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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - A fantastic psychological thriller/horror where everything is picked from the highst shelf. Fantastic film and a true masterpiece! Dallas Buyers Club - Good film, but a bit overrated, no? It's not a film Oscar-worthy imo. Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto are both very good, but everything is played out very safe and standard. It lacks the little extra that makes a film worthy of annything Oscar IMO. Not too mipressed with the direction either. Nothing very memorable about it. Alpha Dog - This is pretty much an awful film. Everything except for Bruce Willis and Justin Timberlake are pretty bad here. Django Unchained - This is still one of the best westerns to come out from the 90's and till now, This, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Shanghai Noon and No Country for Old Men are the most memorable westerns in recent years. They're all as good as they are different from eachother. The only thing I've got to complain about is that it easily could've been 30 minutes longer, but with its 165 minutes it shouldn't need to be logner. So I don't have much to complain about. Fantastic!

I suddenly got this urge to watch the Roger Corman/Poe films on day and decided to watch al of them in the order they were made and released, because I haven't seen all of them. Let me just start off by saying that Roger Corman is one of the most underrated directors of all time. Yes, he's been involved in a lot of lesser good films both as a director and producer, but every now and then he showcased his actual talent pretty well, and it is those films people firstly should remember him from, not just as the king of shits and giggles b-films and all that. He used to make low budget films in black and white and sent them back-on-back at cinemas and earned a lot of money from doing so, but there was more to him than just that and this was proved when the market for cheap sci-fi and horror films went down in the late 50's. Many of the Poe adations, X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes, A Bucket of Blood, Little Shop of Horrors, The Intruder and The Wild Angels are soemof the films that shows him from his best side as a director, and he also produced classics such as Piranha, Death Race 2000 and The Slumber Party Massacre. So he had an eye for things. The guy loved money, but he also loved cinema, and in a time when it was hard for newcomers to get a chance in Hollywood, he gave a lot of newcomers a chance both behind the camera and on the screen. And who knows where Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante, James Cameron, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Robert De Niro. David Carradine and many more would've ende dup if it wasn't for Roger Corman? The man knew talent when he saw it, and he gave youngsters a fair chance in Hollywood. -David Carradine Touching stuff. Now, onto some of his movies: House of Usher - Corman's first Poe-adaption ain't his best, but it's a fantastic gothic horror film which showcases some of his skills as a director. The sets are beautiful, the costumes looks great, it's very stylish with strong colours and Corman chooses some very surprising and weird angles for his shots, that just adds so much to this film. There's four ators in the film whom are all fantastic, but Vincent Price are the star here. Theatrical, dramatic and very over the top, but it suits a Poe-adaption very well. Lovely atmosphere throughout the whole film. Pit and the Pendulum - This one is even more stylish, dramatic, theatrical, over the top and better than House of Usher. Vincent Price are even more theatrical, dramatic and very over the top, but it doesn't take anything away from the atmosphere or anything. It just adds a lot of quality to al of it. His performance here are probably one of those love/hat kind of performances, but I love it. Barbara Steele and Luana Anders are fantastic here as well. Premature Burial - Corman decided to make this film outside of American International Pictures, and as Vincent Price had an ongoing contract with AIP he couldn't get him to do this film. Ray Milland steps inand does great, but he's no Vincent Price. The only reason this ain't as good as House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum is because of that, because everything else are top notch. But it's a great film! Tales of Terror - Corman was getting a bit tired of the horror, so with this anthology film he went in a more comedic direction. Still horror, but with lots of comedy thrown in, and it it works really well. Vincent Price is back and plays a huge role in all three of the shorts, other actors includes Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. The Black Cat are mmy favourite. Price and Lorre both shiens here, and they're both hilarious and they hel eachother out. Lovely chemesty between them. This is an underrated gem. The Raven - Corman was really tired of horror at this point and went in a more comedic fantasy direction, and he doesn't hit too good with it. This is a pretty bad film, and if it wasn't for Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and a very young Jack Nicholson this would've been a disaster. But these four actors makes it enjoyable enough. Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel - A short documentary on Roger Corman from 1978. It's allright and has interviews with a lot of eole who Corman helped out early in their careers.

