Far from the Sun

Had it not been so predictable cliché-ridden cut, Richard Holm's Avgrunden would have been a fantastic Swedish catastrophe movie. It's still exciting and fairly interesting, but the outcome is desperately thin. A nice try though.

Sober as a desert rat

A wonderfully trademark Aki Kaurismäki film. Nothing happens and still just about everything happens at the same time. Unexplained laconic beauty. Comedy without jokes.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing

One of the greatest combat movies no doubt. Peter Berg's Lone Survivor (2007) is a biographical war film set during the war in Afghanistan and where Navy SEALs are tracking down a Taliban leader (Operation Red Wings). The sheer brutality and horror of warfare is depicted so well that it's almost painful to watch. And when the end credits roll, it's harrowing to realize it's a true story you just witnessed.

Selling tickets to the gates of hell

Confusing and corny crime noir of everyone searching for a movie director who first was presumed dead then missing. Neil Jordan's Marlowe is pointless drivel.

The ones who make a brighter day

A captivating and comprehensive journey through musical history even though it revolves around one song only. In the footsteps of Live Aid, American musicians gathered in Los Angeles to record a charity single "We Are the World" for African famine relief. Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones orchestrate a group of popular singers such as Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick.

First class is full

Ridiculous but entertaining. The simplicity in Jalmari Helander's Big Game (2014) old-school action is captivating. The story is focused on the President of the United States (Samuel L. Jackson) who is the target of an attack. He's left to survive in weirdly unnatural mountains of Finland aided by Oskari (Onni Tommila), a Finnish lad, another key figure, trying to prove himself as a hunter. Innocent and truly delightful fun.

Black stones coming down

A 3-episode documentary of a couple accused of staging a burglary and kidnapping. The first two episodes in and the show makes them look like suspects. Viewers treat them like liars looking for attention and money. Back then everyone thought it was a hoax and a wild goose chase to begin with. In the end, American Nightmare by Bernadette Higgins and Felicity Morris is just reality crime of bad police investigation, courtesy of Vallejo Police Department.

The smallest error could prove fatal

1943, France is under Nazi occupation. The French Resistance fighters are locked in prisons. Oftentimes executed. Fontaine (François Leterrier) figures he can't remain incarcerated, so he must plan an extraordinary escape. Robert Presson's (who himself had been a prisoner of war during WWII) A Man Escaped (Un condamné à mort s’est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut) is a nail-biting classic. Based on a true story.

The job's done and the bitch is dead

A James Bond movie directed by Martin Campbell in 2006, starring Daniel Craig as the agent 007, Eva Green as the Bond girl Vesper Lynd, Judi Dench as Bond's superior 'M" (the head of M16) and Mads Mikkelsen as the main antagonist Le Chiffre. Theme song You Know My Name performed by Chris Cornell. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists and he is playing in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe amongst the terrorist market. And James Bond attends the game.

Selling holy water in gallon jugs

One of those things. When the last episode of the last season finished, you already miss the damn thing. I seriously contemplated of starting the show immediately all over again. Nothing beats The Sopranos (1999-2007). 

Too old to grow up

Based on a true story of Ken Leishman also known as the Flying Bandit, a Canadian criminal who robbed banks and was the mastermind behind the largest gold theft in Canadian history. Holds a layout for an exciting thriller, but unfortunately Allan Ungar's Bandit doesn't know is it a comedy or a crime flick and it's constantly changing its tone. The acting is mediocre at best.

The rules of the heart

An elderly man travels to meet an old friend of him. On foot. And the distance (between Kingsbridge and Berwick-upon-Tweed) is 500 miles (800 km). On his pilgrimage, he meets up different people, becomes a celebrity and it's all a great adventure. Don't translate that well into entertainment though.

Starting a jazz band

Rewatched this. Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation from 2003. Saw it back then and, contrary to popular belief, I didn't like it that much. It hadn't improved.

Twisted reasons for exploiting the folly

Grotesque and disgusting. Titane's violence and craziness is graphic and some of the footage is unprecedented in its sickening imaginary. It's one of those films you don't necessarily like and enjoy, but appreciate the vulgar display anyways. Auto erotic fiction by Julia Ducournau and it's as unconformable as they come.

