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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 was told about a movie called Point Blank, and it was hyped up to be a fun action movie, so I decided to see if it was worth the hype.

The movie, which is a Netflix production, stars Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie, two people who have worked together in the MCU. The story is extremely straight forward: To save his pregnant wife, an emergency room nurse teams up with an injured murder suspect in a race against time, rival criminals and renegade cops.

I enjoyed myself watching it, and I caught myself laughing a lot during some of the bits. It has everything you could ask for in an action thriller: Fights, shootouts, explosions, intense bits and the ever present "Oh man, who will survive at the end of it?"

Besides Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie, the movie stars Marcia G. Harden, Christian Cooke, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver and Markice Moore.

The task of controlling all those actors, and bringing a film to life, has fallen to Joe Lynch, who has directed tv series, low-budget horror movies and a Faith No More music video.

I really liked this movie a lot, and it is a fun hour and a half of entertainment.

Rating: 7/10

Point Blank streams NOW on Netflix!

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 went for many years without a TV in the bedroom. One woman I dated insisted on it as she couldn't fall asleep without some distraction. She brought over a small screen that had a timer. If I recall, her favorite channel was Oxygen. TV shows for and about women. The late night format was stories about women who were abused by the entire world, not to mention disgruntled ex's.
Oh, I mentioned it.
I'm a believer that when you sleep your subconscious is still absorbing your surroundings. That said, a few times I jumped out of my sleep to hear a woman shrieking when a man holding a knife was approaching... Sorry, no more TV when I'm sleeping.
That forced her to buy a clock radio that also played the sound of the ocean waves crashing on the shore! I was glad when that relationship was over... and take your stinkin' TV with you.
Fast forward 15 years. There is a TV in the bedroom now. It doesn't get used very often. In the past 3 months, a few evening news reports and on Sunday mornings, it's seen some Kung Fu martial arts and one Chinese comedy with English subtitles. That's it. No more chic channel.

I have watched a TON of movies, and I have begun to get a somewhat decent understanding on how to craft the perfect story. You need something that captures. Like a well crafted horror story, or a thrilling action story. Given that my favorite genre of films is disaster films, I might go ahead and try to make a rough outline, with a log line that really intrigues.

The problem is, that most disasters have been pummeled to death. Skyscraper disaster movies: Skyscraper and The Towering Inferno. Extreme disaster movies: Independence day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, Armageddon, Deep Impact, San Andreas. Ship disaster movies: Poseidon, Titanic.

I need to come up with a story, that is completely unique. Something that hasn't been done before. I could write a space disaster movie, but Gravity has that covered.

I'm gonna go into thinking mode, and write some stuff down. Who knows, maybe I will write something that will get made into a movie at some point, but that's not my main objective at the moment. I just want to start writing, and write a few complete movies. After that, we'll see what happens.

I decided to start working on my screenplay earlier. That means a LOT of research in correct NYPD codes, locations of certain things in the screenplay and various names to make up.

So far, I have written 3 full pages. The story is about a terrorist attack in New York City, which I know have been shown SO many times, but I really believe I have a story worth telling. I just need to figure out a name for the story. So far, it's unnamed.

I have just finished the main attack sequence. Now I just need to work out the rest of the story

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!

News just in actor Peter Fonda has died at the age of 79. The cause of death was listed as respiratory failure due to lung cancer.