Punk in Africa - This is a documentary about punk in South-Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and it starts in the begining with the bands that came in the 70's and all the way to today. The first half, which is about the 70's and 80's punk movement in South-Africa, are fantastic, but after that it focus more on what happened in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the 90's and up till today, and it's mostly about ska. I'm not that into ska so I didn't really enjoy the second half too much, but it was decent enough. But the first half is good enough to make up for it. Sister Street Fighter: Return of the Sister Street Fighter - The third and last film in the official Sister Street Fighter trilogy, and it's more of the same. It's ten minutes shorter than the previous two and contains even more fighting, which is insane. It's almost too much to be honest. But they balance it just good enough to not make it annoying. The bad guy is like a main villain that came straight from a James Bond film, and ever now and then it pops up a scene that gives you this Sergio Leone-feeling, which is a nice thing, and I just think that it must've been meant as a tribute to the guy. Cool film! Blue Is the Warmest Colour - Fantastic romantic drama that contains fantastic acting, a great plot and a very elegant, and at times quite shocking diretion, mostly because of how the sex scenes are showed. The whole thing gave away this Wong Kar-wai-feeling, and I liked that a lot. Adèle Exarchopoulos are more or less perfect here. Fantastic!

I'm not gonna go to fast here in case someone actually finds anything interesting, but I just decided to throw something out since I've suddenly got internet that works two days in a row. Have had some major problems with my internet for the last month. God Macabre - The Winterlong So, as we all know the Swedish death metal scene was a major force in the death metal scene back in the late 80's and early 90's with bands such as Nihilist/Entombed, Dismember, Grave, Merciless, Carnage and Unleased, before bands such as At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames and Hypocrisy took it a step further with their melodic death metal. But underneath this there was a shitload of bands releasing fantastic demos/EPs/albums that should've become bigger, but that never made it like the mentioned bands. God Macabre, Nirvana 2002, Epitaph, Gorement, Wombbath and Toxaemia are some of these bands. And unlike the Florida death metal scene, the Swedish wasn't very thrasy. It's way heavier and more brutal. The Winterlong is a short death metal carnage clocking in on just 28 minutes of brutal and doomy, atmospheric, melancholic and rotten death metal of the best kind. It sounds very Swedish, but it doesn't really sounds like any of the Swedish bands of that time. Don't get me wrong, if you put on this you'll hear influences from Nihilist/Entombed, Carnage, Dismember, Grave, Epitaph and even Tiamat, and of course there's lots of Death here as well, and it's a bit Leprosy influenced I'd say, but there's something quite unique about the whole album. The atmoshere is unlike any other death metal album out there, and they just found their own sound. It's a shame that The Winterlong... were the only output from these Swedes, especially since it's quite short, but it was released in 08 with three other songs that are fabolous as well. But the good thing about this? Well, it's a 28 minute logn death metal carnage that, when finished, you'll put on again because you just crave something more, and with its 28 minutes it never gets dull. Hands down for one of the best death metal albums of all time.

I still remember when I got into the band, it was in 03 right after the release of Lucifer Incestus. A friend had bought it and brought it too school to show me the awesome video for the title track. We loved it and watched it on replay for the whole day before we suddenly got to listen through the album. Love at first listen. I can't say I view the video the same way today, but being pretty new to metal and rather young it was pretty fucking cool. Also, I thought I'd start a weekly "the forgotten/overlooked/underrated album of the week" kinda thing to, because it sounded fun in my head. It's pretty self-exlaining, but I pick one album I feel are a bit forgotten/overlooked/underrated and write a bit about it and hopefully people into that sort of metal will check it out. And if people seems to be interested I will continue. And I will start with a classic album that seems to be a forgotten gem. I just never hear anyoen talka bout it, and I don't get why because it is one of the best albums within the genre. Infernäl Mäjesty - None Shall Defy Forget about the awful, non-fitting cover or their glam-image, this album is a masterpiece and one of the best thrash meta albums ever. Infernäl Majesty played thrash metal that was kinda innovative for its time and very unique. While mostly a pretty pure thash metal album, at times it does lean more towards early death metal. We're talking about a thrash metal album that is pretty evil sounding, and that reminds me a bit of albums such as Seven Churches, Hell Awaits, Black Metal, Welcome to Hell and Scream Bloody Gore, but it never copies any of those albums. Worth checking out if you're into thrash metal, early death metal or just something that kicks ass.

