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  • The Place Beyond the Pines 2013

    ★★★★ Watched 19 Jun, 2013

    Initially beginning with the fairly simple story of a man deciding to do everything in his power to provide for the son he never knew he had, The Place Beyond the Pines quickly morphs into something much more ambitious and intriguing. It's a 2-and-a-half hour epic, following a group of characters and seeing how their lives all affect and intertwine with each other, focusing on themes of fatherhood and how it can impact people in ways you don't expect. At…

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower 2012

    ★★★★ Watched 31 May, 2013

    Well. That was a pretty great adaptation.

    Not only does the film manage to stay true to the original book's atmosphere, characters, themes and even it's occasional shift in focus to music, but The Perks of Being a Wallflower additionally manages to work exceptionally well on it's own. It's helped a lot by some fantastic performances from Emma Watson (successfully stepping out of the massive shadow Harry Potter casted, even if her American accent always seems slightly out-of-place), Logan Lerman…

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  • Airplane! 1980

    ★★★★★ Watched 16 Aug, 2012 1

    No wonder this movie is always listed as one of the funniest ever made. It's completely random, it's stupid, it's irrelevant, it's got no character development whatsoever, and it's absolutely hilarious every step of the way.

    You really can't keep up with the jokes in Airplane. There's one every 20 seconds and every one is ridiculously funny. They're all really inventive and unique and you'll be saying to yourself "..the Hell?" half of the time with their irrelevance as you…

  • Battle Royale 2001

    ★★★★½ Rewatched 09 Sep, 2012

    To mention or attempt to compare this film to the Hunger Games would be doing a huge disservice to it. One film is pre-occupied with turning the concept of child murder into entertainment: Into building a sci-fi world around that concept, developing a straight-forward commentary about gladiatorial reality television, making it clear who the "good guys" and "bad guys" are within 5 minutes of the story starting, then throwing in the melodramatic love story here or there. The other film…