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If you like B-movies and even low-quality movies, then the documentary "VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media" is for you. It's not great in terms of its presentation, even though interesting personalities are featured here, but it's good as a list of things you might still see, what you might have missed. And there's plenty of that.

This is a fairly classic recent biopic. It has a good historical basis about an interesting person, but the events are presented in a sort of classical dramatic way, which is to be expected. Once again, it's the actors who save this biopic. Robert De Niro never disappoints me, Michelle Pfeiffer does what she's supposed to, and there are some good scenes here and there - Mark's madness, for example.

The fact that the creators tried to cram humor into almost all the stories at any cost probably bothers me the most. Tales of Halloween would have been an interesting short story collection if the creators had also attempted to have a more serious tone. However, it seemed to me that perhaps none of the stories were really serious, that none of them had a proper, horror-like atmosphere because of it, where I even thought it could inspire fear or a slight tingle.

I consider Till We Meet Again a nice advertisement for Thailand, with something you might not expect - a story. Yet it's a story with characters that I didn't really care about and didn't care what happened to them, especially if certain local realities pop up again here and there.

This is a comedy that definitely failed to impress me. It’s true that Will Ferrell looks progressively cooler, and there's a pretty nice cameo by Jeremy Renner, but in the final analysis, this is too much of a bland and unfunny comedy during which I basically didn't laugh once because there wasn't much to laugh at.

Sam Elliott shows his acting abilities to the full here, handling a fairly shallow story about a man who gets through an unpleasant phase in his life with honor and basically without any pathos. Moreover, he has great colleagues, and I'm beginning to think that especially Laura Prepon is actually a very good actress and worth paying attention to.

Robert Redford is captivating as always because that's what he does. Audiences will be on his side, even though his character is not downright good and has shady aspects. The plot has scenes that can surprise you quite a bit, but it also has scenes that can bore you. It focuses on the characters and on good aerial scenes, but it doesn't go anywhere, and in fact only to a certain pathos.

James Mason proves how great of an actor he was and the thriller genre suits him well, which I didn't expect at all. But he has something in him where he works as a positive character, yet there is always something slightly dark about him. The film has an excellent atmosphere, which saves even the somewhat boring and dragged out scenes at times.

What is this film actually trying to be? Is it trying to be touching? Is it trying to be exciting? Is it trying to be gritty? Is it trying to be human? Is it trying to make you laugh? I really don't know, but it seems like it wanted to do all of these things, which simply couldn't happen. The acting is good, but the form is so strangely disjointed that it may actually put you off.

Surprisingly, not even the gore in Blood Brothers works, which could have been expected to be good. There are a couple of scenes that surprise, and quite pleasantly so, but they are few and as a whole it doesn't pack the right punch that a viewer who likes the bizarre would imagine. Blood Brothers therefore ends up feeling more like a little film that wanted to say something but only thought that it had some sort of message.