The Cottage is a indie horror film made by the same director as London to Brighton. it is a very dark comedy starring Andy Serkis that for reasons I will not ruin, turns into a comedic slasher. It is violent, vulgar and full of characters who do very silly things. But it is also one of the most entertaining films I have seen for a while. The film is about two brothers who kidnap a girl and take her to a cottage so they can use her for ransom.

The girls brother is in on the plan for some strange reason they didnt really explain. Anyway, she is more wild than they realize and she eventually see's their faces and escapes with one of the brothers as a hostage. She and the brother find a cottage with a keep out sigh, that they ignore of course, and they go inside so she can find a phone to call her dad. I will not spoil what happens next, but I will say it is gory and ridiculous.

Overall I give it a 7.5 out of 10.

Wow this film was terrible. I usually like Vin Deasel, but he was not very good in this. The film made pretty much no sense, it jumped from one random plot to another. Cloning, virgin births etc. It was pretty much a bad version of Children of men. Also the actress who played the girl Vin Deasel was protecting was very annoying, I actually wanted her to die so she would stop talking in her silly accent that sounded like she was trying to be Russian. The ending also made me think it was a prequel to the Pacifier, which to me makes this film worse. Plots are literally brought up and forgotten about for no reason. Only the action scenes were vaguely good.

Overall I give this film a 2 out of 10:(

1. In Bruges

2. Transsiberian

3. The Bank Job

4. War inc.

5. Elegy

6. Midnight meat train

7. Redbelt

8. Dark Knight

9. Doomsday

10. Speed Racer

In Bruges is a dark comedy/drama about two Irish hitman, one of whom messes up a job by killing a kid by accident, hiding in Bruges to await orders from their Boss. Ray ( Played brilliantly by Colin Ferrell) and Ken ( Again played brilliantly by Brenden Gleeson) are the two hitmen. What makes In Bruges so much better than anything else this year so far is its humor and characters. Usually in this kind of movie you get characters who are easy to like to make you forget that they are hitmen, here however we get Ray who hates Bruges and is very ignorant and aggressive to pretty much everybody. Brenden Gleeson character balances it out sligtly by being more of the hitman with a conscience.

Ralph Fiennes is as great as always as their boss, though his character is a rather odvious homage to Ben Kingleys character in the film Sexy Beast. Another thing that makes this film so good is how very different it is from most hollywood films, in most hollywood movies this year you always see somebody getting rescue by someone who is either presumed dead or has gone for some reason. Here however that pretty much never happens, the film gets very dark and brutal near the end. The ending however is a brilliant and clever wink to how the how plot came to be. Be warned, this is not a fast paced film. For more than half of the film there is mostly dialogue. Not much goes on and the majority if the film is character and dialogue driven. Those with low attention spans and a desire to see things explode may be dissapointed.

Overall I give In Bruges a 9.5 out of 10.

Transsiberian is a slow paced thriller directed by Brad Anderson ( The Mashinist and Session 9) starring Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley, and Eduardo Noriega. The film takes place on the famous Transsiberian, where a couple, Roy and Jessie, going through a bad time in their relationship go on to put some excitement and adventure into their marrige. They meet another couple, Carlos and Abby, who seem friendly enough, but later on as Jessie finds out, there is something sinister going on.

Roy gets left behind at a station and Jessie is forced to travel with Carlos and Abby alone on the Transsiberian. I will not ruin what happens next, I will say however that this is a great Hitchcock style thriller that should have made more money and gotten more attention. All the acting is good, especially Emily Mortimer's. The only downside to the film is that it does slightly fall apart at the end, things go from terrible to good way too quickly for my taste and it seemed somewhat out of place. However, the end is not bad enough to make this a bad movie.

overall a 9 out of 10.

The Dark Knight, as you all know, is the new Batman movie with Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. After all the hype this film got I admit my expectations were pretty high, and the film met my expectations...mostly. Heath Ledger of course was as great as I heard he was, though not my favorite villian. The film was pretty consistant acting wise, though Maggie Ghellenhal does have a weird face that I feel like hitting when I see it on screen, also she was pretty medicore in that film.

The only slightly major downside to the film was how it worked two face into the plot. I didn't totally believe Harvey Dent's transformation from nice guy fighting crime, to evil villian. It seemed a bit too contrived and convenient. The rest of the film however was excellent with some great action scenes and some good humor from the Joker. I do wish they didn't show the Scarecrow for once tiny scene at the start though, the guy who plays Scarecrow is one of my favorite actors around and to see him reduced to a cameo role when he can do so much better was a bit embarresing. He seemed thrown in just to make people go "Oh yeah I remember him!"

Overall I give it an 8.5 out of 10.

Don't hate me because I didn't give it a 10. Also what Robert Downey Jr. said about the dark knight is perfectly justified, I can totally see what he is saying about the film. Just because his opinion doesnt conform to everyone elses, does not mean he is Jealous of the Dark Knight's success or that he is back on drugs as some have so cleverly said.

Bottle Shock is a comedy/ drama about wine tasting in california. It stars Alan Rickman and it is the kind of warm and fun to watch film that you enjoy while in the theater but soon after you probably forget the plot. There was nothing that bad about it, aside from a cheesy love triangle, some iffy acting and random racist scene involving Freddy Rodriguez the victim of racism by a random guy in a truck. The scene serves no real purpose and is soon forgotten. Alan Rickman however was fantastic and funny in his usual dry British way.

Overall a 7 out of 10

Sure it was no masterpiece, but what was so bad about it? It got a bit silly near the end I admit, but that wasnt enough to ruin the whole movie. The films ending made me forget about the silly part beforehand.

In a decade of Political correctness gone wild, he was one of the few who spoke his mind freely and without caring what others thought of him. It is a shame he died and it is sort of ironic in a way since his last few comedy specials had alot of material that talked about death. R.I.P George Carlin, here are some of my favorite quotes of his.

"I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist"

"One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like"

"Atheism is a non-prophet organization"

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity"

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little"

"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose"

"People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think"

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live"

"Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."

"I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed."

"If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense?"

I liked dark knight alot though I did think it got a bit too much hype. In Bruges though barely got any press yet it was so damn good. It has been years since a movie has entertained me as much as In Bruges did. It was the perfect mix of Drama and comedy with a great cast. Colin Ferrell was surprisingly great, Brenden Gleeson was awesome as usual and so was Ralph Fiennes. See this movie now, its out on DVD.