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The White Ribbon  2009, Directed by: Michael Heneke.  Written by: Michael Heneke Cast: Ulrich Tukur.
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Running time: 144 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Lovers of Hate 2010 Norway directed by: Bryan Poyser. Screenwriter by: Bryan Poyser  Cast: Chris Doubek,  Heather Kafka and Alex Karpovsky.
A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman
Running time: 93 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

The Imperialists Are Still Alive 2010 Norway directed by: Zeina Durra. Screenwriter by: Zeina Durra Cast: Elodie Bouchez and Jose Maria De Tavira.
Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work  2010 USA documentary directed by: Ricki Stern and Ann Sundberg. Cast: Joan Rivers
A documentary about First of Comedy Queen Joan Rivers
Running time: 84 minutes
Direction: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Get Low 2006 USA directed by: Aaron Schneider. Screenwriter by: Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell. Cast: Lucas Black, Bill Murray and Robert Duvall.
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party… while he was still alive.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Buried 2010 Spain directed by: Rodrigo Cortes. Screenwriter by: Chris Sparling Cast: Ryan Reynolds.
Paul is a U.S. contractor working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it’s a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Running time: 105 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

 3 Backyards 2010 USA directed by: Eric Mendelsohn. Screenwriter by: Eric Mendelsohn Cast: Embeth Davidtz, Edie Falco and Elias Kiteas.
Two competitive friends, fueled by literary aspirations and youthful exuberance, endure the pangs of love, depression and burgeoning careers.
Running time: 85 minutes
Direction: *
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: *
Final chouski rating: Oneski

Yo,Tambien 2009 Spain directed by: Antonio Naharro and Alvaro Pastor. Screenwriter by: Antonio Naharro and Alvaro Pastor Cast: Pablo Pineda and Lola Duenas.
34 Years old Danile has Down Syndrome and he grow close to Laura, she is attractive, rebelliois and a little trampy.
Running time: 103 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

It’s a Wonderful Afterlife 2010 Norway directed by: Gurinder Chadha. Screenwriter by: Paul Mayeda Berges and Curinder Chadha Cast: Mark Addy, Sally Hawkins, Sendhil Ramamuthy and Shabana Azmi.
A comedy centered on an Indian mother who takes her obsession with marriage into the world of serial murder.
Running time: 100 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Welcome to the Rileys 2010 UK directed by: Jake Scott. Screenwriter by: Ken Hixon Cast: Kristen Stewart, James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo.
On a business trip to New Orleans, a damaged man seeks salvation by caring for a wayward young woman.
Running time: 110 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Obselidia 2010 USA directed by: Diane Bell. Screenwriter by: Diane Bell Cast: Michael Blackman Beck, Gaynor Howe, Frank Hoyt Taylor and Michel Piccirlli.
George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.Running time: 109 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

The Extra Man 2010 USA directed by: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Screenwriter by: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini and Jonathan Ames Cast: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, John C Reilly and Katie Holmes.
A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York’s Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.
Running time: 108 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating: Yakuza

Gasland 2010 USA documentary directed by: Josh Fox.
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property. Reason? The company hopes to tap into a reservoir dubbed the “Saudi Arabia of natural gas.” Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground-a hydraulic drilling process called “fracking”-and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.Running time: 89 minutes
Direction: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Douchebag 2010R USA directed by: Drake Doremus Screenwriter by Drake Doremus  Cast: Andrew Dockler and Ben York Jones.
On the verge of getting married, Sam Nussbaum insists he escort his younger brother, Tom, on a wild goose chase of a journey to find Tom’s fifth grade girlfriend.
Running time: 81 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Enter the Void 2009 NR France/Germany/Italy directed by: Gaspar Noe  Screenwriter byGaspar Noe  Cast: Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta.
A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan, after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister.
Running time: 161 minutes
Direction: *
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance:
Music: *
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Oneski