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Extreme horror guy Takashi Miike does a take on classic samurai.  Pretty well done, an amazing battle sequence at the end.  Had been meaning to watch this for a while finally got around to it and it was worth it.  I have enjoyed the few Miike movies I watched, I should probably see more.

Stuffy office guy (John Turturro) decides to loosen up and maybe find himself.  All star cast includes Sam Rockwell (who shows lots of wingwang), Catherine Keneer (what a babe), and the previous mentioned Turturro.  Weird mid-nineties feel good vibe. Also Tom Dicillo directed a lot of stuff in the same vein that I liked, Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion. 

A movie about girls ruining stuff.  For fans of Road Warrior and being dopey buds. I loved it.

Don't really know if I fully understood all this, but from what I gather this guy is bored, but didn't really seem unhappy, so he dinks around his house, cooking food, and accidentally finds what appears to be John Dillinger's gun.  He then dinks around some more, paints the gun, and shoots his wife.  We all do weird shit when we are by ourselves and bored.  

"the blood of these whores is killing me"

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A very bizarre take on the Dracula story, staring a bunch of people Warhol was sleeping with/popping pills with.  Dracula is very sickly because he can ONLY survive on virgins blood, so they go to town to pick up some virgin god fearing babes, but find out most of the girls are real who ers by drinking their blood and then spitting it every where.  Pretty incredible really.  For fans of punishment, handsome young boys, and boobs.   

John Hughes made some good movies, this is one.  John Candy babysits Macaulay Culkin and his sisters.  

This movie was made when Adam Sandler was still funny.  Create a hostage situation in the radio station to get a record played. Awesome. "It's more like power slop, but we don't like to limit ourselves to labels" Steve Buscemi looks great.

Hey underpants, this movie was made when stuff was still funny.  A classic, watch it with your dad, he's seen it and loves it. 

My new favorite Lars Van Trier, I was very glad I went into this without any knowledge of what it was about.  Basically, without giving anything away, it's two sisters method of dealing with problems.  One (played by Kirsten Dunst) is very depressed and unstable, the other (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg) the opposite. Told in two very different parts, I had a little trouble with first half but it's rewarding in the end. Very dire.  Disaster movie without explosions and mass panic.  

Fifth film by the scarce Terrence Malick.  Beautiful and sometimes uncomfortable film about, I guess the meaning of life.  Sean Penn's character's past life told in past tense, interspersed with creation of earth footage.  I love Malick's Badlands and Days of Heaven, but Tree of Life was a little too much for me.  

Some kids accidentally stumble upon a train accident while making a horror movie for a film contest. Some extra-terrestrial J.J. abrams stuff happens and every one is happy.  I heard a lot about this being a throwback to teen and preteen movies of the 80's like Goonies, Monster Squad, Flight of the Navigator, etc.  I don't know if just dislike Abrams storytelling, but this felt a lot like Lost did for me, drawn out, and for something that pertains to my interests, it misses the mark.  Watch "Attack the Block" for what I felt was a much more successful attempt at the same subject.  

A documentary about the West Memphis 3 murders.  The first in a series of 3 (the third forthcoming) this installment came way before the recent release of the 3 convicted murderers.  The suspects were convicted on loose evidence and with other possible and probable suspects that were ignored due to bad police work.  Nothing special as far as documentary filming, but a interesting story, excited to watch the next two to learn more about why so many celebrities (mostly musicians, part of the reason the 3 were suspected was there taste in metal) got involved. See http://www.wm3.org/ for more information

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nice, kind of sad small studio movie with that guy you like from Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage,  inherits a small train station in a small new jersey town.  He is kind of sad because he does not have friends and every one persecutes him for his dwarfism.  He then meets a dopey jersey guy and an artsy middle age divorce and they become true friends.  Michelle Williams is in it too as a librarian.  She is real cute.