Monday, January 03, 2022

Isolation is a killer

Friends in a covid quarantine expand their minds together with LSD and celebrate through group video chat. And people die and everything turns to shit. Luckily they all are imbeciles, so no one gives a fuck. Safer at Home is a laughable flawed thriller garbage. Worst fucking actors to boot. Watch Host (2020) by Rob Savage instead.

Saturday, January 01, 2022

2021

MOVIES

Palm Springs (Max Barbakow)
Ready or Not (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett)
After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
Nattevagten (Ole Bornedal)
Unhinged (Derrick Borte)
The Grey (Joe Carnahan)
Boss Level (Joe Carnahan)
Mosul (Matthew Michael Carnahan)
Pour Elle (Fred Cavayé)
Borat (Larry Charles)
Fargo (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Unknown (Jaume Collet-Serra)
Run All Night (Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Courier (Dominic Cooke)
Scream (Wes Craven)
Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood)
Remember (Atom Egoyan)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)
The Game (David Fincher)
A Walk Among the Tombstones (Scott Frank)
Shooter (Antoine Fuqua)
The Trouble with Harry (Alfred Hitchcock)
Memories of Murder (Bong Joo Ho)
Shorta (Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Ølholm)
Alone (John Hyams)
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King)
Speedy Gonzales - noin 7 veljeksen poika (Ere Kokkonen)
Snowflake (Adolfo J. Kolmerer, William James)
Quiet Place Part II (John Krasinski)
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul)
Karpo (Ari Matikainen)
Seven Psychopaths (Martin McDonagh)
Bottle Shock (Randall Miller)
Nobody (Ilya Naishuller)
Motherless Brooklyn (Edward Norton)
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
Polar (Jonas Åkerlund)
Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack)
Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
Wrath of Man (Guy Ritchie)
Target Number One (Daniel Roby)
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross)
Host (Rob Savage)
The Sixth Sense (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Siege of Jadotville (Richie Smyth)
Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
Shot Caller (Ric Roman Waugh)
Death Wish (Michael Winner)
Upgrade (Leigh Whannell)
Bleeder (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright)
The 12th Man (Harald Zwart)

SERIES

Jack Irish (Andrew Anastasios, Matt Cameron, Andrew Knight)
Trailer Park Boys (Mark Clattenburg)
Seinfeld (Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld)
Perry Mason (Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones)
Fargo Season 2 (Noah Hawley)
Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer (Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman)
Mare of Easttown (Brad Ingelsby)
Tunna blå linjen (Cilla Jackert)
The Undoing (David E. Kelley)
Snabba Cash (Jens Lapidus, Oskar Söderlund, Jesper Ganslandt)
Roy Grace (Russell Lewis)
The Night Of (Richard Price, Steven Zaillian)

R.I.P.

Nikolay Antoshkin (colonel general) born 1942 (aged 78)
Ned Beatty (actor) born 1937 (aged 83)
Jim Bembroke (musician) born 1946 (aged 75)
Teje Caldén (record laber owner) born 1953 (aged 68)
Sonny Chiba (actor) born 1939 (aged 82)
Chick Corea (musician) born 1941 (aged 79)
Malcolm Dome (music journalist) born 1955 (aged 66)
Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby aka Hank von Hell (musican) born 1972 (aged 49)
Kimmo Elomaa (businessman) born 1953 (aged 68)
Timo Eränkö (musician) born 1952 (aged 69)
Larry Flynt (publisher) born 1942 (aged 78)
Jimmy Greaves (footballer) born 1940 (aged 81)

