59. Tonight You're Mine

Adam (Luke Treadaway) is set to perform with his band at a music festival in Scotland.  When he arrives, his car is ambushed by a new band on the scene called The Dirty Pinks.  They start arguing and one of the organizers of the festival comes over to smooth things over.  He makes everyone join hands and take part in a prayer but when they doesn't seem to work he handcuffs Adam to Morello (Natalia Tena) before running away with the key.

Stuck together, Adam and Morello make their way around the festival.  When Adam's model girlfriend finds him handcuffed to a complete stranger she gets pretty pissed and Morello doesn't make things any easier.  She eggs her on making it seem like something is going on between Adam and herself.  Only when her boyfriend shows up does she regret this decision.  Luckily her boyfriend is more understanding and when they run into Adam's girlfriend later she gives him another chance.  The foursome wonders around the music festival and even performing and its on stage that Adam and Morello start to become friends.  In fact, Adam feels a connection with Morello that he doesn't feel with his girlfriend.  So when his band mate presents him with a key to the handcuffs he shakes them off.

As the festival continues to two grow closer together.  When Adam's girlfriend begins to notice, he doesn't deny his attraction to Morello and they break up.  Which also results in Morello's boyfriend dumping her.  Feeling like loser, Morello drags him off to enjoy more of the festival and even get in a mud fight.  The moment finally feels right and they start kissing and then some as they wash themselves off.  However, when the festival organizer asks them for the handcuffs back and news gets out about the key Adam waived off, there seems to be trouble in paradise.

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they did all the filming for this movie during the festival, which describes the use of long takes and lack of studio lighting.  And if this is true I applaud them.  That would be a total nightmare filming a feature length movie in just a few days surrounded by thousands of drunks.  Needless to say they got some pretty impressive shots for the conditions they were working with.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7WuORqeKI

Rating: ***

58. The Dictator

Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the dictator of Wadiya and has been since he was a small child.  His lead adviser Tamir (Ben Kingsley) is annoyed with the way he is running the country and with the fact that he should have been the heir after Aladeen's father died.  So, he plans a way to get him out of power.  He takes Aladeen to America where he is kidnapped.  They were suppose to kill him but all they were able to do was cut off his beard before he escaped.  Beardless, no one seems to recognize Aladeen as he stands outside the UN where he is suppose to be giving a speech.

Aladeen's double goes and gives the speech for him.  A speech that was written by Tamir which declares that Wadiya is going to be a Democratic country.  This way Tamir can sell their country's oil and become filthy rich.  Aladeen won't hear of it and starts a protest.  That's when he meets Zoey (Anna Faris), who thinks he is trying to protest Aladeen and is all for democracy.  She offers him a job at her shop that is completely for feminism, vegans, organic, and political refugees.  Aladeen doesn't want anything to do with her.

Later he finds himself in Little Wadiya where he wanders into a restaurant filled with people that he supposedly executed.  It's there that he finds Nadal (Jason Mantzoukas), an ex nuclear researcher that was designing a bomb for him.  Nadal agrees to help Aladeen if he puts him back in power so he can finish the bomb.  The two decide the best approach would be if Aladeen took a job with Zoey so he could get a security pass into the hotel where Aladeen's double is staying.  While taking the job, Zoey shows him new ways of living and they end up falling in love.

So amongst all the ridiculous you have going on in the movie, there is that backbone cliche love story.  Most of the time I would love this, but I just didn't buy that these characters would ever been friendly with each other let alone in love.  They should have just focused on the ridiculousness of Sacha Baron Cohen.  And even though this movie was filled with celebrity cameos and comedians that I love it was just ok.  I feel like all the best moments in the movie were seen in the trailer.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYplvwBvGA4

57. Blackout

Karl (Aiden Gillen), in preparation for the arrival of his daughter the next day, gets into an elevator at his apartment building, which is currently being renovated.  Joining him in the elevator is a young woman named Claudia (Amber Tamblyn), who has blood splattered all over her face.  As the doors begin to close, a hand pops in between them causing them to open once again.  Tommy (Armie Hammer), with piercings, tattoos, and bandaged fist, walks into the elevator.  They go up a few floors when all of a sudden the power goes off and the elevator stops.  When the lights come back on they realize they are stuck in this elevator.

