War is not over

I understand the anger and frustration people felt with the final season of Game of Thrones. It feels awfully rushed and there's some obvious mistakes and everything. There are only six episodes and the first two were boring shit and the rest mindless chaos. But I kinda liked it anyways.

Fallen on the highway

Three Beers was a bar in a student village of Turku, Finland, for something like thirty years. I lived next door to it for few years and frequented the pub. They demolished to place and are building something more modern in its place. And people are sad and angry. And they interviewed the people who loved the place so much.

Passenger seat's not the best way to transport a corpse

Season 2 of Mindhunter. Easily on the top 3 shows running currently. FBI profilers investigate serial killings and study the gruesome phenomenon interviewing notorious killers (Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, et al.). And it's mostly based on true events. Absolutely killer stuff.

All the best people shave twice a day

Somewhat a bore. A 14-year old Lolita (Sue Lyon) makes grown men go all crazy and get totally obsessed with her. Based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, directed by Stanley Kubrick, yet it's still waste of time.

One man euthanasia clinic

Don't bother checking it out, but I've seen a movie with the same exact concept before. A guy is so desperate to end his life, so he hires an assassin to do it for him. "Outsource a suicide", as they put it. Anyways, this makes a dark comedy and it's pretty funny as the soon-to-retire hitman (Tom Wilkinson) turns out to be somewhat of a fuck-up and the guy he's supposed to kill suddenly gets second thoughts. Nothing overly exciting, but satisfying enough.

Horror in the highlands

Didn't watch the season # 3 like a true fan and sat it through immediately. Took my time with it, too much so, and got all too confused of the plot a few times. Took the last few episodes like a trooper and liked what I saw.

Slaves of the sea

A drama of bunch of singing fishermen and a recording label honcho who falls in love with the group and one of the citizens in a picturesque village of Port Isaac, Cornwall, England. A feel good film that is extremely enjoyable to watch.

Toxic moon vibrations

I don't understand the zero ratings and otherwise negative feedback. There's nothing amiss here. It's an offbeat zombie movie done with good taste and subtle black humour. It's filled up with interesting characters like Tom Waits as a hermit, Steve Buscemi as pro-Trump farmer, Iggy Pop and Sturgill Simpson as undeads and Tilda Swinton as an undertaker. Also people like Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Danny Glover and Rosie Perez in the roster. The earth has fallen off its axis and that has caused a full-on zombie apocalypse. Wicked fun. Directed by Jim Jarmusch.

When the door closes, jump out the window

Elderly Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) loves robbing banks, for nothing but pure pleasure and entertainment. He's teamed up with two other older folks Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). Local law enforcement with John Hunt (Casey Affleck) in charge and the FBI sort of at leisurely pace try to catch them. It's all easy-going, no-one's hurting anyone, all fucking smiles.

The breath of meadow

Oftentimes Lars von Trier's movies merely jerk cinephiles off. His art bizarre can be a little off-putting at times. But how well it adapts into a serial killer movie, is impeccable. Jack (amazing Matt Dillon) is a psychopath hunting down lonely women, killing them and putting them into a freezer for later use. Basic serial killer stuff. Groovy and disturbing shit. Some of the most shocking scenes in cinema I've ever witnessed.

Never is a long time

Mysterious yet heroic stranger Shane defends homesteaders from a rancher tycoon and an inevitable one last great gunfight is looming on the horizon. Classic old school western from 1953, so much so even that it's simple and terribly clichéd, but that's how it goes sometimes, it's not full on guns blazing and bloodshed all the time. A classic battle between good and evil that exemplifies principles and good values. Alan Ladd and Jack Palance as the gungslingers.