Like eels in the mud

At the end of the 19th century, an enthusiastic Danish priest Lucas (Elliot Crosset Hove) travels to Iceland to build a church and spread the word of Christ. However, upon landing it's a struggle. The barren land and unforgiving climate suck his energy and the holy mission bony dry and he kind of fucking hates the place. But build a church he must. A slow-burning beautifully filmed film, but little entertainment otherwise.

Punctuality is the thief of time

It seems this clown's only motivation is to kill people. He's not very smart, but kudos to him, the people aren't either. Old-school slasher shit, visually reminiscences of the 80s horror. One particularly shocking and gruesome scene to leave any trace of Terrifier's (2016) existence. Otherwise, forgettable.

Lurking in the shadows, waiting to be uncovered

I almost read the book. Søren Sveistrup's Kastanjemanden (2019). Left it a couple of hundred pages short. I didn't like it enough. It was alright and fairly interesting, but never grabbed in for a ride, like them unputdownable novels do. The story was interesting enough and serial killer fiction is a mightily good genre. I switched on to the series. And the adaptation is better than the original novel. Gripping shit, it never let go.

Doom over innocent people

Tried to recognize and pinpoint the irony and humor of Timo Vuorensola's 97 Minutes, but fucking couldn't. The man however is responsible of such a cult comedy classic as Iron Sky (and its sequel). Don't know what's the point here. It's an absolute garbage b-movie thriller of terrorists hijacking a plane. There are people like Alec Baldwin and Jonathan Rhys Meyers involved and everyone looks like they've lost their ambition to work all of a sudden. If anything, it's great to get the worst movie of the year out of the way so early.

Ravenous ghosts in limbo

Young adults flirt with the spirits of the dead and their bad voodoo gets out of hand. Big time. Talk to Me is proper nightmarish horror. A blood-soaked and freaky Australian movie, directed by twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou.

2023

MOVIES

In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (Toby Amies)
Cocaine Bear (Elizabeth Banks)
Patriots Day (Peter Berg)
Deliverance (John Boorman)
One Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks)
Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)
Babylon (Damien Chazelle)
Till (Chinoney Chukwu)
The Pale Blue Eye (Scott Cooper)
Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis)
The Killer (David Fincher)
Smile (Parker Finn)
A Man Called Otto (Marc Forster)
Le otto montagne (Felix van Groeningen, Charllotte Vandermeersch)
Extraction 2 (Sam Hargrave)
Sisu (Jalmari Helander)
Payback (Brian Helgeland)
Capricorn One (Peter Hyams)
The Sadness (Rob Jabbaz)
Missing (Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick)
Toivon tuolla puolen (Aki Kaurismäki)
Hassisen Kone 40 vuotta myöhemmin (Mika Kaurismäki)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)
All or Nothing (Mike Leigh)
Elvis (Baz Luhrmann)
The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (James Mangold)
The Alpinist (Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen)
Kaveri (Teemu Nikki)
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan)
Karaokeparatiisi (Einari Paakkanen)
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
Nope (Jordan Peele)
Red Dragon (Brett Ratner)
Day of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Dawn of the Dead (George A. Romero)
The Drop (Michaël R. Roskam)
Host (Rob Savage)
Marathon Man (John Schlesinger)
Knock at the Cabin (M. Night Shyamalan)
The Vanishing (George Sluizer)
Ricky Gervais: Armageddon (John L. Spencer)
The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson)
The Innocents (Eskil Vogt)
Gourmet Club (Juha Vuolijoki)
Eden Lake (James Watkins)
X (Ti West)
Pearl (Ti West)
Don't Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde)
I onde dager (Tommy Wirkola)
Red Sun (Terence Young)
Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)
Compliance (Craig Zobel)
Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund)

SERIES

The Sopranos (David Chase)
Jack Ryan (Carlton Cuse, Graham Roland)
Seinfeld (Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld)
The Last of Us (Neil Druckmann, Craig Mazin)
American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing (William B. Evans, Rick Deslauriers, Phillip Martin)
Tunna blå linjen (Cilla Jackert)
Luottomies (Kari Ketonen, Antti Luusuaniemi, Maria Ylipää)
Sharp Objects (Marti Noxon)
Fauda (Lior Raz, Avi Issacharoff)
Waco: American Apocalypse (David Thibodeau, Chris Whitcomb, Lee Hancock)

R.I.P.