Throughout the movie, you start to learn more about these characters as the foreshadowing hints at not everyone being a stand up citizen.  Karl's wife committed suicide a while back and he has been raising his daughter with help from a nanny (?).  He tends to go out at night, get drunk, and talk about his dead wife to pretty girls.  Claudia has been taking care of her grandmother while going to school.  Her grandmother says she needs to relax and have more fun and convinces Claudia to go to the beach with her.  On the way to the beach, the grandmother gets hit by a car.  Due to her old age the doctors don't think she will have long to live and Claudia was sent back to the apartment to get a wedding pitcher so that her grandmother could die with her love.  Tommy is a young punk that has recently been seeing a young woman.  When her dad comes back drunk and angry one night he hits her and Tommy comes to her defense.  He convinces her to run away with him and meet him at the airport later that night.

Since the three are desperate to get out, Tommy tries climbing up the shaft to the next open level.  This is easier said than done as Tommy falls back down to the elevator, snapping one of the cords and making it so the elevator is totally dependent on the emergency brakes.  He also ends up breaking his legs.  As time goes on, the people's patience is tried and they become more agitated with each other.  That's when Karl reveals to Tommy while he is high on pain pills, that he is a serial killer and if he doesn't get out soon he is going to cut Tommy's throat and rape Claudia.

Sounds like a pretty good idea but I felt as if something was missing.  Maybe there wasn't enough of a reveal that Karl was the actual serial killer.  He just seemed a little off the whole movie.  I feel like serial killers are better at hiding their true selves because you know I know so many of them (does Dexter count?).  But this might be the first movie I've seen where Armie Hammer didn't seem like such a dummy.  Then there wasn't enough suspense and struggle between the characters leading up to the climax.  It was just lacking a bit.  Then again how much more can you do while stuck in an elevator?

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OliMeNOJjA

56. Another Gay Movie

Andy (Michael Carbonaro) just graduated from high school and is about to head off to college.  There is only one problem.  He is still a virgin.  Well, he is a virgin when it comes to penetration (that's a sentence I never thought I would write).  Luckily he is not alone.  His best friends Nico (Jonah Blechman), Jarod (Jonathan Chase), and Griff (Mitch Morris) all are virgins.  After being harassed by Muffler (Ashlie Atkinson) about their lack of experience they decide to make pack to loose their virginity by Muffler's Labor Day party.  Sound familiar?  Because it should.

Andy, who is pinning over his German teacher (well now ex-teacher), tries his luck online and actually ends up talking to his teacher.  He goes over to the German's house but it turns out he broadcasts his BDSM "dungeon" online while people tell him what to do.  So naturally, Muffler finds him on the set and tells everyone about it.  Plus Andy has the overbearing father, still trying to be cool, that barges into Andy's room at the most inopportune times.  And let's not forget the whole apple pie I mean quiche scene in the movie.

Meanwhile Griff decides that his butt is not big enough.  So he starts going to the gym to try and improve it's size.  That's where he gets hit on my his trainer, who also happens to be an exotic dancer.  He gives Griff his business card and tells him to call sometime.  But Griff is in love with Jarod and just doesn't have the courage to tell him. When Jarod starts dating a guy he met while playing softball, Griff gets jealous.  Jarod doesn't seem to notice though and continues to get closer to the new guy.  But whenever they get close to having sex, he seems to chicken out and go a little soft.

And let's not forget Nico, who is searching for an older gentleman to show him the way and talk about Betty Davis with.  He first finds a guy online who isn't quite his type but he figures might as well give it a try.  Nico goes to his house the man ends up doing drugs, dancing up a storm, and ODing.  When the paramedics come they are able to revive him and continue the dance party while Nico leaves the room.  His next encounter happens with Survivor's Richard, who he invites back to his house.  Right when they are about to have sex, Nico suffers from diarrhea and is mortified by the fact that Richard heard him fart.

