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Five movies not to miss
1. The number one absolutely must see movie is The Orphanage. It is dark, ominous, and utterly chilling without the usual jump out and scare you tactics or the gore. The story centers on a family in Spain who moves into this old orphanage with their adopted son. The central character is the mother who used to be a resident of the before she was adopted as a child. The real mystery and intrigue begins when the events of the past begin to shape the present.
2. Number two is an odd feel good story called Lars and the Real Girl starring Ryan Gosling. Gosling plays the title character that is a bit of a loner. To remedy this he decides to get a girlfriend. The girl he gets, or should I say orders, is in fact some sort of mail order doll. What follows is a strangely heartwarming journey of a man’s journey to normalcy.
3. Third is Deception starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor. This is a top-notch, mysterious, thrilling and sometimes-erotic movie. The story centers on McGregor, an accountant, who leads a pretty mundane life until he encounters a charismatic and successful character, played by Jackman. McGregor is then lured into a world of anonymous sexual meetings in lavish hotels with rich successful women. All is not what it seems, and that is when the real mystery of the story starts to unravel.
4. Fourth is the hilarious and somewhat twisted movie Finding Amanda that stars Matthew Broderick and Brittany Snow. Broderick plays a gambling addicted TV show writer who journeys to Las Vegas in order to patch things up with his wife. He does this by bringing her niece (Snow) to rehab because she is a prostitute. What follows is a wild ride of gambling, drinking, and drugs which forces one man to look in himself and decide what is really important in his life.
5. Finally, I went with the British movie Cashback. This story deals with a young man who develops insomnia after a hard breakup. He decides if he is going to be awake, he might as well get a job so he starts to work the night shift at a grocery store. He develops this odd obsession with freezing time, which helps him cope with the boredom of not sleeping. As always, there is a love interest that may just help him out of his funk.
Other movies worth checking out this season:
Perfume: Story of a Murderer, Innocent Voices, The Savages, Married Life, Meet Bill, Wristcutters, Youth Without Youth, Flawless, Death Defying Acts, Flashbacks of a Fool, The Counterfeiters, My Sassy Girl, Carmen, Transsiberian, and Chaos Theory
Posted by Colonnade Archives
on Nov 14 2008. Filed under Features.
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