Mark Adams (musician) born 1958 (aged 65)
Ossi Ahlapuro (actor) born 1939 (aged 83)
Martti Ahtisaari (president) born 1937 (aged 86)
Kenneth Anger (filmmaker) born 1927 (aged 96)
Alan Arkin (actor) born 1934 (aged 89)
Kirk Arrington (musician) born 1962 (aged 61)
Christian Atsu (footballer) born 1992 (aged 31)
Burt Bacharach (composer) born 1928 (aged 94)
Jeff Beck (musician) born 1944 (aged 78)
Harry Belafonte (singer, actor) born 1927 (aged 96)
Tony Bennett (singer) born 1926 (aged 96)
Silvio Berlusconi (politician) born 1936 (aged 86)
Robert Blake (actor) born 1933 (aged 89)
Andre Braugher (actor) born 1962 (aged 61)
Doyle Brunson (poker player) born 1933 (aged 89)
Sir Bobby Charlton (footballer) born 1937 (aged 86)
Rosalynn Carter (first lady) born 1927 (aged 96)
Van Conner (musician) born 1967 (aged 55)
David Crosby (musician) born 1941 (aged 81)
Georg Dolivo (entertainer) born 1945 (aged 77)
Jim Durkin (musician) born 1965 (aged 58)
Michael Gambon (actor) born 1940 (aged 82)
Juhan af Grann (astral traveller) born 1944 (aged 78)
William Friedkin (director) born 1935 (aged 87)
Jussi Harismaa (co-worker) born 1958 (aged 65)
Hannu Hautala (nature photographer) born 1941 (aged 82)
Pedro Hietanen (musician) born 1949 (aged 74)
Barry Humphries (comedian) born 1934 (aged 89)
Al Jaffee (cartoonist) born 1921 (aged 102)
Juha Jokinen (sportscaster) born 1937 (aged 85)
Ted Kaczynski (terrorist) born 1942 (aged 81)
Scott Kempner (musician) born 1954 (aged 69)
Bill Kenwright (football chairman) born 1945 (aged 78)
Henry Kissinger (Secretary of State) born 1923 (aged 100)
Matti Klinge (historian) born 1936 (aged 86)
Esa Kotilainen (musician) born 1946 (aged 77)
Milan Kundera (author) born 1929 (aged 94)
Rob Laakso (musician) born 1979 (aged 44)
Pekka Laiho (actor) born 1943 (aged 80)
Piper Laurie (actress) born 1932 (aged 91)
Michael Lerner (actor) born 1941 (aged 81)
Gordon Lightfoot (musician) born 1938 (aged 84)
Miki Liukkonen (author) born 1989 (aged 33)
Gina Lollobrigida (actress) born 1927 (aged 95)
Shane MacGowan (musician) born 1957 (aged 65)
Turkka Mali (musician) born 1956 (aged 67)
Mark Margolis (actor) born 1939 (aged 83)
Bernie Marsden (musician) born 1951 (aged 72)
David McCallum (actor) born 1933 (aged 90)
Cormac McCarthy (author) born 1933 (aged 89)
Tony McPhee (musician) born 1944 (aged 79)
Majk Moti (musician) born 1957 (aged 65)
John Nettleton (actor) born 1929 (aged 94)
Heli Nevakare (journalist) born 1960 (aged 63)
Barry Newman (actor) born 1930 (aged 92)
Harri Nykänen (author) born 1953 (aged 69)
Sinéad O'Connor (musician) born 1966 (aged 56)
Ryan O'Neal (actor) born 1941 (aged 82)
Kenzaburō Ōe (author) born 1935 (aged 88)
Sari Peltoniemi (musician, author) born 1963 (aged 60)
Matthew Perry (actor) born 1969 (aged 54)
Lisa Marie Presley (singer-songwriter) born 1968 (aged 54)
Antti Raivio (actor) born 1962 (aged 60)
Siiri Rantanen (skier) born 1924 (aged 98)
Stina Rautelin (actress) born 1963 (aged 59)
Lance Reddick (actor) born 1962 (aged 60)
Steve Riley (musician) born 1956 (aged 67)
Sixto Rodriguez (musician) born 1942 (aged 81)
Gary Rossington (musician) born 1951 (aged 71)
Aira Samulin (dance teacher) born 1927 (aged 96)
Julian Sands (actor) born 1958 (aged 65)
Timo Seppälä (Ph.D. doping supervisor) born 1951 (aged 72)
Tom Sizemore (actor) born 1961 (aged 61)
Jerry Springer (talk show host) born 1944 (aged 79)
Ray Stevenson (actor) born 1964 (aged 58)
Ulf Sundqvist (politician) born 1945 (aged 78)
Tapio Suominen (director) born 1946 (aged 76)
Arto "Luigi" Toikkanen (musician) born 1965 (aged 57)
Tina Turner (singer) born 1939 (aged 83)
Terry Venables (football player and manager) born 1943 (aged 80)
Tom Verlaine (musician) born 1949 (aged 73)
Gianluca Vialli (football player) born 1964 (aged 58)
Aapo Vilhunen (actor) born 1935 (aged 87)
Kevin "Geordie" Walker (musician) born 1958 (aged 64)
Algy Ward (musician) born 1959 (aged 63)
Raquel Welch (actress) born 1940 (aged 82)
Tom Wilkinson (actor) born 1948 (aged 75)
Treat Williams (actor) born 1951 (aged 71)
Burt Young (actor) born 1940 (aged 83)
Jock Zonfrillo (television presenter, chef) born 1976 (aged 46)

