"New" movies/series watched in 2011
Movies and series, I haven't seen before, watched in 2011, updated as I watch. Movies I've already seen before will not be added here. Personal reviews.
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- DirectorRobert B. WeideStarsSimon PeggKirsten DunstMegan FoxA British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.Love Simon Pegg, how can I not love this. Brilliant humor, Peggs facial expressions and the beautiful english awkward way of being.
- DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsViggo MortensenCharlize TheronKodi Smit-McPheeIn a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.Movie in itself did nothing big for me, but the beautiful filming, scenes, details, landscapes and colours amazed me. Finally a post apocalyptic movie that portraits believeble characters (with bad teeth and not crazy styled hair.)
- DirectorPeter BergStarsWill SmithCharlize TheronJason BatemanHancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.Surprisingly funny. I don't "hate" Will Smith anymore. Only superhero-movie I'll probably ever like.
- DirectorSteve PinkStarsJohn CusackRob CorddryCraig RobinsonA malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.Has it's moments, but nothing special.
- DirectorJonas PateStarsKevin SpaceyMark WebberKeke PalmerUnable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.Beautiful, funny, weed, tragic, liberal, functional- and non-functional relationships and friendships. What more could you want.
- DirectorLee DanielsStarsGabourey SidibeMo'NiquePaula PattonIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.Makes your own life look like you're Barbie, living in a My Little Pony-world, married to Jared Leto. A movie everyone should watch, first it tears you down in horror of the life, then gives you your breath back.
- DirectorSrdjan SpasojevicStarsSrdjan 'Zika' TodorovicSergej TrifunovicJelena GavrilovicAn aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.I had such high hopes for this one. But something failed to shock me to the max, like I thought it would, and it is supposed to do. Somehow I wish some of the worst scenes were a bit more grapich, since you anyway get what horrible act they're doing. The horror of realizing, understanding and having to live with what the main character did, is the scarriest part.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsLeonardo DiCaprioEmily MortimerMark RuffaloTeddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.The first 2 hours is pretty much a wasteful build-up to the grand twist, but the twist is nothing new, you could see it coming from miles away. All I see is Jack from Titanic.
- DirectorTom SixStarsDieter LaserWinter WilliamsAshlynn YennieA mad scientist kidnaps and mutilates a trio of tourists in order to reassemble them into a human centipede, created by stitching their mouths to each others' rectums.First time in a long time a horror movie has horrified me. The idea in itself has a few flaws that bugs me, but finally an original idea! I could really feel for the complete hopelessness in the victims.
- DirectorMarcus DunstanStarsJosh StewartAndrea RothJuan FernándezDesperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.Some really good, well played traps. Kept me on the edge through it all with the paranoia of getting noticed and not being able to escape. Some gore, the underlaying fear weighs up. Actually gave me an inspired nightmare - and that rarely happens.
- DirectorMichael SpierigPeter SpierigStarsEthan HawkeWillem DafoeSam NeillIn the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.Err. Good visual effects on the monster-vampiers. Rest of the movie is like watching an emo vampire trying to fit in with humans and being loved.
- DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsChris MessinaCaroline DhavernasBokeem WoodbineA group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them.I have a love-hate relationship with movies by Shyamalan. Made you wonder who the Devil is, holds the action pretty well throughout, but with a very limp "sympathy" monoment.
- DirectorAnthony DiBlasiStarsJackson RathboneHanne SteenLaura DonnellyThree college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.I had both high expertations for this one, and on the other hand - non. Fair amount of gore/blood, but nothing really disturbing. But the psychological aspect of the torture is quite good.
- DirectorAndrew CurrieStarsKesun LoderBilly ConnollyCarrie-Anne MossIn an Earthly world resembling the 1950s, a cloud of space radiation has shrouded the planet, resulting in the dead becoming zombies that desire live human flesh. A company called Zomcon has been able to control the zombie population. Zombies can be temporarily neutralized by being shot, but can only be permanently neutralized by their brain being destroyed. Their ultimate disposal is through cremation, or burial, the latter which requires decapitation with the head being buried separately from the body. Conversely, Zomcon has created the domestication collar, when activated and placed on a zombie makes the zombie controllable, and thus an eternally productive creature within society. Because all dead initially become zombies, the elderly are viewed negatively and suspectly. And all people, adult or child, learn to shoot to kill to protect society. Zomcon is the go to organization for all things zombie. In the town of Willard, the Robinsons - father Bill (Dylan Baker), mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss), and adolescent son Timmy (Kesun Loder) - are one family who don't own a zombie as a domestic, since Bill is afraid of zombies, as, when he was a child, he had to shoot his own zombie father, who tried to eat him. Bill has thus become fascinated with funerals to see zombies put away permanently. But Helen feels pressured to get a zombie when Zomcon's new head of security in Willard, the officious Jonathan Bottoms (Henry Czerny), moves into the neighborhood with his family. Never having had to deal with a zombie directly, Timmy is initially wary of their zombie. But as a lonely child who has no friends and is often bullied, Timmy eventually befriends their zombie, who he names Fido (Sir Billy Connolly), as he treats the zombie much like a faithful pet dog. Timmy protects Fido at all cost, even after Fido, due to no fault of its own, is implicated in some deaths, which creates a mini-wave of loose zombies unknown to Zomcon. But Fido may play a larger role within the family as a companion for Helen, who is largely neglected by Bill, since he sees human affection as ultimately resulting in such difficult issues as what happened between him and his own father. With Timmy and Helen treating Fido with kindness, Fido, in turn, may prove that not all zombies, even when without their domestication collar, are out to kill anyone and everyone in their path.New favorite. Instantly! A wonderfull, funny movie, involving old fashioned slow-mo zombies due to radiation. Vintage-postapocalyptic boy-and-his-dog-movie.
