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I loved that Gibert Grape movie…
watched a few over the last couple weeks
Devils Island, great music, predictable but fun story, definitely recommend it…
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synopsis…DEVIL’S ISLAND is a bittersweet tale of Iceland set in the fifties.
The Rock and Roll years visit Iceland in this raucous saga of a community of outcasts living in the barracks left behind by American forces after World War II. Specifically, it’s about Baddi and Danni, two children brought up by their grandparents. Their flirtatious mother marries an American pilot and moves to Kansas. Baddi decides to pay the couple a visit in Kansas and returns to Devil’s Island a true hero, flashing a new American accent and a big car. His stardom soon fades however, and his mother divorces the pilot thrusting the quirky family into another adventure.
The spectacular Icelandic sunsets are punctuated by equally spectacular after-dark boozing in this depiction of an unfamiliar world at the crossroads of tradition and youth culture. Says director Fridriksson: "These outsiders, that lived in a Reykjavik ghetto in the fifties, reminded me of my favorite film, ‘Rocco and His Brothers.’ With this film I hope to reveal a hidden world that few people knew existed in Iceland."
DEVIL’S ISLAND was directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, written by Einar Karason and produced by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Peter Rommel, Egil Odegaard, and Peter Aalbaek Jenson. — © Artistic License Films
couple Peter Stromare movies…
Circus, story about revolving cons, action packed, Peter Stromare as a brilliant accountant…
synopsis…
In this thrilling crime story set in Brighton, England, Leo Garfield (John Hannah) is a con man and gambler who is married to the gorgeous Lily (Famke Janssen), an American woman with a shady past. About to be pressured into running a casino in Manchester for the crooked Bruno Maitland (Brian Conley), Leo is hired to murder a friend’s wife, who turns out to be the girlfriend of Moose (Tiny Lister), Bruno’s enormous bodyguard. The man who hired Leo is actually Julius Harvey (Peter Stormare), Bruno’s flighty accountant. As the double crosses begin to twist and turn at an alarming rate, Leo must also dig his way out of the enormous debt he has incurred with a pair of thuggish bookies, Troy (Eddie Izzard) and Bruno (Brian Connelly). Also making an appearance is Elmo Somerset (Fred Ward), a recently paroled American who is looking to exact revenge on Lily. Working from a taut, clever script, director Rob Walker’s CIRCUS is an action-packed, darkly humorous, suspenseful tale that features an overabundance of pop culture references. Hannah uses the charming persona he established in FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and SLIDING DOORS to add intrigue to the proceedings, and Janssen delivers yet another credible performance that proves she isn’t just a pretty face.
Bruiser by George A Romero, Peter Stromare as a sleazy magazine publisher…he does that well
It was an ok waste of time…
After an eight-year hiatus, George Romero makes his long-awaited cinematic return with the visceral Bruiser, a savage and unsettling take on Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as a Death Wish revenge fantasy. Jason Flemyng stars as an emotional doormat who, ground down by years of abuse by his boss (Peter Stormare) and humiliation by his wife, wakes up one morning to find his face missing. He’s the ultimate anonymous man, and he’s mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Painting his masklike visage like a tribal warrior, he hunts down and kills his tormentors. Romero takes an odd pleasure in Flemyng’s perverse self-help campaign, as if his savage explosion is some form of primitive personal growth. Lacking the irony and complexity of Romero’s best work (Dawn of the Dead, Martin), Bruiser turns into little more than a sophisticated revenge picture with inspired moments of black humor. –Sean Axmaker
…Trailer Park Boys. It is a documentary style sit-com made in Canada and it is possible the funniest thing out there right now. It takes place in a trailer park and the characters drink drug and get in and out of trouble with such comedic results you can’t wait to see more. The one guy Julian seriously always has a rum and coke, always. His friend Ricky talks his way out of the most ridiculus situations, he is so convincing to the cops that you even understand why they let him go. I only got to watch a few eposides last week at my friends house while on vacation. I guess a kid he works with downloaded them, but one of the eposides involved the kidnapping of the frontman for Rush so i’m guess they have a bit of a fan base in Canada if they got a Rush guy to do an eposide. It is filmed with video cameras but the acting is so good it doesn’t matter, check it out if you dig low brow off beat humor…
hehe, glad you got to check out some Canadian trash tv, it’s pretty popular here. Think they’re gonna make a movie for the big screen, gotta be better than some of the crap out there.
I’ve seen the episode your talking about, Bubbles, the guy with the really thick glasses who lives in a shed, is a huge Rush fan, ends up being the guys guitar tech for the show…after all kinds of chaos, drug selling, ticket scalping, kidnapping, many rum & cokes by Julian, entering the concert thru the sewer dressed in garbage bags…
Speaking of crap out there, I saw Batman Begins yesterday…very disappointed. Don’t know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t that…
…I still am in shock that they started up the Batman series so soon. Hollywood is really despart for stories.