Living in the shadows of those who we never meet

So much shit is happening that it inevitably turns against itself and the result can be rather tedious. And in all the chaos and hair-raising techno thrills, you lose the plot so easily that the high octane action is the only fuel to feed upon. And for fuck's sake, this monster, clocking in almost three hours, is the only the first part of the movie. 

History is a long list of failures

The first scene and its 20 minutes (or so) was electrifying and really bloody good. And they had digitized the young Harrison Ford pretty much to perfection. Unfortunately, the film then transformed into a silly and downright stupid adventure. Indy and his goddaughter crisscross the Mediterranean sea – and beyond – while hunting down an Archimedes’ Dial. And, of course, the fucking nazis are after them!

The mafia. They're like cancer. No cure.

Ex-government badass Robert McCall has one more mission to accomplish and he gets stuck in South Italy to fight against the Camorra evil people. Not bad, but terribly cliched little thriller and action-packed only temporarily. Reunites Denzel Washington with Dakota Fanning after Tony Scott’s riveting Man on Fire (2004), when she was 10.

Laugh at whatever you find funny

Yeah it's good. Maybe Ricky Gervais has established such a high standard that Armageddon left me a little disappointed. It's not as vehement and vulgar as most of his performances, not even that funny either, but guaranteed to make you laugh. And his ridicule on Woke culture is spot on.

A terrible revelation of divine power

The cast of Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer is outrageous, it's almost as monumental as the length of the film. But three hours is structured so meticulously that it's hardly an issue. Doctor J. Robert Oppenheimer was building a bomb to end all wars. They built a base (Los Alamos) in New Mexico to test this new weapon and called it The Manhattan Project. And it was the greatest scientific gamble in history. We follow Oppenheimer's life from university days to being a war hero and accused of being a hardened communist. And it's mesmerizing.

There is no now

Khaled is applying for asylum in Finland. But it's a strange and even a hostile place. Thankfully he befriends, at least sort of, a restaurateur Wilhelm and things aren't as bleak as they seem. You'll recognize the style in a heartbeat, it's trademark Aki Kaurismäki. Deadpan humour everywhere, but it comes with a serious undertone. Just brilliant. 

Caught in a whirlpool

A new prison guard no one has hardly seen before is left behind in a prison riot and he has to lie his way out to the inmates that he's one of them. An inside man is an asset to the negotiators, but what happens if the truth is revealed? Cell 211 is a rather violent Spanish prison movie with plethora of twists, but silly loopholes too.

Tomorrow the world

Victory is a strange city in a middle of a desert where husbands go to work in a secret project to a mysterious employer and unsuspecting wives are content as their roles as housewives. Until one of the ladies suspects something's not quite right in the neighborhood and intends to find the secrets of this earthly paradise. Don't Worry Darling, by Olivia Wilde, is an entertaining yet creepy dystopian movie of things being perfect yet completely out of place. An unsatisfying ending turned it down a notch though.

