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The Science of Sleep (2006)
I'm a pretty big fan of Michel Gondry and have been wanting to see this movie since it came out. I'm happy to say, after all that waiting, I'm not disappointed in the least. It's maybe not quite as good as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but then it doesn't boast a Charlie Kaufman screenplay so how could it be. Nevertheless, it's still a great movie that feels a little like a companion piece to that movie. Both Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg are excellent in here, helping ground this very surreal movie with somecreal emotional weight.

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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
I'm kind of a sucker for a good revenge story and this is great one, maybe not quite as amazing as Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy, but pretty close. It's the classic "messing with the wrong guy" tale told with with heaps of mood and gorgeous cinematography. I'm not surprised to learn it was the number one movie in South Korea the year it came out, it really is that good.


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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
I hadn't seen this is ages and figured it was high time to revisit it. I'm happy to report it's held up well. Maybe not my favorite Spielberg movie but still a very good one. I was a little shocked by some of the actors in it. I expected Richard Dreyfus and Terri Garr of course, but was surprised to see Melinda Dillon (A Christmas Story) in a major role, Carl Weathers in a brief cameo, Bob Balaban in a major role, and weirdest of all, François Truffaut in a major role.


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Night Watch (2004)
Continuing my little streak of extremely popular movies in their home country, this movie was (and possibly still is) the highest grossing Russian movie ever. The premise, which concerns the battle between light and dark superhuman forces in contemporary Moscow while regular people remain totally unaware, has some pretty strong echoes of Harry Potter, though much more dark and violent. Pretty damn enjoyable though. I especially appreciated seeing a big blockbuster type movie that wasn't afraid to have a not very likable main character and a thoroughly downer ending.

I watched this recently. It's not as intense as when I first watched it.

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My favorite movie of all time.

Well **** now I can never use fav movie for security questions again. Oh well.

I've been watching musicals all weekend, Moulin Rouge was the last one.

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It's probably one of my favourite musicals ever.

The Call
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I finally got around to watching this and I enjoyed it for what it was. I don't know if I would want to see a sequel though. Also Abigail's acting in this bothered me in certain scenes. It just didn't feel believable normally she gives a really good performance but I don't know what happened with this movie.

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The writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War) always has interesting ideas and makes really great looking films and this is no exception. Justin Timberlake is surprisingly good and Amanda Seyfried is gorgeously kooky but the DVD print is horrendous. Very grainy which annoyed the crap out of me and there are a couple of gaps in logic in the film but it was enjoyable enough.
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A decent little British doc about a guy (Tom Spicer) with fragile x syndrome (a sever form of autism I think) who is obsessed with Lars Ulrich from Metallica so his older sister and younger brother set about a meeting between them. Imagine my surprise when the sister turns out to be Kate Spicer a sometime journalist/judge on Masterchef!

It was definitely worth a watch especially as Tom changes his mind at every other opportunity to actually meet Lars (due to his condition) but it didn't have the emotional punch I wanted as Kate already has contacts in the industry and money behind her so the meet was a lot easier than it could have been and that robbed it of some genuine emotional magic.
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Written and directed by the infamous Uwe Boll who has the unfortunate moniker of being our generations Ed Wood in terms of making abysmal movies but having never seen one of his films I was pleasantly surprised by this.

A jet black (and violent) film about a 20 something guy who has had enough of his bland life and so builds an armoured suit and goes around his local town shooting the crap out of all and sundry.

It has a couple of nice twists, the acting is decent and it takes many digs out of mass consumerism. If this came out in the early 80's and without Boll's name attached it could well be a cult classic.

Silent Hill: Revelation
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I really liked the first Silent Hill movie...could've been a lot better, sure, but it's a video game adaptation done the way it should be, ie using the source material as a launchpad to explore new ideas as a story. In fact, along with Mortal Kombat and Prince Of Persia, it's one of my favourite adaptations (although admittedly it's not really up against particularly stiff competition). So, yeah, I was actually quite looking forward to this one.

This film was just an abomination though. Definitely the worst film I've seen in a long time, if not one of the worst I've ever seen in my life. Very, very rarely do I think a film is irredeemably awful in every single way, but this certainly qualifies. The acting is bad, the characters thoroughly unlikeable if not totally bland, the effects are laughable, the story from start to finish just smacks of the kind of cheap, hollow gimmicks designed to suck money from fans' wallets, all stitched together to form a boring and totally illogical plot.

If you've thought about seeing this, do yourself a favour - don't!

Pacific Rim (2012).

I honestly didn't enjoy this film. It felt cliched and the plot was paper thin.

I know it's supposed to be silly fun, but watching a slightly less serious Real Steel isn't my idea of a good time.