Amer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1426352/
I don´t really know how to describe this movie. But let´s try atleast.
Mix in the cinematography from Susperia - the use of colors and the suspensfull scenes. Also add some of the italian trademark from the late 70s and early 80s - extreme zooming in on the eyes, for example, and other bodyparts. Mix in some sensuality, eroticism from the movie Lolita and try to do it with todays standards, without any necesserly dialoge. Feel like this would suite you? Then, you will love, adore and feel confused when you see Amer.

However, it is somehow unfair to mention these movies becouse Amer is a movie that anyone can appriciate and love. You may not understand - don´t get me wrong on this - but the beauty of this artistic poetic surrealistic semi ghost story is simply mindblowing in all it´s freedom.

Ana enfant - The young Ana (Cassandra Forêt) lives with her mother (Bianca Maria D'Amato) in an big old house, in the big old house an older woman lives next door to Anas room. What happens in that episode has much meaning to what happens in the second episode, Ana adolescente - where Ana are a teen, now played by Charlotte Eugène Guibeaud and here is the erotic parts happens that in some way reminds me of Lolita.

Marie Bos as Ana adule; Ana the elder. Her erotic visions and somehow nightmarish fantasy towards men is filmed in such a way that you almoust feel ashamed for watching it. Not only the cab scene where her panic turns her on, but also the bathtub scene later on.
I will not try to review Amer any further, becouse this is a masterpiece you have to see and understand for yourself.

Remember this when you watch Amer.
This is a tribute to the artform itself.
Amer is a story told in picture, colors, sounds, excellent camerawork.
It might be a subtile horror movie, but Amer is somehow a lovestory, For the love of cinema and all the dreams it creates.

A definitive Must Have. For everyone.

No stills this time becouse first thing; it would be unjustice for the movie and for you.
Second; You have to see this for yourself.

Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaEKIgHr1_0
Official site
http://www.amer-film.com/

DVD and Bluray cover

Sentô shôjo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590796/
Rin (Yumi Sugimoto) is a bullied 16year old girl, actually she is only 15, but she 10minutes into the movie get celebrated by her parents on her 16th birthday.
The girls at school think she is somekind of freak and throw shoes at her and knocks her out cold. There is something thou about her hand that has mysterious powers.














The movie however starts with 3 girls attacking some men with machineguns attached to their noses (seemingly the machineguns looks like a mans penis).
Heads being sliched and mutates into big ballons and brains and other messy stuff fly all over the place.













So, at Rins birthday party her dad (wonderfully played by Kanji Tsuda) tells her about her special powers. Rin ofcourse is chocked, but suddenly some men with machine guns attached to their noses walks in.

Rin is being chased down the street and a local news reporter and her camera crew follows her and some memorable quotes and funny scenes happens.

Right from the start we are more or less told the moral of the story, presented in a funny splattering way that only japanese film directors can do; some of us are different but in all our differences we are all capable of doing great things.
It is also a spoof or tribute to the classic tale on X:Men.
The director Noboru Iguchi also pays tribute to his classic Hajirai mashin gâru.













Even a tribute to the most classic scene in Cannibal Holocaust is here.













Rin is being taken to a place where she will learn to control her special powers and she also gets an cute assistent named Yoshie
(also a tribute to Hajirai mashin gâru) who this time is played by the cute Suzuka Morita.











Rin is being trained and even slightly tortured with electric.

Noboru Iguchi - the director/screenwriter, is soon a living legend, if he allready isn´t one.
This movie has so many great quotes and scenes that if I would write them all down it would be to much, so I sudgest you buy this movie as soon as possible.
If you don´t find this movie hillarious then you have no sense of humor ^_^
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- If you want to live as a human, you better start working on it.
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- May I ask you a question?
- You are no … homo sapiens
- Huh?
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- Suck my sword!
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- I wont mind being reincarnated as a baguette.
- That is really cute.
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- Rin you are something special.
- Me, someone special?
- Sure.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsPhIl2FcrI

Official site
http://www.sentoshojo.jp/

Histeria

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1307930/
5 young student girls have done one prank to many and the teachers and the headmaster agrees on giving them a punishment during a weekend. They will clean the school and the area around during three days and while being there they start to tell the new girl Zeta (Reanna) about some killings that have happened in the school a few years ago.

Histeria starts however with the girl Murni (Liyana Jasmay) walking through the hallway with her wrist full of cuts and her dress soaked in blood, she later on ends up in a hospital where the doctor and the police tries to solve what has happened with her and all the other girls.

The girls summon and evil spirit














It mixes drama, more like a coming to age type of movie, with gory killscenes and what grabs me the most; the lesbian tense



that somehow filters every scene (atleast halfway into the movie) and the feeling that something bad can happen at any second.
The second part of the movie it twists into a monster slasher and in one of the final scenes where two of the girls sits in a car, won´t give away who it is, is a really good moment that somehow sums up the entire movie in a way.

The acting of the girls is solid and believable, they feel like real girls and not like girls who act - much like the girls in Bunshinsaba was. See review of that one here http://pekinobo.blogspot.com/2010/07/bunshinsaba.html

This was the first Malaysian horrormovie I´ve seen and I´m looking forward to see more from this country.















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-This ain´t something to fool around with! You all gonna regret this.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTE0wLfnTHg

Peter the Great?

Maybe we or I should still call him Peter the greatest.

