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Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs

Red Dragon is a prequel to The Silence of the Lambs and a retelling of Manhunter. The Silence of the Lambs features a young female FBI agent seeking help from Hannibal Lecter to catch another serial killer who skins his victims.

I recently watched Cabin in the Woods, which I enjoyed. I was afraid because I never know what to expect when reviews are so bad. It was pretty good.

Tonight You're Mine was good as well. Watched that a while ago, too. Didn't know what to think, watched it randomly. Had a nice feel to it.

I got Hamlet (1990) for my birthday, so I watched that as well. Not sure what my favourite film adaptation is, though.

Hannibal Rising

Shows how Hannibal Lecter as a youth seeks revenge on the men who killed his sister during World War II and becames a cannibal.

The Railway Man

Psychological war drama based on the autobiography of the same name. A POW from World War II becomes hellbent on seeking vengeance against one of his captors in order to have some closure and to rid himself of his PTSD.

Not what I was expecting, but otherwise, a good movie with great performances from Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman.

The Liar Game: Final Stage

Continuing from the 2007 television series (which spanned three years with two seasons), this 2011 Japanese live-action movie focuses on the final stage of the titular game. An entertaining suspense thriller.

Richard III

1955 film version of the Shakespeare play about the English monarch who schemes his way to the throne of England.

Hannibal

Sequel to The Silence of the Lambs taking place years later as Hannibal Lecter returns to America where both he and disgraced FBI agent Clarice Starling face a former victim of Lecter's.

Richard III

Film version of the Shakespeare play about Richard III taking place in an alternate Facist Britian setting in the first half of the 20th century.

Psycho

Still a great thriller over 50 years after its release. The Bernard Herrman score is fantastic.

Brief Encounter

A man and woman meet by chance at a train platform and fall in love despite being married to different people.

Edge Of Tomorrow

Tom Cruise stars as a military general who is forced into combat, but has to be trained because despite his military rank, has little experience in combat. After he is killed in combat, he is stuck in a time loop and with the help of Rita {Emily Blunt}, the general realizes that in order to defeat the aliens taking over Earth, he has to kill the alien controlling them and time.

Overall, the movie was better than I was expecting it to be. The chemistry between Cruise and Blunt was not tiresome, nor was the time loop premise.

I watched "Brick" this morning.

I've seen it many times but this was the first time in a while, it is without question one of my 5 favorite movies ever.

The best part of it is how on the surface it's so blatantly stylized but the characters are so emotionally "real", it is an absolute masterpiece.

[semi-spoiler but not exactly ahead, but just a heads up]





I can't get past the sequence where the tough-guy drug dealer thug just executes a dude in a fit of rage (which in itself is one of the most haunting scenes I've ever seen) and then in the next scene is sitting on the bathroom floor smoking a joint and trying so hard to be "hard" but, even though it's mostly unspoken, is clearly totally broken and shocked at what just happened.

Just that dude's demeanor and the look on his face in that scene is so subtly devastating to me that I need to think twice to assure myself it's not real.

Liar Game: Reborn

A second live-action Japanese movie that acts as a continuation of the Liar Game television series and the first movie. Two years have passed, and former con-man Shinichi Akiyama (Shota Matsuda), now a professor at Teito University, finds himself dragged back into a resurrected Liar Game. A nameless investor who partially funded the first Liar Game (before its downfall in the first movie) is out for revenge; she is determined to sink Akiyama in debt, even if it involves dragging down innocent graduee Yu Shinomiya in the process as bait for Akiyama.

A game of "Musical Chairs" with 20 players leads to Akiyama and Yu's wits being tested to breaking point; te number of chairs decreases as they are being eliminated every round, and eventually, losers will be sunk with a 100 million yen debt, whilst the winner walks off with an unfathomably huge sum of money.

An interesting movie examining politics, subterfuge and hypocrisy in humans when put under enormous pressure. And it was nice seeing character cameos from before.

The last ones I saw in theaters were "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", and "X-Men: Days of Future Past".

Berberian Sound Studio.

Toby Jones plays a British movie sound man who is hired by an Italian movie studio to work on a film, which he learns is a horror film - something he has no experience with. He finds himself surrounded by repulsive movie makers, while making repulsive sound effects for gory scenes. The incidental music is provided by the horror film he is working on, which reflects his disgust and desire to leave, while the whole movie is filmed in the claustrophobic confines of the studio, where he sleeps as well as works. Gradually, his life and the movie seem to meld together, while his personality takes a dark turn.
Great psychological horror film which my wife got me for Father's Day.

Then She Found Me

A 2007 Jewish comedy-drama by Helen Hunt, based loosely on the novel of the same name by Elinor Lipman.

School teacher April Epner (Helen Hunt herself) finds her life taking a turn for the worse as her husband, Ben (Matthe Broderick) suddenly leaves her, her adoptive mother passes away and to top it off, a local talk show host Bernice Graves (Bette Midler) appears insisting that she is April's biological mother. Admist the confusion, April finds herself attracted to Frank (Colin Firth), a divorced father of one of her students.

Although a little clunky and fairly soap-opera fanciful in places, I rather enjoyed this film. I especially liked the down-to-earth ending to a series of extraordinary events.

Camelot

A Musical version of the Arthurian legend and the love triangle between King Arthur, Guenevere, and Lancelot.