Finally. The movie I was looking the most foward since the start of this column and even though many articles have been written about the greatness of The Killer, this article managed to perfectly articulate why this film is an absolute masterpiece. I saw it the first time about ten years ago and it changed my…

Keeping up with my increasing love for contemporary South Korean cinema, I saw two films at a local film festival themed around Korean films. One was Veteran; a fast paced, energetic, sometimes roaringly hilarious, other times chillingly dark action-comedy with a very likable cast, great action (the psychical/prop…

"I'm ready my Lord"

Caught up with some the recent stuff at the movies:
- Jack Reacher Never Go Back: Ugh, what a letdown this was. The first one was a slick, cool crime thriller with a great cast, excellent action scenes and even some 70's thriller vibes. This one on the other hand is a contrived, underwritten borefest where Tom Cruise…

"-Attention, whoever you are, this channel is reserved for emergency calls only.
-No fucking shit, lady. Does it sound like I'm ordering a pizza?"

I have a pretty strange history with this show. I saw the first season as a kid (it came out in my country roughly 2-3 year after the US premiere) and really likes it despite the downbeat ending. I mean as a 12 year old it was surreal to witness an action-packed story where the hero saves the day yet he would still…

This week I had a bit more free time, thus I kinda made up for the absence or almost minimal level in my pop culture consumment

Wanted to watch a lot of movies this weekend…and I enden up watching almost nothing (yep, this was one of those weekends) expect for The Last King which is like a Norwegian version of Neil Marshall's Centurion. A fast paced historical actioner with a simple premise and execution, raw, primal violence and action with…

Can't we just fucking catapult this year to the sun already? I'm already dreading who are we gonna lose in the remaining two months. He was a truly fantastic artist with a down-to-earth style perfect for a series like Preacher. R.I.P.

The first eight minutes is one of the best movie openings ever.

I'm just gonna copy my comment from Noel Murray's article: I'll always be the contractarian who considers the second film to be his favorite. Of course the first one is a classic too, but in the second one everything clicks even better: The story, the cast, the action and the switches between drama and humor. And…

That's kind of a tough question. I pretty much loved every single album they made, but I find Option Paralysis their strongest and most cohesive record next to Irony and Calculating Infinity. The core of their music always remains the same, the differences lie in the execution and the small nuances (like some of the…

Saturday was working day and on Sunday me and my family visited relatives, so my pop culture weekend pretty much consisted of two things. Watching Lights Out, which is a pretty decent horror flick, with a good gimmick, some effective scares and even the ending suprised me a little bit.
The other was listening to the…

Watched Kubo and the Two Strings and it fucking kills me that this movie didn't made it big time at the box office, because nearly every frame is a feast of creative visual beauty and a testament of what talented people can do with stop-motion animation. Not to mention a simple but well told story, that channels the…

I love this movie to death. Not only it's more thoughtfully and well written than most sci-fi actioners, but James Cameron's direction is so precise and intense it makes the whole package shine. Not a single moment wasted, not a charather without function, the set design, the atmosphere, the action and the VFX beats…

Two domestic films have came out this week (for those who wonder I live in Hungary, so for me Hungarian films are the "domestic" cinema): "The Well" and "It's Not the Time of My Life". The former is a slow-burner type of thriller with a desolate setting, constatnt rising tension and sudden explosions of violence. It…

Rewatched the JCVD vehicle Death Warrant featuring a young, ripped Van Damme in his roundhouse kick prime and some of the most over-the-top prison fight scenes ever put to film. Patrick Kilpatrick is also amazing as the villain who survives nearly everything, including being thrown into a furnace and impaled into a…

Much like many people here in the comment section I loved this film when I was a kid. The jungle, the knife, the exploding arrows, the body count, the general over-the-top attitude and of course the muscular and hypermasculine John Rambo definied everything I thought about action movies. I couldn't care less about its…

LA Confidential is quite simply the best imaginable adaptation one can make out of a James Ellroy novel, and one of the best films of the 90's hands down. Also Wonder Boys is a really underrated film and another proof of his directing capabilities.

Because I'm an idiot who watches B movie action shlock on the big screen, I went and watched Collide. For those who don't know what movie it is, it's the one where Nicholas Hoult (Nux from Mad Max Fury Road) plays an American in Germany, getting into a wild goose chase for two hours to save the love of his life, Ben…