Thursday, June 26, 2008

Film Festival

The film festival programme is out and its looking pretty good. Of course the political nerds like myself will be off to see The Hollow Men movie (in fact I already have tickets to that one) but there are a lot of other gems.

This year I'm going to try and avoid the more 'worthy' films and I'm focussing on sheer entertainment!

So here's the rest of my list:

The Wave - story of a teacher who starts acting like a fascist dictator to better demonstrate how bad Hitler was (chaos ensues).
Let the Right One In - Scandanavian film about a 12 year old vampire - the quote did it for me - "Very smart, very sweet, very sick".
Somers Town - Shane Meadows' follow up to his acclaimed 'This is England'
Be Kind Rewind - looks like a cross between Clerks and Hercules Returns. Its about a video store where they remake all their old stolen/lost movies on home video.
The Savages - Philip Seymour Hoffman stars (say no more)
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* - looks kind of like Super Size Me - but with steroids!
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson - title kind of captures it
Annimation Now - the short annimated film spectacular
Romero's Diary of the Dead - Zombie films rule
I Think We're Alone Now - film about stalkers of 80s pop icon Tiffany (can it possibly get better?)
The King of Kong - doco about a dude who kicks ass at Donkey Kong.

Rock n Roll!

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