Cleanskin (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Hadi Hajaig
	Actors: Sean Bean (The Lord of the Rings, Black Death, Game of Throne), Charlotte Rampling (Swimming Pool, Babylon A.D.), Abhin Galeya
	Country: GB
	Genre: Action, Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 30.08.2012, CITY Kino, MFFF2012
Synopsis: An agent fails to prevent explosives to be stolen, and they are used in a suicide bombing in London. He is then asked to find and stop the terrorists by any means necessary.
Review: The nice thing about this polar is that we get to experience the point of view of the terrorist, a young clever man that is recruited by extremists, so we get to understand his motivations. I found interesting the construction of the movie, in which you learn to know in parallel the terrorist and the agent thanks to flashbacks. Also it is good to see Sean Bean in another role than a Middle Age knight with long hair. But the movie fails to keep the pace in the second half, and the ending was not fully satisfying to me.
Rating: 6 /10

Grabbers (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Jon Wright
	Actors: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey
	Country: GB, IRL
	Genre: Comedy, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 29.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: On an isolated island, a freshly arrived female inspector will have to team up with her alcoholic partner to save the population from a monster attack.
Review: There are some funny characters in this monster-movie, which provides some good laughts. The idea that people have to stay drunk in order not to be eaten by the monster is also good, but the movie takes some time to start, and remains slow in its second half. The special effects for the monster are very good for this B-movie.
Rating: 5 /10

God Bless America (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
	Actors: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Mackenzie Brooke
	Country: USA
	Genre: Black comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 29.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A man with nothing to live for anymore decides to punish all the people that are "not nice", especially the ones seen on TV.
Review: I found that the idea for this movie was good but feared that it would be limited to that. Hopefully it was not the case. The main character (who reminds me Dan Aykroyd) and his young "side-kick" are well written and their motivation well presented throughout the film. You can find in this movie a bitter criticism of many things, but mainly of the trash we are being served on TV. The action takes place in the US of A, but the examples we see from TV shows could come from European ones. Beyond that, a deeper message in the movie is people's behavior in this new society where the lowest human qualities are advertised and the weaks get ridiculized for the entertainment of the masses. The main character compares this behavior to the ancien Rome Colliseum in an interesting quasi-monologue at the beginning of the movie, and he says that in a society this phase always preceeds a downfall...
Rating: 8 /10

V/H/S (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Ti West (The Innkeepers, Cabin Fever 2) and 7 others.
	Actors: Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes, Adam Wingard
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 28.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A group of young vandals is paid to retreive a videotape from an old house. To find the right one they will have to watch segments of videos more bizarre one than the other...
Review: I found that the format of the anthology (film à sketch, like The Theatre Bizarre or Body Bags) applies well to the found footage genre (REC, Diary of the Dead), especially because you don't have to stand the same actors in front of a shaky camera for 2 hours. In the case of V/H/S you have different actors in front of a shaky camera for 2 hours. The variety of stories and supports is however interesting. There are old video cameras, webcams, "helmet"-cameras and even miniaturized ones in glasses. The stories are about monsters, killer in the woods, haunted house or home invasion. Don't be annoyed by the awful 10 first minutes (shaky camera, poor image quality, saturated sounds, inaudible dialogs), the variety of stories will keep you awake for the rest of the movie, and even pretty scared! Note that the image quality is VHS-style throughout the film, and not at all HD and clean like you can see in other recent found footage movies, which helps you believe more in it.
Rating: 6 /10

Sightseers (2012)

	Also Known As: Touristes
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Ben Wheatley (Kill List)
	Actors: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Dan Charles
	Country: GB
	Genre: Black comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 28.08.2012, CINEMA theater, MFFF2012
Synopsis: A young and fresh couple starts a one-week tour of UK with a caravan, but some deaths start to happen everywhere they go...
Review: A good choice for the opening of the Munich Fantasy Filmfest 2012, and another sign of the good health of the British genre cinema. The couple is naive and touching and the story is very well written (note that the two main actors are also the writers). The murders seem like an exageration of the difficulties a young couple can encounter when they go together on holiday for the first time, and learn to know each other more and more. I had some good laughts following this odd couple of natural born killers on the rainy roads of England. Some punchlines are hilarious, like "if the caravan is rocking, don't come a-knocking", or in public toilets "if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down", but the best ones are better heard than written.
Rating: 8 /10

Source Code (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Duncan Jones (Moon)
	Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Zodiac), Michelle Monaghan (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Vera Farmiga (Orphan), Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 27.08.2012, Blu-Ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A soldier who was helicopter pilot in Afghanistan wakes up in the body of another man aboard a train. He will have to unveil a terrorist plot.
Review: I usually don't like this kind of comparisons, but this movie is halfway between Deja Vu and the TV series Quantum Leap. No surprise that the voice of the hero's father is credited to Scott Bakula who played the main character in the TV show. The director (son of David Bowie) made a good impression with his first movie Moon. This time he directs a thriller that is maybe not completely original, but well done nonetheless. Jake Gyllenhaal plays very well this war hero who is expected to accomplish a mission, but cannot help investigating about his own past, which shows us how much human he is, and creates a link with the viewer.
Rating: 7 /10