An excuse for evil

Sick satanic cultists kidnap the daughter of a devout Christian cop and he's obviously very grief-stricken. He wants his wee girl back and decides to infiltrate the satanic organization to raise the odds. Nick Cassavetes's God Is a Bullet is in many ways embarrassing.

Too much beauty to quit

Ok, I thought this would be good. Starring people like Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling and Bob Hoskins. Stay (2005) is written by David Benioff (Game of Thrones) and it's directed by Marc Forster (World War Z, A Man Called Otto, Stranger Than Fiction). But it's a fucking mess. A confusing mystery thriller with no proper plot to speak of.

Brethen of the sunburned hands

Watch Tommy Wirkola's I onde dager (2021) or Christopher Smith's Severance (2006) or Christopher Landon's Happy Death Day (2017) instead. Patrik Eklund's The Conference is only quite good and funny splatter comedy of a team-building conference turning into a sadistic nightmare. There's a masked killer murdering the participants. Violent and bloody, but just not good enough.

Done waiting

The first hour was amazingly good, almost in mesmerizing manner. It was proper and thoughtful apocalyptic mystery horror. After that it was almost as the fuel had run out. The ideas most certainly did. Nothing happened. Nothing exciting and sensible at least. And then it just ended. Abruptly leaving too many questions at its wake.

Getting rich from a dying old bitch

Luckily people aren't so stupid that they laugh at this kind of shit. Otherwise it would be an insult to intelligence. There's absolutely nothing clever in The Estate's comedy, it's just infantile and borderline obscene. People want to become beneficiaries of a terminally ill woman and win her heart and wealthy estate over. Downright fucking terrible.

Casa nostra

Pietro and Bruno. Buddies. Estranged for years but friends since childhood. When an important person to both of them dies, they intend to make his dreams come true and build a house up on the hills of Italian Alps. Le otto montagne aka. The Eight Mountains, by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, is an epic piece and the fact that it's shot in the Italian Alps, Turin, and Nepal over seven months, the cinematography is absolutely stunning.

Button in the worst possible spot

The last season (9th) season of Seinfeld. As before, I'll probably rewatch the entire series sooner or later. Funny, and rather strange to a comedy sitcom, how ‘the show about nothing’ has stood the test of time. The coolest entertainment. When I have nothing else to do and every other option sounds tiresome and shitty, Seinfeld kills the time perfectly.

Fate is a placebo

Reckon the world ain't quite ready for this right now, but it will age like fine wine. Like a proper crime noir should. David Fincher's The Killer is a very simple revenge flick, but shrouded with such magic and enigmatic mystery that you can't shook off that easily. A contract killer's assassination job goes to shit and his employers take action and suffer the consequences. A wonderful little thing.

A home grown rainbow

Finnish-Bulgarian movie Laupias taksikuski (The Good Driver), by Tonislav Hristov, looks like a Finnish-Bulgarian movie. It's untalkative and not too uplifting story of a poor taxi driver in Sunny Beach who wants to move to Finland to regularly see his 18 year old son. To make better profit, he drives Syrian refugees which is illegal and quite dangerous. It's not good or bad, you just shrug your shoulders after finishing it and do something else.

Catching lightning in a bottle

Different than any climber. Doing things that people thought could never be done. Pushing the limits. Comfortable on mountainous terrain. On hindsight, too comfortable. Marc-André Leclerc 1992-2018. He died doing what he loved so much. Frightening experience to watch his solo climbing tasks. Everything in Peter Mortimer's and Nick Rosen's The Alpinist predicts his death.

Too much sun will burn

On a recruitment door-to-door mission couple of sick cultists from the Colony of the Redeemers of Last Chance involuntarily join a role playing game in the home of a family they just have infiltrated! The other players are in character and don't know the true nature of things. None of them do really. Lunastajat, by Niko Kelkka and Miro Laiho, looks like bunch of Theatre Academy dropouts are ending their unemployment and making a movie.

