| Movie | Rating | Review | Date | Your Rating | Match | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Map of the Human Heart - R | September 13, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Kicking and Screaming - R | September 13, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Last Seduction - R | September 13, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Salo (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) - NC-17 | September 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Last Summer - R | September 12, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Hatsuyuki no koi: Virgin snow - Unrated | September 11, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Ai no mukidashi (Love Exposure) - Unrated | It's worth noting that director Sono Sion is a also a street poet and musician. There is a guerilla-art quality to this film. One gets the impression it's being made up on the spot, while your watching it, yet there isn't the slightest hint of improvisation and the film betrays an intricate construction. Contradictions abound. There's a mature adolescence in heady ideas about original sin and up-skirt, "peek-a-panty", photography. I can't call this a 'weird' film because it's not, even though I smiled through most of it thinking "This can't be serious." I was amazed by the entire cast's chameleon like ability to move convincingly among different levels of sanity. Everyone in the film is so earnestly bizarre. If you like Sono's work you will not be disappointed by this. If you haven't seen anything by him, why not start with a four hour movie? The music is great. | September 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Une liaison pornographique (An Affair of Love) (A Pornographic Affair) - R |
A cute 40ish French couple recount the stages of their 'pornographic' affair to an interviewer. I say cute because most of the acting they both do is thoughtful, sincere reflection and they are quite sweet doing it. BIG SPOILER: We are never told nor shown what kind of kinky sex constitutes the affair. Instead, the focus is on how they come to really like each other and then sadly decide to stop seeing one another. Even though I liked the characters I think the film is a cheap tease and tries to pull on the heartstrings too much. I don't know what the goal is for the film and the ride by itself isn't good enough to compensate. It is neither erotic nor sexy, and for a 'talkie' film it has a little too much yardage between the goal posts. |
September 10, 2009 | N/A | |||
| Shonen merikensakku (The Shonen Merikensack) - PG | I'll watch anything with Aoi Miyazaki in it but it was extremely tough this time. She's fabulous, of course, and the film starts off with a refreshingly bizarre sense of humor, but it quickly devolves into toilet humor. I can't imagine who this movie is aimed at. Young people (who are into punk) will recognize it as fake and older people (who may have been punks) will too. The film confuses punk with childishness and fails to create characters that anyone will care about. For every quick and funny moment that works, and there's a bunch of them, there's umpteen that don't. And the sibling rivalry, family drama subplot is painfully uninteresting. I'm a huge Aoi Miyazaki fan but a two hour fart joke is a bad vehicle for her. | September 8, 2009 | N/A | |||
| The Dreamers - NC-17 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Da Vinci Code - PG-13 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Marie Antoinette - PG-13 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Amadeus - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Immortal Beloved - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Beach - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| The Doors - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Edward Scissorhands - PG-13 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Hard Candy - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Alpha Dog - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Brokeback Mountain - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Eyes Wide Shut - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Saving Private Ryan - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella) - PG-13 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Million Dollar Baby - PG-13 | September 8, 2009 | N/A | ||||
| Mystic River - R | September 8, 2009 | N/A |
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