The weird thing about this movie is mostly related to the actors make-up when portraying the surrogates as they are meant to be perfect and there forth look like they’ve been airbrushed to death. This makes the film maintain a distinct and believable look which makes watching it enjoyable and interesting. Over all this is a thoroughly enjoyable movie for anyone looking for a decent sci-fi thriller.

The movie itself is based on a comic book with the same name. I tried reading the comic book but the art was not something I liked so I never bothered reading it. But if interested it is available from Amazon if it strikes your fancy.

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I Sell The Dead is clearly created as a low budget horror film in terms of visuals and storyline but in a friendly and familiar fashion to fans of horror films. Although this is a horror film it does not in any way take itself too seriously. It’s not an all out comedy with a horror plot like Shaun Of The Dead but most people who see the film will have ample opportunity to laugh. The movie does start off a bit generic and lacking in any manner of horror elements (excluding the fact that it’s about grave robbers). It does however take a sharp turn to the inclusion of horror elements as around the mid point of the film supernatural beings start showing up.

I Sell The Dead is a horror flick with ample comedic scenarios to make it appealing to most watchers as long as they are old enough. I full heartedly recommend this film.

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The movie tells the tale of one Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire. Henry is a young man who has all his life been inflicted by his ability/curse of time travel. He doesn’t have the ability to control when he time travels nor where to or when to. He seems to be drawn to thing in his past or future that are of high impact to his life. One of these things is his wife Clare who he visits through out her young life until she finally meets him at a time where their respective timelines intersect and they can be together.

I’m not much of a fan of romantic movies but this one is quite good. All the actors perform admirably and the plot and the consequential plot twists keep you interested through out the film. I recommend this film to anyone except those with a high degree of alpha male complex and can’t watch a film if it doesn’t contain a singular explosion and high speed chases.

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The Soloist stars Downey as a successful LA Times journalist who comes across a musical servant (Foxx) who is homeless and has schizophrenia. The journalist instantly feels a connection with the musician and decides to write his story in the LA Times. Over the course of the film the two for a friendship as the journalist tries everything in his power to help the unfortunate musician.

The movie is at times a bit slow in unfolding the story and does feel a bit long but it shows a excellent story with an amazing cast so I would easily classify it as a must see.

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Now that I’ve gotten past the part were I take a piss all over the film out of the way, I can move unto the plot. The film stars Katherine Heigl as a anal retentive television producer for a local US cable channel. It also stars Gerard Butler as a guy who thinks of himself as a regular pimp and can get any woman he wants. The main problem about Butler starring in this film is that all the time you’re waiting for him to just kick Heigl away for being anally retentive and yell “This is SPARTA” but for obvious reasons you are not treated to such an exquisite scene. Anyway on to the plot. Heigl becomes Butler’s boss, Butler helps Heigl get six pack doctor for a boyfriend, Butler falls for Heigl…. good God I’m bored to death just writing this.

Please don’t see this movie unless you have both X and Y chromosomes and hate your self sufficiently to spend 90 minutes watching drivel.

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The plot…. wait, no, the plot is simplistic and I’m not going to spend time writing it down, here is a copy paste for you:

In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company MARS sells four warheads to NATO, and the U.S. Army is tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke and Ripcord are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by the Baroness, whom Duke recognizes to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett, Snake Eyes and Heavy Duty. They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe’s command center in North Africa, and upon arriving rendezvous with the head of the G.I. Joe Team, General Hawk . Hawk takes command of the warheads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to let them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows the Baroness. McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of the Doctor, planning on using the warheads to cause panic and bring about a new world order.

Now Transformers was set up in a way such that both old fans and new 12 year old fans could enjoy it. The steaming pile of garbage that is G.I. Joe does not manage to do that. I can give the movie good marks for excellent special effects and some good action scenes but that’s pretty much all it has to offer. The acting is horrid and awkward and the plot is just horrible. As an example of the daft ideas that are forced on the audience are things like the fact that NATO has a weapon of mass destruction designed, they build it in eastern Europe and then charter 14 marines to guard it as it moved to western Europe (I don’t know how many they would use in real life but it sure wouldn’t be 14). If that wasn’t enough, the bad guys are a team of 20 guys while the G.I. Joe group is 3000 Joes but only five of them are deployed at any one time so that the bad guys at least have a chance. This movie is just plainly put a direct insult on the viewers intellect and I hope it tanks hard enough so they don’t make a sequel. Pretty please, don’t see this film!

