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...

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Big Trouble In Little China

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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Spun

Spun Jonas Åkerlund does his film debut. Plot: Centers around the life and times of drugs and individuals using them. Review: You can quite easily tell Jonas Åkerlund is a musicvideo producer gone film producer. Very rapid pace with alot of different angles and just as you have settled on a frame, and grasped what...

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Sphere

Sphere Last film was non-serious Hoffman and in this we have serious Hoffman. Plot: A group of people go to the bottom of the ocean to investigate a crashed spaceship.   Review:   This is probably the single most interesting "mind boggling" film that has such mainstream hollywood actors in it. Initial scene...

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I Heart Huckabees

I Heart Huckabees Doing a review on a film from the genre Comedy, which is very rare given the very few quality comedy movies. Plot: Young man is confused about life and seeks help from an older professional couple. Review: First comedy review. I wouldn't mind more at all but they are very hard to come by. Actually laughing...

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Fearless

Fearless In my book one of the best movies of the 90s. Plot: Man survives a plane crash. Review: Having seen Jeff Bridges in Big Lebowski and The men who stare at goats, among others, makes it really interesting seeing him in something completely different. His acting in this film is quite spectacular. Peter Weir, the director,...

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The Cell

The Cell Do not let Jennifer Lopez discourage you. Plot: A psychotherapist and the mind of a serial killer. Review: Jennifer Lopez plays the role of Catherine Deane, a highly skilled psychotherapist and works for a company that has developed a new technology in therapy. It gives the therapist the...

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The Legend Of The Pianist On The Ocean

The Legend of the pianist on the ocean La leggenda del pianista sull'oceano (original title) An italian production. Plot: A man, a piano the the ocean. Review: On the very first day of the year 1900, an child is found aboard a luxury liner in the coal room. A worker on the ship, played by Bill Nunn, discovers...

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Dirty Pictures

Dirty Pictures Plot: We get a peek into the life of an old man with an interest in drugs and consciousness. Review: Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, or the "Godfather of Ecstasy", which he also is called in various circuits, is the main subject of this film. He is basically a very skilled ivy league chemist who lives in San Francisco...

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Shame

Shame English director Steve Mcqueen does his second big production movie after Hunger. Plot: We get to follow a man with a sex addiction. Review: As the title implies, Shame is alive and well in Brandon (Michael Fassbender), a typical posh urban citizen of New York, and something he must live with every day. He has a sex addiction...

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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Martha Marcy May Marlene A very interesting performance by Elizabeth Olsen in the leading role and great acting overall from all the people involved. Plot: Follows a young woman and her struggles with assimilating to a regular life after being involved with a cult. Review: Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) flees an abusive and manipulative...

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I Like Killing Flies

I Like Killing Flies Despite the title and this disturbing image it is not a violent movie at all. Perhaps slightly verbally violent but its all in New York esque affection (?). Plot: Is about a man in his best age who runs a successful familyrestaurant in New York. Review: Kenny Shopsin, an overweight and garish little chef who...

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The Parking Lot Movie

The Parking Lot Movie Very interesting self-explanatory little documentary about special people working at a not so special place. Plot: Follow the daily lives of parking lot employees. Review: On "The Corner Parking Lot" in Charlottesville, Virginia, you are only hired if you fit into the somewhat contradictory...

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Sin Nombre

Sin Nombre   Mexican/american film that does the south american-teenager-journey-towards-the american dream story justice. Plot: South american teenager who journeys towards the american dream. Review: I always wanted to see someone portraying this very human fate, the fate that is the journey towards "life,...

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Southland Tales

Southland Tales   Despite the quite eclectic mix of individuals acting in this movie I watched the whole thing and I wasn't disappointed. There a number of reasons why I appreciate this movie but the fact that its very hard to put a label on it is one thing I like. Plot: A dystopian scenario that takes place in Los...

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The Fall

The Fall This movie feels like it belongs in a different decade from when it was made. Plot: Two human beings meet in a hospital and get lost inbetween fiction and reality. Review: With being very focused on the visual aspect of a movie it leaves little room for a long and detailed review. As mentioned,...

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The Squid And The Whale

The Squid And The Whale     If there was ever a token knee-jerk indie movie, this could be it. This or Garden State. Plot: Two young men growing up faces the hardships of a parent break up. Review: The Squid and the Whale is both a tragic and comical look at what a divorce does to a family in New york in the...

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The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep La science des rêves (original title) Everything in life is better without expectations it seems and movies are no exception. A french-italian production. Plot: Existensial detective that actually thinks he can share his upsidedown world view with someone who happens to be a woman. Review: A friend...

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Shine

Shine There may or may not be some kind of cinematic heresy to say that an academy awarded movie is underrated. I still feel this movie has a place here. I have never heard anyone anywhere speak about this movie. Plot: The true story ( before "true story" became popular ) about a young man and his piano. Review: There...

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