Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.

A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

(Note: The actors I cite are those in the US-dubbed version of the film, as that is the one I saw. I can’t say anything for the quality of the voice acting in other versions.)…

You know, New Zealand must be doing something right. Delightful accents? Being called ‘kiwis’? Lord of the Rings? Flight of the Conchords??? Those two little islands just have far too much awesome for their own…

As Thin Ice grew nearer and nearer to its own mid point, I was a little disconcerted. I knew I had seen this somewhere before, and it wasn’t until I was walking home from the…

You know, more and more, Hollywood politics are starting to piss me off. Seriously. It’s frustrating as all get out, especially when it comes to the Best Foreign Film award. Most of the time, it’s…

Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course. In order to make the money back, they then attempt to revitalize a failing shopping mall.