- DirectorSteven R. MonroeStarsSarah ButlerJeff BransonAndrew HowardA writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.I thought this was going to be a typical hollywood-cabin-in-the-woods-creepy-jars-with-human-remains, but it's actually quite violent. But, the storyline is way behind what you allready figured out.
- DirectorPascal LaugierStarsMorjana AlaouiMylène JampanoïCatherine BéginA young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.It got blood. Lots of blood. And insane amount of violence, murder and torture, which is all very satisfying. I still missed the paranoia. As a person afraid of the dark, I slept very well afterwards.
- DirectorPierre CoffinChris RenaudStarsSteve CarellJason SegelRussell BrandGru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.The minions are cute, and comic. The rest of the story is gravy, futuristic weapons, orphans and moral. Not a stay'er in my collection.
- DirectorScott ThomasStarsDavid ChisumKristen KerrKevin J. O'ConnorA mad scientist is transferring a dead woman in a freezer with an armed guard on a plane to Paris. After slight turbulence, the freezer breaks down and she awakens, turns into a zombie, and infects all on board.I knew this was no blockbuster, nor a cultmovie. Actually, it's just crap. The caracters suck, the acting sucks, the special effects, makeup and blood splatter sucks and the storyline is a copy of at least 6 other movies.
- DirectorKevin GreutertStarsTobin BellCostas MandylorBetsy RussellAs a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.As a HUGE SAW and Jigsaw fan, this was no pleasant experience. There is no way they manage to keep the mystery up, even with all their crazy twists, even the traps are getting boring. You know who will be survive the moment you see their trap.
- DirectorGlenn FicarraJohn RequaStarsJim CarreyEwan McGregorLeslie MannA cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with.Not what I expected at all, but I was not disappointed in any way. Very believeble acting by both McGregor and Carry, I actually felt love, lust and caring somewhere in there. And it is funny. And cute.
- DirectorOle BornedalStarsNikolaj Coster-WaldauSofie GråbølKim BodniaA law student starts working as a night watchman at The Department of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen. His mad friend gets him on a game of dare that escalates. As a serial-killer's victims start piling up at work, he becomes a suspect.Okey, so I've seen this one once before. When I was about 10-12, but I remembered pretty much nothing. This is a great movie. I love the way danish people frase themselfs and their sayings. Not much blood/gore, but it's not needed to freak you out. Not the biggest "mistery" film either, but the whole mood of the film is amazing, and the filming is beautiful.
- DirectorDennis IliadisStarsGarret DillahuntMonica PotterTony GoldwynAfter kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.Finally! A film where the "victims" get a fair revenge, and hunt the bad guys. It reminded me of "Funny Games US", it has a few similarities, mostly mood-similarities. Not too gory, but the blood looks good, the edge is where you sit and you feel like fairness has been brought to the world, in the end.
- DirectorVincenzo NataliStarsNicole de BoerMaurice Dean WintDavid HewlettA group of strangers awaken to find themselves placed in a giant cube. Each one of them is gifted with a special skill and they must work together to escape an endless maze of deadly traps.This one is a keeper! It gives me the same feeling as the first time I saw "SAW" (Haha). It's about surviving, and has some really kick-ass traps and installments, and the effects are really good! It's not ruined by a crappy ending or explanation. This is a cult classic.
- DirectorJean-Baptiste AndreaFabrice CanepaStarsRay WiseLin ShayeMick CainChristmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.This is the funniest horror movie I have ever seen. Minimal visual gore, some jump-scares and a bit of the feeling of being hunted. This is a gem of sarcastic humor. The plot is nothing new, and have you ever seen a movie with the same kind of twist, you'll detect it pretty early in the film.
- DirectorJohn Erick DowdleStarsStacy ChboskyBen MessmerSamantha RobsonIn an abandoned house in Poughkeepsie, New York murder investigators uncover hundreds of tapes showing decades of a serial killer's work.This is a horror mocomantary. And absolutly a good one. Being in a "documentary"-wrapping with scetchy vhs-quality, and use of freaky masks, most of the footage gives you the creeps. But not a "horror", in that sense.