Kill Bill (2003-2004)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2003 (Vol.1), 2004 (Vol.2)
	Director: Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds, Reservoir Dogs, Deathproof)
	Actors: Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction, Gattaca), David Carradine (Death Race 2000, Kung Fu), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Sin City), Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels), Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day), Gordon Liu (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), Sonny Chiba (Day of Resurrection, Sushi Girl)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Adventure
	Conditions of visioning: 25.08.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: The Bride has been beaten, shot and left for dead during the massacre that interrupted her wedding rehearsal. She wakes up after 4 years of coma, and she's out for revenge.
Review: That's final: I love this movie (both parts together). I had seen it once when it went out, and a few more times on DVD. A rainy saturday was the opportunity to watch the Blu-ray edition. Image and Sound quality are standard for this format, and it is important for a movie as colorful as this one and in which the music is omnipresent. Quentin Tarantino continues to pay tribute to the Cinema he liked to watch beeing young. After Blaxploitaion and 70's action with Jacky Brown, old school polars with Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, and before pure exploitation with Deathproof and war movies with Inglorious Basterds, in Kill Bill he covers a lot from Kung Fu movies (even Wu Xia Pan, i.e sligtly mythical), rape and revenge (without the rape), espionage, and modern Western. Without forgetting the main influence on the lead character: the japanese movie Lady Snowblood, from which he also took the title song. Some may find that the storyline is overly simple, but that doesn't disturb me. I find that Tarantino managed to capture the feeling of the action movies produced in Asia some decades ago, and not surprisngly my favorite moments are the ones that take place in Asia: the meeting with Hattori Hanzo, the fight against the Crazy 88's and O-Ren Ishii, and the initiation with Pai Mei. I enjoyed Kill Bill from the opening fight scene that puts you directly in the right mood, to the magnificent (although expected) ending, with a special mention to Michael Parks playing Esteban Vihaio, that impresses me each time I see him.
Rating: 9 /10

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

	Also Known As: Les aventures de Jack Burton dans les griffes du madarin
	Year of first release: 1986
	Director: John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing)
	Actors: Kurt Russell (The Thing, Stargate, Deathproof), Kim Cattrall (Sex and the City), Dennis Dun, James Hong (Blade Runner), Victor Wong
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 25.08.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A pure american truck driver gets involved in kidnappings, gang wars and magic stories in the San Francisco Chinatown.
Review: From my favorite director during my favorite period for cinema. I have seen the movie many times, but for the first time in Blu-ray. The video quality is quite typical of Blu-ray. The simplistic music (composed by Carpenter) sounds good in DTS-MasterHD. It is very refreshing to follow this completely original story in Chinatown, mixing many influences and jumping from action to kung-fu to mystery, magic and monsters. I dare say this movie is quite unique and unlike any other I know. The actors are not all good, the fights choregraphy sometimes poor, and the caracters reactions not well written, but it is a honest B-movie. John Carpenter is known for his excellence in using the Cinemascope format (2.35:1), and I have noticed some scenes where it is indeed used perfectly, like during the gang fights or all the scenes with the truck, so that I come to think he choose to make the main character a truck driver because of how good it looks on film! Kurt Russel overplays his role, but this gave birth to memorable quotes like the famous one when his partner asks him if he is ready to go and fight hords of enemies, and he answers: "I was born ready". Enough said.
Rating: 7 /10

Total Recall (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Len Wiseman (Underworld 1 & 2, Live Free or Die Hard)
	Actors: Colin Farell (Phone Booth, Miami Vice, The New World), Kate Beckinsale (Underworld 1-4), Jessica Biel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The A-team), Bryan Cranson, Bill Nighy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 24.08.2012, Museum Lichtspiele cinema
Synopsis: In a future post chemical war, Doug Quaid wants to use the services of a memories-altering company to escape his boring day-to-day life. But is he really who he thinks he is?
Review: This is the remake of the classic 1990 movie by Paul Verhoeven and staring Arnold Schwarzenegger, itself adapted from the novel We can remember it for you wholesale by Philip K. Dick, one of the godfathers of Science-Fiction. They had the good idea of changing many things compared to the original movie, so that the remake feels more justified. No red planet and mutants in this one! But it is not closer to the novel as I heard. The general story and characters are the same as in the original, more than I thought actually, so I was not surprised much as the story went on. There are some nice references to the original movie for the fans. One sure thing is that you don't get bored during the projection! It is non-stop action. Special effects are omnipresent and well done. The reproach I can make is that the viewer don't feel much empathy for the characters, in particular the colonists (replacing the mutants), which is a pity as they should be the main motivation for Quaid's actions. Then many scenes are inspired from other movies: some Matrix, some I Robot, some Star Wars, and a lot of lens flares dear to J. J. Abrams (Star Trek). My rating is an average of 7/10 for the action and 3/10 for the story.
Rating: 5 /10

