Drama > 18 years and over Drama > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: it will get you hooked on foreign films
Disadvantages: not for people who are obsessed with american comedys

Cast : Maribel Verdú .... Luisa Cortés Diego Luna .... Tenoch Iturbide Gael García Bernal .... Julio Zapata Story : Tenoch and Julio are two seventeen year olds who typically spend all their time having sex, talking about it or getting high. That is until they meet Luisa, a twenty something Spaniard who is married to Tenoch's cousin and invite her on a road trip to find a beach called "heavens Mouth". The catch is they neglected to tell ...
...During this road trip they find a lot out about each other and themselves. The movie gives a good portrayal of teenage life as well as life around Mexico City. When this movie came out it was very popular and won several awards at a number of independent movie awards. And catapulted Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal into international film scene, with Luna starring is Havana Nights and the criminal and Garcia Bernal starring in Dot the I and motorcycle ... Read review

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Disadvantages: read opp

...for best actor. I'm reviewing training day, directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Eva Mendez. The film was released in cinemas in late 2001 and lasts roughly 122 minutes. For me this was the film that defined Denzel, his character portrayal was something we had not seen from an actor for some time now, and the film really suited him. I remember going to watch this film in the cinema, my friends had hyped the film ...
...a film about a single training day for a young LAPD cop named Jake Hoyt (Hawke), who is being evaluated by a senior cop named Alonzo Harris (Washington), a cop that his highly respectable, with many awards and what have you. The film follows a day patrol of LA, and from the first instance these two characters meet, they have the totally opposite attitude of work. Jake is the sort of cop you want, a law obeying cop, with not dirt and no bribery, however ... Read review

Advantages: Outstanding eye opener!
Disadvantages: None it is a brilliant film!

...one class will be called American History X with the teacher Dr Sweeny. There are a lot of flash backs with Derek's life, he basically comes out of prison a changed man but can he change his brothers ways before something bad may happen?? The family is torn apart by these racial issues. Danny is a very disturbed boy who is full of anger and rage against black people in one scene near the beginning he says "Before Derek went to jail, the white kids ...
...made it safe"…what does this say to you as someone watching this film in these days. Derek life changes in prison when he becomes "friends" with a black in mate called Lamont, they both work together in the laundry room, at first Derek doesn't want to know and keeps his head down but he warms to Lamont and they have a good relationship and it changes Derek's ways of thinking about black people. When Derek is released from prison he comes face to ... Read review

Advantages: Danny Dyer gives a convincing performance
Disadvantages: too much swearing, drug taking and racism

...1997. The main theme is football violence, a phenomenon which has continued in Britain since the 1970's. The storyline follows the firms of Chelsea and Millwall, the Headhunters and Bushwackers respectively, on many away trips up and down the country until the two are drawn to play each other in the fourth round of the FA Cup. The story is told by Tommy Johnson played by Danny Dyer, he is the main character about thirty years old with a steady job, ...
...For a film centrally about football you see hardly any, not even sure if a ball is kicked during the entire 91 minutes! Most of the plot features either the Headhunters or the Bushwackers before and after matches, either fighting opposing firms or in the pub taking the micky out of one another over a few drinks and drugs. I found the drug taking in this film rather unnecessary and believe it was only in there to give the film a bit more 'street cred', ... Read review

Advantages: dark brooding masterpiece
Disadvantages: a bit too dark and violent for some tastes.

Harry Angel (Mickey Rouke) is that cliche down at heal private detective who is offered a large rate of pay to look for a missing big band singer, Johnny Favorite. His client is the mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert DeNiro) an elegant and sinister benefactor whose motives dont become apparent until the end of the film. Angel follows up various leads but some other force is at work, all of the people he needs to interview, or who he comes involved with ...
...As each murder takes place Angel slowly realises the truth of what is going on and the nightmare that he is caught up in, and the reasons for Cyphres interest in a has been singer. Its difficult to give more of the plot away with out spoiling the whole movie as its one of those sixth sense type thrillers, and the last thing you want me to give away is Angel Hearts equivilant of "he was dead all along", sorry to those who havent seen sixth sense. ... Read review