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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - I love the first one and while I did not expect another "The Legend of Ron Burgundy", I did expect something good. The jokes and sillyness are way too forced throughout the film, the chemestry is lackign and it's 35-40 minutes too long. And the scenes that is actually fun, is just rehashed jokes from the first one. Meh, mediocre at best. The Grand Budapest Hotel - Really good adventure-comedy that for most part looks stunning (the exception are a few scenes were poor CGI was used), and it's like being dragged into a fairytale. It looks so soothing. But underneath the visuals there's a lot of emotion, and it's very funny and charming. But at the same times it deals with more serious themes, and there's always a sense of sadness to the story. It was nice. Very good film!

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief - Fantastic documentary about fucking Scientology, with lots of great info and many cool stories. First half, with a lot of focus on L. Ron Hubbard, is easily better than the second haf, though. Very interesting, and it's clear that the man himself was mentally unstable. And I couldn't help but laughing my ass off when they revealed the last steps in Scientology where it's so clear that the core of it is just taken out of his great imagination. He just wrote a sci-fi novel in his head and made a fucking religious movement out of it. Genius! As mentally unstable and sick as he was, the man was a genius. It takes a genius to pull off what he did, and you have to respect him for that as well as his dedication. And I have no problem believing that he himself actually believed in these things. So hands down to him for that. But the followers? Idiots! The second part which is more about how the Church of Scientology treat its members and scam them, is also very good, very interesting and all that. It's a very craftful documentary with itneresting info, and a documentary that is in some ways scary. The stupidity of humans are once again revealed, and it's scary to see how far people are willing to go for something as stupid as this, and also how easy they are convinced to join something like Scientology. Frightening! American Sniper - Ever since my childhood I've been a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, both the actor and director. So while he has offered some disappointments, I am always looking forward to a new Eastwood film. American Sniper is at times very good, but for most part the good scenes just comes in flashes every now and then. While Bradly Cooper is impressive in his role, he's the only proper character here. He's the only one that feels like a human being. The rest, even his wife, doesn't come off as persons. They're just... statists? The fuck? So odd, man. The action scenes are tight as fuck, tense and very cool. But they don't come often enough. The lack of moral courage is also quite shocking. It's all about being tough and badass and give them "sand-nigger savages what they deserve." It does touch upon the subject, but only slightly. At the end of the day it's a biographical war-drama without no depth. It is. Entertaining for what it is, but it no masterpiece or even great film. It's OK. I believe you gotta be a silly, amercan patriot to consider this a great film. And do I have to mention the doll? Christ. It would've looked more real if you had a fully grown up man portraying the baby. Shocking!

True Grit - Brilliant western remake of the classic 1969 John Wayne classic by the same name, by the Coen Brothers, with a superb cast including Jeff Bridges in one of his best roles ever, young, impressive Hailee Steinfeld and Matt Damon who I think is very underrated. I do think the original i slightly better, but that does not mean this is not good. Because this film is fantastic, and it's different enough that you can watch both back to back without getting bored. The original is Rooster's film, while this is more shared between Mattie and Rooster. And it's slightly more epic too, more of an adventure while the original has a more classic western feeling to it. All in all a must-see for fans of western films. Great film! Be sure to watch the original too, guys. As much as I hate the patriotic bullshit of John Wayne, the guy was a class actor and the film a true classic.

Batman: Year One - Very good animated adaption of Frank Miller's classic graphic novel of the same name. It's very faithful to the source material and if you've read the comic you've more or less seen this, but I thought it was very good and very entertaining. Overall very good in all ways, and Bryan Cranston did a fantastic role here. Completely badass! White House Down - 2013 saw the release of no more than two films where the white house and president is under attack, and people have constantly been comparing these two films. I can understand why, but I will not compare this to Olympus Has Fallen as they are a bit different. Roland Emmerich' action-thriller has a lot more in common with Die Hard to be quite honest. Now nothing here is as good as in Die Hard, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. Silly and over the top actioner that woks fairly well if you want some brainless popcorn entertainment. You also had that "iconic" scene here with the US flag going down. Fucking hilarious, just like in Olympus Has Fallen. But this didn't feel so damn patriotic, though. A bit, but less than OHF.

Rentrer en Soi every single day of the year. Can't stand the other band.

