Hunger

Paul:
JP:

Plot: The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.

11:59 pm

Wow, what a way to start the day this morning, with ‘Hunger’, the story of Bobby Sands, a ’soldier’ in the IRA who went on a hunger strike in prison — quite the intense way to start the day! A fantastic film with a tour-de-force 15(ish) minute, one-take, dialogue scene between the lead character and priest, it blew me away. Like I said though, it was quite intense, in fact, a woman in the row ahead of us passed-out towards the end and another woman on the way out was being looked after.

This movie won the Camera D’Or at Cannes and I wouldn’t be surprised if it wins something here too.
Up next: Religulous!

Religulous

Larry Charles, director of Religulous

Paul:
JP:

Plot: Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.

Trailer: http://www.movie-list.com/trailers.php?id=religulous

3:37 pm

2nd movie was Religulous and it was everything I hoped: Really funny, informative and asked all the right questions. I can’t wait to watch it again.

Deadgirl

Directors Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel and actor Noah Segan

Paul:
JP:

Plot: Teenage skids JT (Noah Segan) and Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) tool around drinking beers in an abandoned hospital, when they stumble upon a girl in the basement who’s chained to a gurney. While Rickie sensibly thinks they should get the fuck out of there, JT’s creepy suggestion is that they have a little “fun” with the incapacitated hot babe instead.
Things turn super creepy after JT realises that their captive is neither dead nor alive, and starts becoming increasingly obsessed with her, spending his nights in the dank basement and no longer turning up at school at all. Meanwhile, Rickie pines for his childhood crush JoAnn (now predictably a beautiful girl dating the school’s most popular jock) and tries to keep the “dead girl” situation from spiraling out of control as more and more people hear about the dirty secret in the basement.

11:00 pm

Last movie of the day was Deadgirl. We both liked it but there are very few people we know that we could actually recommend it to. It’s quite sick… like really, really sick. So if you like that kind of thing go see Deadgirl but don’t say we didn’t warn you.