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I have finished Brightburn a few minutes ago, and it's amazing!

The story is pretty straight forward: What if Superman was evil instead of good?

The movie is produced by James Gunn, who is known from making Marvel movies, and it is a classic, no-nonsense, suspenseful horror film, with a lot of brutal imagery.

I will not go into a lot of detail here, because that will ruin the movie. Understand, though, that this isn't your classic feel-good movie, and it is super dark and depressing throughout the entirety.

Jackson A. Dunn plays Brandon Breyer, the kid known as Brightburn. He gives a fantasticaly creepy performance, and he is definitely someone you should look out for in the future. His parents, Tori and Kyle Breyer are played by Elizabeth Banks and David Denman respectively.

To give you an example on how brutal this film is, here is a scene from the movie



As you can see, it's a properly brutal movie, and if you are squeamish, then you need to give this a pass. If you are up for an amazing horror movie, with great practical effects, then watch Brightburn. I really enjoyed watching it!

9/10!

I look forward to the sequel!

A few months ago, I watched the first season of Designated Survivor. I liked it, but I noted that the season ended on a flat note. I decided to knock out the remaining two seasons these past few days, and here is what I think of it: I loved it!

I really didn't think I would, but something about it really tickled my funny bone. Kiefer Sutherland is back as President Kirkman, as is Adan Canto as Aaron Shore, Kal Penn as Seth Wright, Italia Ricci as Emily Rhodes, Maggie Q as Hannah Wells and LaMonica Garrett as Mike Ritter.

New faces include Kim Raver as Andrea Frost, a brilliant tech genius, Paulo Costanzo as Lyor Boone, a hypochondriac and somewhat awkward fellow, Julie White as Lorraine Zimmer, a brash and no-nonsense political strategist, Anthony Edwards as Mars Harper, the new Chief of Staff who is extremely by the book and Geoff Pierson as Cornelius Moss, the 44th President of the United States.

Season 2 starts off with the continued look for Patrick Lloyd, the bomber responsible for blowing up the Capitol. On top of that, they also have to fend off terror plots, political smears, intrigues and good old fashioned office-rumors.

Season 3 is much more violent, and you can tell that Netflix picked it up, since the language is far more rough and non-kid friendly, not that the show is that anyway. In typical Netflix fashion, they push the envelope regarding sex and language, and I don't mind that at all. It's refreshing to see a show like that.

We also get to deal with an incredible amount of losses in the two seasons. Some are more vicious and heart wrenching than others.

All in all, I liked these last two seasons of the show. I have yet to hear anything about a season 4, but it will happen, I think.

Season 2: 7/10
Season 3: 8/10

The new tv show from Showtime about Roger Ailes, the Chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Studios is on HBO Nordic, so I decided to give it a view. The show stars Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes, and it depicts his entire history of Fox News. From the humble beginnings to the 9/11 attacks and all the way up to his death.

Keeping bias out of this review, I enjoyed watching the story unfold. I love Russell's portrayal of Roger, and I find it interesting to see, how Fox grew from a, let's be honest, amateur studio to the giant powerhouse we see today.

Nothing is left out. Every scandal. Every mistake. Every low and every high are in the show. Episode 1 starts in 1995, and it depicts several key points in Fox News, among those how Hannity was hired. The drama slowly unfolds, and it also shows how much of a mess Fox was in the beginning.

Episode 2 starts out on the morning of 9/11, where we see a fast-thinking Roger, doing what he did best - break the news to the people. The episode also showed the negative effect of that. Breaking the wrong, and often unsubstantiated news, like the time when we were told that Saddam Hussein had WMD's, and then Geraldo Rivera openly lied about him being in Tora Bora.

I look forward to the next episode, on the 14th of july.

So far, I give this series a 7/10. Room for improvement, but it doesn't need much to be a great show!

