After two phenomenally balanced, carefully constructed and emotionally dense seasons, the third one seems a bit muddled, inconsistent and less suspenseful than we are used to. The frequent twists and turns around Brody's character actually caused him to become quite fundamentally exhausted as a main figure, and the…

A whole lot of nothing. It’s a shame that the screenplay for Wolves wasn’t written by Shane Black or Quentin Tarantino, or anyone who can write a funny line and enrich the dialogue with something meaningful. It's okay to avoid suspense and action when you have something to say, and yes, it can be something as banal as…

80's horror movies are the best, but unfortunately this is not one of them. Most of the time I felt like I was watching a comedy – the opening chase of Malcolm by the wardens of the asylum was like something out of a slapstick movie. Just when Linda thinks she can make cheap money babysitting a kid, but she finds out…

An average entry into the zombie horror genre, which has recently moved into cheap B-movies. This one was obviously a bit more expensive, but it doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of story. It’s a character drama set at the beginning of the apocalypse, but it is slow to get going and it's only in the…

A now time-tested classic that relies on great practical effects that easily leave today's CGI crap biting the dust, with giant worms who seem to have come out of the best of Stan Winston's productions. In terms of plot, it's an admittedly monster B-movie, but with A-list production and top-notch practical effects.…

In the opening, we witness the assault on fifteen-year-old Annette and then the brutal torture of a pervert. Of course, we don’t get to see the welding work, but I wouldn't have expected that. Well, then comes the drama, as Jeff Farrell, an American painter who has just let his rich mistress go, gets caught between…

Surrealistic horror has dream manipulation as its main motif, where the subject is always in an extreme situation where death awaits. A professor would like the students participating in an experimental program to be able to die in their dreams and to cross the imaginary boundary between life and death. The next part…

A survival flick with classically unlikeable characters, where instead of mountains and forests there is an island jungle. At least it's nice. Peter's a macho guy, so it's no surprise that the crew of his ship is shipwrecked at an island inhabited by a strange tribe that looks like a cross between a monkey and leopard…

An excellent visual poem using various filmmaking techniques including blending, collage and animation. Micro-stories, associations, contrasts, parallels. Composition, perspective, detail. Poverty and wealth, marriage and divorce, man and machine. On one side a girl chastely dresses with her back to the camera, on the…

I've enjoyed Shyamalan's recent films quite a bit, the most so far being Knock at the Cabin. With The Trap, it bothers me a bit he's abandoned mystery (though it's in the genres here) combined with fantasy. It's the unexpected kind of thing that makes you say “damn!” Still, I liked the hunt for the killer, on the one…