Chick who reviews Flicks

Murder Island

2009-04-17T16:24:00.002+02:00

Murder Island (2006)

This amazing teacher I had today showed this movie in class. Its a 46 minute long swedish slasher movie. And yes - its as B as it sounds...but that is not always a bad thing.

6 friends go on a camping trip together. They rent some boats and paddle out to an island where they set camp for the night. Of course things go bad and one by one they meet a stranger in the woods...
who's the killer?
who will survive?
What exactly is going on?

All the music in this movie is hard rock/metal but it works really good.
The acting kind of sucks, its very obvious they are amatures and this whole movie has a big 'we did this as our project in school' feeling over it.

Still I give this a 4/10

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- Emelie, now apparently the only ower of this site.

Beetle Juice

2009-03-31T11:27:00.002+02:00

Beetle Juice (1988)

If you ask me for one good childhood memory it would be this movie. My mum taped it on and old VHS tape and I watched it over and over and over and over again. I am pretty sure this was where I fell in love with Geena Davis as well.

So last night me and some friends were just fed up with school and decided to watch this movie. Best idea ever.

The movie is about Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) who live in a beautiful house in New England. One day while driving home they are involved in a terrible auto accident. They manage to walk home only to discover later that they have died and now haunt their house. When their house is purchased by an out of state family, they feel their home is threatened by the over-the-top artists wife and real-estate idea-man husband. Their only relief is the Gothic daughter of the family. Their attempts at scaring the family out of the house are ignored or laughed at. Finally they fall to the temptation to use the people-exorcizer Beetle Juice. When they find his tactics too dangerous, they attempt to contain him and save the family they were trying to boot.

I should also add that this is a Tim Burton movie in every way possible. The effects are cheesy (though the movie is from 1988 so it is to be expected) but it is easily one of the funniest movies ever. It’s not meant as a horror movie (though Geena Davis’s hair is quite scary), its more humor and a real feel good movie.

I will give this a 9/10

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- Emelie, sick and busy packing to go home…

After Sex (2007)

2009-03-19T19:33:00.002+01:00

After Sex (2007)

It's a humorous, yet honest look at the complexity of modern day relationships told through nine separate couples.
We get to see how people comes to turn with their homosexuality, loosing their virginity, cheating, parents and their way of thinking about sex after having it.
The movie takes up all the stuff that so often is left out in modern main-stream movies. Even though it has a lot of well known actors/actresses in it they still aren't afraid to show and take up the subjects.
The dialogue is witty, funny and touching.
I really liked the Nikki (Mila Kunis) & Kat (Zoe Saldana) part of the movie. There we get to follow two roommates at college. They have just "fooled around" and then we get to follow them how they settle their buisness. I also really liked the Kristy (Natalie Marston) & Sam (Dave Franco) part- it's both their first time. Its stiff and uncomfterable as it probably is for many. And just the talk after is hilarious.

I'll give this movie a 7/10.
I didn't have any hopes for it when I first saw it but then when I watched it I got a nice surprise.

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Snow Buddies (2008)

2009-03-15T16:40:00.003+01:00

Snow Buddies (2008)

You know Air Bud? well this is the second movie about his puppies.
We get to follow Mudball, Buddha, Budderball, B-Dwag and Rosebud as they accedantly hook a ride to Alaska with an Ice-Cream shipment. There they meet Shasta who decides to help them home. But in order to get home they have to compete in a snow dog race so that they can be helped to the airport. At home Buddy and Molly (their parents) do everything to find there pupps. A sertain Miss Mittens (voice by Whoopi Goldberg) tells them about where she last saw them, robbing an ice cream van but got trapped in it.

I was a real fan of the first two Air Bud movies when I was younger. Still think they're adorable but these puppies they take the price. I mean B-Dwag who is all gangsta but is afraid of everything. Buddha that meditates all the time. This movie is so cute and funny. Perfect to the kids, and even the adults.
I'll give it a 6.8/10 . . . definatley worth a watch.

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Patrik 1,5

2009-03-11T21:31:00.002+01:00

Patrik 1,5 (2008)

Göran and Sven Skoogh is a gay married couple. They have just moved into a new neighborhood, somewhere in Sweden, where they're going to start a family. They have been passed all the tests and such that a couple (and probably more since they're a gay couple) and now awaits a child. But when they go to the child service to get the information about their child they found out there is no one to get. They are all sad and filled with misery. When Göran one day gets the mail there is a letter in it telling them that there is a child called Patrik and he's 1,5 years old and he's theirs if they want him.
When they open the door there is no little baby there. Outside a 15 year old Patrik stands. Their whole world turns upside down. Sven can't handle it and starts to drink more than usual and eventually leaves.
Göran on the other hand sees something in Patrik and they soon become friends finding a common subject in gardening.

Patrik 1,5 have a lot of twists and turns that are original and funny. It's also amazingly shot and really captures the Swedish 'Svensson' life.
Both Gustaf Skarsgård (Göran) and Torkel Pettersson (Sven) play gay really well... but still they don't over play it as it tends to happen. Also Thomas Ljungman who plays Patrik gives a very convincing interpretation of the tortured, misunderstood teenager who only wants a family... love his hair to.

I give this movie a 7/10... definitely worth a watch. A real feel good film. I'm also a huge fan of Ella Lemhagen who has written and directed the movie. She has done way many funny and down to earth Swedish comedies.

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-Elin

Fritt Vilt II

2009-02-27T19:16:00.002+01:00

Fritt Vilt II (2008)

Or as we call it, the return of the Långegutten (tall scary Norwegian man) and of course Elin... ooh we meant Jannicke.
We have been obsessed by the first movie forever. We even has got our nicks from the first one. Elin is Jannicke, tashe cool slightly crazy awesome chick who kills the långegutten twice and revived him once in between. Emelie played Ingunn in the first movie. She looked like Lord Voldermort’s Norwegian daughter, but strangely enough she was way hotter dead than alive. Helene played Ingunn's boyfriend Mikal, an idiot. We have some more in the group, but since Jannicke (Elin) was the only one who survived us going to jump straight to the second movie where Elin reprise her crazy role . . . but more vicious.