Peter Forsberg, he played hockey like no other, I´m not a hockey memoribelia so sue me or something. The way he played, puck/stick handling, skating, used his body to check - and... to N-E-V-E-R back down from anyone.
I checked NHL and the pressconference where Peter said he was retiering fully now. And then two sports newchastor talked about how great Peter was, usually things like that makes me feel uncomfortable, you see it can easily be a big propaganda about retaretment player. So I wrote my own words

Peter for me was in the same leauge as Igor Larionov, Sergei Fedorov, Pavel Bure, Alexander Mogilny, Jagomir Jagr ans Teemu Sellänne

Peter. Your in Halll of fame in my book. Have some fun now and enjoy your life,

Your career has just ended but forever remember the years, the matches, the players, the wins, the public roar as the announcment call out your name and the perfect game for us vieewers, well all we heard from you was; I sucked!!!!


Peter the Greatest Forsberg, will you pleace tackle me one day????? PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS
I can´t skate.
Best of everything for you.The best deserves the best!!!!!
Stay stong and proud Peters.

Trolljegeren

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740707/
The best movie of 2010. Nothing else is actually needed to be said.

3 young students, 2 guys and one girl, are making a documentary about beerkillers and they find a mysterious man that they suspect to be behind all of the killing.
Our group of students follow him to an camping place and the mysterious man leaves every night and comes back at dawn. The students follows him one night and seemingly looses tracks of him, they sneak into the woods with their camera and sound equipment, the mysterious man comes running towards them and shouting TROLL!!!!

The screenwriter/director André Øvredal mixes in some of the ideas of Blairwitch project and real documentary filmmakers work; a joke towards Michael Moore and his work.
But mostly this is an highly original and entertaining fake documentary and the trolls are impressivly done. If you thought that the big monsters in Lord of the ring was something special, you Do need to see this one.

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- People want natural explanations.
- But if you know what to look for, you´ll see what´s caused by trolls.
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Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLEo7H9tqSM

Official facebook
http://www.facebook.com/trolljegeren

US Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/thetrollhuntermovie

Official site
http://www.trollhunterfilm.com/

Grieg Op. 23 no. 9 Dovregubbens Hall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYiafZT_hw

The terminators

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350512/
In the suburbs of Los Angeles humanlike robots (cyborgs) goes on a killingspree, they have turned against humans. A cybertech warfare program has gone way out of hand and we have seen movies like this before the terminator quadrology for example.
The cyborgs (actually just one actor who they have duplicated into various scenes) are big, buffed, muscular and with no facial expression at all, just like Arnie back in the days, they shoot rather before asking questions. They even has red glowing eyes and one of them heals himself as T-1000 did (after a gunshot) in T-2.

The backstory isn´t exactly needed in a movie like this, action, various acting but with a potential as the original terminator movies had, simply becouse they all are about the same thing.
The special effects (CGI explosions for example)



and the bloodsplatter are thypical b movie and if my ears aren´t going bananas - aren´t the sound bad like if it echoed or something?






A group of survivors flee L.A. and after meeting a man who saves their lifes our group of survivors plans to strike back at the cyborgs before all the humans have died.
It may sound like a really explosive big blockbuster hit, but as many of the b movies with smaller budget they (the movies that is) more concentrate on the caracther driven monologs, in some cases it is understandable in some cases I wonder why some of the big hollywood movies even was made in the first place. The terminators is one of those movies that actually has potential and yes I really like Sara Tomko ..




and yes the movie has it faults and all that but it is something about her presence on screne that just grabs me.





As long as you are fully aware this is a lowbudget b movie you might find it enjoyable in some point and specially if you like tough girls with big guns kind off movies. Sarah Tomko can soon be categorised as a b movie queen as much as Vicky Pratt - whos movies are also lowbudget and done with a passion. Not being biassed since I find both Sara Tomko and Vicky Pratt attractive ^_^


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- We have confirmed list of cities destroyd; Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Houston, San Antonio, Seattle, Portland…
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Official site with trailer and info
http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=154

Grizzly Man

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/

A stunning, sometimes surrealistic documentary about Timothy Treadwell who lived 13 summers with wild life grizzly bears in Alaska.
Timothy was in october 2003 killed by a grizzly bear and this is the story about his life.

Early on we see Timothy as some kind off naive man, maybe even a dreamer, who loves bears more then anything. By the scenery, the beautiful landscape of the Alaska wilderness and the beauty of the bears, I can in some way understand him and feel someway the same thing he felt.
Halfway into the documentary, we get another view of Timothy, a man who is maybe more dangerous to himself then the bears was and that is the surrealistic part in this.

Timothy lives close with the bears and consider them as his friends, he even speaks with them as an adult does to children. Timothy was spending most of his time there all alone and it got me thinking, if the lonelyness somehow got the best of him, turning him into this (somehow) naive and lovefull person (his love for the bears).

Werner Herzog, who have done the documentary out of over 100 hours photage that Timothy has shoot narrates us through the story - it actually feels more like a fabricated story then a real life story. Or as Herzog says; It seems to me like this landscape of termoile is a metaphore of his soul.

It is hard to grasp, to understand or to know a man who lived and shoot over 100 hours of his time with the grizzlys, the documentary is in 103 minutes, but we get a somehow reflection of him and his dedication.
If this review or the documentary does Timothys life and passion justice? We will probably never know, but what we do know is that he loved bears more then anything and sometimes that is more then enough.


Official trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogYDUmIigw0

Timothy Treadwell (1957–2003)