and more :

Kanal (1957) - very skilfully made wartime film from Andrzej Wajda that cant quite break the mould of stock characters but is otherwise an intense look at the Warsaw uprising, telling the story of a company of resistance fighters escaping the Nazi onslaught through the city's sewers.

7/10


Pigs and Battleships (1961) - Shohei Imamura is quickly becoming one of my favorite filmmakers, his penchant for scathing, cynical social critique and black humour is again on full display in this little known Japanese gem which follows the story of Kinta, a low level member of a yakuza gang in post war tokyo, and his girlfriend Hiroku against a backdrop of steeped corruption and US occupation. Has possibly the funniest scene I have seen in a long long time.

7.5-8/10


Queen Christina (1933) - corny as hell but Greta Garbo has quite an immense screen presence and carries all the corn very admirably. The first half is stronger than the second but this is very enjoyable old fashioned filmmaking.

6.5-7/10


Blow (2001) - absolute rubbish film which is far too concerned to run through as many events as possible in american dr*g smuggler George Jung's life, rather than the man himself.

3.5-4/10


Il Grido (1957) - the fifth great film from Michaelangelo Antonioni that I have seen and his earliest. His sparse style is not quite as refined in this outing but the signature shots and themes of individual isolation and alienation still leave quite an impression and the central performance by Steve Cochran as an italian sugar refinery worker on a road trip to nowhere after his long time lover leaves him is quite something.

7.5-8/10


Fort Apache (1948) - decent, fairly standard western by John Ford with Henry Fonda playing against type as a General Custer type commander of a cavalry regiment. As usual, I found some of Ford's insertions of humour quite annoying but the characters are likeable and there are some well executed set pieces.

6/10


Wall E (2008) - hmm, not quite a masterpiece, but definitely a great film. Loses some steam in the last act but the first 2/3 more than make up for that and the animation is amazing throughout. Also enjoyed the short Burn-E on the dvd.

8/10 

wally was one of the worst animation movies i saw yet. Sure, they had a nice render engine (particles were nice, lighting), but the design, the story, the 'humour' all pretty much sucked :/ 

Is a great movie at least among the recent ones. Very nice and naive story 

Pulsar + Nitin >>> megaman.

The graphics and textures were so good in some of it I was sure they'd used models instead of computer animation. 

I already feel like one of those fat lazy Ameri... I mean humans 700 years in the future. 

Blow (2001) - absolute rubbish film which is far too concerned to run through as many events as possible in american dr*g smuggler George Jung's life, rather than the man himself.

3.5-4/10

hmm...
i would rate it 9/10 

would love to hear why, one of the few movies I have seen recently that I struggled to find any positives for. 

I watched Wall-E on a long haul flight, which seemed strangely appropriate... 

This looks like the best movie ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig 

... it does? 

i don't know how to describe it, i think its just a matter of a personal impressions, since it's based on a true story. i was curious of a story about life of George Jung. it is one of a few movies, that after watching it i was forced to google to find out more about GJ. and it was really interesting to see how he became one of the biggest cox smuggler of 70th.
shit i dont know what else i could add.
either you like it or don't/ and i like it 

and i'm a biggest fun of JD 

I guess I had the opposite reaction :)

agree on JD though, cant wait for Public Enemies to come out. 

Character development, character development, character development.

There was none.

The director relied too much on the audience going through the story with Georgie, but never really got to know Georgie. Which worked on a sort easy-listening (or easy viewing) level. But what it didnt do is really get inside the head of Georgie, you didnt get to see much of the emotional side of things....

IDK 

...was a rather nice distraction from writing i/o code for spatial networks.

(The pentagram is a complete graph on 5 vertices, and thus is an appropriate post icon, I hope?) 

I love the musical "evil" theme in Cowboy Bebop so much. Those two deep tones. It is so very dark and evil. Eg in that prisoner ship episode. *shudder* 

YOU COULD HAVE MENTIONED IT WAS ABOUT SOMETHING AS COOL AS SPACE-COWBOYS >:O!!!!!!!

...rage over 

And jazz. Don't forgot the jazz... 

Ice Age 3:
"Ok, so we have all these random locations modeled. Do you think we can use them all in one movie?"

"Sure, we'll just add dinosaurs, that old story about family and use the Ice Age franchise."

"Dinosaurs are almost like dragons, cool, let's also rip off those Shrak guys."

Random idiotic movie with so much fast action and dark, terrifying sequences that i would wish no kids would ever see it, especially in 3D. What the hell... Positive upside to it, the baby is named Peaches so the next movie will be Ice Age 4: Shake Yer Dix... 

There was an Ice Age 2 ? 

I didn't remember anything about it either. The opposums and Manny's girl were introduced there. 

Opposums is a genius concept.

I haven't seen owt Ice Age films, just like the idea... 

A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Pretty intense French horror movie. Starts out as your regular torture/splatter/ psycho-creature-mystery film with lots of blood and violence, but when you think you're at the end, it shifts to a whole new stage of brutal, uncompromising scenes (like Hostel, but more disturbing). It's the twists near the end that make it somewhat stand out from the other movies of the genre, though I don't know if I'd watch it again. 

been meaning to get to it. 

Public Enemies (2009) - Pretty damn good despite its faults, namely the completely unnecessary (or so it seemed) choice of shooting on hi def video and an assumption of a more than usual level of familiarity of the time period by the audience.

I have a feeling that the more familiar you are with the time period, events and characters, the more you will like this and vice versa (mainly because the movie tends to be about Dillinger the symbol rather the Dillinger the person). The video look is not great but I wouldnt say it distracts that much if you're interested in the movie. If you're not, the distraction gets amplified.

I thought Depp was fantastic, as was Cotillard. But this will divide even Mann fans, let alone your casual moviegoer.

7.5/10