The Gangster the cop the devil (Akinjeon)

Who ever catched him keeps him

Year: 2019
Director: Won-Tae Lee
Writer: Won-Tae Lee
Starring: Ma Dong-seok, Jeon Bae-soo, Mu-Yeol Kim, Park Bo-kyung , Kim Sungkyu, Heo Dong-won, Gyu-ri Kim, Seung-mok Yoo, Cha Soon-bae, Choi Chul Min
What is this about: Jung Tae-seok is a cop trying to catch a serial killer, but corruption and organize crime makes his personal mission difficult when he can't trust his boss or witness who survived killers attack.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Visuality, characters, plot twists. Violent but not too dark.
How did I felt: Entertained. Engaging and creepy plot kept interested.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 2,5/5

Filth

 Never thought I'd leave brothel with more spunk than I came in with

Year: 2013
Director: Jon S. Baird

Writers: Jon S. Baird, Irvine Welsh 

Starring: James McAvoy, Jamie Bell, Imogen Poots, Shauna Macdonald, Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt

What is this about: Bruce is a cop with problematic relation with sex and intoxicans. He's trying to fix his personal life and succes his job very unethical ways and solve a murder case which could give him promotion.

Content warnings: Sex, drugs, violence. Not politically correct.

Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3/5
Best about it: Twisted and sad characters, plot is same time realistic and over the top.
How did I felt: Entertained, I really liked this one. Light and deep at the same time. It starts as an dark/good mood gategory but turns out to be something else. I just rewatched this after many years and this time I felt more sad.

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Every Rejection, Every Disappointment Has Led You Here To This Moment

Year: 2022
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Writer: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie HsuKe, Huy Quan, James Hong , Jamie Lee Curtis, Tallie Medel, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr.
What is this about: Most of us think occasionally 'what if' about choises we made in the past. Evelyn Wang is in trouble with their family businesses taxes and she gots and opportunity to find solution from multiverses.

Content warnings: This was k16 but nothing brutal
Best about it: Costume design and and great characters. Light and entertaining movie but characters were also deep. This has something similarry crazy as the movie 'John dies at the end'.
How did I felt: Entertained
Goodness: 4,5/5
Weirdness: 4/5

BigBug

Human soldiers are vulnerable to exreme temperatures.

Yonyx, the future of humanity.

Year: 2022
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant
Starring: Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, Claude Perron, Stéphane De Groodt, Youssef Hajdi, Claire Chust, François Levantal, Alban Lenoir, Marysole Fertard, Hélie Thonnat, Juliette Wiatr, André Dussollier, Benoît Allemane, Dominique Pinon 
What is this about: In the near future robots and adroids are part of everyday life and they seemed to be helpful until the AI refuses to open the door and group of relatives and friends are trapped inside.

Best about it: I loved the costumes, interiors and other visuality and how the futuristic world was showed. I also like french language.
How did I felt: Entertained. The plot ain't mindlowing, but that's not what I was looking for anyway.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 3/5

The Hunt

 It's amazing to me. People go their entire lives without realizing the most simple, obvious truth. The only way to properly slice tomatoes is with a bread knife. 

 

Year: 2020
Director: Craig Zobel
Writer: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
Starring: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts, Christopher Berry, Sturgill Simpson, Kate Nowlin, Reed Birney   

What is this about: Group of people find out they've been kid napped to be part of human hunt and the events of surviving and finding out what is going on starts. Some similarties with the movie Turkey Shoot (1982) wich I happened to see last fall, but happily enough differences too.

Content warnings: Violence
Best about it: Weirdly smart with several plot twists, not only hunting as I hought it would be
How did I felt: Suprised! I did'nt excpect this to be so good. I felt entertained.
Goodness: 4/5
Weirdness: 4/5

TV serie: Harlots

 I only have a few rules, girls. No orgies, flagellation, or bestiality. Otherwise you are at liberty to entertain gentleman callers as you wish.

Beginning of this year has been really quiet with good movies, but I watched excellent tv serie Harlots from Yle Areena. 