The movie starts with Emelie’s new character called Camilla, a nurse with an scary afro. She is examinating an old lady who we believe Helene will fall in love with. Everything seems to be okay with the old lady. We get to find out that the hospital is closing down. Camilla has a scary boyfriend who apparently looks a bit like Emelie’s dad in his young days. Ole as he's called has been called out to check out a abandon car who turns out to be the one that the gang from the first movie came in. He checks it out then head back to the village. On the way there he almost run down a still standing, but not movable Jannicke with an Ice pick. Through very awesomely shoot scenes and pictures she collapses there on the road.
She wakes up at the hospital, telling the cops what happened and so on. The police get to the mountain where it all happened. They find all the dead bodies and bring them back to the morgue at the hospital to defrost. We get to see a very half naked but still gorgeous Ingunn who is drenched in blood.
Camilla who feels sorry for Jannicke brings her down to the morgue so she can say goodbye. This is when she brings the Långegutten back to life accidently buy punching him in the heart in her rage. I mean beating up dead, but not so dead, långeguttar isn't that good. Especially not if it's a horror movie.
Stuff happens people die... the ending is spectacular.

We don't know what more to say... 9/10 this movie is wwwaaayyyy close to make our "movie I’ll kill for" which is just pretty weird since that's what the movie is about.... Killing people... right?
The way the movie is shoot is just WOW, like for an example. They use mirrors, reflections and the light to play tricks on us. They especially use the disappear in the dark' things.
Both Jannicke (Ingrid Bols ø Berdal) and Camilla (Marthe Snorresdotter Rovik) has awesome comical, but not meant to be comical, timing. The soundtrack is pretty much as good as the first movie. The ending credits song in the first movie was like the best ever... this was a close run.

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- All my friends are dead... well we will be dead; when Helene finds out we watched the movie without her... ELin and Emelie... Dead...

Bloody Mallory (2002)

2009-02-18T16:29:00.002+01:00

Bloody Mallory (2002)

After founding out her husband was a demon, and slayed him their blood mixed together. Mallory (Olivia Bonamy) is now a secret service agent specialized on paranormal happenings and beings. When the pope, who is trying to make a new witch hunt, gets kidnapped by a mysterious group of people Mallory gets the job to find him.
With her two friends, Vena Cava an transvestite specialized in explosives and Talking Tina a pre-teen telepath with the ability of possesing others. Together they start a journey who will change the world... maybe.

When I (Elin) first read about this movie I was very sceptical. It sounded alot like a cross between Underworld and Buffy.
And my guesses wasen't that far from, it's like a french version of them but worse. The acting is good, the effects are great but still the movie is not that good. The story is okey but it's something that just don't klick with me.
They walk through ghouls, vampires, succubus, demons and what ever other creature you can imagine... I usually likes this kind of stuff but this was just okey.

I'll give the movie a 4/10, it's worth a watch if you don't have anything better to do... but don't buy it, don't rent it, don't put any kind of money on it.
Although I loved Mallorys outfit and her hair.

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-Elin, off to dinner.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

2009-02-17T19:29:00.001+01:00

Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

Zack and Miri have known each other since first grade. They share an apartment with unpaid bills coming out of their ears. After going to their high school reunion Zack and Miri comes up with the perfect solution to their money problems. They should make a porn film.
So they set out finding a cast and a place to shoot the movie. Things go wrong and they end up shooting the movie at the coffee store where Zack works.
Through out the process of making the movie Zack and Miri find out that maybe they are not just friend after all…

Being a big fan of Kevin Smith I had high expectations for this. I would say it’s not the same as Mallrats or any of his other movies, its good but not his best. As all his movies this is a funny comedy with odd twists and dirty jokes.

Elizabeth banks (Miri) and Seth Rogen (Zack) and both fun and really in their roles. Great acting all around (except for the porno scenes which are not supposed to be good) and I would definitely recommend it to other Kevin Smith fans.

I would give this a 7/10.

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- Emelie, the human popsicle.

The Woods

2009-02-17T11:19:00.003+01:00

The Woods (2006)

In 1965, after provoking a fire in a forest, the rebel teenager Heather Fasulo is sent to the boarding school Falburn Academy in the middle of the woods by her estranged mother Alice Fasulo and her neglected father Joe Fasulo. The dean Ms. Traverse accepts Heather in spite of the bad financial condition of her father. The displaced Heather becomes close friend of the weird Marcy Turner, while they are maltreated by the abusive mate Samantha Wise. During the nights, Heather has nightmares and listens to voices from the woods, and along the days she believes that the school is a coven of witches. When some students, including Marcy, simply vanish, Heather believes she will be the next one…

This movie has some serious b-effects but it also has something special. Something that draws you in and won’t let go until you finish. It’s definitely a movie I would recommend people to watch.
The acting was really quite good, but it does have some major names in it so that shouldn’t be a surprise. Patricia Clarkson for one, she plays the part of Ms. Traverse, a nice surprise since I always thought she was a great actress.
Agnes Bruckner did a pretty good job on playing Heather and she really made the character easy to feel for.

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I would give this movie a 6/10, could have been better but it was fun to watch.

- Emelie, off to lunch.