As the Labor Day party approaches, it is looking pretty hopeless for everyone except Jarod.  They all go to the party and right away Jarod heads off to a bedroom with his meat head.  Griff, feeling down that Jarod is hooking up with someone else, runs into the trainer and starts making out.  But he can see the silhouettes of Jarod and his boy through the curtains and can't seem to concentrate.  The guy takes a hint and tells Griff to tell Jarod how he feels before its too late.  Griff runs up to the room and gets there in the nick of time.  He confesses his true feelings and surprise!  Jarod feels the same way and they make love and then have sex and then just fuck.  Still feeling embarrassed about his latest mishap, Nic wanders around the party until he stumbles upon Grandpa Muffler (George Marcy) who was exactly what he was looking for.  And on the pool table they end up having sex.  Now there is just one more to go.  Andy, sitting all alone at the party, suddenly get ambushed by the rejects (Meathead and Stripper Trainer).  They decide to take him into the other room and use him for sex.

If you can't tell the plot basically is a gay American Pie to the point where they use the same jokes.  I'm not sure if it's suppose to be a parody movie or just a gay rip off.  Andy is Jim.  Nico is Finch.  Jarod is Oz.  Muffler is Stiffler etc.  I think I would have enjoyed this more if they just did their own version instead of following the plot of American Pie.  Although they did have some funny moments and guest appearances but overall I was disappointed that it wasn't more original.  I did enjoy the drag mom though.

Rating: **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACgXr1BP6yA

55. Baby Shower

Angela (Ingrid Isensee), pregnant with twins, invites her closest friends to a secluded country home she has been staying at for a baby shower.  When the friends arrive they are surprised at how well Angela looks considering what has happened to her recently.  You see, she just found out her husband has been cheating on her and her mother has died, which is why she is now living by herself in the middle of nowhere.  Well, all alone except for Julio (Alvaro Gomez), who has been watching over the upkeep for her.

During the party, the phone keeps ringing but no one picks it up.  It's her ex-husband Felipe (Nicolas Alonso) trying to talk some sense into her but she won't hear any of it because she just found out that Felipe is about to go on a trip to the Bahamas with one of the women she invited to her party.  She demands to know which girl it is, but they have made a pack not to tell until after the safe delivery of her babies.  She gets into such a fit that the only person who is able to calm her down is the hippie cult lady.  While she is resting the other girls try to leave, but none of their engines are working.  When they try to call a mechanic they find that Angela cut the cord.  So now they are stuck until Julio comes back to try and fix it for them.  That's when they start to disappear, one by one, by a man who takes them back to barn (sometimes not even a barn) to punish them for what they've done to Angela and the babies she is carrying.

Ehhhhhh... What to say.  I wasn't a huge fan of this movie.  Too many characters introduced at once and I didn't like any of them except for the assistant who didn't have much of a role because she was the first to die.  It was just a gore fest with a small plot to it.  But I didn't really care if anyone lived or died.  It was the worst thing I have ever seen.  But it wasn't good either.  I just kind of waited for it to be over.

Rating: *

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_P0wn2DLc

sorry couldn't find one with subtitles

54. Your Sister's Sister

On the one year anniversary of his brother's death, Jack (Mark Duplass) drinks too much and makes an ass out of himself.  His best friend Iris (Emily Blunt), who also use to date Jack's brother, is the only one who is able to cheer him up.  Turns out the last year has been really rough on Jack.  So she tells him he needs to take a sabbatical.  She tells him to ride his bike to her father's island house where he can be only with his thoughts and nature to try and figure his life out.  

