Happy new year to everyone : )
I hope that I can do even more posts the next year and its also fun that I am closing in on 100 000 pageviews on this blog. An interesting coincidence!
Thank you for watching so f...
Monday, December 31, 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Hard Candy
Plot:
Young girl meets older man through the internet.
Preview:
This film is something that I had been wanting to watch for a while. The premise and plot of it sounded very enticing and I also appreciate Ellen Page's general acting style. A general theme on this blog, besides the films, is that of the human mind and expectations,...
Friday, November 30, 2012
Die Welle
Plot:
The re-enactment of a very interesting psychological experiment based off historical events.
Review:
The german teacher Rainer Wagner (Jurgen Vogel ) brings up the subject of autocracy to his students and engages them in an experiment. He wants to instill in them that autocracy is still and will always be a threat to democracy,...
Friday, November 9, 2012
Fish Tank
Plot:
15 year old aspiring dancer finds herself in a strange situation when her mom finds a new boyfriend.
Review:
I heard good things about this one and had been wanting to see it for quite a while. I dont see alot of british film, perhaps because its, overall, low quality films or perhaps because it gets pushed away by the monster that...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Uncle Kent
Plot:
Middle aged man and his lonely life.
Review:
This low budget film with no recognisable characters and filmed with a Flip Cam (!) made it to the Sundance festival which obviously gave it big attention. The low-key and non pretentious vibe always sparks my interest with films so I thought I'd review it for you.
The somewhat conventional...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Sebbe
The first Swedish film on this blog.
Plot:
The life and times of a bullied boy.
Review:
The movie industry is interesting in that its very hard not to be affected by Hollywood and the common way of making a film. Sometimes the swedish film industry get carried away and just copy the american way of making films but most of the time,...
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Lolita
A film based upon the classical novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
Plot:
Centers around the relationship between an older man and a young girl.
Review:
The novel has spawned two dramatizations, one that came 1962 and then this one, which came in 1997. Unfortunately I haven't seen the first one. Vladimirs novel has reached widespread...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Friends with money
Just look at that poster.
Plot:
Woman quits her job and finds herself in an awkward position being the only one in her circle of friends who doesn't have a "career".
Review:
Looking at the poster and reading the plot makes me quite, shall we say non-interested, in this film. Jennifer Aniston doesn't really help at all, she has...
Thursday, September 20, 2012
The kids are alright
Plot:
Follows a lesbian couple and their kids.
Review:
Anette Benning and Julianne Moore plays a lesbian couple, Nic and Jules. They have two kids together, Laser and Joni. ( Played by ) They live quite the average suburban life and all that comes with that. As the kids have grown older they have been more and more interested in getting...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Angels In America
This is my first tv show review.
Plot:
Follows a group of homosexual men in the 1980's New York and the AIDS breakout in the West.
Review:
I saw this show on television when I was in highschool and I was very intrigued by it. When a show, documentary or film is genre-overlapping I automatically become very interested. It may be...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Mysterious Skin
Based on a novel by the same name.
Plot:
Follows two boys who were molested by the same man growing up.
Review:
Despite the heavy theme this is not necesseraly, as you could expect, all that hard to watch. There might be a scene or two that one could define as uncomfortamble but overall it has an interesting and unexpected tone,...
Monday, August 27, 2012
Harrisons Flowers
Harrisons Flowers
Plot:
A wife searches for her supposed kidnapped and/or killed husband during the Balkan war.
Review:
Sarah Lloyd (Andie Mcdowell) travels to Croatia in the 1991's to find her journalist, whose mission it is to document the conflict, husband Harrison who presumably is dead( Brendan Gleeson). This is in a...
Friday, August 17, 2012
Half Nelson
Half Nelson
Ryan Fleck's debut film.
Plot:
A young teacher that leads a double life with his teaching by day and doing drugs by night.
Review:
Dan Dunne (Ryan Gosling) is a teacher in the innercity of New York. Being driven by a passion and typical leftwing ideas he's a well liked on the school in general. Like his own parents who...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Monsters
Monsters
A different take on the classical theme "Alien invasion".
Plot:
A journalist agrees to escort his boss's daughter from Mexico to The US through an "infection zone" that is said to contain aliens.
Review:
Six years years after NASA sends a probe to investigate extraterrestrial life in another galaxy Mexico is harboring...
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Buffalo 66
Buffalo 66
Vincent Gallo is the lead actor and director in this film.
Plot:
Man is released from prison and the first thing he does is kidnapping a girl and take her on an adventure.
Review:
The short plot sentence is quite enough as far as the story goes. Billy is a quirky and introverted person and comes from a very dysfunctional...
Monday, August 6, 2012
Network
Network
When my broadband limit was reached and I went to a video store to rent some movies this is what I came home with.
Plot:
The medium Television.
Review:
Taking best film of 1976 doesn't mean I had high expectations on it. Films, as I've already mentioned in another post, tend to get less interesting as the years go by and...
Friday, August 3, 2012
Ex Drummer
Ex Drummer
Belgian director Koen Mortier has made this very interesting film.
Plot:
Follows a couple of individuals who start a band together.
Review:
I was on a mission a year or so ago to look into the peripheral of films that exist. Which continent they came from was of second importance, as long as they had something that...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Gummo
Gummo
Plot:
Centers around a couple of young individuals in a small town in Ohio.
Review:
This film actually comes close to a documentary and we get to see upclose the somewhat nihilistic lives of some residents in Xenia in the midwest. There is not a traditional narrative or story in any sense of the word, this is merely an...
Friday, July 27, 2012
Big Trouble In Little China
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Big Trouble In Little China
They do not make films like this anymore.
Plot:
A good versus evil fable from the 80's.
Review:
Granted it was a while since I saw this film, could actually be as far back as the VHS days, I have to say its a big favourite of mine. It's quite a unique piece and I'm not interested...
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