Night of the spitting worms

British guys, comic book and sci-fi geeks Graeme and Clive (Simon Pegg & Nick Frost), meet a real alien Paul and they have a wonderful time together driving through the heartland America in an RV. Too bad the Feds are out to get them though. A rather amusing comedy and a buddy movie.

Friends until the end

Two lads get kidnapped. The other one escapes, but instead of running and calling for help he bravely but foolishy decides to go back to help his friend. His stupidity doesn't end there. Far from it, but just about every character's logic has gone haywire, so it's not just him. A creepy little thing in its own right, but moronic shit beyond belief. Pretty good laugh though.

Just a touch of diftong

The officers of the law in a small town somewhere in New Mexico want one of its citizens dead, so they hire a mysterious gunfighter (Yul Brynner) to do the job for them. Somehow though it seems that the hired killer isn't intend of doing what he's being paid. A moody and melodramatic western, but mediocre at best.

Egocentric little freak

Kenneth Branagh has done brilliantly with the two Agatha Christie adaptations and thus proven he's a great artist as a director, writer and actor. He's crafting his own genre of reminiscences of the past masters and utilizing everything that is new in the world of cinema. Of course Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile are backed by Agatha Christie's terrific murder mysteries, but Kenneth Branagh brought them back to life in stupendously beautiful manner.

Choking on oatmeal

It's the same narrative as in his (Jonas Berghäll's) Miesten vuoro (Steam of Life) from 2010. A documentary of real life tragedies that are pretty heartbreaking to hear, but the film maker also added his personal problems (obesity, loneliness, exhaustion) in the mix. Back then Miesten vuoro took a chokehold, it was such a breath-taking depiction of the hardship of a common man that Miehiä ja poikia has quite a legacy to escape, but I reckon unheard harrowing stories never end.

Nightmares not to be believed

What was funny in 1988 necessarily ain't funny now. Someone or something like Monthy Python have proved their comedy stands the test of time. Charlie Chaplin as well. Mel Brooks perhaps. I bet Ricky Gervais will do as well. The 80s and early 1990s Hollywood comedy (either Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Steve Martin, Chevy Chase or Tom Hanks's cuts) seems some a little naive now. But at the same time, it's - like The Great Outdoors - adorably good-spirited and sincere. Hardly makes you laugh though.

Both sides in the game

It seems Swedish officers made a terrible mistake 15 years ago and sent an innocent man to jail for of murdering a girl! Someone must go to the bottom of this, the police have to admit they've been all wrong and find the real culprit. Or are they wrong yet again and thus a laughing stock of whole Norrland's community. There have been two movies before and the season 1 as well - and it's still pretty fantastic.

History is not propaganda

Do we need yet another Adolf Hitler documentary? Apparently we do because there are still people trying to outhitler Hitler. Historians (Saul Friedländer, Richard Lenze) and authors (Martis Amis) and Holocaust deniers (David Irving) speak their mind, but it goes nowhere.

Make the most of it

I laughed out loud. And hard. Take a bow to this guy. It's vulgar yet intelligent, off-limits masterclass. A little reminder that you shouldn't take any shit seriously.

Descending winds from the mountainous shadows

After the final episode (Una tradición familiar), you realize you are going to miss the show, all these guys and all the action and excitement like hell. You had witnessed something so extraordinary in La Casa de papel's (Money Heist) 41 episodes that it left a lasting remark. You possibly dread that Hollywood will franchise and rape it to shit, but they should be intelligent enough to stay the hell out of its legacy. A brilliant series, I'm thankful.

The sleeping giants

Nothing beats a good nature documentary. By the MRP Matila Röhr Productions production company at first there was Metsän Tarina (Tale of a Forest), it was followed by Järven Tarina (Tale of a Lake) and now Tunturin Tarina (Tale of the Sleeping Giants), probably the best of the lot. Amazing cinematography of the almost otherwordly northern wilderness and the greatest animals (wolverines, bears, owls, moose and reindeer). Prepare to get mesmerized.

The undertakers win

The war is not his, widower farmer Charlie Anderson's. He just wants to grow tomatoes, herd chicken, cows and horses. Live a peaceful life. But the Civil War, the State of Virginia and ultimately Abraham Lincoln want him and his six sons to fight the war. They are having none of that, so they're caught in a crossfire of two sides. Only when things gets personal, war concerns them. Quite an entertaining western from 1965.

Becoming a passenger

Sam and Tucker are a couple. One of them is seriously ill. The fucking Alzheimer's disease is eating him out. You shouldn't mourn someone while they are still alive, but what if you exist but lose control of your life? An emotional feature that deliciously dwells in its misery and the heavyweights Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci pulled it off incredibly well.

For the glorification of the massive ego

A slow-burner season # 5, but when things got cookin' it was fireworks all the way. Classic episodes such as The Opposite, The Hamptons, The Puffy Shirt and one of their most highly rated The Marine Biologist.

The nastiest stuff you've ever tried

Life is not too complicated in Slab City, a trailerpark area in the Sonoran Desert, Southern California. The people who live there are a varied bunch, offbeat somewhat troubled souls, but they enjoy the company of themselves, the sun and the heat, and the morning brew in a ramshackle internet cafe.  A documentary feature.

Flying out into the darkness to fight ghosts

Due to a hiccup in Doctor Strange's spell they've summoned monsters from other universes and dimensions. Spider-Man (Tom Holland) now must catch and release them to their natural habitats. It would be fascinating if you'd give a fuck. Guest starring Andrew Garfield and Tobey Maquire, revisiting their roles as a Spider-Man.

The darkness in you

Just ridiculous and weird. A guy on parole goes to his brother's wake at an armor-plated bed and breakfast establishment in an island in the Pacific Ocean and he's followed by an army of bad guys and the feds. Everything is askew. The story is fucked. The actors even more. Mel Gibson is alright, but he's there just for an advertisement. Interesting to follow Scott Eastwood's career, he was quite good in The Outpost (2019), but hits rock bottom with this one.

Lying is easy when you tell the truth

Back in the day I read a lot of Charles Willeford fiction and they were a lot different to The Burnt Orange Heresy (also known as Picture of Lies) that is based on one of his books. I obviously missed that one. I wish they had filmed New Hope for the Dead, Miami Blues, The Way We Die Now or any of the pulp classics because this thing never ignited. An art collector (Mick Jagger), an ambitious and desperate art critic (Claes Bang), a reclusive artist (Donald Sutherland) and a random woman (Elizabeth Debicki) in a collision course.

Blood is thicker than evidence

What a bloody treat. Prob'ly hadn't seen this classic before. Released in 1957, directed by Billy Wilder, based on an Agatha Christie novel, starring Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. Stars are aligned. A wealthy woman is murdered and they have to find out who fucking did it.

Talking loud and saying nothing

Every time Jack McCall (Eddie Murphy) says a word, a leaf falls from his garden tree. And when there's no leaves to fall, he dies. There are 1,000 leaves in the tree, so if he must speak he has to use the words wisely. A far-fetched and ludicrous story, a comedy that too desperately tries to be funny and without a proper household name and an expert for physical and verbal comedy for a leading role, the movie would be - quite honestly - qualityless.