Charles Grodin (actor) born 1935 (aged 86)
Johnny Gustafsson (musician) born 1948 (aged 73)
Aikka Hakala (musician) born 1957 (aged 63)
Dusty Hill (musician) born 1949 (aged 72)
Laila Hirvisaari (author) born 1938 (aged 83)
Hal Holbrook (actor) born 1925 (aged 95)
Mike Howe (musician) born 1965 (aged 55)
Sir Roger Hunt (footballer) born 1938 (aged 83)
CJ Hunter (athlete) born 1968 (aged 52)
Boris Hurtta (author) born 1945 (aged 75)
Ian St John (football player) born 1938 (aged 82)
Joey Jordison (musician) born 1975 (aged 46)
Matti "Mölli" Keinonen (ice hockey player) born 1941 (aged 80)
Larry King (television host) born 1933 (aged 87)
Yaphet Kotto (actor) born 1939 (aged 81)
Kirsi Kunnas (author) born 1924 (aged 96)
Alexi Laiho (musician) born 1979 (aged 41)
Anita Lane (musician) born 1959 (aged 61)
John Lawton (musician) born 1946 (aged 74)
Pirkko Liinamaa (TV personality) born 1932 (aged 88)
Norman Lloyd (actor) born 1914 (aged 106)
Sean Lock (comedian) born 1963 (aged 58)
Norm Macdonald (comedian) born 1959 (aged 61)
Gavin MacLeod (actor) born 1931 (aged 90)
Pave Maijanen (musician, record producer) born 1950 (aged 70)
Gerry Marsden (singer) born 1942 (aged 78)
Helen McCrory (actress) born 1968 (aged 52)
Hannu Mikkola (rally driver) born 1942 (aged 78)
Sir Thomas Moore (benefactor) born 1920 (aged 100)
Max Mosley (racing driver) born 1940 (aged 81)
Gerd Müller (footballer) born 1945 (aged 75)
Lou Ottens (the inventor of the cassette tape) born 1926 (aged 94)
Kirsti Paakkanen (business executive) born 1929 (aged 92)
Lars Göran Petrov (musician) born 1972 (aged 49)
Christopher Plummer (actor) born 1929 (aged 91)
Prince Philip (prince) born 1921 (aged 99)
Colin Powell (politician) born 1937 (aged 84)
Marion Ramsey (actress) born 1948 (aged 73)
Anne Rice (author) born 1941 (aged 80)
Lucinda Riley (author) born 1966 (aged 55)
Tanya Roberts (actress) born 1955 (aged 65)
Mick Rock (photographer) born 1948 (aged 72)
Donald Rumsfeld (politician) born 1932 (aged 88)
Matti "Fredi" Siitonen (musician) born 1942 (aged 78)
Wilbur Smith (author) born 1933 (aged 88)
Phil Spector (record producer) born 1939 (aged 81)
Leon Spinks (boxer) born 1953 (aged 67)
Jim Steinman (composer) born 1947 (aged 73)
Dean Stockwell (actor) born 1936 (aged 85)
Mika Sundqvist (musician) born 1947 (aged 74)
Kim Suominen (footballer) born 1969 (aged 52)
Sylvain Sylvain (record producer, musician) born 1951 (aged 69)
Desmond Tutu (human rights activist) born 1931 (aged 90)
Jean-Marc Vallée (director) born 1963 (aged 58)
Eric Wagner (musician) born 1959 (aged 62)
Kirsti Wallasvaara (actress) born 1942 (aged 78)
Waldemar Wallenius (journalist) born 1948 (aged 73)
Jessica Walter (actress) born 1941 (aged 80)
Charlie Watts (musician) born 1941 (aged 80)
Betty White (actress) born 1922 (aged 99)
Sir Frank Williams (F1 chief) born 1942 (aged 79)
Michael K. Williams (actor) born 1966 (aged 54)
Marsha Zazula (record label owner) born 1952 (aged 68)

Friday, December 31, 2021

That little fucker is unkillable

Obviously the sequel to The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017). Desperately tries to be hilarious, but ultimately fails. Cheap jokes everywhere and it's guns blazing all the time, action without purpose, waste of everyone's time.

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Speak for the dead

After Hollywood, Finnish director Renny Harlin did a brief tour in Hong Kong and China. Bodies at Rest is his last film of that stint. Set in a morgue where, in a nutshell, gun-wielding maniacs want to dig out a bullet from one of their victims. Nothing overly special, a bit messy story, but rather fun and thrilling entertainment.

Wish upon a star

Seems like a well-crafted story of a father, mother and daughter. The father is a health inspector, the mom is dead and the daughter is in jail. Little golden nuggets are unfolding here and there as we observe their past, but in the end the film thoroughly disappoints with its unanswered questions. David Thewlis still steals the show. Directed by Atom Egoyan (Remember).