Speak

2009-02-14T13:21:00.004+01:00

Speak (2004)

Kristen Stewart plays Melinda, a young girl who just started freshmen year at high school. Before the summer she had everything she wanted. Good friends, a life and just living it like a teenager should. But sometime during the summer something changed.
We get to follow Melindas journey from flashbacks to find out what exactly did happen. In school no one wants to talk to her since she called the cops to a party. But no one stops to think about why she made the call, no one even cared. After that she was all alone and no one to understand her. She starts to express herself in other ways. Through art mostly.
Well I'm not gonna spoil why and what happen to put Mel in that kind of place but I can say this much, it's not so nice.
But it doesn't help when Melindas ex best friend starts dating the root to everything bad in her life. And she can't seem to escape it.

Since a friend (CJ) recently saw the movie and wondered if I had seen it she wanted me to write the review. So here it is.
As you might have guessed I first saw the movie for Kristen (obviously) and I wasen't dissapointed.
The acting preformances is really good. Elizabeth Perkins who plays Melindas mother also develops in the movie, even though she's not a main character. She goes from being the irritating mom to be understandable and responsible when she finds out what have happen.
I'll give this movie a 8/10, definatley worth to watch.

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-Elin, sketching.

Fucking Åmål (Show Me Love)

2009-02-12T14:54:00.003+01:00

Fucking Åmål (1998)

Is about Elin (Alexandra Dahlström), a hot young girl in Sweden (No not our Elin, but they do have some similarities). Well Agnes is a dorky 16 year old girl who likes to write love messages to Elin, but Elin never seems to get them.

Now to the official review.
Agnes (Rebecka Liljeborg), loves Elin. Elin loves herself until she starts to notice Agnes who NEVER stalk her. During Agens very successful 16th birthday party she gets a kiss from Elin (though it's a dare between Elin and her sister Jessica). But the night ends in success since Elin wants to apologize and borrow the toilet at Agnes house. They plan to run away to Stockholm so that Agnes can get a girlfriend, but end up snogging in the backseat of a car. The driver thinks he's on 'Candid Camera' and throws them out.
As you might know or have figured out. This is a love story. With complications. But what love story isn't?

We had much fun watching this movie. Especially since Elin (ours) knew all the monologues and lines in the movie. So Emelie never had to think before she listened.
Elin has not seen this movie before, ABSOLUTLEY NOT. She has not read the script, she has not acted out the whole movie with her gay friend Henrik. She has NOT dreamt she was Agnes but called Elin so that Elin and Elin could date and make little Elins.
This is starting to get crazy.
We easily give this movie a 10/10, since it's nostalgic, genius and pure ecstasy.
The acting is not soup opera acting which most Swedish movies tend to be. Awesomely funny and genius lines. Especially from Elin (both). Ooooh and the soundtrack is WOW...

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We also deeply recomend Lukas Moodysson other movies. Among them Lilja-4ever.
-YAY cos Elin in Gay. And Emelie is lost cos her kiosk is done.

Der Rote Baron/ The red baron

2009-02-11T16:58:00.002+01:00

Der Rote Baron/ The red baron (2008)

Baron Manfred von Richthofen (Matthias Schweighöfer) is the most feared and celebrated pilot of the German air force in World War I. To him and his companions, air combats are events of sporty nature, technical challenge and honorable acting, ignoring the terrible extent of war. But after falling in love with the nurse Käte (Lena Headey), Manfred realizes he is only used for propaganda means. Caught between his disgust for the war, and the responsibility for his fighter wing, von Richthofen sets out to fly again.

This is not the kind of movies I (Emelie) usually watch but I gave it a shot for 2 reasons, Lena Heady and the fact that the cover looked so stunning (not the one here, I saw a different one in sweden which looked so much better).
The movie is based on a true story and I have to say I was not disappointed. First off its beautifully filmed, the air scenes are stunning, and the acting is really great. Lena Heady (even with her fake German accent) plays her role to perfection and the last scene with her is amazing.
This is a war/romance/drama movie and it is 2 hours long (but feels a lot shorter).
I would definitely recommend it.

I give it a 7/10

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- Emelie, done, now back to watching Bones…

Iron Jawed Angels

2009-02-07T19:38:00.002+01:00

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O'Connor) has just arrived from England where they where involved in the sufforgate movement. Now they want to help bring USA into equal rights for women. They get involved in a movement called 'National American Women Suffrage Association'. After a while they soon realize they have a different view and way to get to their goal. So while there new group fight both the other women movements they also fight against the law and the government. They go to many things. Public humiliation, no help from cops when they get attacked.

They are sent to Occoquan Workhouse for 60-day terms where they suffer poor conditions. During this time, Paul and other women undergo a hunger strike during which prison authorities force feed them milk and raw eggs through a tube. News of their treatment leaks to the media through the husband of one of the imprisoned women who had been able to lobby for a visit (the suffragists are depicted as otherwise unable to see visitors or lawyers). This last event finally leads to there victory.

As you might have understood this movie is based on a true story about how the women got the right to vote in the USA.
My first thought when I started to watch this movie was that it was an easy mood, awesome sound track and very good acting. Although the comedy soon turns to anger and frustration. I am so glad I didn't live back then. The women where suppresed and all they where good for was to cook and take care of the kids.
Yes I am a feminist, though not so radical, but I still get angry when I see women who get treeted like they are worth less than someone else. We have all have the right for equal rights and get our voice heard.
The acting was just marvalous and even though the cast was WOW I didn't have any great expectations on the acting since the Director (Katja Von Garnier) usually have good actors who act under there ability. But not in this movie.

The force feeding scenes just made my stomack go into phantom cramps and I could almost feel the tube down my troath (have had it once with anaesthesia and that was bad... just imagine that without and with restrains and no way to so anything about it.).
I'll give this movie a 8/10.... And even though the movie was over two hours long I didn't feel it. I just sat there, amazed in both good and bad ways... and the soundtrack... WOW just marvelous.

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- Elin, drinking water. Wow... can't let go.

