06/04/2012: Take Shelter [2011]

Take Shelter was one of the big award winners of last year and after my disastrous attempt to watch a similar movie, The Tree of Life I was a little hesitant. However I was able to watch Take Shelter and I'm glad I did. That was one powerful movie masterpiece, and deserves all the awards it got.

05/04/2012: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [2002]

Chuck Barris was a well known television producer in the 1960's and 70's. Creator of numerous game shows, such as The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game and The Gong Show, Barris was big in the industry. However in 1984, Chuck Barris published his autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in which he claimed to be an assassin for the CIA as well as a television producer. George Clooney, taking his first shot at directing, leaves it up to you to decide, as did Chuck Barris himself.

31/03/2012: Our Man Flint [1966]

Like a long lost Bond film, Our Man Flint gives us Derek Flint, the original man of mystery. Our Man Flint is the American counterpart of James Bond, and among the first to parody his style. Flint however does it quite well, and make for one hell of a secret agent.

30/03/2012: Natural Born Killers [1994]

The Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top 25 most controversial list is an interesting one. One of it's most surprising factors is the number of big name directors and well known movie on the list. From Martin Scorsese, to Stanley Kubric, from Oliver Stone to Mel Gibson the list is filled with well known films. Sitting at number 8 is Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, the only director to hold two spots on the list.

29/03/2012: The Three Musketeers [2011]

All for money and nothing for anything else. That is unfortunately how I feel after watching this action movie with the name of the Three Musketeers on it. I am unfortunately unable to think of any redeeming qualities this movie may have possessed and what follows will just be a rant of what I hated about it. You've been warned.

Three Vampire Movies That Won't Admit It

After just finishing Cronos I realized that I had seen a couple of unconventional and very unique vampire movies recently. I decided that, I would see if I could compile a list of the more unique, re-inventions of the typical vampire movie, things that verged on minor obscurity and a none of them even mention the word vampire. The three I could think of were Cronos, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Near Dark.