Directors: Coky Giedroyc,  Jill Robertson, China Moo-Young, Philippa Langdale, Robin Sheppard, Chloe Thomas, Debs Paterson
Writers: Moira Buffini, Alison Newman, Hallie Rubenhold, Jane English, Cat Jones, Jessica Ruston, Debbie O'Malley, Emer Kenny, Vivienne Harvey
Starring: Lesley Manville, Kate Fleetwood, Holli Dempsey, Eloise Smyth , Bronwyn James, Danny Sapani, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Ellie Heydon, Samantha Morton, Jessica Brown Findlay     Jessica Brown Findlay , Jordan A. Nash, Douggie McMeekin, Liv Tyler, Edward Hogg, Hugh Skinner, Lex Shrapnel, Jojo Macari 

What is this about: Class society, poverty, rasism and gender inequality in 1800th century London. Main characters are form Wells family: a mother who has a brothel and her daughters who needs to earn their living.

Content warnings: Sexual assaul, violence
Best about it: Entertaining drama but made me think some serious topics how the world wasn't and isn't as good to everyone. Also some moral issues were presented: how awful things people are able to do when they want to save themselves.
How did I felt: Interested an entertained. Pinge watching this occasionally, very well done. Partly the show feels a bit too soap opera with all the gossiping but it doesn't take all tha attention and the the costumes, the characters, the plot and everything together works.
Goodness: 5/5
Weirdness: 2/5

Tenet

The rest is fate and I don't have it

Year: 2020
Director: Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Starring: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Kenneth Branagh

What is this about: Secret agent finds out time doesn't work the way we always thought when is he is recruited to work for project called Tenet and finds out objects can move backward through time.


Content warnings: Action kind of violence
Best about it: Smart and well made. I liked the start, but suprises ended too quickly. If you're action film lover you'll like this.
How did I felt: Dissapointed! Don't get me wrong, the movie was fine as a action movie, but it could have potential to be great sci-fi mystery or something more and that's what I kind of expected and didn't get. Also as some Nolans movies tend to be, this was too long and somehow main characters were not easy to identify with. I was big fan of Nolan's Inception (2010) and Memento (2000) so that propably affected my expectations.
Goodness: 3,5/5
Weirdness: 2/5

2021

Here's 12 good movies I've seen in 2021 that I didn't make a post about. Short introduction it is then, so that these can get more public awareness and also for me to remember these better.

 ID: A (2011)

Woman wakes up in a river and remembers nothing. She tries to solve what happened before. Super good and underrated mystery drama thriller. 4,5/5

The Invisible Man (2020)

Cesilia escapes her manipulative and abussive husband and feels that she is hunted by a man no-one sees. Realy nice mystery drama with horror and scifi elements. 5/5

 

MidSommar (2019)

Smart cult themed horror movie directed by Ari Aster. Ominous atmosphere from beginning 'till the end. 4/5

 

Fantastic Planet (1973)

Directed by René Laloux and written by Laloux and Roland Topor. This felt oddly very timely even it's made almost 50 years ago. This animated science fiction film is dystopian where humans are kept as animals (called Oms) by humanoids in technologically and spiritually advanced society. Some Oms are kept  as pets while others live in the nature and are periodically slaughtered to control their population. 4/5

 

Barking dogs never bite (2000)

This was special, because I went to the movies after a really long pandemia break. Movie itself was great too. South Korean  dark comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho was sort of slow and with only limited plottwists but enough to keep me interested. 4/5

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring/Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom (2003)

Minimalistic strong drama directed by Kim Ki-duk. Unique and slightely depressing but beautiful. 4/5

Naked Lunch (1991)

David Cronenbergs Naked Lunch is based on novel by William S. Burroughs. Really bizarre mix of crime, mystery and drama made with surrealistic touch. 4,5/5

Taipei Suicide Story

Short movie about hotel where desperate people come to commit suicide. Very warm and thoughtful film. 5/5

Hotel Artemis (2018)

Sort of an easy good mood crime movie, but with dystopian and action vibes. Slightly psychological but still easy to watch. 4/5

Hypnotic (2021)

Psychological trauma themed Netflix thriller, directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote, written by Richard D'Ovidio and starring Kate Siegel, Jason O'Mara, and Dulé Hill. Very true to its genre and nothing wrong with it. 3,5/5

 

The Invisible Guest/ Contratiempo (2016)

Nice mystery drama thriller by Oriol Paulo. Adrian is accused of a murder that happened in the closed room and he has only few hours to find our what happened and how to defend.

 

Don't look up (2021)

One of the most talked movies of the year. Comet is about to destroy planet Earth and movie directed by Adam McKay and strred by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence is filled with parables of how covid and/or climat change are considered amoung conspiracy theorists, media and politics. Nice scifi drama comedy, but partly painful to watch as it's so accurate. 4,5/5