Lately i have seen a bunch of interesting movies and though all are interesting I don't think I can bear to give them all good long reviews.Instead I'll do a bunch of mini reviews. This may be a weekly feature as long as I see interesting things. If I dont post one each week that simply shows the quality of what I've been watching.





Dead Snow.







This movie is awesome the same way Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, and Dead Alive are. Genre self referential humor, students on a camping ttrip, and Nazi Zombies. Yes, NAZI ZOMBIES. Even better, the zombies aren't motivated by hunger, they are motivated by greed. Lottsa gore, horror humor, and excellent looking smart zombies all add up for a bunch of fun that doesn't take itself too seriously. Oh yeah its a foreign film so you have to read it but its so worth it. Great flick.





Buried.







I expected not very much from this movie. I kinda expected it to be a slightly humorous monologue by the main/only actor Ryan Reynolds. I got something completely different. The movie takes place entirely in a casket. The main character wakes up there, freaks out, and finds he has a phone, lighter, and not much else. He then proceeds to to call everyone he can to get free. If it sounds boring it isn't. It's that well done. Its a movie that you imagine Hitchcock would have made right down to the ending. There's even an action scene. If you are claustrophobic, you will have difficulties. If your not, you may well be by the time its over. I was very impressed.





Let The Right One In.







Another foreign film, but this time about vampires. Well, a vampire. Well, a preteen boy and a preteen looking girl vampire. It's a pseudo romantic preteen love story about these two. It has a strange feel, and story line but it is also touching and brutal at the same time. Really hard to classify this one but I did enjoy it.





Biceentennial Man







Based on Isaac Asimovs "The Positronic Man" this one surprised me quite a lot. I'm a fan of Robin Williams and had wanted to see this when it came out but I never got to see it. It was marketed as a scifi comedy for kids and it most certainly isn't. This was perhaps the most mismarketed film I've ever seen. At its hear its a story about a robots journey with his adoptive human family over the course of 200 years to become human. There is plenty of humor, but its quirky and subtle not laugh out loud and fall over. Its not a kids movie, they simply won't get it. Its heartwarming and Williams brings the robot to life brilliantly. Though it got panned in theaters and by critics, its a great film that is under appreciated. Watch it with the family. It really is that good.





Run Bitch Run







Now this is an interesting movie. Its a homage to 70's rape revenge exploitation flicks and it takes itself seriously in that regard. Its the story of a Catholic school girl bible salesman who stumbles into something horrible, gets raped, beaten and left for dead and she takes bloody brutal revenge. It captures the essence of the exploitation flicks it pays homage to and its even treated to look like its from that period. The upside is it is a very good 70's rape revenge exploitation film. The downside, is you have to like that kind of film. I don't necessarily recommend it but it is noteworthy in what it is. I look forward to another film by the same studio "Freakshow Entertainment" Nude Nuns with Bug Guns. Just to see what its particular schtick is in the exploitation film genre.