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Cruella (2021)
A real tenner
Now what lets this film being rated this highly. Mainly because of two things.
What we knew going into this film: We knew Emma Thompson always deliver a fantastic performance. Sure she does this again as the well-known designer The Baroness. One of The Baronress' best decisions is to hire the young designer Estella, played by Emma Stone, and here is the first reason to judge this film so well. This is probably the first film where you discover that Stone is gonna be one of the, if not the, best actress currently around. She's so delightful as Cruella and Estella.
This can only make one pray that Cruella 2 is gonna be a reality.
This isn't telling much of the ongoings in this film, perhaps you should know, that this is not like 101 Dalmatians, which wasn't bad, but it's a lot darker, and better.
You may ask, what's the second reason? Well, easy, in my opinion this film has the best soundtrack ever!
Silent Night (2023)
Not so christmassy
John Woo equals action, and sure, there's a lot of that, but really just in the latter half of movie. Probably you could call this a drama/action movie. A seven year old boy is killed by a stray bullet on the 24th of December. Daddy following the killers, but get shot by the gang boss. He survives but can't speak anymore.
The parents now has to live through the nightmare that all parents have, losing their young child. The father breaks totally, now the mother have to cope with the loss of a child and a totally absent husband. She has to be the strongest of the two.
Father starts drinking, totally ignoring the mother's grief and struggle. But one day the father more or less awakens, now with just one thought, revenge.
Now we're at least half way through the film. We watch the father prepare for his plans to kill every gang member. We witness what the mother has to do, we witness the dilemma of a policeman, and we witness the revenge.
The drama part and the action part are very well made. Leaving the question, what would you do if you could, being in the same situation as these parents?
Ammonite (2020)
Love and fossilhunting
It's 1842 and we're in Lyme, a small town 135 miles from London. Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and her mother are the owners of a small fossil shop for the tourists. The fossils are found by Mary around the beach.
One day the amateur fossil hunter, Mr Murchison, comes to Lyme with his wife Charlotte (Saoirse Ronan). They are there for two reasons. Firstly because Charlotte has had a miscarriage, and need quiet and fresh air in the small town, secondly because Mr Murchison wants to follow Mary at work, and buy some fossils.
Mr Murchison makes an agreement with Mary that when he leaves, Mary will take care of Charlotte, and show her how she works.
Mr Murchison leaves, and the two women are left to fossil hunt. Mary doesn't really like Charlotte, but does it for the money. Charlotte isn't at all well and one day she faints. Despite Mary's problems with her she promises the local doctor to care of her.
She's very sick, but Mary really takes good care for her, and she gets well again.
During the time that follows the two women actually falls in love.
Now this is a kind of film that the Brits do so very well. When you also has two of the finest actresses in the world to play the leads, it's fantastic. As a matter of fact the two women's characters are built on real people, who in real life were friends, but not lovers. It's all so subtle and beautiful and a real masterclass in acting, a real gem.
Twist (2021)
Modern day Britain
A very free adaption of Dickens' Oliver Twist. Young man, named Oliver Twist, called Twist is a grafitti artist, who after losing his young mother is homeless, sometimes sleeping at an art museum. One day, running from the police, he meets two young people who helps him, and takes him to where they live. There he's introduced to Michael Caine (and yes, he's called Fagin!) Fagin likes Twist and offer him to stay with them at the place, housing some young thieves.
During this Twist meets a girl named Nancy but called Red. Twist falls for Red right away and becomes part of Fagins gang. The gang are planning a theft from a criminal arts dealer, who once cheated Fagin.
Fagin is more or less pressured into being helped by the tough Lena Headey, playing Sikes. The fun can begin.
This is a very British film. Some plot holes, but still quite entertaining. The two well known , good actors, are doing fine. The young ones too. Yes, Rita Ora can act, but amongst them all especially Sophie Simnett, playing Red, deserves some more roles. All in all a decent use of 90 minutes.
