I chose to view Gridlock'd as my #3 because I like Vondie Curtis-Hall as an actor and was curious to see what he's like as a director. Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth play two drug-using hoodlums called Stretch and Spoon, who decide to kick the habit after their friend Cookie (Thandie Newton) almost dies of an overdose. This turns out to be harder than ( Read more... )

So, today I watched Soviet film Igla ("Needle") by the Kazakh director Rashid Nugmanov. The plot is about a young man named Moro who returns to the Kazakh city of Almaty after an abscence in Moscow and tries to save his old girlfriend, Dina, who was manipulated by an evil doctor into becoming a morphine addict ( Read more... )

Robert Townsend is a talented writer, director, actor, and producer, and I look forward to renting more of his movies as a part of this challenge.

The Meteor Man (IMDb link)
The Meteor Man (Wikipedia link)Superhero movies are notorious for being cheesy, having bad production values, and retelling the same old origin tale the same way over and over ( Read more... )

Listen, the less you hear about this before going in the better, so I'll be as brief as I can. (Most of the other reviews on the internet spoil the living hell out of the plot.) Twenty-two-year-old Sébastien (played by the angel-faced younger brother of the director, Tbilisi-born Gela Babluani) is a laborer from a family of Georgian immigrants. One ( Read more... )

=PINOY MOVIE=
You Are the One - Love it. This being my first Pinoy movie ever, it left a pretty good impression on me and I'll definitely try out more Pinoy films in the future. The movie itself is a very cutesy chick flick, with its premise based around a Filipino girl whose entire family is in America but doesn't want to leave her home country ( Read more... )

Let me get one thing straight here: Gen X Cops is not high art. One reviewer disparages the movie for starring "three young men resembling Hong Kong's version of N'Sync" like this is a bad thing, whereas I respond to that with "GIMME GIMME". It's the kind of movie where even after a dozen re-watchings, you're still a little sketchy on what ( Read more... )