Aberdeen

2009-02-05T16:25:00.002+01:00

Aberdeen (2000)

Today I (Emelie) watched a rather odd movie,

Imagine Lena Heady with her british accent, a swedish father…and the movie is set in Norway and Scottland. Yes there you have Aberdeen.

Kaisa (Lena Heady) is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad (Stellan Skarsgård) whom she hasn't seen in years. The impatient Kaisa reluctantly agrees. The story is a ruse: mom is dying and wants her ex and her daughter together again. The trip gets complicated (dad is too drunk to fly and the hot-tempered Kaisa gets them banned from the airline): they go by ferry then car, needing a great deal of help along the way from a sweet lorry driver named Clive. The story is about then trying to reach Aberdeen before mom's death.

The whole movies has a dark shade over it, that darkness we’re so used to in scandinavia. It fits the mood perfectly. Both Lena and Stellan show off their acting talents, their chemstry together is impecable.
I don’t watch these kinds of movies often but this one really moved me. It felt so honest and bare, it was as if you’re watching real life.

All in all I would give this a 5/10, I won't buy it but it was fun to watch.

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- Emelie, over and out.

The Guitar

2009-02-04T21:35:00.003+01:00

The Guitar (2008)

I first was very skeptical to this movie. All I've heard about it was that it was a lesbian plot somewhere in it. Which hardly makes a good movie... not always anyway. But I was wrong.

Melody (Saffron Burrows) finds out she has terminal breast cancer and only has two months left to live. The same day she also get fired and dumped by her boyfriend.
She then decides to do something to change her life. She rents a loft, buy everything she wants and isolate herself from the world.
The only contact she has with the outside world is the pizza girl Cookie (Paz de la Huerta) and the delivery man Roscoe (Isaach De Bankolé). She soon starts a relationship with them both.
During about the same time she also give in for her biggest wish ever since she was a little girl. To own a 68' Fender Stratocoster (a guitar), in red. She soon realizes she's got a natural talent and the guitar is the only thing that can save her from misery and despair.

Saffrons preformance in this movie was easily the best I've seen her do, and she has done a lot of good things.
The plot wasen't that orignial, though in a way it was. It's hard to put my finger on it but something in the movie touched my heart.
Just the fact that everytime she lost something she lost it all in one day. It happend two times in the movie and it was so beautiful but still so sad.
It was also interesting how the whole movie (apart from 10 minutes in the beginning and 15 minutes in the end) took set in a apartment.
I give this movie a 7.5/10. Don't know much more to say... just if you get the chance see it. I deeply recomend it.
Not even the lesbian plot was cheesy as it often happens to be.

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-Eelliinn

Dead Like Me: Life After Death

2009-02-03T14:04:00.002+01:00

Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)

You have probably seen the series, if not we may have blogged about it.

Anyways, the movie does a quick meaningful resume of the series, the things you have to know to understand the movie.
So George (Ellen Muth) is back, more sarcastic than ever (We love) Mason (Callum Blue) is just as smart as a puppy, Roxy (Jasmine Guy) is Bad ass as usual and Daisy is just odd (new actress = wrong) but she wasen't to bad, even though we wanted to hate her.
In the movie we get to follow the group (they are Reapers if we forgott to mention) under a new leadarship (We don't like him) since Rube has past on to the ever after.
This new guy starts to tare up the group and making them not take there reaper job seriously. Roxy tries to save people from dying, Daisy goes to the teaters and Mason goes all pimp. Geroge on the other hand is the only one who can see the patterns and she starts to work against the new guy that we have forgot the name of.
But during some events Geroge soon stands eye to eye with her now Grown up sister Reggie (Britt McKillip) (even more sarcastic than Geroge... we LOVE).
Things happen and we are not gonna spoil it.

It really was the same as the series, the feeling that is. Nothing had changed except for Daisy who had gone annoyin and mental. We want Laura Harris back. Though we got really happy when Crystal (Crystal Dahl) was in the movie... YAY... she's just pure amazing. Crystal is funny, she talked just as much in the series as in the movie (which means nothing) and Delores is just as cat loving as usual.
We easily give this movie a 9/10, it would have gotten a 10 if Laura had been in it.

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- Elin and Em full on food, drinking something very good.

Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead

2009-02-02T23:06:00.002+01:00

Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead (2007)

Yes the movie is as B as it sounds... it's about a japaneese swimteam who are preparing for the competition.
To the school a new girl comes, Aki, she keeps to her self and do as she wants. But when the school gets a vaccine (they think) they all turn zombie like. Everyone but the swimteam since the chlorine in the pool makes them immune to the virus so it's up to them to stop the zombies. Though they don't realize this until like the last 20 minutes of the movie.
Aki aslo happens to fall inlove in one of the other girls name who I can't spell or pronunce. We also get to know bits of Akis background... Apparently she was a assasin trainee who could be bespelled to sex through the tunes of flute. But when she realized she was gay she flead the nest to spread her wings.

As you might have guessed AGAIN this movie is very B... They acting was shit, the effects was shit, the sex scenes was soft porn (not even good soft porn). The only two things in the movie that actually was good was the Fighting scenes and the soundtrack...
So I'll give this movie a 3/10, I do recomend seeing it if your in a mood for a bad slasher horror with funny fighting scenes.

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The movie is abit Shaun of the Dead meets The L-Word with bad actors... Crazy fun...

-Elin

Dead Mary

2009-02-01T14:33:00.002+01:00

Dead Mary (2007)

You've all played Bloody Mary right? well Dead Mary is the 'real' version.

A couple of college friends have planed a weekend full of booze and fun. Even though it starts out bad they manage to find some funny things to do. Like playing a very boring version of truth or dare... all this ends up in playing Dead Mary.
Soon after they have played this 'game' things starts to happen and people starts to die. It takes a while for them to realize Dead Mary has returned and now is out after them.