Monday, December 27, 2021

Creatures who suck the blood of the living

The flamboyant Count comes to England because he has purchased a derelict old castle. And he lusts for fresh and delicious British blood of course. To be honest, I didn't know the existence of this Dracula movie even though there are lots of heavyweights in the cast; Frank Langella as Count Dracula, Laurence Olivier as professor Abraham Van Helsing and Donald Pleasance as Dr. Jack Seward. Directed by John Badham in 1979. Not particularly outstanding adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but a visually atmospheric little horror tale.

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Sorry that everything went to shit

Mel (Celeste M Cooper) likes to run in the woods. Long distances. Ultra style. She's geared up, but when couple of desperate sons of bitches come her way, a trek in the forest turns into a struggle for survival. After initial shock, Mel is up for a revenge. And it's Rambo time. But in the end makes a shit survival/revenge flick.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

God, land, oil

They are a rough bunch. Vinnie Jones, Ron Perlman, Malcolm McDowell and Bruce McGill on the same movie. But the fun ends there. One drunken night in a bar between shady American and British businessmen turns ugly. So ugly that it causes serious malfunction in the joint enterprise. Straight to DVD crime film garbage.

Monday, December 20, 2021

In the golden lightning of the sunken sun

They are trapped on a beach that is aging people at rapid rate. 60 minutes is 2 years, so you age almost 50 years in one day. Not a particularly good spot to spend your vacation. But you can't get out either. You can't swim or walk out. You try, you pass out. Quite a deliciously horrifying story and a few rather breath-taking and clever momets in it too, but too much to chew on. Bunch of shit actors to boot. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

Saturday, December 18, 2021

We are on a bull run

"In the coldest regions of North America, drivers traverse man-made roads over frozen rivers, lakes and oceans of ice less than 30 inches thick in 65,000 LB. vehicles. These treks are dangerous and often fatal. Some drivers describe them as suicide missions." Thus begins The Ice Road by Jonathan Hensleigh. The story is pretty simple. Wellheads must be delivered far north through ice roads so they can save bunch of trapped miners. Mike McCann (Liam Neeson) leads truckers on a dangerous rescue mission on ice. Corny, clichéd and flawed to the hell and back.

Thursday, December 16, 2021

Getting discombobulated

I'm glad it's on Netflix now, makes things much easier. Season 3 is probably the most groundbreaking of all Seinfeld seasons with classic episodes such as The Pen, The Library, The Parking Garage, The Keys, The Pez Dispenser and - probably my alltime favourite - The Limo.

More like a farewell than a reunion

Timo is a loner. A misfit. He invites couple of his childhood friends to pay him a visit in his ramshacle farm. During his lonesome years Timo has been making movies and losing his marbles a bit. Like he puts it, he's been having strange sensations and his thoughts and feelings aren't healthy. When the old friends reunite, old grudges flare up. A ruthlessly underground arthouse thriller, at times annoying but strangely captivating nevertheless.

The heels of the corpse had turned blue

A stalker they thought was dead follows a newswoman to a remote mountain resort where she's at because of her past horrors. Things get shittier and more dangerous though because the stalker has turned into a werewolf and the other residents in the resort are a tad strange too. Cult horror from 1981, directed by Joe Dante.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

If you fuck an angel, elephants rape you in hell

A young woman who lost her parents seeks vengeance and hires professional killers to eliminate the murderers. Pretty simple shit. Gets a bit bizarre because the story has a dentist who is writing the same script that unfolds together with it. Anyways, it's weird and mesmerizing and outstanding. Set in anarchic Berlin. Really quite good despite zero budget.

Thursday, December 09, 2021

Just the orgasm speaking

If this was, say, an American or British TV film series, it was a hopelessly average crime drama. Being Australian, it's a down-to-earth and laid-back crime series and really quite funny. The story isn't nothing remarkable, missing people, drugs involved, a few deaths, but it's nevertheless entertaining.

Weapons capable of wiping out humanity

An ordinary businessman is caught up in a middle of Cold War and the brink of thermonuclear warfare. In the dangerous world of spies where things can go sideways in a blink of an eye, he's perhaps not the right man for the job, but he still could save the world from total annihilation as the Soviets and the Yankees are threatening to shoot rockets back and forth like there was no tomorrow! A stylish and in the end pretty grim espionage thriller based on a true story.

