Not quite as bad as I expected. It looked great...

pusher

it's directed by nicholas winding refn who's gone on to hollywood with the much talked about ''Driver''. A danish movie that looks at what a life of crime might actually be like. no real big scoop: danish movie makes life look like endless struggle! that being said i loved the way it captured the performances rather than making sure everything looked peter perfecto. there are sequels.

six more enjoyable than cliffhanger

Night Of The Hunter - 1995
''You hit Daddy with a hairbrush!''
Finally got around to watching this. My expectation were not quite met, but that's my fault for having them in the first place. I feel like the film lost momentum half way through and from the point in which the kids leave on their boat, I lost interest to a degree. The scenes of the drowned mother are fantastic, though - really painterly, and Robert Mitchum is incredible (except for that scene where he runs up with cellar stairs after the children with his arms outstretched - was just too schlocky!)

pusher trilogy gets worse as it goes on unfortunately, but Refn's film Bronson is pretty awesome.

fyi it's Drive...

thanks BCWC, my bad. yeah that bronson movie is pretty ace, outstanding performance by tom hardy. now we can all say ''i've seen bane's dick!''

six more enjoyable than cliffhanger

i finally saw paul on the weekend.

loved it. wish simon pegg was my boyfriend.

Watched ''The Beaver'' with Mel Gibson & Jodie Foster last week. Gibson was actually good! A quirky yet very insightful look into depression. Bought mrs smoke to tears as it cut pretty close to home.

& I've just put Paul in the DVD player!

Visitor Q

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American Beauty

Didn't love American Beauty, but it was enjoyable enough. Some moments were hilarious. Others pretty cringe worthy - like the plastic bag teary eyed video watching. ugh....
Visitor Q isn't much like anything I've seen before. Pretty intense viewing. May take a while to process.

oh man, I love Visitor Q. A LOT.

Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows

your enjoyment of this film will depend on what you thought of the first one. there's some good action and ritchie busts out a LOT of different camera tricks to varying degrees of success. RDJ has a winning screen presence and looks like Heath Ledger's joker at one point.

about the same enjoyable than cliffhanger

Miss Bala - Gerardo Naranjo (2011 Mexico) So this new one looks at poverty and fame via a beautiful young woman who dreams of becoming a beauty queen but instead gets caught up in a Mexican gang war. Some exception looking shots but on the whole full of motivation holes and way too unbelievable. Mexico's Academy award submission lacks the sass of Naranjo's last flick Voy a Explotar (I'm Gonna Explode). 3 stars

it was based on a true story though wasn't it Boston? Not that that makes real life events seem any less credible. Think it's got a chance at Best Foreign Film Oscar?

Last Friday I saw Dawn of the Dead at Westgath cinema's midnight Cult Vault thing and it was excellent. I love Cult Vault, may it exist for a long time and continually draw a weird mix of people to see underappreciated films like this.

Kiss Of The Spiderwoman.

Disappointing. Interesting that Sonja Braga couldn't speak a word of English and learnt all of her lines phonetically, though. But that was probably the only interesting thing about this movie, although Hurt's performance was up to his usual standards.

Yeah, loosely based on miss Sinaloa 2008. I don't think it will win.

Voy a Explotar would be a cool band name

horrible bosses! it sucked!!!

young adult. supremely good.

I started watching Hesher last night, but fell asleep. Loved the punctuations of 15 second Metallica/Motorhead snippets. Also love JGL. Not hard, really. Looking forward to seeing the rest. Rainn Wilson was great as the depressed father, too. Nice to see him in a role that's not completely ridiculous.

Decided I'm going to make a trip on Feb 9th to Elsternwick to see Shame. Really the only film I can think of at the moment that is worthy of making the journey out there (I received a free double pass to the Classic as a gift.)

I watched the 2011 version of Jane Eyre the other day. It was ok. Also watch Serenity. It too was ok. I'm not much of a movie watcher, but thats ok, too.

Rainn Wilson was great as the depressed father, too. Nice to see him in a role that's not completely ridiculous.

wilson is very good in super, but that's a semi-ridiculous film. he's good in peep world too.

I've begun making a decent dent in The Story of Film: An Odyssey this week.

The narrator's intonation takes some getting used to, as do some of the subjective opinions stated as fact, but that said it's revealling so much of the world of film to me that it's mostly amazing.

So far I've watched 4 hours of the 13 and it's touched on so many important movements, directors, techniques and innovations, and a whole bunch of things I never knew or noticed. If you sat down and took notes it would be as valuable as any film course.

I LOVE his voice, rawr.

i like his voice, but you must admit that his intonation is unusual! it does kind of keep you interested in a strange way.

yeah, it's really unusual. i found it so relaxing that i kept falling asleep. he should read those guided meditation tapes, it'd work for me.

LaxCharisma said 2 days ago:

Maaaan....I haven't seen Wings OF Desire for years. I should do something about that.

One of my favourite films.

I've begun making a decent dent in The Story of Film: An Odyssey this week.

Where is this available to buy or is it downloadable somewhere?

It's downloadable...can't remember where from...but yeah it's out there.

i got a copy off a friend (who might have got it from amazon?)

have been loving ep7/8/9 (50s-70s).

Eva - Kike Maíllo (2011 Spain) New family-friendly Sci-Fi about a man who wants to create 'free robots'. The production values are very high but there's nothing new here and you can predict the turning points well before they happen. Performances are strong. 3 stars

The Century Of The Self - Adam Curtis (2002 UK) A fascinating 4hr documentary series on the culture of the self, the evolution of Public Relations from propaganda and the use of psychoanalysis for control of the masses in both industry and politics. Recommended 4 stars.

Have you ever thought about mixing it up a little, boston? In regards to your format rather than subject. Maybe you should have your own thread.

does it bother you?

Crazy stupid love - thought it was spectacular, loved every second of it.

''Bother'' isn't the right word for it. but do carry on.

Maybe you should have your own thread.

he/she sort of does

I love the bostonstraggler format. So simple and direct, which is probably nothing like the movies they are watching.

I love the bostonstraggler format

me too.

I think I should shut it before I offend. Go to town, boston.

awww.