201. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shane Black
Actors: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen, Shannyn Sossamon, Dash Mihok
202. Tae Guik Gi: The Brotherhood of War ( Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Je-gyu Kang
Actors: Dong-Kun Jang, Eun-ju Lee, Bin Won, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee, Min-sik Choi
Plot: Two brothers from a large South Korean City are forced to join the army
when the North Korean Communist's invade. Follow the two brothers from
their first experience of war to promotions and medals. Watch and see how
War changes a man from a loving brother to ruthless killer.
203. Garden State
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zach Braff
Actors: Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm, Method Man, Alex Burns
Plot: A messed up young man goes home to bury his mother and work things out with his father. While he is there he discovers life and realizes there is nothing wrong with him.
204. Piano Teacher, The ( pianiste, La )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Haneke
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar, Udo Samel, Anna Sigalevitch
Plot: Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory prestigious music school in Vienna. In her early forties and single, she lives with her overprotective and controlling mother in a hermetically sealed world of love-hate and dependency, where there is no room for men. Her sex life consists of voyeurism and masochistic self-injury. Lonely and alienated, Erika finds solace by visiting sex shops and experimenting with masochism. Ata a recital, she befriends Walter, a handsome young man, whom she seduces and with whom she begins an illicit affair. As Erika slowly drifts closer to the brink of emotional disorder, she uses the love-stricken Walter to explore her darkest sado-masochistic fantasies, which eventually lead to her undoing.
205. Dead Man's Shoes
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shane Meadows
Actors: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, Stuart Wolfenden
206. Earth
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Actors: Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones
207. Devil's Backbone, The ( espinazo del diablo, El )
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega (II), Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés, Irene Visedo
Plot: A boy at an orphanage is haunted by a ghost that is trying to warn him and show how he really died. Takes place in Spain during WWII.
208. Little Children
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Field
Actors: Patrick Wilson, Kate Winslet, Jennifer Connelly, Jackie Earle Haley, Noah Emmerich, Phyllis Somerville
Plot: A wife and a husband who have marriages with other people, begin an affair hoping to one day end up with each other when they begin to think deeply about their consequences.
209. Cowboy Bebop
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest
Plot: Three bounty hunters investigate a truck explosion in order to get an enormous bounty.
210. Talk to Her ( Hable con ella )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Actors: Javier Camara, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin, Darío Grandinetti, Mariola Fuentes
Plot: While their significant others are comatose, they develop a friendship
which involve all four of their past, present and future lives.
