remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I’m a sucker for a good movie.”
— Debbie Reynolds
Hamlet 2 is about a failed actor, now high school drama teacher (Steve Coogan). When he finds out they’re canceling drama he writes an original work to put on with the class, in an attempt to save the program. He writes Hamlet 2.
Director Fabian Bielinsky’s directorial debut was a great movie called Nine Queens, released in 2000. Five years later he directed El Aura. And with this great film he completely avoided any kind of "sophomore slump" - let’s call it the sophomore bump.
Bug is a film that came and went, back in 2007, with relatively little fanfare. Which I remember finding somewhat surprising given that it was directed by William Friedkin. Although, maybe I shouldn’t have been, given that most of the general film-going public probably wouldn’t recognize the name or his place in film history.
Hunger is the story of the last six weeks of Bobby Sands - an Irish republican who went on a hunger strike while in prison in 1981. What is so interesting about this film is that we don't really get introduced to bobby sands until maybe the second third of the the movie. The first third of the film is focused on one of the english guards in the prison and two other inmates. Actually, there are so many interesting things about this film, and that is but one of them.
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Dries is a famous writer. One day three losers ring his buzzer and ask him to be the drummer in their band. Sounds like that could be the start of a funny, family-friendly rock and roll movie right? Well, IT ISN'T! It’s the start of the flemish film, Ex Drummer.