Tuesday, December 07, 2021

First kiss is magic

Four high school teachers find out that they are at their educative best when they are inebriated. They follow the footsteps of the great masters Hemingway, Churchill, Roosevelt, Jeltsin and the theory of psychiatrist Finn Skårderud that humans are born with a blood alcohol content deficiency of 0.05%. Nothing can go wrong. Outstanding tragicomic feast by Thomas Vinterberg. Could quite well be the best movie of 2021.

Future legends on a clear day

Winston Churchill has asked to create a secret army of spies. The first field agents are women and they are sent to nazi-occupied France to gather information and help out La Résistance. The slow-moving cliched war drama is unsuspenseful and it looks cheap and hopelessly amateurish.

The dandelions still wet with morning dew

Liam Neeson is a recovering alcoholic and a former cop Matthew Scudder, a famous private investigator from Lawrence Block's novels. He's investigating cases where sick fucks pick women off the streets of New York City only to demand ransom and chop them to pieces. A dark thriller of a downbeat detective. Liam Neeson is his usual cool self and, curiously enough, David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy) in a role we're not used seeing him.

Friday, December 03, 2021

Enemies of the state

Local police do what they can in the troubled hoods of Malmö, Sweden, where thefts and rapes and killings are aplenty. An excellent series - translates to Thin Blue Line - of the men and women in blue in the turmoil of society and coming to terms with their personal lives in a city almost engulfed in flames.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Normal people kill people

I'm currently reading John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker's book The Killer Across the Table, based on the true stories of FBI criminal profilers unlocking the secrets of serial killers. It inspired Joe Penhall to produce Mindhunter, the acclaimed TV Series. No Man of God is based on real life transcripts selected from conversations between serial killer Ted Bundy and FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier. It's on the same ballpark, but even if it starts out interesting, there's hardly any competition. Luke Kirby is great as Theodore Bundy though.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Old but still running

There's a new drug. Hylophedrine. Street name: Hype. It's addictive as shit. Streets are filled up with junkies. The city looks like a warzone. A group of friends, war veterans, has barricaded themselves inside a pub named VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and try to prevent druggies who look like an army of the undead entering into the establishment. Looks like a bad slasher movie from the 80s and they most likely want it that way. Stephen Lang, Fred Williamson, William Sadler, David Patrick Kelly, George Wendt and others having a blast.

Pay the devil's due

They are investigating the disappearance of a swim coach whose accused of child molestation. A veteran detective (Ulrich Thomsen) who is fighting with his own demons is on the case. And he finds out that the case thickens to crime including Albanian mafia, corrupt officials and fabricated beneficence. Trademark Scandinavian crime, quite boringly so, based on a Jussi Adler-Olsen novel.

Friday, November 19, 2021

Too old to run

One of the best action films of recent years. Masterfully executed full-blown frenzy involving gangsters and cops and violence. An edge-on-the-seat thriller and, alongside Taken, the most entertaining of Liam Neeson's tough guy flicks. Albeit on the masculine side, a great cast of Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent D'Onofrio, Bruce McGill, Common, Holt McCallany and Nick Nolte.

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Sunshine beyond the sea

These creatures are blind and they attack anything that makes a noise. They are super-deadly sons of bitches. Humans have to be really quiet to survive, co-existing with those fuckers is impossible and you have to be extra imaginative to fight against them. The sequel to Quiet Place (2018) and it's groovy horror in the Last of Us and Alien territory. Directed by John Krasinski.

Saturday, November 13, 2021

Racial equality among muggers

I just finished reading Brian Garfield's novel Death Wish (1972), so of course I had to see the original movie, Michael Winner's Death Wish (1974). I don't necessarily have the patience to watch the few sequals - also starring Charles Bronson - let alone the Bruce Willis remake, but this truly is a great film where we follow a development engineer Paul Kersey getting tired of the scum and the filth of New York City.

Heroes are necessary

At first, it felt like an offbeat teenage comedy. And I also thought of quitting it because the lead character, Scott (Pete Davidson), a deadbeat, was like an annoying little fucker. But The King of Staten Island grew on me, it's a decent coming-of-age drama. Directed by Jude Apatow.