I fell of the Belphegor-wagon a long time ago and haven't found anything released after Lucifer Incestus interesting. But Blutsabbath, Necrodaemon Terrorsathan and Lucifer Incestus are all fantastic albums.

Must be very subjective, because I don't hear any resemblance to any metal from the 80's, and I'm a pretty big fan of 80's heavy/power/speed metal. Anyway, talking about 80's metal Been having a massive kick on Blind Guardian these last days. What a band they were. Follow the Blind and Somewhere Far Beyond are nothing short of perfect, Battalions of Fear and Tales from the Twilight World and are close to perfect and Imaginations from the Other Side is fantastic. Don't like the albums post-Imaginations... though. But I am not at all a fan of their semi-progressive, pompous and Queen-inspired power metal that they've been doing since Nightfall in Middle-Earth. And Then There Was Silence are the only post-Imaginations... song that I think are good, but that one's very good. Not heard their last album, but I'm not sure if I should bother. But their speed metal albums are classics. Banish from Sanctuary might be their best song ever. God, that's good. The choruses are pretty decent, I'd dare to say. Impossible not to sing along..

I've heard a couple of Machinae Supremacy albums, and it's not my cup of tea at all. It's not bad, just not my thing. And to be hoenst I don't hear much 80's metal in it at all. Both the albums I heard was super modern and there was nothing that reminded me of anything 80's as far as metal goes.

I like the new song. Sounds way more inspired than their previous album. The drums are way too loud in the mix though, but I hope that'll be sounding different on the actual release.

You should, because it was a great film. I'm gonna watch The Girl one of these days as well. It's a very different film as it portrays Hitchcock as less sympathic and funny than what Hitchcock did. It hould be interesting, but I doubt it'll be as good and interesting as Hitchcock, much due to Hitchcock's ability to spellbound the viewer with it's witty, feel-good charm. But it should be good.

Hitchcock - A fantastic biographical drama about the man himself, Alfred Hitchcock, and the making of Psycho. How true thi is to what happened, and how Hithcock was, I do not know, but it's a geat film because of the film itself, no matter if it is historical correct or not. It just feels very real. Anthony Hopkins is superb as Hitchcock, but Helen Mirren is what drives this movie. Faaaaantastic performance. The lobby scene is hilarious. It's just... god damn! What a scene.

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects - Great documentary about lots of Godzilla. Mostly about the special effects (Godzilla, the sets and so on) and it's great. Good interviews and lots of fun. Well-woth a watch. Tsutomu Kitagawa (1999-2004), Haruo Nakajima (1954-1972) og Kenpachiro Satsuma (1984-1995), the three who have had the honor of playing Godzilla throughout the times, as well as other monsters.

Zatoichi Challenged - The 17th film in the series, and an excellent film. Not as exploitation-like as the previous film, but it's a lot better. I'd wish for a bit more blood, but it's a fantastic film. Encounters of the Spooky Kind - This is probably the first jiangshi-film ever, and it's a fantastic one. Sammo Hung both directed and stars this film, and he executes both with brilliance. The horror elements aren't as prominent as in Mr. Vampire and many other jiangshi-films, but they are there. The film is unbelieveably funny film, and the martial arts scenes are amazing. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Not the comedic duo's best horror-comedies, but a good one nonetheless. Lou Costello is hilarious as always, and Boris Karloff (Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde) are fan-fuckin-tastic... as always! The Strange World of Coffin Joe - Anthology film consisting of three short films. The Dollmaker is a very ordinary, straight forward and predictable film with no surprised or annything whatsoever. Spends way too much time on the rape-scenes. But it was OK. Obsession is less predictable and a weird one. Semi-surrealistic weirdness that lacks in some departments, but it's mroe than OK. Enjoyed it quite a lot for its weirdness. Theoryis the third and last film, and the only one to include Coffin Joe himself. It's a very typical Coffin Joe film and by far the best one here. A bit weird, fucked up and comical, but great fun. The Nail Gun Massacre - This is a eally cheap so-bad-it's-good-slasher from the 80's. There's nothing about this film that's actually good,but it's a hilarious film. A fantastic piece of so-bad-it's-good-cinema. Jurassic Park - Since this came in 1993 there's not been a single blockbuster that comes close to it. It's almost perfect, and it just gets better and better and better the older it gets. The mix of practica special effects and CGI are just perfect here. THIS is how you use CGI. Despite being ove 20 years old, it still has the best CGI ever. That is impressive. CGI is fantastic when used properly, but sadly it rarely is used properly, just like drum triggers, auto-tune, photoshop and so on. It's most often overused. Sad but true. Beethoven - I don't get the hate for this one. It's a sweet, at times funny and very cute family film. Nothing more, nothing less. And the dog is fantastic! Little Miss Sunshine - Fantastic film, and one of the best and funniest road-films ever. Great cast where Alan Arkin and Steve Carell stands out the most. Laughed from the begining to the end.

