The Heartbreak Kid

We all know Ben Stiller, I like him very much and he is in my opinion one of the funniest actors. So here we are, Ben Stiller is Eddie Cantrow, a buisness man in his fourties, the owner of an outdoor-sport shop. He visits the wedding of his ex-girlfriend, a quite depressing thing, but for us of course very amusing. However, he meets this women, he falls for her and so on. After six weeks they marry and drive to their honeymoon. Soon he has to discover that his wife isn´t quite as loveley as he thought (brutal sex, no money but a lot of debts,not the same hobbies, a clitoris piercing, a hole in her nasal septum from her koks-past;...), but good luck, he meets Miranda. And falls for her. But of course she find out about him being married and then the story has this unexpected turn. He doesn´t get her, his angry wife stole all his cards and he sits somewhere in Mexico, no papers to go home, but he tries anyway illegal. Not succesfull but when he finally arrives at Mirandas house she is married. Bad luck. I won´t say how it ends, but I was laughing my head of.

Breach/Enttarnt

The FBI has found out that one of their secret agents is a spy for Russia. Robert Hansen (Chris Cooper) works for the FBI since 28 years. He is clever and better than a lie detector, he can smell when somebody lies at him. Agent Kate Burroughs (Laura Linney) sends Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillipe), an overmotivated guy who wants to become agent, as the new assistent into Hansens office. He starts to adore the secret agent for his life, his attitudes his faith. He doubts he can do the spy job properly, till he finds out about the "real" Hanson. The movie is made after a true story, of course very american like, but no big action, no explosions, it´s about the relationship of the two men. I liked it though I wasn´t very impressed, it sometimes even becomes a little boring. I found it a little too superficial, the characters could have been worked out a lot better. But anyway, it is nice entertainmant.

The Messenger

Children see what adults can´t. The Solomon family moves from Chicago to a house in the middle of nowhere. The normal problems appear that parents have with their teenage daughter. So here we go, Jess finds out that there are ghost in the house but of course none of her parents believes her. Her little brother, that stopped talking after an accident can also see those paranormal phenomenas. They both walk through the house at night, trying to find/ trying to be found. The scary happenings become rough, what is in this strange cellar going on and who is the guy that helps the father with the sunflower crop? I liked this movie very much and I would not have guessed so, I watched it in the Sneak Preview. First most of the action happen during daytime while the sun is shining, but it is still so scary. The the plot (even though I thought so in the beginning) is not clear and there are some surprises. The start is the best: big zoom, black and white, sreaming and killing. Nothing about building up tension slowly. Some things are stolen from other horrormovies, but it´s ok, I can accept that.

La science des rêves (2006)

Director:

Michel Gondry (2007) From the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind " another film that finds relationships stuck somewhere between reality and fiction. I find it "bolder" than "Eternal..." in terms of assuming a surrealist type of storytelling but somewhat of a lesser story. It seems that the director himself was a bit lost ...probably because this film is more personal than the other. [at least that`s my impression]. But still, it has a diary like feeling, that makes it charming and makes the character very loveable in his confusion .

This is England (2006)

Director:

Shane Meadows

Writer:

Shane Meadows

Release Date: 27 April 2007 (UK)

Some say that this is a skinhead film whatever that means...and reading some of these "skinhead theory" reviews I was obviously expecting raw violence, spilled blood etc. etc.

But this is actually a film about growing up in England when your father is dead in a war overseas that you cannot understand, about confused rebellious and frustrated young people, a weird combination of skinheads and hippies, people that don`t know what to believe in...it`s a film about truly living the words "who the f*** knows?".

But most of all, it`s the honest, moving story of a kid that goes through all these problems because he lives in England and...this IS England.

What I really liked is that you can feel that the story is told by someone who went through all that and I was not surprised to find out that the film is inspired from the director`s actual life.

It has the feeling of a story told in a circle of friends but still has the power to ask important questions and that is quite rare in films these days.

I definitely recommend this film.