He takes her advice, but when he gets there he finds out he is not alone.  Iris's sister Hannah (Rosemarie Dewitt) is also there on sabbatical.  Hannah just broke up with her girlfriend of seven years and is finally free to do whatever she wants.  And after drinking a bottle of tequila together, what she wants to do is Jack.  Jack goes along with it.  She puts a condom on him and about three thrusts later its over and they fall asleep.

Iris gets the day off of work and decides to head out to the house and see how Jack is doing.  She has no idea that Hannah is there or that they just slept together.  Although Jack is a horrible lier, she doesn't even suspect anything happened between them.  Maybe the fact her sister is a lesbian has something to do with it. As the weekend goes on the three learn more about each other.  For example, Iris tells Hannah that she is in love with Jack but doesn't know if she should say anything that might ruin the friendship.  Then Jack finds out that Hannah has desperately wanted a baby for the past couple of years.  

While Iris and Hannah go for a walk, Jack digs the condom out of the garbage and fills it up with water, just to make sure.  And to his horror, water starts pouring out everywhere.  Meanwhile, Hannah confesses to Iris about sleeping with Jack.  Iris runs back to the house to confront Jack and in doing so Jack tells Iris about the holes in the condom which makes Hannah spill the beans about Iris being in love with Jack.  Whew.  That was a terrible run on sentence but I don't care. 

Yet again.  Another movie with limited locations and actors, which makes you really focus on the story and not so much about the surroundings.  They did put a new twist on the whole, in love with my best friend story line.  Not too many of them end with the possibility of one being the the father of your lesbian sister's child.  I know this is a minor detail but why did Emily Blunt keep her accent?  Rosemarie Dewitt didn't have an accent?  But after awhile I stopped caring about that and just enjoyed the movie.  At times it did seem a  little long, but I feel like the characters were believable and I loved the ending.  That's not sarcasm.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglzH4dUoLQ

53. Stuck Between Stations

Casper (Sam Rosen) gets leave from the army to attend his father's funeral.  While he is home, he stops at a bar to get a drink and sees a familiar face.  It turns out to be Rebecca (Zoe Lister Jones) or as he remembers her Becky.  The two went to school together.  When he sees her with a group of guys that seem to be giving her a hard time, he goes to defend her honor which ends up as an ass kicking for him.  Outside the bar, she meets up with him to return his hat and even though she doesn't remember him they end up talking.

In fact, she goes to a party with him that is filled with people she doesn't remember from high school.  At the party she keeps getting calls from a professor that she used to sleep with.  Turns out his wife, who is head of the department, found out about the infidelity and stole Rebecca's computer that has her dissertation on it.  She tries not to think about it and just enjoy the night using Casper and his friends as a distraction.  They end up leaving the party and run into Casper's hipster friend Paddy (Josh Hartnett) who leads them to a circus party (typical hipster).  Throughout the night Rebecca and Casper learn more about each other but they made an agreement earlier that the night would not end with a kiss.  They would just stay friends.

Rebecca finally answers the professor's phone call and tells him that he better show up at her apartment in five minutes.  Not wanting to face him alone she takes Casper with her.  When they get to her apartment, he is waiting for them without the computer.  They get into a big argument which results in Casper putting him into a headlock.  They leave him and go to a park to get high.  That's where they come up with an idea to steal back her computer.  Casper has a narrow escape, but manages to retrieve the laptop for her.  As the night winds down, they go to Casper's house for one last beer and talk about some heavy issues.

There's something magical about just running into a person or meeting a person and spending the whole night together and then going your own way in the morning.  Maybe because IT NEVER HAPPENS.  But just because it's not realistic doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it.  At first I was a little thrown with the split screen action they had going on because I wasn't familiar with the characters yet or the pace of the story, but as the movie continued I grew fond of it.  Also, why don't I ever get invited to these crazy circus hipster parties?  I can see how this movie wouldn't be for everyone.  The character's don't always seem likable and there isn't a lot of action, just kind of wandering and talking.  But if you like character pieces then I think you would enjoy this movie.

Rating: ***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLgX5Zw1LD0