Yes the movie sounds very B, and I agree it was. Though it had some nice moments, for an example when Dominique Swain goes crazy and kill every dead thing with a spade.
I also descoverd a new actress that did an awesome job in this movie. Maggie Castle who I now just realized I must have seen before but never realized, is a very gorgeous and talanted actress. She has some similaritys to Amber Benson in her facial features. Gorgeous.
So now you have two reasons to see this movie, plus that every man dies and all the women are the 'strong' ones.... Good.

I give it a 5/10, it could have been better, but still worse. The acting was good, the plot was okey and the way it was shoot was okey too.

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-Elin

The Quiet

2009-01-31T17:34:00.004+01:00

The Quiet (2005)

Beautiful, simply beautiful. Dot, Dot, Dot the end.

The movie is a dark, serious and artistic. It's about Dot, who after her father died moves in with her godparents and their daughter. She deaf and mute and she likes to go through life invisible. But when she realizes that everything isn't as it should in her new home she has to start getting noticed.

This is one of the most artistically made movies we have ever seen. Every light angle, every monolog, every move was so beautifully composed it gave us the chills.
And we cannot believe everyone stud us up for this movie. Camilla Belle does an awesome interpretation of Dot, the deaf and mute girl. She plays the piano like Beethoven himself by feeling the vibrations of the tones. Her acting in this movie must have been hard since she had to look unmoved even though she knew everything that happens around her.
Nina (the daughter of the house) played by Elisha Cuthbert, is your typical shallow cheerleader the first time we see her in the movie, but once you get to know her we soon realize she has a dark secret.
The chemistry between Camilla and Elisha is just mind blowing. Morbid but mind blowing. Every scene they made with each other gave us chills.
The monologs in the movie where just pure genius artistic with a touch of greatness. For example:
Dot: "All I wanted was to be invisible. It was a simple request. It didn't involve anyone else. When I was in a room with another person, I felt like I was only half there. When I was in a room with two other people, I felt like a third of myself. When I was in a room with three other people, I felt like a quarter of myself. And when I was in a whole crowd of people, I felt like nobody."

That's just one of many more.
Crap we can't still let go of the setting the movie gave us. The dark slightly morbid with the touch of the first light of the day.
We give this a 9.7/10... we are so going to buy a copy each of this...

Dot: "But being invisible isn't worth it in the end, because when you're invisible, other people may not see you, but you can't help seeing other people."

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We almost forgot about the amazing soundtrack who filled our ears and minds with the mood the setting was putting out. Genious, deadly and totally screwed up.

-Elin and Em trying to get our chills down... TOWARDS THE SHOWER.

The Shrink is In

2009-01-31T14:03:00.002+01:00

The Shrink Is In (2001)

Imagine Courteney Cox as a person with way to may phobies and then she takes on her shrinks role and starts to help them... well that's what this movie is about.

Samantha, a travel writer suffering from claustrophobia, agoraphobia, and a whole host of other phobias, isn't exactly lucky in her romantic fate. But when her pshycologist suffers a major mental breakdown, she secretly poses as the missing shrink in an effort to turn Michael, her new neighbor, towards her and away from his girlfriend. Through her chase, Samantha meets the happy-go-lucky magazine salesman, Henry. What follows is a series of events that lead to the one question Samantha has to face: Is she thinking with her heart... or with her mind?

Both Courteney and her real life husband David Arquette is in this movie, and they are funny as a monkey on 10 legs. Which is WAy funny.
Courteneys character also had a dog, a cool little pussy hunting dog. We loved him with all off our hearts.
The movie was funny and original, we give it a 5/10, we do recomend you to see it but not buy it if you haven't seen it before. Since it may not go well with everyone.

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-Next movie to review... The Quiet and then Bathory with no english text and slovenian talking... We can tell you what we thought out of the "pictures"

Grindhouse (Planet Terror & Death Proof)

2009-01-30T20:24:00.003+01:00

Planet Terror (2007)

Rose McGowan is a go-go dancer (not cry-cry dancer) who has very many useless talents which soon come in handy when the town she lives in get infected by a virus that makes people look like Quasimodo in boils filled with pus.
A few people, who are immune to the virus, starts to fight back against the flesh eating Quasimodo’s. By now Rose has gotten a new leg since her first leg was eaten, the second one penetrated through Quentin Tarantino’s eye... so now she has a gun that can blow your brains out... literally.
And among the other Quasimodo kicking people we have a doctor, doctor Dakota (Marley Shelton), whose husband is an evil son of a bitch who also is hypochondriac and a bit paranoid since he thinks Dakota has an affair with a woman named Tammy... about this part The husband Doctor was right.... moahahahahaha.
While Dakota runs through a window with a Venetian blind wrapped around her as she fell into a garbage can (this has Elin done... without the blind). She has no control over her hands cos her husband gave them paralyzing shots. This was very funny, well not the sticking needles in her hands part but the way she tried to like for an example open the car door, driving the car and rising her hand.

Now we have moved on to

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Death Proof (200 unt 7)

This movie has a very boring first half, you only need to see Rose McGowan blond once in a life time (we have seen the movie before). The second part on the other hand is just pure brilliant, though it was a very nice 20 seconds right before the second part when our beloved Dr. Dakota turned up for a few moments.
Anyways the whole good part is about four women who likes to drive fast cars and make stupid games (we want to try... Elin has done some of the crazy stuff here 2) and a crazy guy who also likes driving fast. The crazy guy starts to follow and play with the girls (he thought) when he tried to ram them off the road. We laughed when he got a bullet in his arm after yelling "This was fun ladies, now I have to AUCH"... This is a very good man-hating movie... which we love.