The first thing that popped up in my head was Dragon Ball: The Magic Begins, an unofficial live-action film produced in 1991. The film is complete trash, but it's good trash and the awful english dub helps make it even better. It's one of the films you just has to watch dubbed. Now I always watch films and series with their original language, but I have rewatched a lot of asian martial arts/samurai films with an English dub over the years. Now, what makes a lot of these dubs so god damn good is the accent they often put on. It's rather poorly dubbed and all that, but it has it's charm and works awfully well with good exploitation martial arts flicks such as The Street Fighter series, Lone Wolf and Cub/Shogun Assassin and so on.

All Is Lost - Super intense survival thriller/drama by writer-director J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) with with the one and only Robert Redford as our main character, a character who also happens to be the only one in the film. This character also speaks very little, so what we have here is a film with only one cast members and which is almost dialogue-free. Now, "that sounds so boring" is probably your first throught here, but you are wrong. This film was excellent! It's so simple and straight-forward, but it's so powerful and Robert Redford is most brilliant. He's incredible. His facial expressions and body language is excellent, and everything about the way he acts in the films just sends a wave of emotions towards you, be it anger, sadness, disappointment, relief or whatever. He IS this film! It's intense, it's dramatic, it's exciting and very claustrophobic because of the way it is shot. A must-see! '71 - Intense thriller that's superbly directed, well-acted and offers a lot of intense moments full of suspense and excitement. It comes of as realistic, and while the survival aspect of the film stands for the intense moments, the dirty, political aspect is probably the best part of the film. The film is about the Troubles back in the early 70's in Irland, and while I am no specialist on the topic, I thought it came off as a very netrual way. Toere's no good VS bad here, and no side is portrayed as the bad one. I loved that! Also, I loved the way it's shot and the way it looks. It looks like avpolroid picture in many ways. Lots of brown and orange. A pleasure to the eyes.

I haven't seen it yet, but I am very keen on seeing it. And from what I remember it's supossed to be the first Israeli horror film ever, right? That alone is a fact to make people interested.

Big Bad Wolves - Now, I'll be honest: this film is as much thriller and black-comedy as it is horror, but I till feels it fits this thread. Tarantino named this his best film of 2013, and he's not too far off. Dark, exciting, thrillign and at times morbidly funny. Big Bad Wolves has all the ingredients for a classic, and they treat all these ingredients so well we got an instant classic. This film is very dark, morbid and twisted, and it all works so well, topped off with ome pitch black humour that got me bursting out in laughter several times. Brilliant. Totally recommended! At times it feels very Tarantino-esque as well, which is something I like with me being a Tarantino fanboy and all.

I can't say I hear much Vader listening to Eyeconoclast, but I do hear quite a lot Crown of Thorns/The Crown in their sound, and everything up until Crowned in Terror should be interesting for you. Eyeconoclast also included a cover of the classic The Crown song "Executioner - Slayer of the Light" on their last album. Crown of Thorns/The Crown were fantastic up until Crowned in Terror.

I agree. Could have included a lot of Necrolord's 90's artwork as he quite often managed to capture the spirit and feeling of the music itself. And when you mention The Somberlain it's hard not to mention this too: King Diamond - Abigail Perfect cover for a perfect album. Captures the feeling of the album as a whole.

Since Lestat posted the cover for the new A Forest of Stars, I just gotta follow up wih the full layout which is stunning:

It's not long until 10 Cloverfield Lane!

Playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent with my girlfriends in the weekend. She's not really a big gamer and it's hard to find games she really enjoy, but she enjoys playing certain games a lot and last night we/she played Amnesia for 4 hours. Turn off all light and turn up the sound like hell. She loves it. Would've been even better with headphones of course, but it works well with a powerful suround system as well. I played the game with my ex some years ago and I wasn't convinced by it then. Didn't really like it at all, and it had no effect of me whatsoever. But that's changed because I really enjoy playing it now. Simple, but o-so effective. Great atmosphere. Almost shat myself at one certain point, and that's something that rarely happens no matter what I watch/play/do. Impressive.

Welcome to rapetown! Today I am gonna make some stop-motion movies with some first graders. It's so god damn awesome and so much fun. 2-3 hours goes incredibly fast when you're making films, and at the end of the day you have something like 15-20 seconds of poorly animated lego films. I love it!

Say what the fuck you want about Thor as a band, Thor as a musician, his imagery and so on, but this song is easily among the 5 best heavy/power metal songs ever. And both Only the Strong and Unchained are classics. Heavy/power metal in the vian of Heavy Load and Manowar and so on. Fantastic! The man himself is an actor as well, and have appeared in the horror films Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare and Zombie Nightmare, both which is totally recommended. Not because they are good, but because they are awesome as fuck.