I really liked Insidious 2. It wasn't as good as the first one, but I thought it was great anyway. I am really looking forward to Insidious 3. School of the Holy Beast - A blasphemic, 70's Japanese nunsploitation film that does really well in showcasing one side of the pinky violence "genre". It's sexy, sleazy and a bit violent. The plot is straight forward and unoriginal enough, but Yumi Takigawa is damn good in the lead and the cinematogaphy is out of this word and the films strongest point. It's an absolute leasure to the eye through and through. Magnificent visuals. Sister Street Fighter - The Streetfighter proved to be a huge success so what's better than giving it a spin-off with a female in the lead? I don't know, because this is great. Not quite as good as Return of the Street Fighter (the second best films in the Streetfighter trilogy), but not far behind either. Etsuko Shihomi is badass and does a great job, and Sonny Chiba has a small role here as well. He plays a different character, though. But Sonny Chiba is Sonny Chiba, and Sonny Chiba is always fantastic. Anyway, great films and if you like martial arts exploitation you'll like this. 85 minutes of non-stop karate-o-rama. Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread - The second film in the trilogy of the female Street Fighter, and it' even better than the first. It's more or less the same, just with better badguys and more violence and blood, and that's enough for me. 85 minutes of non-stop karate-o-rama. The Razor: Sword of Justice - Shintaro Katsu, best known for his role as Zatoichi in the 26 films and 100 epiodes long series abotu Zatoich, stars in this film about Hanzo, based on the manga by Kazuo Koike, best known for Lone Wolf & Cub (which was made into a six film long series with Tomisaburo Wakayama, Shintaro Katsu's brother, in the lead). Hanzo is a detective in the edo-period in Japan that's as well known for his loveshaft and torture tactics, as for his swordplay and martial arts skills. Violent, bloody and at times hilarious film with lots of stylish cinematography and visual play. Fantastic film, but the weakest in the trilogy. Hanzo the Razor: The Snare - This is more or less just more of the same, but everything is executed in a better way than the first one.The plot is better, the violence and bloodshed is better, the characters are better and the cinematography is on a whole other level. Oh, and it's a lot more sleazy than the first. Fantastic film and the best of the three. Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? - Again, more of the same basically. It's straighter and easier to follow than the first, and less stylish, dramatic and bloody than the second. A notch better than Sword of Justice and two notches worse than The Snare. A fantastic film!

That's not too bad, but it's not all that either. Lacks something.

I'd highly recommend Moonsorrow's Verisäkeet and V: Hävitetty as well. Progressive viking metal. Fantastic albums. Dark and epic. Inferno Festival released their five first bands for next years Inferno today. Impressive names, even though I am not too keen on ay of them: Behemoth Enslaved My Dying Bride SepticFlesh Antichrist Very impressive names, that. Will most likely check out both My Dying Bride and Behemoth as I have never seen any of them before, and both have released some good albums in recent years.

I almost forgot it, but add Edge of Sanity's Crimson to that list. Progressive death metal. Fantastic album.

I don't have too many straight forward prog metal albums to recommend, but here's some of my prog metal favourites: Amorphis - Elegy (progressive death/rock/folk) Death - Human (progressive death metal) Death - Individual Thought Patterns (progressive death metal) Death - Symbolic (progressive extreme metal) Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness (doomy prog metal) Fates Warning - The Spectre Within (progressive/power metal) Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian (progressive/power metal) Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory (progressive heavy/power) Crimson Glory - Transcendence (progressive heavy/power) Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle (prog metal/rock opera) Ayreon - The Universal Migrator Part I & 2 (part 1 is more of a prog rock album while part 2 is moe of a prog metal album) Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven (progressive oriental (extreme) metal) Orphaned Land - All Is One (progressive oriental metal) Note that none of these are straight forward prog metal albums though. But neither are Opeth, so that should be allright. Symphony X (progressive power metal) and Myrath (prog metal with middle eastern folk) might be your cup of tea as well. Not into these bands myself, but they are well-liked among prog metal fans.