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The acting was superb in both movies. Planet Terror is shot in classic grindhouse manners which we love since we ARE grindhouse fans. Death Proof on the other hand has the same elements in the story though it's shoot in a completely different way, more serious.
Until Tracie Thoms starts to curse, like a rabbit on crack. Rosario Dawson does a very nice New Zeeland accent and we never knew she could kick her leg that high. Zoë Bell is just pure amazing, all she needs to do is to talk and we melt into a puddle in the bed (WE LOVE THE ACCENT), Mary Elisabeth Winstead in a cheerleader outfit with pomm pomms and is as easily fooled as Elins old odd friend.
Rose McGowan... what more do we need to say, she's hot, she's got a gun as a leg, she kills people AND she wants to be a stand-up comedian.
Marley Shelton = hot doctor with paralyzed hands, and when they are unparalyzed she fires a little gun who shoot needles with poison in them YAY.

As you might have guessed we love the women in these two movies. We are sure there were men in them too but we didn't see them.
Planet Terror gets a 8/10
Death Proof gets a 8/10 too... well the second part of the movie that is.

-A big + for your who managed to read it all... though a big slap in the ass for you who didn't... Elin and Em!

Fierce People

2009-01-29T21:54:00.003+01:00

Fierce People (2005)

Sixteen-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) wants nothing more than to escape New York and spend the summer in South America studying the Iskanani Indians, or "Fierce People," with the anthropologist father he's never met. But Finn's dreams are shattered when he is arrested in a desperate effort to help his drug-dependent mother, Liz (Diane Lane), who scrapes by working as a masseuse. Determined to get their lives back on track, Liz moves the two of them into a guesthouse on the vast country estate of her ex-client, the aging aristocratic billionaire, Ogden C. Osbourne (Donald Sutherland). There Finn meets and starts a relationship with Odgen's granddaughter Maya (Kristen Stewart). And he also befrends Mayas older brother Bryce (Chris Evans). Everything seems to go great until Finn one night get raped by a mysterious man at the estate.

This movie was just fucked up, in a good way that is. I had no idea what the movie was about or anything such... all I knew was that Kristen Stewart was in it and that's all the convincing I needed to see this movie.
I mean just Kristens characters entrance in this movie was just WOW, Finn got trapped in a animal trap (one of those close thingys you use for bears) and the first thing she does is to give him crap for hunting deer on there estate.
She's just pure awesome in this movie, but then again when is she not?.
I don't know what to say about the movie more than I LOVE IT... even though Anton Yelchin was abit annoying. But I grew sympathy for him after the rape, really good acting.

I'll have to give this movie an 8/10, it was weird, strange and absolutley wonderful. I loved how they put in these metaphores and similaritys with the Indian tribes way to deal with things. And they also cut in the indians in the movie like they where one of the people. Though they didn't came until it was twoards the end.

All I've got to say is... WATCH IT.

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- Elin... over and out... Time for bed and hopefully some nice dreams about Kristen.

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

2009-01-27T20:10:00.010+01:00

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway(2008)

This is probably going to be my (Emelie) new DVD purchase. I watched the old RENT movie from 2005 about 2 years ago and fell in love. RENT is a classic but I have to say that this new movie, which is really a professional recording of the show on Broadway, is much better than the old movie…

How does one even go about explaining RENT? It’s so much more than a movie/show, it’s a cult and a classic. I will try and break it down though,

Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
In the heart of these people you find one of my favorite characters, Angel. His/her journey from falling in love with Collins to getting sick is so heartbreaking and for me it is the heart of the show.

This version of RENT (as a difference to the old one) is build pretty much only of the songs. It may make it harder to follow but it also deepens the music.
As far as the cast goes this cast is quite different. The only one same in both movies is Tracie Thoms who plays Joanne. She rocks the role. In this version she plays up against Eden Espinosa instead of Idina Menzel (awesome choice). Eden really is funnier, prettier and sings better. The rest of the cast was brilliant as well but for me Eden, Tracie and Justin Johnston (Angel) stole the show. I do miss the 2005 movie Collins though.

The effects are of course not like other movies. This is a recording of the show on Broadway so it’s on stage, you do however get amazing angles and its shot like a real movie. You won’t miss a thing. Of course this is the real show, not the movie version that was badly put together. Some of the best songs were not even in the movie but now you can hear them here.

I’m biased. I have loved RENT for a long time (even if apparently it’s not cool. Who cares anyway?)
I give this a 9.8/10. Hands down amazing, I will buy it the second it comes available on DVD next month.

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-- Emelie. No day but today...

Severance

2009-01-27T15:44:00.004+01:00

Severance (2006)

First we need to state that I watched this just because Laura Harris was in it. With that said I went in with low expectations…which was probably a good plan.

The movie is about a group of people who work together and are sent out on a team-building weekend. The 5-star hotel resort turns out to be an abandoned shed in the woods. One of the guys claims he saw a man, of course no one believes him since he ate quite a few magic mushrooms a little bit earlier. Now you all know how this goes but there were some nice twists in this one.

It’s filmed in an interesting way, lots of cool angles and some of the acting is great. Laura of course is top class (even if she is the only one without an English accent) but some of the others are not in the same league. No one is really terrible though.
The effects are very B, very good B though. This movie was never meant as a horror movie, its mean to be B classed and they do a good job of drawing laughter out of the audience even in the oddest places.

All together I would give this a 4.5/10, it’s worth a watch if you get the offer but I wouldn’t buy it. Of course if you’re a fan of Laura (like me) it’s worth to see it just for her.

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The Ruins

2009-01-27T15:08:00.003+01:00

The Ruins (2008)

Is a bad movie with great special effects. We get to follow friends who's on a holiday in Mexico. When they meet a German man they decide to follow him to a Mayan ruin. But when they get there things start to happen, the plant who souround the temple plant it's seeds in the human body, or just eat it depends on it's mood.
As you might have understood by what I just told you it's is a very bad horror movie... that is if you don't actually like B horror movies with a quite big budget.