Way Out West (1937)
Everlasting Fun
This time Laurel and Hardy are creating chaos in The Wild West. It's one of their most classic films. Containing three of their most loved gags. They're singing "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine", a song that became a hit again in the Seventies in the UK. Then they're dancing to "At the Ball, That's All", what a sight. Then there's the gag with Stan making fire with his thumb!
The two friends are arriving in the little town called Brushwood Gulch. They're there to deliver an inherited deed for a goldmine to a young woman. A bar owner (played by their arch enemy James Finlayson) and his wife are trying to steal the deed. Totally chaos can begin.
A very recommended film.
Sons of the Desert (1933)
Another very fine mess
Laurel and Hardy are both members of the Californian chapter of Sons of the Desert (there's no explanation why, but who really cares?). At a meeting it's made official that the next convention for all chapters will be held in Chicago.
Now our two friends will have to get permission from their wifes. That, of course, doesn't go well. They soon agree to cheat to go to Chicago, of course they succeed. From here on it's business as usual, and what a business.
This is perhaps the funniest of their films, it's intelligent gags upon gags, and very successfully done.
Fun fact: In Denmark a very, very popular comedy quartet are named after this film, and they even use The Sons of the Desert song from the film in their show.
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Who are you gonna call?
It was the year of the 100th anniversary for Disney, 2023. That didn't turn out to be their best year. Haunted Mansion was also quite a failure and didn't earn its costs back.
What went wrong? Well, during the runtime of more than two hours, far too much happen, ghosts en masse. Perhaps there should have been cut half an hour off, and far less ghost action.
The missing success certainly isn't because of the actors who all does a fine job. Even a welcomed small part by Marilu Henner as tourist and an uncredited part for the always good Winona Ryder as tour guide Pat.
The force of the film is the story of how the people who ends up in the mansion gets together. It's certainly not a terrible film and it can easily be used on a rainy night for entertainment.
Block-Heads (1938)
But honey, Stan is diff'rent
The two friends Oliver and Stan are fighting in the 1. World War. In 1918 the soldiers are given orders to attack the enemy. Stan is the only one left behind to guard their place. Now the war ends, but nobody tells Stan, and when he is given an order, he does what he's told. The years go by, and Stan isn't found until 1938. 20 years gone.
Meanwhile Oliver has been married. On his first anniversary he sees a picture of the honored Stan in the newspaper, being real glad his old friend has survived. He plans to invite Stan to live with the happy couple and drives to the Soldier's Home
So now their old shenanigans start. Many of the gags are pure genious. At the same time you can't explain them. Let me just say that they run into their arch enemy of course played by James Finlayson.
It sure is one of the pair's best. I don't really think that any films made these days reminds the viewers of today's film to what Laurel and Hardy did. Perhaps closest comes Carrey and Daniels in Dumb and Dumber.
Let ne finish with a conversation in the film:
Lady: "How did you know you weren't dead?" Stan: "I saw my picture in the papers".
Fletch (1985)
Don't worry, he's on the C(h)ase!
Chevy Chase have two characters in his CV that are really golden. First of course Clark in the Griswold dynasty in the Vacation films. But also as Irwin Fletcher in the two Fletch films.
This is the first, where he's being a journalist who is trying to solve who is behind the drug dealing at a Los Angeles beach.
To detect the matter he is using a lot of identities, amongst them Ted Nugent and Harry S. Truman.
He's being offered a very strange job by a rich man, leading him to fall in love with the man's beautiful wife.
It's richly entertaining and funny, directed with a steady hand by Michael Ritchie.
You'll meet young versions of George Wendt and also Geena Davis as Fletch's colleague Larry.
Should you be that kind of person you'll also be hearing a VERY eighties soundtrack made by Harold Faltermeyer.
The film is hereby very recommended.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Cozy ghost hunting
Another fine entry in the Ghostbusters series. Again, like in Afterlife, we have a mix of old and new characters. A good mix it is, and always a pleasure to watch Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd.
A difference between then and now is that the special effects really have improved, but still we have a reappearance of classics like Slimey and the lady in the library. People gets slimed and scared again.
