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TakenLiam Neeson is a bit like an elderly Jason Bourne, he moves really, really fast and finds out most of his information not through contrivance and ridiculous technology, but through good old fashioned detective work/torturing your opponents for information. The message in this movie is pretty clear, if you send your children abroad, they WILL be sold into white slavery before they get to unpack their bags...unless they are ugly.
The Unborn
The amusement of a Jewish girl getting haunted and therefore having to go to a Rabbi to get exorcised is just humorous enough to help carry this middling, by the numbers horror flick. Also it helped that the main character, apparently the child of Megan Fox and Jennifer Connolly appears to get haunted while in her underwear a lot.
Push
Have you ever seen that horrible tv show Heroes? Could you ever imagine what it would be like if super heroes that didn't wear costumes and only want to survive but keep on getting threatened by the government and crime families teamed up and put together a plan to help each other, using their powers in interesting and believable ways, could you ever imagine what it would be like if something like that didn't suck as horribly as Heroes does, or suck at all in fact? This is that movie.
Coraline
Quite an excellent children's story. The young female protagonist is intelligent, curious and headstrong. When her family gets in trouble, she uses her wits to outfox the witch, saving everybody. And like any good children's story, when it get scary, it gets scary. The scene where the witch gets her buttons ripped off is goose bump inducing. The stop motion animation is excellent, and the 3D that it was shot in isn't distracting, but just makes the movie more immersive.
Persepolis
You can see why this won so many awards. Just an excellent group of short stories in graphic form about a young girl growing up in revolutionary Iran. It follows her thoughts and memories of family, religion, music, war, politics, torture, rock and roll, political protest, fear, loss and manages to keep it all grounded with its simple art style and young girl's world view.
The Pillars of the EarthJust a phenomenal read. This follows the lives of close to a dozen characters through medieval England while a cathedral is being built. While this might not sound like any cool hip young person's cup of tea, I was enthralled. People age, people die, people change, sometimes the good guys win through cleverness and sometimes the bad guys win through treachery and viciousness. Well worth a read.
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