A Mexican bandit and an Irish explosives expert somehow team up and get roped into joining the Mexican revolutionaries. This is one of the last few Sergio Leone films I haven't seen until now. This starts off as a kind of a seriocomic Western then becomes sort of an odd couple type buddy Western then it becomes this epic...almost war film in the end. And it was all directed masterfully by Leone. No, it's not as good as his Dollars…

This is a sort of a loose adaptation of [i]The Little Mermaid[/i] where a little boy befriends a little fish who eventually wants to be a little girl so she can be with her friend always. Yes, it's official: Hayao Miyazaki is totally incapable of making a bad movie or even a mediocre movie. This is his "weakest" film in that I think it's a bit more slight and a bit more of a fluff compared to his other masterpieces.…

Whoah. This is an intense, exhilarating (just like the blurb in the posters say) film. An ambitious young jazz drummer gets tormented both physically, psychologically and emotionally by a brutal teacher who pushes him beyond his limits in order to realize his full potential and achieve greatness. What follows is not an emotional, feel-good inspiring tale (well, not-so-much) but a brutally honest examination of what it means to achieve one's ambitions. The buzz around JK Simmons' performance is well-earned, IMO…