Ghostbusters really is a trademark to be reconned with, always fine actors and a fine story told, even though its not normally daily experiences that people will live through.
If an actor deserves a special mention this time it must be Mckenna Grace who is doing a very fine job portraying Phoebe.
If you have enjoyed any of the other films in the series, you should really give this a chance also.
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
The Halloween Party
It's the year 1947, the Second World War has ended, and people can again visit the countries of our enemies. We are in Venice, Italy. Here, the detective Hercule Poirot is living after his retirement. One day an acquaintance visits him to invite him to a Halloween party, so that he can help her prove that a medium is a fraud, at a seance being hold at the party.
This is the third Kenneth Branagh movie as star and director of the Poirot books by Agatha Christie. It's by far the darkest of the three, and as opposed to the other two, this is not filled with a-list actors, but that's no problem at all, there's very fine acting all around especially by Branagh and Michelle Yeoh.
This is also the first time that Poirot come to doubt his skills as a detective. Though he seems quite successful in solving this case, there's still left a few things to answer, does Poirot now believe that there is a God and that ghosts exists?
The Great Race (1965)
Around (some of) the world
Blake Edwards manage to fill this movie with an impressive star cast. Now as in many of his films he really doesn't succeed in making it as funny as you as a viewer would like to hope. He really hit it home with the Seller starring The Party, but also with the Pink Panther films (again with Peter Sellers) and of course with Breakfast At Tiffany's.
This 1965 film is happening in 1908, the early times for the cars. So naturally it's about a race from New York to Paris. The whiteclad hero being played by Tony Curtis. He's doing a fine job as does Peter Falk and Keenan Wynn. The very hyper bad guy is portrayed by Jack Lemmon, he even has a double part, also playing a just as hyper crown prince. For once he really aren't very good, he's not that perfect being hysterical in this film, too much slapstick. The only actor that really shines is the very beautiful Natalie Wood.
It's quite clear why the film is dedicated to Laurel and Hardy, but they would have made a better choice for this sort of film. Especially in the first hour it seems that Edwards is trying to put five gags pr. Minute into the film, far too much.
Madame Web (2024)
As a matter of fact, this is really good.
I must admit I wasn't invited to the meeting where it was decided that Madame Webb is a terrible film. So I think I can write what I think?
I will also admit that I really liked The Marvels, even thought it was the most fun Marvel film.
Madame Webb is sure not a normal Marvel film. Not many capes or superhero uniforms in sight. There was spider people but no Spider-man, is that bad?
The lead roles are all women, the director is a woman, is that bad? Actually I think it was all very well played, and really good direction.
All in all not the normal Marvel content, perhaps it was more of a thriller/action movie.
Nice to see Dakota Johnson carrying a film of this size.
I found it really entertaining.
The Estate (2022)
Should have been so much better
Aunt Hilda (Kathleen Turner) has been diagnosed with cancer and have little time left. As the close family hears about this, they appear one by one to Hilda's big mansion. Trying to convince Hilda to be the one to inherit her large fortune.
There's the sisters Macey (Toni Collette) and Savanna (Anna Faris) who have tried to run their father's restaurant, with not a lot of success, and the bank is about to close the place. First arriving though are the couple Beatrice (Rosemarie DeWitt) and James (Ron Livingston), also running out of money. Last in line is Richard (he now prefers Dick) (David Duchovny).
Now they all try to impress Hilda, not very impressive though. But they're doing an effort. Trying to give Hilda a last erotic encounter with the boy, now old man, who fancied her in high school. They try to take her to visit her sister, they have been enemies for a long time.
I guess that this film hasn't been thought much about, when the action was made, probably not filled a lot in the script. As a viewer of this film you will be a step ahead of the happenings at all time.
The most surprising thing about this film is the fantastic cast, however they were persuaded to perform here is hard to understand.