I admit, I haven't been playing a lot of Pokémon, when I was younger. I had a Gameboy with one of the Pokémon games, but I never played it more than 10 minutes at a time. Then, Niantic released Pokémon GO, a game for your smartphone, where you hunt for Pokémon in the real world. It was insanely popular, so it felt only fitting for a live action Pokémon movie to be made.

The movie follows Tim, a young man who discovers that his father, Harry, is missing, presumed dead. He heads to Ryme City to finish up some things, when he meets Pikachu. A witty detective, who is looking for Harry. Tim and Pikachu can understand each other, but nobody else can. All they hear, when Pikachu is talking, is "pika pika pika", which makes Tim freak out. Understandably.

He meets Lucy, a young reporter, also looking for Harry, which makes her the third person in this movie to do so. Together, they embark on an adventure, filled with thrills and extreme danger, that concludes in a chilling fact.

The lead role as Tim is played by Justice Smith, last seen in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Pikachu is voiced by Ryan Reynolds, and Lucy is played by Kathryn Newton. Other actors on the list include Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe and Suki Waterhouse.

The budget of this live action Pokémon movie was 150 million dollars, and it made 135 million dollars in the US. The total worldwide box office haul was 397 million dollars. Sadly, the movie was a financial flop, since it didn't make back the budget in the US.

Now, being that I don't know most Pokémon, and that I don't really know how each Pokémon should behave, I went into the film with low expectations. I have heard from people, who know the lore of Pokémon, that it was a great movie, so I was excited to see if they were right - and they were.

It's an impressive looking film. One scene had me going "Wow, that was amazing!". It is a movie aimed at kids, but adults will have a great time as well. I know I did!

8/10!

I never really got the hype about Stranger Things, so I decided not to take part in viewing the show.

Now, however, I have decided to give it a chance, to see what everyone is raving on about. So, was it worth it?

The first season is about a young boy, who disappears. It's then up to his mother, a police chief, and his friends to confront terrifying forces in order to get him back.

Season 1 has a number of different subplots, that all merge at the end, and it's a pretty well-crafted series. It's VERY slow, but the first season is all about character building. The season has it all: Horror, suspense, action, humor and emotion. It's an extremely impressive first season, so I will definitely begin season 2 right away.

Let's hope this is more fast-paced, because if I have to see ONE more interrogation, so help me... That is the only reason why this first season gets an 8/10. Not bad but not perfect!

I've seen Once Upon A Time In Hollywood a couple of times now and I'm sure I missed plenty of Easter eggs. It got me thinking about the influence that movies and television had on my childhood and those thoughts eventually brought me back to an old itch.

I thought it had been scratched back in 1988 with the movie They Live. The movie is about a guy who finds a box filled with sunglasses that, when worn, unmask an alternate reality filled with aliens...or something like that.

It was close, but not quite it. I found that They Live was based on a story called 8 o'clock in the morning.

The faint memory I had was a closing scene shot through the lense of special glasses that allowed the wearer to see aliens disguised as humans. At first I thought They Live might have been a remake, but it was not.

I started to question my ability to recall with much accuracy anything from my childhood and was prepared to blame marijuana use as a teen for the dissociation. I'm reminded of why eyewitness testimony is so unreliable...but my mania was renewed after seeing the new Tarantino film.

I went hunting once again--determined to get satisfaction by finding what I was looking for, or burying it altogether under the realization that my mind, since 1970 or so, had been reduced to producing about as meaningful synapse as a bowl of day-old guacamole.

Eureka! Don't open that bag of tortilla chips just yet! I fk'n found it! And the scene is pretty much how I remember it. After something like 40 years this itch has finally been scratched!

It was a TV movie called The Love War. This is the final scene. The "money shot" @ about 10 mins.

This is one of those "it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when" movies, since this movie very well will come to reality in the near future.

