road to perdition (2002). directed by sam mendes.

part gangster movie, mostly family drama told through the eyes of a young boy who was forced to road trip with his distant father. it's heartwarming and the graphics is fantastic. i am sure it is still as good as it was years ago when i watched it. 

american beauty (1999). directed by sam mendes.

american beauty is literally american hypocrisy. or just plain hypocrisy in general. the things we do to keep up appearances. a must watch. 

the good thief (2002). directed by neil jordan.

so many things to like about this movie. underaged prostitutes. badly staged bank robbery. smoke, lots of smoke. aging gamblers who don't know how to quit. and a pissed off gangster that can paint a face cubist. 

the crying game (1992). directed by neil jordan.

this is a strange time to update a movie blog because one i am at work and just finished working on the type curves but two i am bored and need a break. i watched this movie a long time ago in college when i was doing foundation studies to australia. i don't remember much of it and would like to see it again, but i do remember that the soldier fell in love with his victim's girlfriend who turns out to be something else. i don't think neil jordan intended a cheap shock factor here, rather, i think he wanted to highlight the possibility of unconditional love, of what it means to take someone just as they are. 

which we severely lack these days. i definitely need to re-visit this movie again. 

seefood (2012). directed by aun hoe goh.

i am not big on animated movies. perhaps i didn't watch a lot of cartoons when i was a kid and had never fully appreciated the form other than it looks good. this one looks good. i watched it with my gf who fell asleep soon after and my brother who pretty much watches everything. the story is ok but i find at some parts the transition  from scene to scene is not smooth. 

a good start, though. 

the guard (2011). directed by john michael mcdonagh.

anything with either brendan gleeson or don cheadle can't be that bad, what more if both of them are in the same movie. yeah the joke is not slapstick obvious, but it is funny. gleeson is a small town cop who has no love for fancy big city cop cheadle, he tries to be professional in his own way which is hardly professional at all. cheadle is disdainful of gleeson, but he should not have underestimated the depth of someone's provincialism. 

he may look stupid, but stupid he ain't. 

mirror mirror (2012). directed by tarsem singh.

i don't mind simplistic story line. but i do expect out of the world visual from tarsem. in this movie, that's not really tarsem. this is too mild from tarsem.