherent piece of shit for a very long time. This is a weird thriller loaded with pseudo-intellectual dialogue that makes the actors struggle so hard that you'd be ashamed for them if you weren't laughing your ass off.

Sometimes the smartest officers do the stupidest things

The surprise of the year. At first, I thought of getting uber-patriotic series in the vein of 24, Homeland, The Unit or some such shit, but this was something else. This was wickedly entertaining Cold War espionage fucker that looks authentic and that took unpredictable sometimes shockingly brutal turn of events. My new favourite series and I can't wait for the upcoming seasons.