Happy New Year!!!

Yes it's another year gone by but lets be thankful for everything that was positive and given to us over 2008. I know I am and even another birthday didn't get me down.

See you all next year and I promise to start adding more content on my blog!

We are going to celebrate the night with a few good films. 

Sleepaway Camp and The Poseidon Adventure!

Remember, there has got to be a morning after!

I'll review both next week. Be safe and be true to your resolutions, if any.

Holiday guilty pleasure films!

Yes, we all have the one or more guilty pleasures and around the holidays, is not any different. Don't let anyone tell you different. It's one of the greatest things in your life since cookie dough ice cream or finding an open lane on the 405. My treasures I watch over the holidays are as follows:

Yes, this is one of my childhood favorites and I know it's not christmasy but it still is in my list. The child catcher alone is worth watching. And having had the pleasure of riding in the original car while in London, it's even more magical! If you don't know the story, it revolves around a crackpot inventor, Caracticus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) and his 2 kids struggling to keep the windmill running and support Grandpa. He buys an old race car and transforms it into a car that flies, floats, and is coveted by the evil Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria (Gert Frobe). The land does not allow children so the evil Queen (Anna Quayle) Sends out the Child Catcher (Robert Helpmann).  

And He is still one of the top ten scariest movie characters to this day!

Truly Scrumptious (Sally Ann Howes) rounds off the cast 

as the love interest. Fun and silly and some memorable music numbers. Look for Benny Hill too!

I also love to watch the now classic A Christmas Story!

This was a quietly ignored film that didn't do well when it came out in 1983 but came to be a standard christmas film  every christmas on VHS and now DVD which people are finding and word of mouth is spreading to make the film a top cult favorite.

The time is the 1940's and Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) is trying to hint at his parents to buy him the Red Rider bb gun but all he gets from them and his teacher is "You'll shoot your eye out!"

Darren McGavin and Mellinda Dillon are wonderful as his parents and the supporting cast is really well cast!

There is even a huge cult following that has made props you can buy from the show like the famous leg lamp, or as they call it, a major award! A warm and funny film, this is great viewing for the whole family. The only sad thing about this is the director Bob Clark was tragically killed in a car accident with his son by a drunk driver so I support this film and the following it has brought to the Christmas holidays and throughout the year!

And of course the ultimate classic A Charlie Brown Christmas!

Film Review Weekend!

This weekend I saw 2 films, one that was just recently released and the other was out last year but finally got around to Netflixing it.

The first is Let the Right One In. Now if your a vampire fan, you know what that phrase really stands for. You have to invite a vampire in. They cannot enter a residence of there own accord SO you need to make sure to let the right one in.

John Ajvide Lindqvist adapts his own novel for the screen and blends vampire lore with one of the creepiest coming of age stories in a long time and director Tomas Alfredson hits the spike in the chest with this one with his understated mood and setting.

Seeing it with a group of friends hungry for something other than a WB Twilight vampire tween romp, we really got what we lusted for. Moody and eery in tone, the lead boy, Oskar, (Kare Hedebrant) is dealing with the usual pangs of adolescence. Bullies, divorce, and now a vampire who he has more in common with than anyone in school. 

Eli, (Lina Leandersson) is the new kid in town and with no backstory as to where she came from or how old she really is, lends a great tone to the mystery of this "12" year old. Her protector, the Renfield of the cast, is well played and used by her to get fed from the locals. One thing that bothered me was instead of going for the bums and drifters around town for her meals, the killings were too local and were known people.

As for the gore factor, very sparingly and well used throughout the film. The cat scene will make you laugh but the finale is the scene worth waiting for. Each kill hits you with short startling bursts when you least expect it. 

The light score is very good at setting the mood and I highly recommend it. It can be slow and feel a bit long but for a long awaited good vampire flick, this is the right one.

The Fall is a very good storytelling film along the same feel of Pans Labrynth and Baron Munchausen. Tarsem Singh, who directed The Cell with Jennifer Lopez, along with David Fincher and Spike Jones, brings the same dreamscape imagery to this film but again goes back and forth between the story a bed ridden stuntman is telling a little girl staying in the same hospital and also tricking her into getting more morphine to help kill himself.  Catinca Untaru is a breath of fresh air as the little girl who is swept away in the fable he makes up. She must be ad-libbing half the dialogue and just being herself because you can't take your eyes off her.

The Fall is shot within 18 countries and with incredible costumes by Eiko Ishioka.

If you like stunning visuals and incredible characters, find this gem and give it a watch and get lost in it. Now!

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