My girlfriend went away to her parents yesterday and I decied it was about time I watched some Japanese exploitation flicks from the 70's. I've rewatched a shitload of films, and I am gonna watch some I've never seen before. Japan made a massive amount of great exploitation flicks in the 70's. Lady Snowblood - One of my all time favourite films. A good story, lots of violence and blood, Meiko Kaji (which is one of my personal favourites), lovely cinematography and one of the best theme songs ever in form of Shura No Hana/The Flower of Carnage. There's just not much to say about this film except for the fact that it is one of the best films ever. Not many films are better. This film i perfect. Simple as that. Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance - A bit more complex, different and less violent and bloody film than the first one, but still a fantastic film and it never feels like anything but a Lady Snowblood film. Meiko Kaji is as good an actor as she is beautiful, and once again the cinematography is beautiful. When watching these two films it's so easy to see where Tarantino got his main inspiration for Kill Bill. Yes, he's influenced by a lot of different genres and films, and he's not afraid to show it, but these are the main inspiration for sure. And I can't understand why there ain't more Kill Bill fans checking out these two films. They serve as a massive inspiration to Tarantino and they are way bette than Kill Bill. Superb! The Streetfighter - A very over the top and extreme martial arts film with Sonny Chiba in the leading role. Lots of violence and blood, and Sonny Chiba is awesome. He was actually told that his character should be some kind of an evil Bruce Lee, so there's some Bruce Lee imitation in this film as well. Too cheesy for some, but I fucing love it. He execute it so well. Return of the Street Fighter - A bit weaker than the first, but mainly because of the flashback scenes and a bit less engaging plot, but it's still a fantastic film. Should be impossible to not enjoy this film if you're a fan of bloody and violent martial arts flicks and Sonny Chiba. The Streetfighter's Last Revenge - Cool, but a very disappointing film. Sonny Chiba is as cool as ever, but the story is weaker, the violence is weak and the amountof blood isdisappointing. It feels like a different film from the first two, and there's just something Mission: Impossible over the whole thing with his masks, hidden rooms and god knows what. But Sonny Chiba and the always fantastic Reiko Ike saves the film. Blind Woman's Curse - Fantastic film by Teruo "The King of Cult" Ishii with Meiko Kaji in the lead role. It's a very unique mix of periode-yakuza action and semi-surrealistic horror. It's just a very weird and unique film. Superb stuff! I'd seen all of these except for The Streetfighter's Last Revenge, and I will continue with some I've never seen before after the football ends tonight. Looking forward to it!

I haven't bought anything, but last week my girlfriend's parents told us to take their old vinyl collection and take what we want, and get rid of the rest. So I grabbed these, and there's still one box left to check out which I am gonna do this week. Probably lots of shit here, and some are in pretty bad condition (don't even know if all of it plays), but as long as Thin Lizzy's Fighting, Bad Reputation and Nightlife, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Moondance plays I am more than happy to be honest. Chicago - Chicago XI Barry White - Best of Barry White - Love Unlimited & Love Unlimited Orchestra Thin Lizzy - Fighting Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation Thin Lizzy - Chinatown Thin Lizzy - Nightlife Thin Lizzy - Renegade Ike & Tina Turner ‎– Rock Me Baby: A Collector's Choice Urban Cowboy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear Kansas - Vinyl Confessions Jackson Browne - The Pretender Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne Henry Mancini and His Orchestra - Music from the TV Series "The Mancini Generation" Gillan - Future Shock Van Morrison - Into the Music Van Morrison A Period of Transition Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Van Morrison - Moondance Wishbone Ash - The Original Wishbone Ash Wishbone Ash - Number the Brave Rod Stewart - A Night on the Town Emerson Lake & Palmer - Love Beach James Gang - Miami Electric Light Orchestra - A Box of their Best More American Graffiti (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Rory Gallagher - Tattoo Rufus with Chaka Chan - Camouflage Gregg Allman Band - Playin' Up a Storm Jermaine Jackson - Come into My Life Mavis Staples - A Piece of the Action (soundtrack) Beast - Beast Van Halen - Van Halen II Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes - Reach Up and Touch the Sky Michael Bloomfield - Cruisin' for a Bruisin' Isaac Hayes - Groove-a-Thon The Byrds - Ballad of Easy Rider Boston - Don't Look Back Mark-Almond - To the Heart Toto - Hydra City Boy - The Day the Earth Caught on Fire Carl Carlton - I Wanna Be With You Bob Dylan - Shot of Love Chris de Burgh - Spanish Train Stories and Other Stories

