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Ballerina In a way I love these kinds of movies. They are so braindead on the surface that it's a challenge to try to find something interesting. Too bad there was very little in Ballerina bar a brief moment near the beginning with Eve and a friend of hers. The action has some cool moments but...

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning An incredible movie bogged down by lots of expositionary dialogue and plain exposition. The first third of the movie sucks the life out of the viewer, but the rest of it thankfully blows it back. It's edited very well together but knowing it's all on...

Finland did pretty well, Finland also did pretty well, and Finland did decently well. The public cheesed on the Swiss hard enough that it could have been a voyage home from the semi had they competed there first. I have to check out most of the performances later, because I was on the night...

Finland sends in not one but two schlagers. I'm not familiar with the rest of the show, but I'll try to catch the final live (wish me a peaceful night at work).

Thunderbolts* Surprisingly not bad. Predictable, sure, but not bad at all. 6/10. Pugh is alright, Harbour too. The villain is... very dark. Rises above the jank that at least I've come to expect. Effects are fine. Lighting and cinematography leave no impression.

A Working Man I'd say with sufficiently low expectations one can take some enjoyment (sadism) out of this. But... I expected at least some sense in there, because of the Twitch ad in which Statham's character seems to be on a detective hunt on top of the hunt to kill everyone. And he is. Very...

Mickey 17 Bong Joon-ho directs Robert Pattinson opposite his copy and Mark Ruffalo as a rich, egoistic, evangelical nutcase and a failed politician who reminds of someone real with Toni Collette as his saucy wife. Mickey is an expendable blue-collar workman on a colony spaceship who gets cloned...

You can also fast for a month -- one guy did it and it was documented well too. Nobody gives a shit about a month long diet experiment. That guy, Norwitz, is trying to get proof for a hypothesis that there are people, starting with himself, who have some sort of special response to ketogenic...

Nowadays not at all. I used to have a MSI GT72 Dominator Pro (gaming laptop) that shows off the aesthetic boldly, but the trend has relaxed much.

Rest in peace. Though I have to admit I haven't seen his movies. I've only watched Season 3 of Twin Peaks. Lived pretty long for a chainsmoker.

Let's be honest, stakes in a Marvel movie are just fluff. Death on the Nile 7/10 Kenneth Branagh directed and starred as Poirot in his second movie of the series, adapting the eponymous novel by Agatha Christie. I like Branagh's Poirot. Production design and costumes in the movie are great...

I wrote "appetite" instead of "hunger" purposefully to include more than the typical feeling of hunger. Anyway, over here if somebody wants to start an incretin analogue for weight loss they are usually (especially if they want the government to reimburse some of the cost) required to fix their...

You've gotta find the motivation somehow, but the implication that everyone's only one neat trick short is funny.

Bupropion/Naltrexone is a widely used weight loss medication, thus if possible I'd combine the two. A stimulant-based medication exists as well, though at least in Europe they approved it very recently. If your medication is put under your skin then it is some form of incretin analog (Ozempic...

I watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and The Zone of Interest today. These movies are noticeably different from each other. The latter is a more interesting film and leaves a much more lasting impression. After all what you see there is a slice of life in the Höss household. Any drama in...