Vita & Virginia (2018)
Popularity was never a sign of genius
This is a real story of real people. In the centre of it all is the two authors / writers Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton) and Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki). They met at a party in December 1922. Vita has for a long time wanted to meet Virginia. She's very impressed by the writing of Virginia, who up until now hasn't really been that popular. Vita was more popular, a real socialite, and with a reputation of being a lesbian. She is married to Harold Nicolson (Rupert Penry-Jones) who, as a matter of fact, is a gay man.
Virginia is living with her crew, consisting of her husband Clyde (Gethin Anthony) her sister Vanessa called Nessa (Emerald Fennell), and to top it off Nessa's sometimes lover, the gay Duncan (Adam Gillen).
Vita's mother (Isabella Rossellini) warns her of getting to close to Virginia, calling her and her crew socialists and bohemian. Vita certainly got a mine of her own, and after some fighting, she starts having an affair with Virginia, bringing her a new discovery of enjoying sex in a different way.
It's quite obvious that this relationship won't be without problems, but it's a gift to see how this, for the times, strange friendship will end.
This movie, directed by Chanya Button, probably contains the best chemistry between two actors. Gemma Arterton co-produced the film and really starting the whole thing. It's so well acted by all, but the two leads really deserves all accolades coming their way. The only thing that could have made this experience better for me, would be that I have known more about the works of the two women. Woolf's book Orlando is written about their relationship. They ended up as friends through 15 years until Virginia's suicide in 1941.
On the Rocks (2020)
"We all just wanna be loved"
Laura (Rashida Jones) is married to Dean (Marlon Wayans), they have got two very nice kids. Living in New York, Dean is starting up a new business, with a lot of success, but keeping him away from home a lot. Laura is an author, but at present, she's having problems writing. Laura's taking care of the kids, bringing them to school and daycare and taking them home again. In the working hours she's trying to write, but mostly not getting anywhere.
It's during this time that Laura seems to detect a certain lack of interest from Dean, and she starts to suspect, that Dean could be having an affair. Not really having any friends to talk with about her problems, she contacts her father Felix (Bill Murray) for advice. Laura's parents have divorced, with Felix being the cheater, so he most naturally know about things. One of Dean's new co-workers is Fiona (Jessica Henwick), she is the suspect to have feelings for Dean.
Felix and Laura agrees on following the two around having dinners in New York, and even plans on following the suspects on a business trip to Mexico. Will they be able to catch the two in the act?
This film brought the director Sofia Coppola together with Bill Murray again. That brings you in a state of hysterics, could the two deliver a masterpiece that was "Lost In Translation". No, they couldn't, but that was also quite impossible to do. What we get is an entertaining, quiet little film, that despite the question of adultery, really ends up being a film about father and daughter. All parts are very well played, of course as always, Murray is in a class by himself. Also nice to see Wayans in a more dramatic part, than he usually plays.
Coppola has a certain way to make films, perhaps one can say it's the French way, using the time it takes to tell a story, in a human speed, with beautiful takes.
The Flash (2023)
Hope they'll be back in a flash (II)
Barry Allen aka The Flash (Ezra Miller) is waiting to be served a sandwich at a diner, when he receives a call from Alfred Pennyworth (Jeremy Irons) with a plea to stand in for Batman (Ben Affleck) who are chasing the thieves of a deadly virus.
The problem is in Gotham where a hospital is falling apart, endangering patients and staff. Barry lets sandwich be sandwich and hurries to the hospital, where he saves all, while the building gets destroyed. After that he rushes back to the diner, to get his sandwich, and go to work. His biggest worries are an upcoming trial against his father Henry (Ron Livingston), who is being accused of the murder of his wife, Barry's mother, Nora (Maribel Verdu). An old school pal Iris West (Kiersey Clemons) is now a journalist and she questions Barry, if he has anything to say regarding his father's case, though both seem to like each other quite a lot, Barry won't talk with her because he is feeling misused.
Thinking of his incredible speed, he wonders if he can, so to say, run back in time, and hopefully find out who is the real killer of his mother, and perhaps even save her life. He gived it a try, and at first it seems that he is lucky. He is now at his parent's house, and Nora is still alive.
