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Havoc (2005) --> Quite a different role for Anne Hathaway as she throws off the wholesome all American girl image she created with her The Princess Diaries movies, to become a rich dangerous teenager who slums it in the hood with Latino drug dealers. Ingesting large amounts of narcotics and screwing everything that moves (she even does a nude scene or two). The movie itself seems to be just a reflection of the modern decadence of youth reflected back at them in theatres across North America. For anyone older, I'd be surprised if they went to see it and if they did, I'd be surprised if they stayed in their seat for the whole screening.


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Cannibal Ferox [Make Them Die Slowly] (1981) --> Along with other Italian directors (most notably Ruggero Deodato) Umberto Lenzi was to challenge movie watcher's tolerance for gore with a series of movies centered on cannibalism. The sub-genre became famous world-wide for its animal cruelty (you see a large turtle being hacked apart and various other jungle creatures being disemboweled) and its graphic depiction of rape, torture, and the eating of human flesh. Although Deodado's film Cannibal Holocaust (1980) would be the sub-genre's crowning achievement, Lenzi's movies, including this one, gave it a run for its money. Not for the feint of heart, Cannibal Ferox is disgusting and brutal.


Scott D. Brown

Dolls (2002) --> If you love film more for visual beauty than a gripping storyline then Takeshi Kitano's Dolls is a must. For 115 minutes you are witness to a progression of moving images pregnant with colour and emotional resonance as to make you forget that there is hardly anything happening on screen. The plot, if you can call it that, is made plain in the first minutes of the movie through the staging of a bunraku play. The Japanese dolls tell a story of loss and broken relationships which you go on to see in the film. All the characters suffer with hardly a word being spoken.


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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) --> Nominated for 5 Oscars but being shut out mostly by Samuel Goldwyn's film The Best Years of our Lives, this Frank Capra Film stars James Stewart in his best role since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). It tells of a man (George Bailey) who, through continually choosing what is best for his town instead of his dreams to see the world and do great things, becomes depressed and decides he will end his life. An angel steps in a shows George what the town would be like if George never existed. Through this vision George realizes that his life was not a waste and that friends and family are all the adventure a man needs to truly be happy. This film is played on TV to this day almost 60 years later usually during the Christmas season as its message is of hope and love.


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