Ok here are my top 6 favorite movies from the past month.
1) Straight Time -Day 30
2) Exit Through the Gift Shop -Day 11
3) Pear Jam Twenty or "PJ20" -Day28
4) I Love You Phillip Morris -Day 18
5) Bottle Shock - Day 6
6) When You're Strange - Day 8
A proper movie for a wed. Strange comedy. This movie stars Mark Duplass, the actor who is also doing this 365 days of netflix.
An old friend comes to town and stays at his place. They go to a party and the topic of a "artsy porno contest" comes up (no pun) and the discussion that every porn fetish has been made. There is nothing that hasnt been done. But one thing.
2 straight men making a gay porno. Hilarity ensues.
I did like this. Good jokes, good cast and funny, yet sexy, subject. 3 stars. Watch it.
Straight time is a story of a theif, getting out of jail and trying to live a normal life. The only problem is his porole officer. He is not giving him the tools to be rehabilitated.
Dustin Hoffman's proformance is the best I have seen and a great movie. I had never heard of this movie before but it looked interesting. And I am so happy I found this.
All I can say is watch this film. I give it the covited, 5 Star go tell your mama about this movie award. Watch this movie!
Oh Richard Grieko. You were sooooooooooo wrong for this role.
This movie is the classic "mistaken for a spy, but still saves the day" movie. Highschool student/slacker Michael Corbin cant graduate unless he takes summer school. But the french class he is with is going to Paris for the summer. I sure hope no Bond-like villans have any plans on world domination.
Ok here is the thing. This movie had a killer action team. Great action moments and Bond villins. It's like this movie had AMAZING potential, but they casted Grieko. He looks like he's in his mid 30's playing a highschool student. His performance was pure shit. No comedic timing for his jokes.
I give it a 2. I dont recomend it, but I liked the action.
I love music. Movies and music. I have worked in Suncoast, Sam Goodie, FYE, and used movie and music places. My best friend from middle school on was a sony Diskman that opened my world to real music. The first time I heard Metallica was at study hall, a stoner barrowed my cd player and forgot to take out the disk. It blew my mind. I lost my musical verginity at that moment. He then let me barrow Pearl Jam's "10" album.
I may not have been their first fan, or their biggest, but I am a fan. To be honest I didnt know too much about them. So in my quest for movie nerd-dom, I came across this film. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe (Jerry McGuire, Almost Famous, We Baught A Zoo).
One of the reasons I wanted to see this is that over the summer Pearl Jam had their 20th anniversery concert at Alpine Valley here in Wisconsin. 2 days in summer in wisconsin. Livivng less than a hour away I wanted to see some of that concert, and was hoping it had a little in this film. It did not.
It also did not disapoint! I want to give it 5 stars, but I just cannot. I'm giving it 4. The sound on this is amazing and this will be my first recomendation that if you can, get the bluray from netflix if you have a good sound system. The streaming sound was great but 7.1 will melt my sox off.
Oh, Ryan Gossling. Ok, maybe I have a man crush on him. I'm not gay, but if we were prison cell mates, I wouldn't complain. I'm just saying. So maybe i'm a little one sided with his movies.
I think he is an amazing actor. I want to see every movie he was in. So I picked "Half Nelson". A movie about a drug addicted inner city school teacher played by Ryan.
So another drug addiction movie. Not "Sid & Nancy" or "The Fighter" but you really feel the frustration of trying to clean your life up, but one struggle and you fall on that crutch that will make it all better.
Now my wife is an inner city teacher and I know the struggles and hurdles that she has to deal with each day. In inner city schools, alot of people dont realize that for some kids, school is their only regular thing in their life. The only thing they can count on. And when they can have a solid role model like a teacher, they really put all their emotional eggs in one basket. Teachers know that (well the good ones) and when they see their kids loose faith in them, it is devistating. Try and handle that on the down slide of a haroine binge.
Not one of Gossling's finest, but worth your time. 3 Stars.
This is Brandon Roth's 3rd comic book series movie. 1st was "Superman Returns", then it was "Scott Pilgrim", and now "Dylan Dog"
The tagline of the movie is "No pulse. No Problem". Dylan is a privet investigator for the paranormal. Crazy murder? He'll find the vampire or warewolf responsible.
Now, the suck heads and flea bags live amung us, without us knowing. But Dylan knows this a little too well. No he isn't one himself, but he knows that underworld damn well. Oh and his partner is a zombie. A very comical zombie.
I dont know if it is because I saw "Breaking Dawn" this weekend with my wife (i was dragged to that but we snuck into Muppets after. Totally worth it then.) but tgis movie was super fun. I really have no clue if my reader will like this movie, or not, but I did.
I give this movie a solid 2 stars with the potential for 3 stars.