But suddenly he finds out that there's something wrong, because he can see himself coming home from school, only as a younger version. He succeeds in stopping the younger Barry. They talk and slowly it dawns on him, that he has arrived in a wrong timeline. Meanwhile Superman's old Nemesis General Zod (Michael Shannon) has landed, he will destroy the world, if they won't bring him the last living Krypton person on Earth. Barry can see he needs help and says he will be trying to contact Superman. But as it turns out, nobody in this timeline knows Superman. Therefore he will try to look up his friend Batman. Together, the two Barry's find Wayne's Manor.
To Barry's big surprise, the Bruce Wayne they meet is not the man he knows, this Batman (Michael Keaton) has been retired for 25 years. He chooses to help them, and they find out that the last person from Krypton, is being held captive in Russia. Off they go in the Bat-plane. It shows that they're arriving in a facility with lots of scientists, and learn that the wanted person is being held in solitude, and has been for years.
Of course they find the prison, and they discover that it contains a person from Krypton, but it's not Superman, it's Supergirl aka Kara Zor-el (Sasha Calle). Now the three superheroes sets off to fight General Zod, a very exciting and dangerous fight.
This is the superhero movie that in my opinion makes the best use of the Multiverse. It also stands out in the way that is one of those superhero films that uses quite a lot of humour, perhaps only outdone by Batman: The Movie (1966), and the two DeadPool movies (2016 & 2018). There's really good acting all around, and it's quite fantastic how Ezra Miller is playing both Barrys. There is a couple of cameos to look out for, George Clooney, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa. The film has been long underways, but director Andy Muschietti has done a real good job. It also must be said that it's wonderful to see Michael Keaton back as Batman. Hopefully there will be a sequel. A little fun thing: While Barry is waiting for his sandwich at the diner, the radio starts playing the fantastic Chicago song "If You Leave Me Now". Then Alfred calls. When Barry returns from saving all the people at the hospital, the Chicago song is still playing on the radio.
The Missing (2003)
Well played and exciting
We're in New Mexico it's 1885. Magdalena (Maggie) Gilkeson (Cate Blanchett) is living with her two daughters Lilly (Evan Rachel Woods) and the youngest Dot (Jenna Boyd). She's running a small farm, and gets by being the closest thing to being a doctor for miles. Helping her is her boyfriend Brake (Aaron Eckhart). One day an elderly gentleman is arriving at their place, looking for the Healer as she is being called locally.
It turns out that the gentleman is named Samuel Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) and by the way is the father of Maggie. Samuel has for years being living as an Indian amongst the natives. Maggie doesn't like it, she's mad at him for leaving the family.
One day Lilly, Dot and Brake is out amongst the cattle, and a group of Apache Indians and military people kidnaps Lilly, and are on their way to Mexico to sell the eight women they have kidnapped. Sadley Brake is killed in a horrendous way.
Though not really what she wants, Maggie and Dot teams up with Samuel to hunt down the kidnappers and free Lilly.
A gruesome fight breaks out between the two teams, will Maggie succeed in freeing Lilly from the life as a slave in Mexico?
Nowadays westerns are not made on a bigger scale, the reigns of the John Wayne type of character is no more. It seems it has to be something special and different. To really give clout to the project Ron Howard is chosen to direct, Jones and Blanchett, two of the best actors in the world of today, are playing the leads, and Woods and Boyd plays the daughters with conviction. Mix it with a bit of Indian magic or witchery and a Christian pray for a good outcome of the story!
It's a fine story, and quite exciting what the outcome will be. Recommended.
Drive (2011)
Take a ride with Drive
A man with no name (Ryan Gosling) is working three jobs in Los Angeles. Most of the time, he is working as a car mechanic, he also does stuntdriving in movies, good honest work. But then there's the third occupation, he uses his driving skills as a getaway driver. He's living alone, a quiet person, who doesn't use more words than necessary.
One day he meets a young girl, Irene (Carey Mulligan), who he finds out is his neighbour. She has a Child, Benicio. She seems to be drawn towards him, and the feeling is mutual. He learns that Irene's husband, Standard (Oscar Isaac) is in jail. Soon she gets a message that he will be out in a week. Both the Driver and Irene comes to terms with that, not that they really thinks that it is good news.