The best parts in the movie was the beginning and the ending. The movie starts with a woman sitting in a dark room crying for help. But she gets snapped away by something in the dark.
In the ending they play Yeah Yeah Yeahs song Phenomenon (Me like)
They also had a very grosse amputation scene in the movie, it actually gave me chills. And to see Laura Ramsey slice her self up to get the plants out of her wasen't a pretty sight either.
The acting was great and very beliable for a movie who should not even be alowed to be mentioned.
I like both Jena Malone who played Amy in the movie and Laura Ramsey who played Stacy. They have both been in some of my favorite movies and they are just superb actresses.
I'll have to give this movie a 4/10... and 3 points of them are for the effects, Jena and Laura.
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- Elin eats Snusklubba

Sodot, Ha- (aka The Secrets)

2009-01-26T22:08:00.002+01:00

Sodot, Ha- (2007)

Is a beautifully told story about two women finding their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out.

We get to follow Noemi (Ania Bukstein) and Michel (Michal Shtamler) who both studies at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safed.
They also deliver food to people who can't make it their own. One of these people is a woman called Anouk (Fanny Ardant). She's dying and an convicted murderer. Both Noemi and Michel wants to help this woman to come to terms with her sin, so they start doing a cleansing ceremony to help Anouks soul to get clean from this sin.
It's all illegal, but they do it for the greater cause. As you might understand things happen, but not things you might first think. It's a very unpredictable movie who is very nicely written.

The movie is set in Israel but mixes both Hebrew and French in it. The movie is so original in a since that I have never heard or seen a movie who takes it all from a woman’s perspective. It is interesting to follow these women who are suppressed by the religion they all have been raised to follow, and when they later discover there is so much more to life than being a good wife.
The acting is very believable, strong and beautiful.
One other thing I found quite interesting was that they were all naked or semi naked in a couple of scenes but the only 'love' scene they had their clothes on. It was an unexpectable moment.
The movie is full of these moments, and for me who don't know so much about the religion and there way of life I really appreciated this movie.
I give it an easy 8/10. . . Watch it if you have the chance.

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Also a big plus for the incredibly beautiful DVD cover.

-Elin... listening to Sahara Hotnights

Twilight

2009-01-25T18:11:00.002+01:00

Twilight (2008)

Well anyone who has been up to date the last year has probably already heard or even seen Twilight. You might even have read the books.
I first read about the movie about two years ago after checking out Kirsten Stewart on IMDB since I really like her as an actress. She is multitalanted, gorgeous and very good at what she does.
So I really only watched this movie for Kirsten... at first anyways.

It's about Bella who moves to live with her dad. There in the new town and in the new school she makes friends but soon notice the quite and secretive Edward. Bella and Edward falls in love, and soon Bella realizes why and what's so different with Edward.

There is much like a typical High School drama. Girl meets boy who have a strange family. Girl has friends who are there for her while one can't stop drool over her.
Yet there is something standing out. I doubt it has to do with the whole vampire plot or so... I can't put my finger on it.
It might be Kirsten, It might be the essence of vampires (since they are very erotic creatures) and so on.
I for one really love vampires... not only cos they are erotic in nature but for there mystical appearance, past and way to live. It's fascinating on a level I can't describe. I don't know how many of you guys out there who agree with me... but there sure a hell must be one or so.

Kirsten did a awesome acting work as usual, even though the plot between Bella and Edward was part wise a bit cheesy it was in overall a very good movie, great effects and a very cool baseball game.
I give this movie a 6.8/10, could have been better, but it also could have been a lot worse.

YAY for Kirsten, you other Kirsten fans out there a movie to keep your eyes open for in a near feature. "The Runaways" where Kirsten is portraying Joan Jett in the legendary all-girl rock band.

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-Now lets drool over Kirsten some more.... (Review written by Elin)

Råzone

2009-01-24T15:05:00.002+01:00

Råzone (2006) also known as "Life Hits/The Raw Zone"

This Danish movie is uncomfterable to watch, which was a good thing when you understand what it's about.

We get to follow the bad girl gang in your typical danish High School... They bully people, steal, drink and use drugs. But when Christina (one of the "gang" leaders) starts to develop a conciense she gets kicked out of the gang and end up the gangs favorite victim.
The bullying soon gets out of hand and things starts to go down hill waaaay to fast. Christina thinks it's going quite well, she has made a new friend, gotten a boyfriend and so on... but her ex-mates have a evil plan.

We really thought this movie was awesome, I mean we actually got chills from the movie. It's not your typical "naw I'm getting bullied help me help them" movie. It's real life... you have seen it happen, you can really believe it, you can even smell it... almost anyway.
It's so realistic we got goose bumps.
So we give this movie a easy 8.3/10, and it's to much to write why.
All we can say is that its a Dannish movie, with young good actors, and a language I doubt the danish people even understand.
WATCH IT...!!!:..!!!

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-Elin and Emelie.... now tired and ... and... well tired.

Sugar & Spice

2009-01-23T21:13:00.003+01:00

Sugar & Spice (2001)

Mena Suvari as a bad ass bank robbing cheerleader... what more do you need?
After Diane Weston, the popular head cheerleader of Lincoln High School's A-squad, becomes pregnant by the star football quarterback, Diane and her four cheerleader teammates, Kansas, Cleo, Lucy, Hannah, as well as newcomer Fern, plan the perfect bank robbery to make their dreams come true.

So I really needed a fix or something after Seeing Another Gay Sequel, this movie really did it. It was funny, interesting and some cool actors.
Mena who played Kansas did not have such a big role as I wished. Sure she had her moments, but in overall MORE MENA... I also thought Fern was pretty interesting, though she had a even smaller part than Kansas. If those had gotten a little more time in the movie I think it would have been a hit.