Rats among the plastic people

The Charles Manson family were murderous drugged up hippies. They were influenced by a shit musician, their beacon of light, Charles Manson who was charismatic enough to lure bunch of insecure lonely teens from broken homes and form a cult. Charlie had it well covered, they all belonged to him. While it lasted it was a pretty orgasmic feast. But then all the murders happened and several people were sentenced to life without parole. Charlie Says depicts the collective insanity and hysteria pretty well. The cult was a freak circus full of racists. Funnily though, I reckon the real reason the family murdered all those people was because Charles Manson wanted worldwide fame (wanted to become as big as The Beatles), but once he got rejected by a recording label, he threw a tantrum. Like a fucking child.

In the land of the few

Siblings are on the run from the crimes they committed. Things get even a little more complicated when they come across sheriff Pat Garrett escorting the infamous Billy The Kid to get hanged. An interesting and surprisingly well executed little western directed by Vincent D'Onofrio.

Stories hurt, stories heal

A group of teenagers snitch a book from a haunted house. The book features ghost stories and, amazingly, the stories in the book write themselves! It writes real nasty shit to real people and someone must put an end to this witchcraft! Pretty cool horror popcorn altough André Øvredal's previous films Troll Hunter and The Autopsy of Jane Doe were miles grittier.

Shooting and burning cars, talking about revolution

Maybe it has a cult status, but Gridlock'd is a terribly unsung movie. It's a brilliant offbeat dark comedy drama of two friends of different colour who, with their girlfriend, constitute a druggy jazz band. Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur form a wonderful chemistry as Strech and Spoon, weirdly cool lowlife junkies.

Faces of fists

I should have followed my gut instinct and not have chosen a Jesse Eisenberg black comedy. Unfunny predictable piece of shit. Street gang mugs an office geek and as a revenge he wants to learn karate. Irritated how they tried to execute offbeat humour. Nowhere near anything funny. Just a fucking waste of time.

All the streets are silent

Quentin Tarantino's latest, in spite of shitloads of characters, is really about two people and the Charles Manson Family Cult. These two people; first off, there's Rick Dalton (Leonard DiCaprio) who is a past star actor finding out he's now 'slightly more useless each day' and there's Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), the former's awfully cool stunt double. In the movie, there are also well known actors like Al Pacino, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry, Kurt Russell, Emile Hirsh, Michael Madsen and Damian Lewis, but they are cast just extras, merely dipping their feet in the water, aren't really bringing anything to the show, replaceable show-offs. For instance, Michael Madsen's own car got more screentime than the actor himself. But that's part of the charm. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood is a good fucking movie, trademark Tarantino entertainment altho at times times it felt like there were just bits and pieces plastered in together to masquerade a movie. Dunno. Probably the film geek Tarantino does it all just to amuse himself. Lots of things - amazing things - are there to keep your mind occupied, proper eye candy shit. And the ending is one of the craziest - and coolest - endings I have ever seen.

Pledge ever-ending loyalty

One of those movies you wish were never going to end. Maybe that's why Francis Ford Coppola did the sequels. Simply amazing.

A duel between titans

The 1974 James Bond movie, directed by Guy Hamilton, starring Roger Moore as the agent 007, Britt Ekland as the Bond girl Goodnight, Bernard Lee as Bond's superior, Desmond Llewelyn as 'Q' (the head of Q division), Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny (MI6 secretary) and Christopher Lee as Saramanga, the main antagonist. Title song performed by Lulu. James Bond is called to investigate a stolen "Solex agitator". Plenty of talent and charisma in the acting of both Roger Moore and Christopher Lee, too bad that it's one of the worst Bond movies. Lost in a plot, an attempt to make almost a comedy. Humour most often is fixed in time, and it's terribly outdated here.

All bleeding stops eventually

Didn't expect a thing. I didn't want to expect a thing. I was sourly disappointed when the show ended the way it ended. Rushed and unfinished, without a proper finale. Anyways, now 10 years later most of the old crew is back. And thankfully Deadwood the movie is bloody and violent, foulmouthed and dirty. Just like the old times, of sort. Something's missing, sure, maybe it feels like it's merely a subtle apology for the fans. Don't care much, a good effort, welcome back. Hopefully they'll be doing another.