Saturday, November 06, 2021

Dig up dirt

Cassandra (Carey Mulligan) is thorough with her hatred against a man - and the people like him - who hurt his friend seven years ago. She's obsessed with her vendetta, leaves no stone unturned until she gets the day of reckoning. Just about a perfect revenge flick. Somewhat different than the rest, a thought-out and startling little thing and almost a pretty cool and funny love story on the side. I expected nothing of the film, but it's easily one of the best this year.

Tuesday, November 02, 2021

Pull the trigger before the waterworks begin

Hutch Mansell is a nine-to-five working man, nothing out of ordinary, like the rest of us. He used to be a Nobody, an auditer for three letter companies and, when needed, he is full of explosive action. That piece of him is triggered by Yulian, a ruthless babysitter of Obstshak, pension fund of Russian mob. The movie is crazy and wild, extremely well made, lots of action, bodycount is numerous, a John Wick rip-off really, only funnier. Cool cast of Bob Odenkirk, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Ironside and Connie Nielsen.

Monday, November 01, 2021

The evening news with blood

Federal air marshal Bill Marks has his hands full when everyone thinks he is a terrorist. Whereas he, in fact, is the one who negotiates with the real terrorist threatening to kill the passangers on a transatlantic flight one by one. Like the marshal puts it, situation is quite complicated. An edge of seat thriller, a fun entertaining ride. Liam Neeson is more than the updated version of Steven Seagal.

Friday, October 29, 2021

Live safely for one more day

The two biggest nuclear accidents are the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, caused by human error and negligence, and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011, caused by natural causes, triggered by earthquake and tsunami. Both filmed recently. The first, an acclaimed, truly incredible mini series Chernobyl (2019) by Craig Mazin. And the latter Fukushima by Setsurô Wakamatsu and it's not an excellent film, but at least it's informative what took place in that awful day 11 March 2011.

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Accept the existence of the devil

Some sort of demonic entity enters the bodies of human beings and make them do horrendous things. The fucker must be summoned through exorcism and thrown to hell. Not entirely sure, but don't think The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It differs of its predecessors, The Conjuring franchise, or all the other similar movies since William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973). A few jump scares, but a mess of a story of the same lie that the movie is based on a true story.

Thursday, October 21, 2021

The rich really are different

Little does she now, the bride, that an initiation to an extremely wealthy family is a game. To her misfortune, it's Hide and Seek that is all too real. The rules are simple. You hide or you die. So better hide good. A horror comedy of survival and it's pretty fantastic and groovy.

Monday, October 18, 2021

A trail of shit

The adventures of Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. Two sick fucks - serial killers - who indulged in several murderous rampages somewhere around Florida in the early Eighties. Together or solo, they liked to kill, found insatiable pleasure in it. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) hasn't lost none of its video nasty appeal, lots of the story of the true characters is fictionalized, but it's still quite impressive.

The place hates you back

A pretty intense thriller of mafia henchmen wiping out people they are paid to execute and a group of fire fighters and sheriff deputies are trying to figure out what the heck is going on. It's wicked and action-packed, but it's also hopelessly fucking loopholed and full of downright naive mistakes. Entertaining, but an extremely badly written movie. Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal and Aidan Gillen starring.

Existence is futile

The sky could have been the limit for Jere Karalahti, an ice hockey player. Talented as fuck, but essentially an asshole who wasted his talent on booze and drugs. He kind of wanted to be the rock'n'roll outlaw of ice hockey. Blew almost everything away, his own life included. Loving dad though.

Friday, October 08, 2021

Standing and peeing is kind of rad

Serial killer The Butcher changes identities with one of his victims and that's the general idea of the slasher comedy Freaky. It truly is funny and hilarious, deliciously bloody, Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn are brilliant in the lead, but the genre is pretty unforgiving. It's merely throwaway popcorn cinema and doesn't give a lasting experience.

Don't start what you can't finish

Ordinarily the leisurely pace of this movie would have scared me away. But I kept going because the charismas of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane kept the movie going. They are George and Margaret, grandparents to Jimmy, who they desperately want to see and save from a monster of a family. An emotionally charged drama thriller gradually built up towards explosive ending.

Monday, October 04, 2021

Doing something great is overrated

Funny thing with these mini series. You put the DVD into the player and it gets you in for a ride and before you know it, you've finished the fucking thing. Mare of Easttown - 7 episodes and something like 7 hours total - I binge-watched it and it's as excellent as everyone says it is.