Slow West - Minimalistic arthouse-esque western film with a lot of atmosphere, elegance and class. Now while the film does come off as something very familiar, it feels unique and different. It offers emotions rarely seen in westerns, and I like that. It is also beautifully shot and superbly acted. Both our leads, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Michael Fassbender, is impressive as fuck here, and their chemistry is so great. Powerful performances! The ending was brilliant too. Fucking hell, man! The salt scene was excellent for so many reasons. I can't start to explain how good that particular scene was. It's a bit of a slow-burner and surrealistic at times so this sure won't please everybody, but if you're into westerns I'd recommend you to try it out anyway. So good! Gone Girl - Lots have been said about this, and rightfully so. Fincher's best film since Zodiac IMO, and only beaten by Se7en and Zodiac in his filmography. Nice story, and the gender roles is a bit different from what we usually see in films like this, which felt very refreshing. Rosamund Pike is amazing, and Ben Affleck does his best acting ever. Very good!

http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/01/11/an-ncs-premiere-fuath-blood/ Black metal in the vein of Vemod by Andy Marshall, the sole member of scottish atmospheric folk/black band Saor. That song is beautiful!

Great film!

The entire album is up on youtube, but I'll wait for the album to leak in good quality. Sounds good, albeit a lot weaker than their fantastic 2012 demo Amechth'ntaas'm'rriachth. The demo just had a much cooler and morefitting production. But it sounds nice. Death metal in the vein of Demilich, and to some degree Tiemghoul. "As the city turns to ashes, tall pikes adorning the severed heads of the vanquished are seen from afar, as a warning to neighbouring realms. For all men shall kneel before the might of the Om’kaar and the ghost-fortress of Ve’coiitn’aphnat’smaala."

Spring - Calm, slow-burning and completely unique horror film unlike anything I've ever seen. It's romantic, really atmospheric and intelligent. Low-budget, but nicely directed by the duo behind the excellent Resolution, and the two leads Lou Taylor Pucci and Nadia Hilker are amazing in their roles. Fantastic performances! It's just something very different, and as far as horror goes it' fairly close to Thirst, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Låt den rätte komma in and Warm Bodies in that it is a romantic horror film, but all of these are very much different from each other. People who wants to be scared should check out something else, but people want something extremely good and unique, with warm, poetic and beatiful feeling to it should just check out this film right away.

I know, and I am really looking forward to it even though a sequel isn't really nessecary at all. I hope we get some other influences in it, and that it's a different type of film with different atmosphere, while keeping the spirit of the first one. I have to admit that I do hope they keep the Hong Kong action sequences, though, because this was among the best use of it we've seen in western films till now. So well-made and cool. While I enjoy regular gun fights a lot, gun fu is something special to me, growing up watching mid 80's-early 90's Hong Kong action flicks and so on, and it's just very appealing visually. It just offers a lot more to the viewer, especially to someone like me who's very much into martial arts to begin with. Gun fu is beautiful, it's exciting, it's stylish and it's often surrealistic and out of this world silly, but still so cool. It's like a beautifully choreographed, sexy and poetic dance that just turns me the fuck on. Need more good gun fu in action films.

John Wick - Very nice neo-noir action with Keanu Reeves, and a huge surprise. I expected a decent enough monday entertainer, but this was so much more than that. The neo-noir atmoshere is incredible and very 60's french-esque, and the action sequences is top, top notch. Very un-american and awesome-as-fuck. The creators of the film must be huge fans of 80's and early 90's Hong Kong cinema, because the action sequences oozes of Hong Kong cinema of the past. Now, the film isn't very original, and Keanu Reeves still in't the best actor around, something which is very visible in the emotional scenes, but he does very well as a hard motherfucker out for revenge. The supporting cast is very good too. And I can't be wrong when I am saying that there's something very French, Italian, Chinese and to some degree also Japanese and South-Korean about this film. I got a serious John Woo, Jean Pierre Melville, Sergio Leone, Park Chan wook and Akira Kurosawa feeling from it all. Some of it in the characterization, some of it from the action sequences, some of it from the visuals, some of it from the noir-feeling and so on. lot of influences I'd say were clear (without actually knowing if these were any influence at all), but treated with much respect. Loved it! Reeves' best film since Dracula, a film where he was the weakest link. But the film is enjoyable as fuck, and so was this!

I'll start playing Hotline Miami again as soon as I get home. It have to be dark and it have to be loud. It'll put me into a trance. One of the best games ever. Will play Hotline Miami 2 after that. If it's half as good as the first game I'll be more than happy.

Scott Carlson as a vocalist is so cool. He's one badass motherfucker.