It's hard to keep track of all the scumbags

Deep-sea researchers fight against megalon sons of bitches and outlaw diving squad stealing priceless minerals from the bottom of the ocean! Special effects people and Jason Statham stunt doubles had a field day. Nothing exciting translated to screen though.

Summer of sorcery

A gay couple move to a suspicious little town where people seem bigoted or downright hostile. They encounter unexplained aggression against their privacy and become both paranoid and scared. Particularly the author of the two, traumatized already by the events that happened a decade ago, is really shitting his pants. He sees homophobic devil-worshippers everywhere. Spiral, a horror movie by Kurtis David Harder, starts interestingly enough, but falls apart quite soon after.  

Where does all the ungratefulness stem from?

It's not easy for Pearl. A farm girl. Husband in Europe fighting in WWI. Daddy stricken with disease. A tyrant of a mom. But she still has dreams, does Pearl, and nothing should come her way chasing those dreams. They don't often, if ever, give Academy Awards for horror movies, but they should reward movies like this, Mia Goth alone is amazing. It's a deliciously wicked movie by Ti West that was, curiously enough, shot at the same time as X (2022).

Golden age of the lowland

Season # 2 of Luottomies. Just about perfect entertainment to pick up when you don't know what to do. Cringe-worthy fun Finnish comedy.

The watchers of the altered state

Really impressive and satisfyingly wicked supernatural horror. Four Norwegian kids in the same neighborhood discover their psychic powers and such mysterious magic in the hands of children is a dangerous thing. Riveting Nordic low-key cinema, chilling atmospheric horror to the bone!

Humans have only one ending

Someone has opened a portal. There is a rip in the continuum that is the membrane between Barbie Land and the Real World. It must be fixed or else the perfect girls and boys are about to look like ordinary people. And their world becomes sad and mushy and complicated. Barbie has to go to the real world and find the person who is playing with her. She never should have taken Ken with her. High expectations, but a big let-down in the end. A strong start turns into dull endeavor pretty quickly.

The cosmic wilderness

It's been a while now with the Wes Anderson films, it's style over substance. Granted, his works have never been for everyone. The quirkiness in the storytelling is original, remarkable and, often, quite funny. The actors and the stars who are aplenty must certainly have the loveliest time doing something different for a change. Like Bryan Cranston said, filming this movie was an actor's dream camp. But there's hardly anything rewarding for the people on the other end of the line.

The height of conceit

Those NASA bastards. To retain their funding and public admiration they fake a Mars landing. Those knobheads! Dunno how I've managed to miss this gem of a movie before! It's a bloody thrilling conspiracy film! Loved every minute. Directed by Peter Hyams and starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Sam Waterston and Sam Holbrook to name a few.

We are connected

It seems something extraterrestrial is lurking in the Swedish countryside. Aptly titled cultish amateur group UFO Sweden is obviously very interested in quirky incidents, but none is more determined than Denise whose father apparently was abducted by the aliens. They need some concrete evidence to convince everyone else as well, otherwise they are considered loonies and possibly sent to an asylum. The movie, in the X-Files territory, is cool and charming, well worth a watch, but nothing overly spectacular. 

If you put peace out in the world, you get peace back

It's like a class union of assassins. A train trip from Tokyo to Kioto. Everyone after a bagful of ransom money, fighting against each other to survive, each somehow connected to The White Death, a Yakuza crime lord. And there's a snake on the train! A non-stop ride but hardly any substance. Jokes and bullets fired from left to right, but missing targets. Something close to early Guy Ritchie pieces. Just easily forgettable popcorn entertainment.

This family is from the ghetto

Dunno why everyone made such a deal about it. The story of Richard Williams, the father of renowned tennis players Venus and Serena Williams, ain't interesting enough for a movie. And quite frankly, Will Smith portraying him, can’t do anything to save it. In fact, he’s borderline terrible. Handing him the Academy Award is just someone's bad joke. I'm sure the story is fabricated and sugar-coated to hell and back as well.

A dying man scared of the dark

An old notorious gunslinger J.B. Books has an advanced cancer. Once he hears of his condition and inescapable destiny, he checks in a guesthouse in Carson City to wait around to die. His enemies however think he is not going to die fast enough. A Don Siegel film starring John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Hugh O'Brien, John Carradine, Richard Boone, Scatman Crothers and James Stewart.