The Wave is based on the true story of a huge tsunami that hit Norway 80 years ago. The disaster was triggered when a mountainside collapsed, causing huge damage and casualties in a number of villages along Norway's fjords. A Norwegian geologist (played by Kristoffer Joner) and his family (Ane Dahl Torp, Jonas Hoff Oftebro and Edith Haagenrud-Sande) fight for survival when a massive landslide causes a 250-foot tidal wave. Such an event is very likely to happen again, but they don't know when.

Written and directed by Roar Uthaug, the movie is well paced and the buildup is great. The disaster itself is very impressively done, with some great VFX work.

There are a few Danish people in this movie, and they are, of course, killed off. And people wonder where us Danes get our small hatred to the Norwegian people. Just kidding, I love you, Norway!

Anyway, the movie.. It's well acted, and it's a genuine nail biter. A sequel, The Quake, is out now, and hopefully I can watch that at some point

8/10

I mentioned in my previous blog, that I would see if I could find this movie, and watch it. Well, find it I did, and let me tell you - I did watch that. And I loved it!

In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs that indicate that we can expect a major future earthquake in Oslo.

The main cast is the same from the first movie, although this time, the family is torn, due to Kristians wife divorcing him. Kristian lives in the now rebuilt Geiranger. He gets word that a friend of his was killed in an accident in an Oslo tunnel, so Kristian sets off to Oslo, to search for answers.

This movie is exciting, to say the least! Yet again, the VFX is stellar, and it's always impressive seeing a massive 35 story building fall down! They up the terror and the gore in this one, which is a welcome sight. A little blood didn't hurt anyone!

The Quake is better than The Wave, and my rating this time goes to - wait for it - 10 out of 10! (I think that's my first 10/10 this year)

This movie has it all: Thrills, destruction and top notch effects! Highly recommended if you want to watch some thrilling destruction!

happy days CS is world famous, we are on SKY news, twitter, youtube even the local news paper lol.............I will drink to that.....

Only those who are vision or hearing impaired, or suffering from near terminal TD-HD Syndromes will not not know. But the severe biases of the fake media outlets, VERY fake, have been with us now for several decades. Recall when during the war in the Malvinas, the BBC's reporting was so unbiased, that some members of Parliarment complained. At least, as predicted, until Maggy and the Brits totally kicked arse down there with the girly, sissy Generals full of chest medals Argentinians. And here in the USA, the three networks, and public broadcasting, the latter most notable for NPR (National Proletarian Radio), are hardly even handed in reportage. Certainly grossly biased against right wing almost anything, but even in their coverage of science, economics, etc. Only former short wave radio Moscow, Havana or Tirana, in their own propagandist ways, were worse. It wasn't always this way, as with the now terminally PC BBC. Public broadcasting was actually started, with a majority of taxpayers' dollars, half a century ago, to counter the commercial outlets. And for a short while, it did the job. Over time, with more staffing by graduates of Schools of Journalism, the left biases began to creep in, to a point where we now virtually have enemies of the people for news pundits. But don't take my word for it. Step onto almost any campus, and visit a few lectures. Then catch a few broadcasts. Sure, there's right wing info on some outlets. BUT IT'S NOT TAXPAYER FUNDED, oh my astute CS lemmings. The taxpayer funding confiscatory huge teats for these incredibly biased services continues, albeit, with protests from taxpayers, at lower rates. Now the funding comes from frequent "beg-a-thons", for listener support. And originally, public broadcasting was intended to avoid all the crass adverts on commercial outlets, by using taxpayers dollars instead. Fat chance, but again, don't take my word for it. Just tune in to see how really similar the many adverts on the fake news PUBIC networks, VERY fake, really are. Our Brilliant President Trump as with his many other long overdue/fulfilled promisses policies, is hip. VERY hip. But strategically keeping a low profile on this, until he's in for a second term. I won't detail the various plans for change here, but as they say on the air waves, stay tuned. And just BTW, my British friends, if you don't happen to be rabidly left wing yourselves, just how fairly do you feel your TV/Radio confiscatory taxes are being spent. We can all hang our heads, and pray. Hope we don't get fooled again. Same old bosses, same old....