Been spinning EL-P's Cancer 4 Cure a lot lately. It's the straightest EL-P-produced album I've heard, but there's still a shitload of chaacter and uniqueness to it. Pimitive, furutistic and filled with badassnes. It's also geat that the man is almost as good at rapping as he is producing. Ridiculously good album, and the opening track is one of the best within the genre ever. But the first 4-5 tracks are all beyond perfect. What a man! Also, I've tried to stay away from everything that has to do with Run the Jewels II until the album is released, but today I (finally) failed. Christ almight, the preview of the album is good. It is beyond good! God damn! For those not heard it yet: http://www.stereogum.com/1695029/run-the-jewels-blockbuster-night-part-1-snippet/mp3s/

The Town That Dreaded Sundown - Let me just start off by saying that this film has one of the absolute coolest posters ever. 10/10! Anyway, fantastic, early slasher from 1976 by Charles Pierce, the same man who made The Evictors which I wrote about a few pages ago. This is a superior film, though. The narrative, Vern Stierman, actually heps this film a lot and just makes it creepier and more effective, even though you know that the film is only loosely based on the actual Phantom Killer-story. Very loosely I'd dare to say. But still, it just helps so god damn much. It's also good to see that this is even better now than when I first saw it 7-8 years ago. The poster alone should be enough to make you wanna watch this masterpiece: This film is actually getting a meta-remake scheduled for release in 2014, and they've tried to keep it low budget to held onto some of the cinema verite, something which I am very positive about. It'll probably disappoint, but actually looking forward to a remake of a classic piece of slasher film like this feels very weird. But yeah, can't wait!

Drive Angy - Christ allmighty, what an abomination of a film this was. Everything sucks, and the CGI are just aweful. So.Fucking.Bad. Not even the beautiful and usually very good Amber Heard (whom I became a huge fan of after seeing the semi-masterpiece All the Boys Love Mandy Lane) manage to do anything productive here besides being mad sexy. Craaaaaaaap!

