Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

James Dean is one of those icons in film history and when watching one of his movies, you realise why. Rebel Without a Cause has to be one of the greatest movies of the time. All though the message is over clear, this movie wins our hearts and minds. Natalie Wood's acting and Sal Mineo's were fantastic too.

Rating: ***** (Five Stars)

This Island Earth (1955)

This is just another one of those great early sci-fi movies in which the effects are just SO SO unrealistic that you just don't care. This is what makes old school sci fi so much better that the new one. Although fun to watch, it was really crap.

Rating: **1/2 (2 and 1/2 stars)

Blow Up (1966)

As a british classic, Blow Up has been forgotten lately, and I know why. Although it does contain some AWSOME lines and some great scenes, the acting is just SO BAD. David Hemmings' acting is just so bad that it becomes hard to watch the whole thing. Very representative of it's time and place, this movie is underrated and deserves credit for its social message and escenificacion on England in the 1960's

Rating: **** (4 Stars)

Bullit (1968)

Bullit is one of the most iconographic movies of all times for us the motor enthusiasts, and has to be one of Steve Mcqueen's best movies. Robert Vaughn's acting is particularly weak and the script is not brilliant, but still, much better that all o Hollywood's blockbusters nowadays. A very cool classic.

Rating: ***** (Five Stars)

The Bad Liutenant (2009)

The Bad Lieutenant is what we expected from the Nicolas Cage we saw in the late 90's.

Strange story with some surrealistic content and a good moral message. Movie for the open-minded.

Rating: ***1/2 (3 and 1/2 stars)

Into The Storm

This is a great historic movie, something that HBO knows how to do well and safe. Brendan Gleenson is for me one of the great Brit actors of this days. Much better that reading a history book.

Rating: ***1/2 (3 and 1/2 stars)

Magnolia (1999)

Magnolia has to be one of the best movies I've ever seen, Julianne Moore's and William Macy's acting are fantastic, seriously fantastic, and Philip Seymour Hoffman round's up the deal. A movie in which you can tolerate Tom Cruise. Great story and message.

Rating: ***** (5 Stars)

Scarface (1983)

Believe or not I had never seen Scarface before, so I rented it. Great movie, with a great moral message. Al Pacino's acting is "Top Notch".

Rating: ****1/2 (4 and 1/2 stars)

New System

Well, although my readership has fallen to about 0, I still try to keep things up, so Ill be employing a new system. This is gonna be separated in two parts:

Reviews

Which will be made of only 2-4 lines about a movie and a rating from one to five.

Columns

This are gonna be much longer and will contain information and my opinion about different movies and movements and stuff.

Hope you enjoy and see you all soon

Lucas