I would have to give this movie a 6.8/10... I have seen better and I have seen worse. It's definatly worth a watch...

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-ELin, tired and 'Skins' hooked

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild

2009-01-23T19:37:00.002+01:00

Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild! (2008)

The title says it all. For you who have seen the first movie (Another Gay Movie) you get the idea.
This is not a porno, though not far away from it. It's still a parody with an all gay characters list. The First one had a spoof of the first American Pie movie, but everyone was gay and so. There is not that much different with this one.

All though in this one they go on spring break to Fortlauderdale (Like in American pie 2) there we have the gays version of Dinah Shore... though more sex... I think.
Anyways so the boys go there to fuck and be fucked. They enter an competition 'Gays gone wild' where you should sleep with as many guys as possible.

I really think the slogan for this movie fits the movie "ANOTHER GAY MOVIE was about getting laid for the first time. In true gay fashion, ANOTHER GAY SEQUEL: GAYS GONE WILD! is about who can get laid the most."

I really think the first one is quite funny and such... though this had to much sex and no plot I still think that the ones who liked the first one would like this one two.
I give it a 4/10 and it's a big - since the whole original cast was not in the movie. Only our beloved Nico.

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-Over and out . . . Elin

Hell Ride

2009-01-17T20:24:00.002+01:00

Hell Ride (2008)

Naked ladies, people shooting each others with harpoons and people riding motorcycles. Did we mention this was a Larry Bishop movie and Tarantino had some part in it... though we do not know which.

It's about Pistolero, the leader of the mc gang 'Victories' who is after a treasure. But they are not alone... Another gang called '666'-ers lead by Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones). We get to follow them through their hunt. They go through dead people, naked ladies and a lot of booze.
In the middle we have the hot Angelina Jolie copy who don't look like Angelina Jolie at all. She has a fire in her pants and tries to call the fire truck but Pistelero wants to take the fire on with his tongue.
Nada (as the hot Angelina not looking like Angelina copy is named) is the best part in this movie... Her lines is pure genius, she's hot and does not have fake boobs (which was a very rare thing in this movie) She had an awesome turquoise motorcycle and we are going to steel it.

After seeing this movie we got an epiphany.... WE ARE GONNA START A MOTORCYCKLE GANG. No we are serious, I mean there is no downside apart from the might getting shot. Hot girls, cool leather vests, Me and Em as gang leaders and Helene on her pink bicycle (she hates pink).
We would skip the guns part and just use our feminine wise *wink* *wink* to get things go our way.
We give this movie a very very nice 9/10... Mostly cos of the Angelina ........... Not so lookalike and the conversations between the characters ooooh and the fights.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411475/

- "I'm no Marcel Proust”

5ive Girls

2009-01-16T00:40:00.003+01:00

5ive Girls (2006)

Is a horrorish movie. It reminds me of The Craft meets Satan’s school for girls. I first just checked through the movie fast to see what it was and got the feeling it was a B flick with B actors and B effects. The only thing of those assumptions was the B actors part. Some were good, some were okey.

The movie takes place in a catholic school for girls. It starts with a girl vanishing without a trace during 'magical' circumstances. The movie later picks up five years later when five girls who all have special powers. They are 'rebels' who are there to become nice little girls who do as everyone says. Though the head mistress has other plans for the five girls.
Alex one of the girls (the main girl sort of) starts to see Elizabeth (the vanishing girl) and soon realizes that nothing is what it seems.

The movie got a 4.6/10 on imdb which I find rather low. I mean sure the acting could have been better. But it was a nice interesting not to predictable plot, great special effects, dark humor and a blind girl who goes on a ghost hunt. What more do you need?
I think the movie at least deserves a 6.5/10... at Least.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0494199/

Go and watch it if you could... It's definitely worth a look... just look at the cover and you'll know what I mean.

-Elin the night robot...

Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans

2009-01-14T04:00:00.005+01:00

So for you all Underworld fans out there who has not heard Underworld 3: Rise of the Lycans is being released now during 2009.
I only heard rumors before but now I got my confirmation.

It's about when the lycans (werewolves) where slaves for the vampires. Viktor's (Bill Nighy) daughter Sonja (Rhona Mitra from Doomsday and Skinwalkers) falls in love with one of the lycans, Lucian (Michael Sheen).
For the ones who have seen the other Underworld movies you have heard and seen small clips from this storyline.
I'm very happy about these news... The cast is amazing and from what I've seen on the trailer it has a lot of promise.

But as you all might not know Sweden has a tendensy of being very slow on taking in movies and such so I'll have to wait until 13 march... But the one who waits for something good *wink*
*wink*

-Elin, not tired, not tired. Going to school in 4 hours and still haven't gone to bed.

Romasanta

2009-01-13T23:38:00.002+01:00

Romasanta (2004)

Had a really nice cover. But that was it.
It's based on the true story about Manuel Romasanta who in 1852 was accused for murdering 15 people. People thought he was a wolf who haunted his victims.
He was a traveling salesman who made soup out of the body fat from his victims.

The movie is about just that. Romasanta and the person who finally got him caught. Barbara's sisters got killed by Romasanta and when she finally realizes that he killed them she runs away. When she has taken a good nights nap she decides to go after Romasanta and avenge her sister.

This movie seemed so promising but ended up a disappointment. The only thing that happen in the movie who was the slightes interesting was when Barbara took a bath... and that says a lot about this movie.
I'll give it a 2/10. I really don't know what to say. I mean it could have been so good, the acting was good and the sets where good but even so it turns out like crap.
God I hate when it ends up like that.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374180/
unfortunately you can't grade a movie by its cover... DAMN

-Elin... I really need to find a good movie soon...