Movies I've seen that you should see, too:

Intermission is the Irish answer to Trainspotting except without all the drugs and with more charcter.  It's also not your typical movie, but more of a collage of character stories that first jar your attention, then entrall you.  It's like watching the characters in mini soap operas and you wonder what will happen next as you begin to care about them.  Colin Farrell is a his most throbbingly hostile best and plays Lehiff as a fearsome yet likeable thug.  Cillian Murphy is hard to take your eyes off of, he glows with askewed passion for the romantically confused Deirdre (played beautifully by Kelly Macdonald ).  About the best thing in the movie are the all the chase scenes infused with the music of Clannad!  Colm Meaney 's character, the infamous Jerry Lynch's idea of Celtic mysticism comes from his love for Irish pop music and, if you just happened to be not into it, well, to quote him: "You just don't have the requisite Celtic soul, man."  Best way to view this film is with a pint of Guinness!

Elephant was, by far, one of the most haunting movies I've seen in a long while.  It really makes you wonder what really happened in the halls of Columbine before and during the shootings.  It also makes a high school not seem like the safest place in the world and more like a doorway into hell.  This movie will make you think, or give you nightmares.

Vera Drake is a film you may overlook at your local videostore because it seems like the story about some pitiful old English lady, but it is well worth your while to take in this movie because it will allow you to appreciate how much better things are for women today.  The story, which I assume is based on a true one, takes place in 1950 back when abortion was illegal and expensive (in more ways than one) to have.  This is a movie not to be watched lightly.  Anyone who is either pro or con on a woman's choice to have an abortion, should watch it.  This movies cuts no corners nor does it takes on any one side -- it's simply a story about a woman who is doing what she feels is right but to her horror finds out that the kind of abortions she is helping to make  are also endangering the lives of young desparate women who are, quite literally, dying NOT to have a baby.

That's all the movies I have time tonight to review and all three are ones I recommend highly!

~V