Haunt - I watched about 30 minutes ofthis horror film before I started thinking about suicide. What an awful film! I ended it (my girl still watched it, but I couldn't.) and turned on some music. It's a pice of shit film! Charley Varrick - This is a fantastic heist film with Walter Matthau, who does so fucking good here. Great film and a must-watch for anyone into heist film. Dogtown and Z-Boys - Fantastic documentary about how team Zephyr, a bunh of surfers, revolutionized skateboarding in the 70's. You get newer interviews with Zephyr members, people like Henry Rollins, Tony Hawk and Glen E. Friedman and both videos and pictures from the 70's. This is topped off by a fantastic soundtrack! Cottage Country - Poor, poor film. A horrorcomedy that just tries way too hard to be funny, and Lucy Punch is so fucking annoying throughout the whole film. Kudos for amazing special effects, though. Shame there isn't more blood and gore here. Zatoichi the Outlaw - The 16th fil about Zatoichi, and in general just more of the same. It's predictable. You know where it'll go, what'll happen and so on, but it's so well-done and so exciting. Shintaro Katsu is amazing as always. It's an uneven film, and not among the best in the series, but still worthy of your time. Some of the humor feels a bit out of place, and it lacks a great badguy, but what it doesn't lack is violence, blood and a Grindhouse-feel. It actually feels like an early grindhouse film at points because of the violence and blood, and that is positive. I loved that! Great film despite its faults. Murk - Decent danish psychological thriller/horror. Not a masterpiece, but decent entertainment. Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Nicolas Bro are both very good here. Kandidaten - Another danish thriller with Nikolaj Lie Kaas. Again not a masterpiece, but entertaining. Wallander: Innan frosten - The first film/episode in the Wallander series from 2005. A bit predictable, but very good. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Awful remake of a cultfilm from the 70's, which I don't know if I have seen. But this was awful. No atmosphere, boring acting and Bailee Madison is so fucking annoying. Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2 - There's nothing left to be said about this film. It's a masteriece! A huge homage to Hong Kong martial arts-cinema and Japanese chambara, as well as other genres and films. Vol. 1 feels like a homage to Japanese cinema (and it obviously is), while Vol. 2 feels like a homage to Hong Kong martial arts-cinema. You just gotta love that! THe cast is great. Uma Thurman is perfect as the Bride, and the rest are well too. But I notice Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter) as Hattori Hanzo, Chia-Hui Liu/Gordon Liu (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) as Johnny Mo and Pai Mei, David Carradine (Kung Fu) as Bill and Chiaki Kuriyama (Battle Royale) as Gogo Yubari really well. They all stand out here. Fantastic! The silhuett-scenes ae beautiful, the massive amount of blood is even more beautiful and the soundtrack is great. 4 hours of badassnes! Death Proof - I can, to some degree, understand why people don't like this too much, but I feel as if it is a bit underrated and I just fucking love the film. It feels like I am watching a mid 70's, slow-burning exploitation flick. Kurt Russell is amazing and does his best role sine Big Trouble in Little China where he was perfect, and that's impressive. All the girls aren't top notch, but as this feels like an exploitation flick I don't mind that. Also, Jack Burton's tank top is hanging on the wall in the bart. Jack Burton is the main character is Big Trouble in Little China and was played by Kurt Russell, and that is fucking awesome. And don't miss all the awesome film posters in the taco bar. Awesome! Kelly's Heroes - Great, and perhaps a bit overlooked, WWII war comedy heist film. Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor and Donald Sutherland. Great film! Monster House - Decent animated horror film that comes off as weaker than what it could've been because of the boring animation and lack of charm in the visual style. But the story and characters are great. Shame about the animation and visuals. Danny the Dog - Still a great film! Jet Li haven't done as well in america as in China, and he comes off as a poor actor with great martial arts skills for most part. But in this film he actually gets to use his acting skills as well, and he does nicely. His best american film besides The Expendables films and Leathal Weapon 4. Crazy choreography, badass soundtrack by Massive Attack and lots of violence. Great film! Hang 'em High - Clint Eastwood, western, 1968. That's all you need to know. Great film! My Wife is a Gangster - This is a cool, charming and sweet romantic action comedy, but it's too long. Cut 20-25 minutes and you're left with a great film, but because of the lenght it's only decent. Eun-Kyung Shin is great! Not seen the sequels, but I guess I should do something with that soon. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - Decent, but somewhat disappointing sequel. I like that they've gone further out and added to the madness of the first, but it just lacks the humour of the first. Hank Azaria is hilarious and Amy Adams is so charming and cute. Sunshine - Great sci-fi-horror with a lacking third. I don't mind it, but it could've been done better. But it's a great film, and the special effects are superb. Some of the best CGI ever, despite being 7 years old. Great film! Fear Is the Key - Cool 70's thriller. The fist half of the film is amazing, but it looses some of its punch in the second half. But it's still enjoyable and worth watching because of the first half alone. Badass! Flash Gordon (1936) - Great serial in 13 episodes and 245 minutes long. Crazy serial with great special effects, over the top dialogue, rubber dragons, shark men, hawk men, sea monsters and a mad professor. Oh, and Charles Middleton doesn't just act as Ming the Merciless, he IS Ming the Merciless. What a performance! Big Trouble in Little China - When I moved in with my girl I went from watching this at least 4 times a month to not watching it. Less time to watch films means I have to choose a bit more carefully. So this was a rewatch I appreciated. Still the best film ever made! Just to make you realize how good this film is: If you choose to call it: 1) an action film it is still the best film ever, even better than Die Hard. 2) an adventure film it is still the best film ever, even better than Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. 3) a comedy film it is still the best film ever, even better than Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Dumb & Dumber. 4) a kung fu film it is still the best film ever, even better than The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. That's how good this film is. Fucking hell, man! John Carpenter is one of the best directors ever, and Kurt Russell in his prime one of the best actors ever, and together they were DY-NA-MITE! Escape from New York, The Thing, Elvis and the best film ever, Big Trouble in Little China. God fucking damn! Golden!

That sounds pretty good. It's nice to hear them returning more to their original sound after the disappointing All Hope Is Gone, without just copying themself. Looking forward to the album.