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Alone with Her (2006)
Could have been better...
Shot entirely using body cams and spy cams, the movie attempts to explore the horror of the increase in stalking due to the advances in and availability of technology. The movie begins with a stalker, played by Colin Hanks, filming women at the beach and at the park, obviously searching for a victim. He chooses a girl, played by Ana Claudia Talancón, and begins following her, planting cameras in her apartment and slowly inserting himself into her life, using the knowledge he gained from the cameras to find common ground. I could see what the writer/director was trying to accomplish, but it was not entertaining enough to hold my interest without taking breaks. The acting was mostly convincing, although there were some spells of poor acting. The ending seemed very film-school and amateur.
w Delta z (2007)
Interesting
A lot better than I thought it was going to be. The description made this sound more like the Saw movies, a movie based on pointless torture to appeal to the viewer via shock value. Instead this was more like a crime drama/thriller involving two police officers trying to find a killer who is getting revenge on the people that raped and disfigured her and killed her mother. Selma Blair does the best acting job I've every seen her do in this as the disfigured and traumatized woman. Stellan Skarsgard plays the hard, bitter cop well too. Something I felt this filmed succeeded in was building tension. There were numerous edge of your seat type moments that were very well executed. A negative would be that I felt it was trying to channel Se7en a little too much at times, but it was bearable.
The Simpsons: That '90s Show (2008)
If you love the 90s, you'll love this. If you're a nitpicking whinger, you won't.
As a total grungehead, I think I am in love with episode 11 of season 19 Simpsons, titled 'That 90s Show'.
Homer and Marge tell the kids of the period between school and when Bart was born when Marge got a university degree and fell for her professor and Homer was so sad he started a grunge band called Sadgasm.
Anyway, the songs he does through the episode are Margerine (parody of Glycerine by Bush), Politically Incorrect (sounds like Lithium by Nirvana) and Shave Me (parody of Rape Me by Nirvana). On the TV Weird Al parodies Sadgasm's song 'Shave Me' and calls it 'Brain Freeze'. At one point he is playing a college campus and a guy rings his cousin Kurt Cobain and goes 'you know that new sound you're looking for... listen to this'. Haha. Lol at Homer's definition of grunge: 'Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energy'.
Other awesome 90s things were the use of Semisonic's 'Closing Time' and the Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' in the soundtrack, references to Sonic the Hedgehog, Seinfeld, Kevin Costner's career killing 'The Postman', Matt Groening working on Futurama, kids all crying and crowding around on Homer's mansion's front lawn when Homer breaks up the band (like when Cobain died) and Melrose Place.
Basically, the show started getting terrible a couple of years ago and I stopped caring about things like continuity, which is why I don't care that this episode screws the Simpsons' time-line around. People can have a cry about it, but if they were true fans, they'd realize the show never had perfect continuity, for instance all the Halloween episodes.