The MacGuffin

The Unseen (1980): Very slow film plods along for an hour before ‘The Unseen’ is revealed… to be a big retarded guy in a diaper. 3/10

Abominable: The best Bigfoot movie around. Plays like a creature feature take on Rear Window, but with more boobs and blood. 7/10

The Yes Men Fix The World is the sequel to The Yes Men, a documentary that followed the exploits of two men, as they attempted to show the lies of corporate America by conducting elaborate hoaxes that put corporations at the center of their jokes.  I had seen the previous film about a year ago and was interested to see the next chapter in their story.

Let the Right One In: One of the best films of the decade. A great mixture of a suspenseful vampire story with a story of first love. 9/10

Return of Count Yorga: Good vampire attack scenes make this better than the original, but the plot doesn’t make a lick of sense. 4/10

Count Yorga Vampire: Started production as a softcore porn, but was switched to horror without changing the script. Very cheap looking. 3/10

The Fourth Kind: All tension is lost as the film tries to mix a found footage mockumentary with a dramatic alien abduction narrative. 3/10

The Box (2009): Even if the plot eventually goes a bit off the rails, this thriller boasts great characterization and direction. 8/10

RocknRolla is a film about London’s crime-driven underworld. Crime boss Lenny is working a real estate deal with a big-time Russian mobster. Lenny controls London and thinks he is untouchable, but the Russian proves him wrong.

In Bruges is a film which kind of gave some mixed signals during the previews. I knew it had Colin Farrell in it, so I just assumed it would be a movie for the ladies, like a romantic comedy or something. Some of my other friends thought it was pitched as a Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels kind of film. Both were wrong.