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Män som hatar kvinnor is a Swedish thriller of the best kind. The story revolves around Mikael Blomkvist which is a down on his luck journalist who has just been indited for slander against a large corporation. Mikael has gained a reputation for being a hard hitting journalist that doesn’t give up for nobody or nothing. His attributes are what lead to him being recruited to investigate a 40 year old case of assumed murder. On his quest for the truth Mikael is joined by a young girl by the name of Lizbeth. Lizbeth has had a hard upbringing and became a “child of the system” at a early age. Lizbeth is a brilliant computer hacker who utilizes her skills for various thing but most specifically background tracking. Lizbeth tends to offer her expertise to the highest bidder but somehow get herself sucked into Mikaels investigation and decides to help him.

The story in the movie is not exactly epic like those Hollywood action thrillers but I think that’s the reason why people like the film and the books so much. The film and books tell a tale that is believable and compelling and will keep the watcher interested through and through. The only complain I have about the film is that it does contain a very graphical and horrifying rape scene which felt horrible to sit through in the cinema. As long as you can live through or skip past this rape scene I highly recommend seeing the movie to enjoy a compelling storyline, excellent characters and be thoroughly entertained for a solid 152 minutes (yes it’s a bit long) then this is a film for you.

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The movie tells the tale of a special American marine squad, in the second world war, comprised of Jews, a Nazi hating German and lead by Lt. Aldo Raine who is commonly referred to as the Apache because of his marginal heritage linked to the well known Indian tribe. The squad is stationed well within German occupation lines and has been dubbed with the name “The Bastards” by the Nazi. The Bastards are cruel and unforgiving towards Nazi scum and do everything in their power to foul all Nazi plans and kill each and every Nazi they get their hands on. The main plot of the film is precisely one of their mission where they are charged with blowing up a cinema filled with the German high command with the hopes of killing them all and consequently ending the war.

Now unto why this film is bloody amazing and you really have to see it. Col. Hans Landa played by Christoph Waltz is the one of the best villains ever to grace the white screen with his presence. Col. Landa is commonly referred to as the Jew hunter and he is immensely intelligent and able to read most situations and peoples intent like a open book. His intelligence and cunning make him a formidable foe for The Bastards and watching any scene that contains his exemplary dialogue is a delight.

The film plays out nicely and is unnecessarily spilt into chapters as Tarantino does so commonly like to do. The reason it’s unnecessary is because it’s suppose to identify jumps in the story but only does that twice out of five. My only other complaint is that many of the films scenes felt like there was someone standing over Tarantino while directing and hitting him on the hand every now and again to constrain him from going too far. Don’t get me wrong the movie clearly has specific touches and trademarks I’d attribute to Tarantino but there some point in the film that felt restricted and I even felt I was no longer watching a Tarantino film. However that was quickly reverted as the dialogue captured me once again and reaffirmed my sanity on the fact that I was indeed watching a Tarantino film.

This film is a must see for every Tarantino fan and and also anyone who likes a gruesome action flicks filled with intelligent and compelling dialogue.

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The third series starts off when all the children of Earth start chanting in union a message announcing the arrival of an alien race to Earth. Something about the whole thing is off and British government officials seem to know much more than they are letting people know about the situation and as Torchwood goes on to investigate the messages they go on to try to disable or destroy the Torchwood team. It’s really hard to go into much more detail about the rest of the storyline without spoiling the whole thing but it’s sufficient to say it’s bloody awesome.

The third series is only five episodes which aired on BBC over a single week this summer with rave reviews. To accommodate those that missed it on telly or iPlayer, the series was released on DVD the week after airing.

I really recommend people see this series but continuity may well be a issue so seeing the news series of Doctor Who and the earlier Torchwood series is recommended but not required.

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Maybe people just aren’t interested in old school gangster movies any more, which Public Enemies without a doubt is. Public Enemies stars Johnny Depp as the head poncho for the gangster side playing John Dillinger and Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis the main good guy working for J. Edgar Hoover in the FBI.

The movie itself is as I mentioned before a old school gangster flick with numerous bank robberies and other less legal events taking place while the good guys try to catch up to the bad guys. A main focus of the movie is placing it in a historically accurate setting where new standards are being initiated in forensic investigations by the FBI. The movie also stays close to reality in the story of John Dillinger and he is shown to be a fallible man who is in no way some kind of super gangster. Although famous, John Dillinger doesn’t pull of any kind of major heist in the film so it follows reality closely.

This movie does have a lot of action scenes and the gun fights alone will up the testosterone level in any room the movie is seen in (provided that there is at least one person with a y chromosome there). But the main focus of the film is not the violence but rather the characters, most specifically John Dillinger which Johnny Depp does a fair job of portraying (actually I think this is one of Johnny Depp’s worst performances I’ve seen, excluding Willy Wonka, but I think that was just because he has set his standard so high).

Anyway, go see this movie if you want a down to earth old school gangster flick with a bit too much character development for a blockbuster.

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