This is the first time I've posted in this thread. I just watched a movie that impressed me enough to recommend it to EVERYONE.

Zebraman.

Everyone- go watch this NOW. This movie just BLEW ME AWAY.

A boy in a wheelchair, a mild mannered schoolteacher who imagines himself a superhero, alien green blobs invading the Earth, government conspiracies..,. all melded into one cockeyed plot that straddles genres with perfect finesse. Manages to be domestic drama, sci fi, horror, satire- and it all WORKS.

Inspirational, heartwarming, hip cool, and hilarious all at the same time. Honestly, I haven't been so impressed with a movie in a long long time.

Manages to get some hilarious barbs in against the ghost woman with long hair, buildings sealed with red tape and Ultraman type superheros. So many deft small touches of humor and even some symbolism and political comment.

I just can't rave enough about this movie.

OMG

I have seen its trailer only on the dvd features of some Asian movies but didn't get the chance to give it a watch for its unavailability at our local shops. Though it seemed weird & funny on the trailer but now I'd surely like to watch it as soon as I get the dvd. Meanwhile, I'm adding it to my wish list.

saw this a while ago, figured I needed to give it a shout out.
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extremely powerful film.

Really? I had heard that one was pretty dry.

I love Tommy Lee Jones though...guess I should give it a look.

I loved it. I didn't like Crash, but this one was a winner if you ask me, good study of post traumatic stress syndrome.
who said it was Dry? pretty solid reviews everywhere i look.

Just wrote about these in the Last Seen Movie thread, but I'll add them in here, too...


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Out of the Blue

I Netflix'd this movie out of a recommendation from Neverending and I'd just like to say THANK YOU NE. This movie is a brilliant piece of honest, raw, horrifying direction that chronicles a day in the life of New Zealand's one and only serial killer... and his hapless victims. As NE has said, this is a veritable horror gem. It is intense, it is real, and it takes cinematic panic to a level that I haven't seen on screen (for those of you who have been unfortunate enough to see Van San'ts Elephant, this is everything that Elephant should have been; it's the historical-fictional-docuhorror without the ignorant pretentiousness). Most (if not all) of the characters in the film are based on the people who were affected on the 13th and 14th of November, 1990, so there is a ubiquitous feeling of true vulnerability and helplessness throughout the film that you rarely see in cinema; I truly did NOT know who would survive... And that was part of the horror.

I ABSOLUTELY recommend this film. It comes with the Chrono-NE Seal of Approval.

A/A+

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Home Movie

I found Indie Horror Movie Gem #2 while perusing the New Movies that Comcast On Demand had to offer...

Initially, I was skeptical. Home Movie uses the hand held cam technique made popular by Blair Witch that now seems to be the latest horror movie making trend (in Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead, [rec], Quarantine - Even spoofed by South Park). The movie started off a little rocky (the premise being a family who obsessively records their lives, including the eventual indiscretions, bizarre behavior, and vertiginous descent into darkness) but begins to build speed at a rapid pace. The main antagonists of the film are the children, whose strange behavior is captured right away on film and, for the audience, sends up some rather obvious red flags (to the point where you want to strangle the directorial parental figures); but you get past that and the film captures some truly eerie images and creates some honestly creepy moments. Also, there were a couple of parts in particular that I thought were brilliantly risque and disturbing and I have to give a nod to the film for having the guts to show them.

Not a perfect film by any means and, in terms of style it's nothing particularly new... However, it reexamines the role of children in horror and takes a pretty creepy new vision of the concept of the Bad Seed.

Actually - The more I think about this film, the more I appreciate it.

B+/A-

http://www.theeternalmovie.com/

There's a full length feature coming and here's the prequel. It's in the media section and is a breath of fresh air to the languid vampire sub-genre.

Watched that last time you posted it...very cool little short. I'll be checking out the feature length version for sure.

DOH!

Reposts suck :o

Tekon kinkurîto (Tekkonkinkreet) (2006)

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Holy smokes, what an adventure. By far one of the best anime films I've ever seen, and definitely one of the most impressive films I've seen this year.
Two young boys, orphaned and living on the streets, have grown up protecting the city in which they live. When certain things come to threaten the hold they have on their home, they have to do what it takes to protect it. Combining love, friendship, Yakuza, aliens, kung fu, violence, and dream sequences into a swirling, beautiful mess, this is truly an experience unlike any other.