The Driver's boss at the car repair, Shannon (Bryan Cranston), is having a dream to present his friend as a racedriver, but they need the money for a fast car. Knowing the Driver's talent, he has no quarrel asking the local mob boss Bernie Rose (Albert Brooks) for a loan. He agrees to that, and at the same time, on this occasion another big crook Nino (Ron Perlman) gets involved.
Standard is now returning to wife and kid. But it doesn't take long before The Driver finds him beat up. He tells that he's owing money to criminals. These criminals wants Standard to make a robbery so he can pay them their money. The beating was because he said no to the task, and he's told that if he doesn't take the job the criminals will go after he's wife and son. The Driver, who now is kind of emotional involved with both Irene and her husband, offers to be the getaway driver for the job.
They are getting the assistance from Blanche (Christina Hendricks), and off they go. This probably is a good place to stop, and leave the last and exciting part to the viewer.
The film is directed by the Dane Nicolas Winding Refn and he sure knows how to make a film, the pictures created for this are fantastic and like his main character he doesn't fill the film with unnecessary talk. Talking about the characters, this film is cast with really good actors. If you ever had doubts before, it becomes clear that Gosling is a very, very good actor. Of course Mulligan is in fine form as usual. Did she ever make a bad performance?
Equals (2015)
Utopia, well it's not here!
It's after the Great War, humans only exist in two places, in the Collective and on the peninsula. In the Collective It's forbidden to have any kind of emotions. If you do, there's a scale that goes up to 4, meaning you're going to the Den, a place where most "patients" chooses to commit suicide. In the Collective there are several departments, Silas (Nicholas Hoult) is working in section Atmos. One day he's called to the medical department, a routine visit. Much to his surprise he's found to be in stage one.
At work he has noticed fellow worker Nia (Kristen Stewart), he noticed that she has a tendency to, though hidden, show emotions. That makes Silas interested, and he start noticing her every move, practically being obsessed with her.
She calls him out and threatens to blow the whistle on him. Silas can tell she won't do such a thing, and they start talking. Nia says that she hasn't been seeing the doctor for quite a long time, and that she is sure that she, like Silas, got the bug.
The two continues to meet, and do what is the most wrong thing, they fall in love, which, if discovered, is the certain way to the Den. At Atmos, the boss Leonard (David Selby) discoverers the alliance of the two lovers, and warns Silas, who to survive, transfers to another department.
But the love between Silas and Nia is so strong, they still see each other. At the doctor's Silas meets Jonas (Guy Pearce) who is part of a group of Hiders, people who has been hiding in the system, and meet to talk. Silas is being invited to join. Here he meets Bess (Jacki Weaver) who is working at the Den. Now he's trying to decide what is the best way to decide what he and Nia should do to maintain their love. Meanwhile Nia is being chosen to be seeing the doctor. She finds out that she's pregnant! Of course she is being brought to the Den.
Nia and Silas decides to escape the Collective, and flee to the peninsula.
Now, what will happen, will love survive, will the escape succeed? Are they being caught? Will they be helped vy their newly found friends?
This film is directed by Drake Doremus. It's a quiet and effective movie, so full of the forbidden love. The two leads are playing so wonderful, you're feeling their worries, all the way!
La zizanie (1978)
Count workers to fall asleep
The mayor of a French unnamed city, Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze (Louis de Funes) is also a bit of an inventor. His latest invention, a machine that makes all polluted air disappear, it is named CX22. Japanese business people are visiting the factory, hopefully they'll buy some machines.
Guillaumes wife Bernadette (Annie Girardot) helps her husband through thick and thin, arranges dinner, with a healthy amount of alcohol, to soften the Japanese. The plan works, the Japanese boss orders 3000 machines. Happiness all around.
But this big order really demands the factory to expand. Guillaume thinks that the production could just as well, also commence in the house. Soon the whole house are invated. Bernadette soldiers on supporting her husband through 23 years. Now even though that the bedroom also now is being part of production, the couple celebrate their wedding day.
