An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
“A documentary on Al Gore’s campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide”. I think that sums it up pretty nice really. I must admit I am not much of an environmentalist, and it’s probably a bad attitude to have, but I just don’t care too much of what happens to the world after I’m dead. Even so, this movie did wake me up a bit, once you see this you will surely get a wake up call about just how bad the state of our planet is concering global warming.

Charts have never been this exciting. I gave it an 8 out of 10 (fairly good by my standards).

The Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers (2005)
Calling this movie good might be a bit of an exaggeration, but it was sort of entertaining at least. It’s a documentary about this group of guys that has their own festival/competition weekend every year, where they drink beer and compete in different beer related events after dividing themselves into teams of two. So basically it’s extreme drinking games.

Don’t take it too seriously, and you might enjoy yourself through this. I only gave it a 5 out of 10, but I still liked it.

Infamy (2005)
Infamy is a documentary about graffiti, and specifically about the current scene in N.Y. (if I remember right). This is no Style Wars (go see it if you haven’t), but I felt it was kind of entertaining anyway. There’s a lot of live action following the different artists around as they bomb the city, which is somewhat amusing to watch.

Nothing spectacular at all, but I gave it a 6 out of 10 anyway for keeping me entertained one night. That’s all I ask of a movie really.

Thank You for Smoking (2005)
I can’t even remember the last time I gave a movie a 9 at IMDB anymore, but this is one of them. Damn I fucking loved this, by far the best movie I’ve seen this year I think. The movie follows a PR guy working for a tobacco company around, as he tries to do as much damage control as he possibly can for them, by essentially fooling everybody. I love Aaron Eckhart, but I’ve never actually liked a movie he was in before, now I finally have one.

As I said, a 9 out of 10, and I was even close to giving it a 10.

Snow Cake (2006)
If you’re in the mood for something very low key and chill to watch, but still want something to keep your attention, this is perfect. It’s about an autistic woman and a guy who meet after a car accident, and he ends up staying with her for a few days. I’m not sure how to explain it, but it’s great I can tell you that. I specially loved this one scene where Weaver (playing the autistic woman) is lying on the ground with Rickman standing over her being his British self:

Linda Freeman: Have you ever had an orgasm, Alex?
Alex Hughes: It has been known.
Linda Freeman: It sounds like an inferior version of what I feel when I have a mouthful of snow.
[Shoves some into her mouth]

A 7 out of 10.

Session 9 (2001)
This has been on my hard drive forever, like a lot of movies. I’m glad I finally bothered watching it, I really got into it all the way from the start. We follow an asbestos cleaning crew on a contract they just barely got, for cleaning up an abandoned mental hospital which is to be turned into some sort of offices for the state. The movie starts of as more of a thriller, and the focus is mainly on the interactions between the people working in the crew instead of the actual hospital and its history. Unfortunately the movie took a bit of a crappy turn in the second half when it started to move into the horror territory, straying away from its thriller feel and totally botching it up with this bizarre non-sensical plot twist. It would have been so great if it would just have continued to focus on the crew itself and their problems with each other instead.

Oh well, a 6 out of 10. Close to a 7 if it hadn’t been for the plot twist.

Hadashi no Gen aka Barefoot Gen (1983)
I don’t think I’ve actually watched any movies about Hiroshima before, even so, I would imagine this would be one of the best of them. The story follows Gen, a young boy living with his brother, sister and parents in Hiroshima during the war. The bomb is dropped and we see how it affects his life. It’s quite graphic and doesn’t try to hold your hand during anything. What a powerful story, and so sad.

A solid 8 out of 10, I recommend you take the time and watch this.

The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Wow, they just don’t manage to make movies these days that have this sort of eerie and creepy feel about them. Gwynplaine, a son of a Lord who deceits the king, has a permanent smile carved on his face by a group of gypsies who perform experimental surgery on people. The gypsies, being hunted by the people, has to flee the country, but leaves Gwynplaine stranded to himself. He then discovers a dead mother with a crying baby in her arms, which he takes responsibility for. He and the baby are eventually taken in by a travelling showman, and he grows up to become a freak attraction as a clown.

This is a prime example of why I keep watching old movies. 7 out of 10. Would have given it more, but it’s a bit drawn out and the end gets sort of silly to be honest.

The Departed (2006)
I just saw this one today, I had heard quite a bit about it for a while now and I was curious to see how it was. I definitely wasn’t disappointed, perhaps apart from the end which I thought sucked. The story is about two cops, each one working undercover, only for the different sides of the law. I have to say that the main reason I liked this movie was all Jack Nicholson’s doing, god he is so lovely in this (not that there’s a movie where he is not!).

I gave it a 7 out of 10. It would have been 8 if it weren’t for the crappy ending.