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It's got pizzazz, it's fast paced and the visuals work for me. Empty Tokyo looks perfect and grown-up kids who just played games and didn't let their phones out of their hands are dying like on a treadmill. I like the investigative line about who they're playing against. The actors are great. A very well-made project. It borrows some things from Lost, besides the mystery, especially the introductions of some of the characters that show them in the old Tokyo and in a different light than we see them now.

Starship Troopers! A solid digital adventure, without fatalities or major surprises. The trailers that teased a fatal clash are rather a disservice. The Lang and Pym families are sucked into the quantum realm and have to fight a familiar arch-enemy. Douglas shits and wonders why a guy who looks like broccoli is hitting on his daughter. Pfeiffer confesses to quantum infidelity and Paul Rudd teaches his daughter the proper way to punch people, or whatever. The amazing world now, after Avatar: the Way of Water, boggles the mind with its lack of thought, lack of sophistication and the inconsistency of the visual effects – Disney probably should have timed it differently. I was annoyed by the breaking of the rules set in the first and second episodes regarding the quantum realm and augmentation, and MODOK is more annoying than scary. Still, quite an entertaining chapter about perhaps the only happy Avenger.

A broth of stress and emotions. Surprising revelation? Owning a restaurant is suicidal, and trying to turn a buffet into a fancy restaurant is tantamount to purgatory. Acting-wise, it’s amazing. The pace is frantic and there’s always something happening. Some liken it to Boiling Point, but Bear is a little more optimistic, though the falls are all the more painful. Really strong.

An inoffensive Valentine's romance. The passage with Brad Pitt is actually excellent. Daniel Radcliffe was also a surprise, playing the annoying bad guy with obvious gusto.

A completely different concept, period and overall message, only the main actors and the style of humour remained the same. And it’s not bad at all. Shitshoveler's daughter wants to study and go to the world, and the king's unlucky son doesn't want to kill people as often as his daddy does. The contemporary humor set in the dark ages sometimes works and sometimes it grates. The goat trial is probably the best of the bunch.

You could say it's like a Polish version of South Park, but from a time when there wasn't so much politics and it was just straightforward fun. Boner and his partners hunt demons, devils and boogeymen to send them where the sun don't shine. For 200 zlotys without an invoice, 300 with an invoice. There is a lot of drinking, banter and a large vocabulary of great Polish bon mots. The quality is like a seesaw, excellent episodes alternate with weaker ones, but mostly it's worth it.

A very good adaptation of the first series of Lee Child’s books. Vagabond, drifter, ex-military special investigator Jack Reacher always gets caught up in something and leaves no stone unturned until he unravels it. Old school fun where legs and noses are broken and punches are the order of the day. Allan Ritchson doesn't just look like Reacher, he is Reacher, it's hard to imagine Tom Cruise back in the role now. It's good that we're starting from book one, “Killing Floor” is a nice introductory story with a good personal line, and the flashbacks also work. If it weren't for the exaggerated scenes like the final inferno in the paper mill, which looks very B-movie, I'd go for the full score, because it couldn't have been done better. Carry on.

Packed with ideas, existential musings on death, and amazing action that combines Japanese anime style with video game dynamics without looking bad. Impeccable English voice acting, Banderas and Salma are classics, but the strong English accents of Goldilocks and the Three Bears were a stroke of genius, and Wagner Moura as Death? Yeah! The story drags the cat through a severe personality crisis (“This Is the End” variation of Apocalypse Now in a kid's cartoon?), which makes him a more interesting character than in Shrek. This is the kind of surprise Pixar doesn’t deliver anymore. P.S: The final fight with Death is awesome.

A woman is trying to pay her taxes… An unexpectedly playful take on parallel universes. Unfortunately it’s unnecessarily long and at times unnecessarily self-indulgent in its weirdness at the expense of a fairly standard story. Swiss Army Man held together much better and it was also more fun. Here they should have trimmed in places and add a little in others to create a coherent ride across what could have been. Kwan and Scheinert put so much into it that I felt terribly overwhelmed by the lines. Michelle Yeoh is fantastic in all her versions and enjoys every one of them. Ke Huy Quan seized the opportunity to play a role tailor-made for Jackie Chan and got the most out of it. I need a few more viewings to take it all in, but for the first time, so far, excellent entertainment that lacks something short of perfection. It’s like a doughnut without the dusting.

Nicolas Winding Refn retraces his steps and through the mystical The Neon Demon, Only God Forgives, he makes his way back to Pusher. Copenhagen Cowboy follows Mia, a brothel madam pays her with a lucky coin (money brings good luck) to finally have a baby, only that she's stingy and won't give her the whole shebang. This sets in motion the bizarre wheels of an entire clockwork full of cheap girls, man-eating pigs and Asian and Eastern European gangsters. The popular Zlatko Burić also returns and his panhandling scene is chillingly creepy. Meta-commentaries, quotes from the masters to a fantastic soundtrack by Martinez & Julian Winding. Nothing for normal people :)