The production still need to expand, and Bernadette is having a big garden, her love and pride. Together with his assistent L'imbecile (yes!) (Maurice Risch) Guillaume arrange the whole garden flodded with gasoline, which of course destroy all plants. That naturally is the point where Bernadette has had enough. She moves to a hotel.
As if this wasn't enough the following is about to happen: A very serious visit from the bank president (Daniel Boulanger), a rivalry with doctor Landry (Julien Guiomar), an upcoming mayor election with a tough TV debate. How will it all end?
The film is directed by Claude Zidi, who earlier has directed de Funes. He brings out the best in the two leads. Sometimes de Funes can be a handful, but he is a bit more gentle here, not that he is all normal! Definitely worth seeing.
Thelma (2017)
Psychokinetics
Thelma (Eili Harboe) have had a terrible, dark childhood. The worst period was when she was 6 years old. Now she's leaving home, going to college. It seems that she has forgotten all the problems. She feels quite awkward, she was raised by two very religious parents, and didn't really experience boys and alcohol, and that seems to be a big part of a college girl's everyday life.
One of the first days she's at the study room, suddenly feeling sick, Thelma gets a seizure.
The first to help her is Anja (Kaya Wilkins). Thelma do not want to go to the hospital, because she would not like her parents to know. Quickly she befriends Anja, they're fine together. Thelma's parents want to visit their daughter. It seems to go just fine, until Thelma tells about an experience she's had about someone they all know. Trond (Henrik Rafaelson), her father, stops her story, blaming her for belittling people, feeling better than others. This kinda destroys the day a bit. It's not much Thelma gets to talk with her mother, Unni (Ellen Dorrit Petersen).
A night later Thelma is having a nightmare, wakes, and having another seizure. At the exact same time, Anja wakes up, she has a very strong urge to go out. She stop right outside the placge where Thelma lives. She goes down to Anja, they both go to Thelma's place. She can't sleep, thinking sexual thoughts about Anja.
Thelma is invited to the theatre with Anja and Anja's mother. During the play, Anja starts touching Thelma's bare legs. It's very clear that she enjoys it, but her morals gets her to run out of the theatre, but Anja catches up with her, they kiss very compassionate.
Now, this is the place to stop the story from my side. The action really strengthens. Some headlines: Anja disappears, Thelma gets examined at the hospital, she learns about her father's mother, her parents plans some very disturbing actions.
I must stop because there really should be a big audience to this film, and if someone should read this review...
An incredible cast. Kaya Wilkins, also known as singer as Okay Kaya, is really good. But director Joachim Trier has also done a fantastic job. But one person is carrying the film, Eili Harboe is in nearly all shots, and it's a rare treat to see her. Please watch it, pretty sure you won't regret it.
Prosjekt Z (2021)
Zombies in the Norwegian style!
A bunch of young film-people are travelling to a far out Norwegian place to make a student film, a zombie movie. Let's meet some of the crew. First of course there's the director Julie (Eili Harboe), her assistant Marie (Regina Tucker) the leading actress Iben (Iben Akerlie) who is having an affair with Julie's boyfriend, Felix (Vebjørn Enger), then there are the leading male actor Arthur (Arthur Berning), crewmember Leon (Jonis Josef) and last but not least the one experienced actor Dennis (Dennis Storhøi), who won't stop talking about the time, when he was playing in the film "The 13th Warrior" together with Antonio Banderas.
Most of them really believes in the project, we see diva manners from Iben and Dennis suddenly won't play anymore, because Julie will not subnit to his idea. He changes his mind, this filming will give him a chance to film a plea to Spike Lee, he wants to be a part of his new film.
Julie's getting tired of Felix, throws him out of their common room, he seeks love in Iben's room.
During filming a meteorite is coming down to earth very close by, Felix, who films all the time, and Leon goes out to this meteorite and Leon even puts his hand into an opening in it.
