Malarkey

Simply a great movie. The best thing is if you have zero expectations, know nothing about the movie and after watching it, you are really satisfied. It doesn’t happen every day and the nicer and more pleasant this feeling is. Personally, I don’t understand how it is possible that this film is not more well-known. The central duo Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro show acting performances so amazing that I enjoyed every line they uttered in the film. Especially Kevin Bacon, whom I got to like instantly in this film and who at the same time probably showed his best performance I’ve ever seen. His character Billy Magica is so perfectly extroverted that his extravagant English will still haunt my dreams half a year later. Brad Renfro portrays the traditional impersonation of “youth forward”, but he’s doing it in such a convincing way that you’re sorry for how it ended for him and that he didn’t get more acting opportunities in his life. When it comes to the story, the whole time you are aware that you are not watching anything innovative, on the other hand, I was eagerly watching every minute, because I knew that the ending would bewitch me with human sincerity and at the same time the most stylish lying in the American way you’ll ever see in a movie.

Well... I accept that this movie is trying to convey some sort of idea. I just think that some ideas should stay ideas and do not necessarily need to be filmed. The film appears quite interesting and unique, but on the other hand I had trouble trying to ignore how stupid this movie is and just watching the metaphor.

A pleasant environment, pleasant characters and a story about a family that decided to move from England, throw everything behind and start a new life in a place where no one cares about how much money they have, but how pure their soul is. Sometimes the episodes are a bit weaker, sometimes more serious for a change, but here and there I really wholeheartedly laughed. After the first season, I hope that this show will keep this up and will continue at a similar pace in the coming years. I think that this story about a relaxed life on Corfu could be here for the long run.

As usual with HBO, an accurate biographical, television and political drama, representing one not entirely happy period of Winston Churchill’s life, which gives a chance to excel to the English beau Albert Finney, who utterly enjoys his role. Especially in the bathtub. Of course, expect a great acting performance, but also a classic description of the life of a statesman. There are countless similar dramas and they are all comparable in quality. Adequate for a TV movie, but somehow there wasn’t anything in it that would provide me with some deeper knowledge.

An exemplary French filmmaking, which is also dominated by the good old Czech dubbing. Without it I don’t think it would be worth the five stars, but the dubbing makes Alain Delon and Jean-Louis Trintignant seem so perfect that the film gives you goosebumps throughout the whole story, which is essential for a proper French crime drama.

In this episode the side storyline of Resi and her newly acquired restaurant on the top of a mountain completely overshadowed the investigation, which immediately becomes totally uninteresting and pointless. Resi behaves like a proper slave master here and with that she immediately won me over. She is looking for her future employees in front of the employment office, and not in it, everyone is paid illegally, she employs children and is scarce with food…

If you like movies and watch a large number of them every month, including the new ones, then you will appreciate a movie that is written so perfectly from start to finish that it's a pleasure to watch. That's probably why I would simply describe why I gave the film five stars. I had a feeling that from the beginning till the end I was watching a crime film with everything it entails. There were no complicated explanations, but an amazingly chilly atmosphere and wonderful locations. Everything fits together perfectly, and you enjoy not only the suffering of Elizabeth Olsen, but also Jeremy Renner, who became the lone fighter for justice the moment he put on the white overalls and ventured alone into the wild. I was excited. I didn’t miss a single minute of this movie. And the best part is that you can really feel that Taylor Sheridan is behind all of that. You can sense the chilling atmosphere of Sicario, but also the dangerous shoot offs of the film Hell or High Water. And yet you know that this film is in its way completely unique. Hopefully, Sheridan will maintain that diligence. When it comes to filmmaking craft, Wind River is one of the best films I saw in 2017.

This episode features a nice location of the chateau, which was the setting for a mysterious murder of a man who creates and trades in counterfeit icons. This episode was a bit mysterious, but the result is still relatively average, both in terms of humor and the investigation itself. The only plus of the whole episode is the etude of Benno’s mother – Resi – who sold her clock to the murdered man for a bargain price, only to find out that they are several times more valuable. Wondering how she found out? The clock appears at a local auction. But that would not be Resi if she did not show up at the auction and cause a bit of a drama there… And it doesn’t matter at all that the buyer is already dead at the time.

In this episode you will find out that Benno also has a sister. It may be a step-sister, but still. And she immediately gets involved in a fuck up – a murder of an actress. And not just any murder, but an extremely dramatic one – one that happens directly during a theatrical performance. However, the investigation is carried out in the usual spirit of the town and the only thing that really interested me was the fact that Benno takes no prisoners and blames everyone around him. It doesn’t matter if the person was really the murderer or not. Well, to each their own.

When there is a duo in a film, I usually have no problem accepting the fact that both of them share the screen time somehow evenly. But this is perhaps the first film where I have encountered that where one character brutally overshadows the other. I had a feeling that Adam DeVine was there all the time and Zac Efron almost never. Not that it matters to the overall story, but it seemed rather strange. Especially when the story doesn’t revolve around just one character, but intentionally around brothers. As for the comedy, I was completely satisfied. A proper American comedy movie worth three stars, where I was most pleased with Anna Kendrick, who plays her own thing and again does it so divinely that you just can’t dislike her.