For the most part I was impressed with this film. Katherine Isabelle was great in the lead role and it was one of the most impressive horror movie with a female lead I have seen since Angela Bettis in Lucky McKees May (2002). Tristan Risk steals the show here though as Beatress. A character you will definitely not forget. It's been a long time since I could say I saw a horror movie that wasn't mostly derivative and this was a refreshingly original entry to the genre.

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To say that compliance is a controversial film is a bit of an understatement. It infuriated people so much at Sundance that they were getting up and walking out of the theater. People just couldn't fathom that this kind of thing could possibly happen without someone along the line calling bullshit on the the whole thing. I have to admit that while I was watching it, I was thinking the same thing. How could something like this happen? It's unrealistic. Once the film was over, I decided it was time to find out about these "actual events" that this film is supposed to be based on. What I found out shocked me. Not only is this story real, it follows the actual events with surprising detail. In fact, if anything, the film is actually pulling a few punches when it comes to the reality of what happened to this poor girl.

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Lars (Gosling) is a lonely weirdo. He lives in the garage of the house he grew up in and shares a cubicle at work doing data entry. His brother Gus (Schneider) and pregnant wife Karin (Mortimer) live in the main house, but Lars has little contact with them. It is pretty obvious to even the most casual of observers that Lars is suffering from some sort of social anxiety order. He avoids eye contact, withdraws from human contact and keeps almost exclusively to himself. It would appear the only time that he leaves the garage is to travel to and from work and attend church.


One day at work, his cubicle mate is not looking at his usual porn sites. Instead he shows Lars a site where you can create your own anatomically correct woman. You can mix and match body parts to create your own hyper real sex doll. Soon enough Lars is ordering his perfect woman and awaiting its arrival from UPS. However, when his sex doll arrives, Lars does not have sex with it. Instead he brings "Bianca" to dinner at his brother's house and treats the doll as if she is real. Lars goes so far as to suggest that Bianca stay at his brother's home in a spare room as both he and Bianca are good Christians. As expected both his brother and sister in-law are a bit shocked to discover that Lars is dating a sex doll.

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OK I know I am getting a bit off the wall here but after re-watching Breathless recently I have been on a bit of French New Wave kick. That leads to me scanning through the criterion collection on Hulu and finding movies like Malle's Elevator to the Gallows (1958). Fans of Hitchcock on and movies like Diabolique (1955) will find a lot to enjoy with this one.

Maurice Ronet plays Julien Tavernier a retired military man who is in love with his bosses wife. The two of them come up with a fool proof plan to kill the boss and make it look like a suicide. On a Saturday near closing time, when the building is empty, Julien slips out his window uses a small grappling hook to climb up the side of the building and sneaks into his bosses office. Julien shoots his boss and then plants the gun in his hand. Then he escapes back down the rope and back into his own office. Confident he has pulled off the perfect crime, Julien follows his fellow employees out of the building ready to go spend the rest of the weekend with bosses wife (Jeanne Moreau). Right before he drives off, Julien looks up and notices that he has left the rope dangling from the side of the building. Cursing he foolishness, Julien re-enters the building to go and retrieve the rope. As he is riding the elevator back up, the porter turns off the power in the building and traps Julien in the elevator. What follows is a series of mistaken identities and bad decisions that will lead to dire consequences for everyone involved.

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Richard Linklater's Bernie is a hard film to classify. On the surface it is a faux documentary, with dark comedic and dramatic elements. However, the films narrative is interspersed with interviews of actual members of the community and actors so that what is truth and fiction gets quickly mixed. The effect of this filmmaking device is that the audience is never quite sure what to make of Bernie and is kept off-balance through the duration of the film. Without a doubt this is one of the odder films that I saw last year and was not at all what I expected when I sat down to watch it. The film is based on a true story that first appeared in a Texas newspaper.

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