Strange sounds are suddenly heard, and before long we see certain hints of a creature lurking. Soon we have the first crewmember being attacked, and then turns into a zombie.
What will happen now, will there be any survivors, if, then who?
This is a Norwegian zombie movie no less. The "real" zombie attacks only appear in the last ten minutes. As a matter of fact I prefer the first 80 minutes, where you get to know the people in their attempt to make the zombie movie.
The lead played by Eili Harboe is the actor who played so fantastic in another Norwegian film namely "Thelma". Another fun fact is, that Dennis Storhøi really did act in "The 13th Warrior".
It's supposed to be a film made out of found footage, but don't let that scare you! The best thing in the film though is the ending, as always in scary movies, there's a twist to surprise you.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Where's Fluffy?
Norah (Kat Dennings) and her friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) are starting their weekend, it's Friday, and they decide to go to town to see if they can find the place, where the hippest band of the moment, Where's Fluffy, are giving a concert.
Everything is happening in New York, and in another part of the city, Nick (Michael Cera) is making his 12th compilation for his girlfriend Tris (Alexis Dziena). Well, as a matter of fact last time they were together, Tris said she didn't want to be with him no more.
Nick is part of a band with his two gay friends, Thom (Aaron Yoo) and Dev (Rafi Gauron), they're giving a concert tonight. By sheer coincidence Nick and Norah meets at the place where Nick and friends are playing. By chance also, Tris is there, and she is attending the same school as the two girls, she's teasing Norah, for not having a boyfriend, to deny that Norah uses Nick as the boyfriend, confusion all over. As this wasn't enough, suddenly they run into Norah's ex, Tal (Jay Baruchel), he's trying to use Norah to get her father to release his band's first CD. Next Caroline gets really drunk, as usual, and she disappear from the others. The only one who seems to have a lucky day is Dev, who finds a friend in Lethario (Jonathan B. Wight).
Norah and Nick, and the three guys, Thom, Dev and Lethario, sets out to find Caroline. Will they succeed, will Norah and Nick go back to their exes, or will they discover, that they are right for each other? Will they find the place where Where's Fluffy plays.
This is one night in the Big City, that surely never sleeps! It's an okay film, that will entertain for the 90 minutes. It has a fine playlist / soundtrack also. Some bands are seen performing, and with the part of "costumer in deli" you'll see the fine Devendra Banhart.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
Long live the Queen
In the Atlantic Ocean there has been found some of the priceless Vibranium. Something that was only believed to be found in the hidden country of Wakanda. At the same time of the discovery, the leader of Wakanda, the Black Panther, T'Challa, is dying. His mother Ramonda (Angela Bassett) is taking over the leadership. Her daughter the scientist Shuri (Letitia Wright) has been working very hard to save her brother, but failed.
Wakanda is in mourning, and to add to the problems, the leader of another empire by the name of Talokan, also unknown to the rest of the world, Kukulkan, known by his enemies as Namor (Tenoch Huerta) gives Ramonda an ultimatum, find the scientist who has invented the machine that is able to search for Vibranium. Bring this scientist to him, and the destiny for this scientist is up to him, probably to be killed.
Ramonda allows Shuri to go with general Okoye (Danai Gurira) to the USA. With the help of CIA executive Ross (Martin Freeman), they find the scientist, who turns out to be a student at Cambridge, the 19 year old Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), not all by her own free will she follows the two. But underways they are stopped by warriors from Talokan, only Okoye escapes.
Ramonda now really are worried, she contacts T'Challa's girlfriend Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o) who has been living for 6 years in Haiti. She decides to help.
Ross is still their ally, but his boss Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is breathing down his neck, he is risking jail time, but he still wants to help the Wakandian people, especially because Shuri once saved his life.
Now there's a war between the two empires in the horizon, and if Talokan is victorious, probably a war with the rest of the world. What might the solution be, can Wakanda find another Black Panther here in the times of need. Under all circumstances there will be a high price to pay.
This is the second Black Panther film. The first one was seen, by many, as one of the best Marvel films made. To me this one is much better, this is of course debatable!