Without naming names, I made extra sure that all the DVDs were returned on time this week. It has recently come to my attention that my local DVD store sends debt collection letters to customers for late fees when they haven't visited the store in less than 3 months. 3 months! It's so short sighted. If you keep Baycorping customers, you won't have any customers.
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| Juliette Binoche | Certified Copy |
The classic 80s black comedy about what happens when high school politics turn violent. The early Mean Girls, if Cady murdered The Plastics and made their deaths look like suicides. This comedy is so black. In one scene, which would still be relevant today, Winona Ryder and Christian Slater kill two jocks but make it look they were a closeted gay couple in a suicide pact.
2. Certified Copy
I read one critic, can't remember the name, who said that watching this film was like "watching both halves of Blue Valentine at the same time." The mind games played by director Kiarostami are utterly absorbing and never boring. It will make your mind somersault with questions about perception, the nature of relationships and just objective reality in general.
3. Cedar Rapids
This isn't a great film, but with some fine character acting by Ed Helms, Anne Heche and Isiah Whitlock Jr, it's a perfectly acceptable watch on hangover Sunday. I feel like there's an insightful, Alexander Payne level dramedy about the American businessman in there somewhere but there was too much cheap slapstick and John C. Reilly hamming it up. Still, it worked.
4. Super
They say never review a film you didn't watch all the way though. I turned this film off after 45 minutes of suck. The film has a similar plot to Kick-Ass but without a lick of humour. Tonally, it's a mess. I was never sure how we were supposed to react to the violence. Sometimes it's played for laughs. Sometimes it's played for horror. I was too bored to care.
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