Extract 2009 USA directed by: Mike Judge. Screenwriter by Mike Judge Cast: Jason Bateman, and Mila Kunis
Joel, the owner of an Extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
Running time: 91 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
The Final Destination 3D 2009 USA directed by: David R Ellis. Screenwriter byEric Bress and Jeffrey Reddick Cast: Bobby Campo and Shantel VanSanten
After a teen’s premonition of a deadly race-car crash helps saves the lives of his peers, Death sets out to collect those who evaded their end.
Running time: 82 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: *
Music: *
Cinematography: *
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Oneski
Taking Woodstock 2009 USA directed by: Ang Lee. Screenwriter by: James Schamus Cast: Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton
A man working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.
Running time: 110 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
Ink 2009 USA directed by: Jamin Winans. Screenwriter by: Jamim Winans Cast: Chris Kelly and Jessica Duffy.
The story of “Ink” centers around the downward spiraling life of John (Chris Kelly), and the adventure of his daughter Emma (Quinn Huncher), who has been kidnapped by a mysterious creature named Ink. However after Emma has been kidnapped it becomes apparent that only her conscious was taken leaving her in a comatose state, but soon after Emma is kidnapped a group of people called “Story Tellers” band together to return Emma to her body, and to prevent Ink from taking Emma to the evil deities called the “Incubi”.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
Tony Manero 2008 Chile Brazil directed by: Pablo Larrain. Screenwriter by:Alferdo Castro, Mateo Lribarren and Pablo Larrain Cast: Alfredo Castro and Paola Lattus.
A serial killer is obsessed with the John Travolta’s disco dancing character from “Saturday Night Fever”.
Running time: 98 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza
Inglourious Basterds 2009 USA directed by: Quentin Tarantino. Screenwriter by: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Brat Pitt, Melanie Laurent and Christoph Waltz.
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Running time: 153 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ****
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Bronson 2009 USA directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn. Screenwriter by: Nicolas Winding Refn Cast: Tom Hardy.
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years on prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Running time: 92 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
Die Innere Sicherheit aka The State I Am In 2009 Germany directed by: Christian Petzold. Screenwriter by: Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki Cast: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer and Ricky Muller.
Clara and Hans are left-wing terrorists, who are chased by the police since almost fifteen years. The puberty of her increasingly rebellious daughter Jeanne imposes a threat on their security, when she falls in love with a boy, who she has met on the beach.
Running time: 106 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Genova 2008 83 min UK directed by: Michael Winterbottom. Screenwriter by: Laurence Coriat and Michael Winterbottom Cast: Colin Firth, Hope Davis and Catherine Keener.
A man moves his daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident.
Running time: 94 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
I love you man 2009 USA directed by: John Hamburg. Screenwriter by: John Hamburg and Larry Levin Cast: Paul Rudd and Rashida Jones
A man is getting married and goes on a series of man dates to find a best man for his wedding.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: *
Final chouski rating: Twoski
Thirst or Bakjwi 2009 South Korea directed by: Park Chan-wook. Screenwriter by:Park Chan-wook and Seo-Gyeong Jeong Cast: Soung Kang-ho and Kim Ok-bin.
A failed medical experiment turns a man of faith into a vampire.
Running time: 133 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
District 9 2009 South Africa and New Zealand directed by: Neill Blomkamp. Screenwriter by: Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell Cast: Sharlto Copley.
A MNU officer is exposed to extraterrestrial liquid become mutated, the governement agency is planning to catch him to proftis the aliens advanced weaponry work.
Running time: 112 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Summer 2008 83 min UK/ Germany directed by: Kenneth Glenaan. Screenwriter by: Hugh Ellis Cast: Rachel Blake and Robert Carlyle
The story of a lively and wayward spirit coming to terms with the realities of age and death.
Running time: 83 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Reprise 2006 Norway directed by: Joachim Trier. Screenwriter by: Joachim Trier Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Espen Klouman Hoiner.
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
East of Eden 1955 USA directed by: Elia Kazan. Screenwriter by: Paul Osborn and John Steinbeck Cast: James Dean, Raymond Massey and Julie Harris.
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estranged mother.
Running time: 115 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating: Yakuza
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