The myths are real

They need to harvest energy from the Hollow Earth to fight against Godzilla who has behaved like shit recently. But to actually kill the gigantic beast you need something that matches its size. And that's when King Kong comes to play because Kong bows to no one except for a little deaf girl Jia. A shit for brains adventure and entertainment where the computer generated creatures expressed emotions far better than the human actors.

Monday, September 27, 2021

He's a dark fucking spirit

Guy Ritchie is out there. On the very top. With people like Quentin Tarantino, Denis Villeneuve and Martin Scorsese. The big league of contemporary film directors. They hardly ever disappoint. And that's why you always got to see their films. Wrath of Man prob'ly ain't Guy Ritchie's best piece. But it's truly fucking good. A proper action thriller of bunch of armed car robbers. It's surprisingly serious, the trademark Guy Ritchie black humour is all gone, but I reckon it's intentional. Jason Statham on the lead.

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Seriously fucking yolo

Trevor travels through time, but he can't control it. Every few minute he travels one year ahead. A bit hard explaining it to your wife and the daughter you didn't know you had. An Australian romantic comedy with a serious undertone gnaws the old Groundhog Day (1993) bone, rather nicely at that but used all its ammo in the first 30 minutes.

Monday, September 20, 2021

Moomins don't dance

It's like Dome Karukoski's Tolkien (2019). A biobic of an artist. I'm not familiar with the works of Tove Jansson - moomins in particular. But when done properly, these things are educative fuckers and fun to watch.

More cynical, more bitter, more jaded

It seems I'm currently watching two greatest long-standing comedy series of all time. Seinfeld and Trailer Park Boys. The former I've seen countless of times and the latter for the first time. Perhaps too early to tell yet, but I reckon nothing match their brilliance. Season 2 of Seinfeld with classic episodes such as The Chinese Restaurant, The Jacket and The Pony Remark.

Unleash shit tsunami

Trailer Park Boys season 4. Just too much fun, so much so in fact that I don't want to binge-watch the entire series in a matter of days and ruin the appetite. Probably the best entertainment I've discovered in 2021.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

A siren from the deep

I always knew I'd want to see The Night Of mini series again. It's full of outstanding courtroom drama, the hardship of prison life, deductive reasonings, one solid suspense of grisly murder and innuendos and what ifs for good measure. And it's seriously good, a catching story, brilliant characters, exciting to the very end. 9 episodes and 8 hours 45 minutes - watched it in one day.

You don't need a history to have a future

A soldier gets a second change in life. He is killed, but thanks to science he comes back resurrected, improved and enchanced. He's now a robot really, a super-computer and indestructible soldier in flesh, blood and some badass nanotechnology. To avenge the death of his wife is the first agenda, but ends up a pawn between scientists power struggle. A techno thriller in every sense of the word, humbug shit really, but pretty well done.

Thursday, September 09, 2021

No puffs. Just flakes.

As of late I've watched a lot of scenes of Seinfeld on Youtube and kind of craved back to see full episodes. The first season which right now is 32 years old. Yet it's still the best show on television.

Bring me people to kill

The world's greatest manhunt. The events and days the led to the capture - and death - of the most notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Without too much bigotry, propaganda and patriotism Kathryn Bigelow made this exciting thriller in 2012.

Saturday, September 04, 2021

Little too heavy on the booze

Season 3 of the Trailer Park Boys. First thing I noticed is the obvious budget increase. It still looks homemade and trashy trailer park material, but somehow it's more radiant now. And it's still phenomenally good and a brilliant entity of its own. Includes a cool episode - "Closer to the Heart" - involving a Rush concert and starring Alex Lifeson, the guitar player and a big fan of the show.

A man who is lying will eventually change his story

A little car accident, followed by a coma for four days and the guy's life has gone totally upside down. His wife doesn't remember him, no one else either, as if the collective memory of the world have forgotten him. Fucking not cool as paranoia sets in. He needs the help from the former officer of the Stasi to convince him that he is he. Truly an interesting plot. Flawed, as usually is the case with these kind of films, but a proper intriguing multi-layered mystery and it's technically perfect action.

Darkness is a color

One of the best films of the year. One of the most memorable. And one of the most terrifying.  The film was directed by Curry Barker born ...