Bubbles is hillarious. I usually hate lowbrow humor like that but it is done so well. They way that Ricky guy kidnaps the Rush guy and then trys to convince him that he isn’t being kidnapped. So darn convincing. A film would be great i bet. Better than re-hashed super-hero crap. I love going to the movies so much but there is no reason to go anymore it seems, so sad.
Oh i used to talk nba here but this year wasn’t too hot but last nights game was so darn good. I hate both finals teams but overtime thrillers are why we tune in, love the drama.
I also just watched Entorage, this crazycool show on HBO. It is a sitcom loosly based on the early film career of Marky Mark, that being said it is actually quite entertaining. Ralph Machio and Paule Shore had cameos this week. My life is so bad i am forced to seek out bad tv to watch.
If only Trailer Park Boys was available here in the states.
Canada rules, at least we have South Park but they don’t put out enough eposides, the Simpsons too, but cartoons are all we can do creativly.
When does the NFL start up.
Stillers 7 point favorites in first game sept. 11 against the titans.
Comedy that the USA Today, americas silly news, has the opening week lines up. But gambling isn’t a big deal in sports.
Enough maddness…
smiles from miles most
traveled like a ghost……Lords of Dogtown. Fun movie if you like skateboarding and surfing, mostly skating, which i do so this was fun(ny). Heath Ledger was being like a strung out Val Kilmner abouts like his Jim Morrison or John Holmes roles, which was funny, Johnny Knoxville is a poser playing an actor in real life, but the movie survives, although after a while you get it and just sort of want it to end, which leads me to believe it might not be that good, but i dug it a bit…
…Closer. Man i wanted to see this film ever since the trailer came out ages ago, months but whose counting calendars excluded? Well the movie dissapointed me for an hour and a half, but then it ended and i was left thinking uncontrolable, which is usually a sign of a good film. I was ready to add it to my least favorite movie list which isn’t very long being that there is something good in most movies. I thought Closer was going to be an erotic thriller but their was more talking about graphic sex than any actual sex scenes, not that that is what attracts me to a film, but that Natalie Portman is so darn cute, in addition to being Luke and Leia’s mom. The dialogue was graphic, funny to hear Julia Roberts speak about sexual expirences, i guess it was good but it was what the hell am i watching this for for a while…
…Surviving Picasso. It was a painter friend of mines birthday so i watched this in her honor. It was cool but they didn’t use real Picasso art work so that was sort of wierd. Anthony Hopkins did a good job playing a ledgend. The film focused on his love life which showed him mostly being a jerk. I dug the scenes where he talked about the creative process which seems so simple at times but within that simplcity is such a complex beauty that never seises to amaze me, like people that are good at speling…
…Brazil, and it was crazyfuncool. Terry Gilliam is a nut. He earned his right to direct Fear ands Loathing with this film. It is old but not real old, yet so darn relevant today. Deals with terrorism, evil government attitudes, and paperwork, amongst other things. I’m so glad i watched this film. It is really out there however so be affraid if you don’t deal with off the wall insanly off-beat movies. I like stuff like that and political satire so this made my day…
Brazil’s a wicked film, watched it again just a little while ago, definitely crazyfuncool!
I just watched something really boring, the best part of the whole deal was the trailer for Broken Flowers…
ÂIt sounded like an interesting film, really didn’t do it for me, left with half an hour to go…
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…going to bad movies isn’t fun at all, usually end up with a funny story at least the previews were good, only movie i ever walked out on was the Pest, starring Jon Legezonmose or however you spell it, it was bad and showed no signs of improvement…
…i did just watch a certian football team from Chicago, only caught the 4th quarter as i arrived home late from a tennis match. Bears looked good. Kyle Orton was tough at Purdue and looked good moving the ball down the field; then that Pippens makes the game saving interception, for pre-season it was quite exciting. Chicago athlete named Pippens? One extra letter but maybe that’s the magic they need, much fun indeed…
It was a great game, you missed a wicked HIT the mighty Urlacher put on A J Feeley, knocked him out of the game with what Al Michaels called a contused left gluteal muscle…LOL
I missed the last two BEARS touchdowns though, surprise renovations in the suite above me,no notice of course. Heard loud banging, chainsaw action, pipe wrench crashing thru my kitchen ceiling & light fixture, followed by flames from the saw continuing to cut thru the ceiling.. Glass, icky water, pipe wrench & crap everywhere…then the guy asked me if I wanted him to clean it up…
Thankfully I taped the game, agree completely on Kyle Orton, looking forward to another preseason game on Friday against St Louis…
…that is crazy stuff
, can’t believe it all happened during a game, if it was regular season i would have wigged out like no other, pre-season is all about not getting hurt if you are a starter and looking good if you aren’t, but it is still fun, Stillers iggles monday night. Speaking of regular season, Bears come to Pittsburgh in october or november not quite sure, should be interesting Well, I did wig out a bit, landlord came back just when the chainsaw pipewrench dropping guy finished cleaning up, tuned him in to the complete chaos & destruction deal…
Soooo looking forward to the season, that game in Pittsburgh should be fun!!!
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