Rubber (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: Quentin Dupieux
	Actors: -
	Country: F
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 24.08.2012, City46, OV
Synopsis: When a tire discovers its destructive power, it soon sets its sight on a desert town.
Review: The big originality of the movie is to show the perspective of a tire. That this tire gets mad about a girl and kills anything on its way is another condition. The pictures have a very special depth and contrast coming from the use of a photocamera and not a usual video camera. The images are thus extraordinary. The story sets in parallel and merges also the story with "no reason" of a killing tire and the story of movie viewers, for which the first story is done. Practically understood but the reason is not clear. Who cares! The suspense is maintained by the story, but as some actors do not speak much, the soundtrack takes more importance and is sometimes leading the rythm down.
Rating: 7 /10

Pelts (2006)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2006
	Director: Dario Argento (Profondo Rosso, Suspiria, Dracula 3D)
	Actors: Meat Loaf (Fight Club), Link Baker, Emilio Salituro, Ellen Ewusie
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 23.08.2012, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: A sleazy, desperate fur trader who haunts a local strip club, gets his hands on some priceless raccoon furs that might be more than just priceless but cursed.
Review: Pelts is actually a 1-hour episode of the TV-series Masters of Horror that lasted two seasons around 2006. The concept was simple: Classical directors of the horror genre were selected and given 1 million dollars and total freedom to produce each episode. And some results are pretty good, actually much better that many full-length features. To this date, the episodes were released in Blu-ray only in Germany, in the Black Edition, which quality is quite good. Now about the movie itself: the story and filming are quite standard, which explains why the movie is good contrarily to all the other movies of Argento of that period. But this is also why it doesn't reach the heights of the masterpieces of this director from the 70's. Some scenes are delightful as they bear his mark: deep red colors and saturated lights. The scene when the Meat Loaf character (excellent performance) first goes to the strip club is particularly good-looking. Horror scenes show up every 10 minutes and are well-done. Maybe in the Top 5 Masters of Horror (together with Jenifer, Deer Woman and Sick Girl).
Rating: 6 /10

Death of a superhero (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Ian Fitzgibbon
	Actors: Thomas Brodie-Sangster
	Country: IRL
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 20.08.2012, Schauburg, OV
Synopsis: A teenager suffers from cancer and creates his own comic world, where he is a superhero that all girls want.
Review: Stories about how people struggle with cancer are quite classical nowadays. But expressing the rebellion through a comic and the interference of comic characters into his real life and vice-versa are particularly well done (symbolism-wise and esthetic-wise). The story is not melodramatic and gives a very authentic impression. The actors are also authentic; they do not seem to be acting.
Rating: 8 /10

Mission to Mars (2000)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2000
	Director: Brian de Palma (Carrie, Scarface, Mission: Impossible)
	Actors: Gary Sinise (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump), Don Cheadle (Traffic, Iron Man 2), Tim Robbins (Jacob's Ladder, Human Nature)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 20.08.2012, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: The first team of astronauts to land on Mars is attacked and only one survives. A second team is sent to rescue him and solve this mystery.
Review: Out of the three movies about Mars released around the same year, this was my least favorite one. I preferred Red Planet (with Val Kilmer and Carrie-Ann Moss) because of the action, and I liked Ghosts of Mars because I am a big fan of John Carpenter. There is no Blu-ray release planned, so I bought this cheap DVD. In spite of the poor video quality, I reconsidered my opinion about the movie. Actually the three are so different that they can barely be compared. This one has the pretention to be closer to the science ("NASA approved"), and thus shares some similarities with 2001, A Space Odyssey. But the main characteristic of this movie is that it focuses mainly on the characters to the detriment of the action. For example we never see the first footstep of Man on Mars. I remember that in Red Planet this footstep was shown, although without special emphasis because after a catastrophic landing. The second characteristic is the long travelling shots dear to de Palma. Those two elements combined with excellent actors make for a good movie, and implication of the viewer in the story. The Mission to Mars is finally only a framework in which de Palma tells a story of friendship, love and loss. This explains my small disappointment when watching it again.
Rating: 6 /10

The Bourne Identity (1988)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1988
	Director: Roger Young
	Actors: Richard Chamberlain (King Solomon's Mines,  Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold), Jaclyn Smith (Charlie's Angels - TV series), Anthony Quayle (The Guns of Navarone), Donald Moffat (The Thing)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 18.08.2012, DVD, 32" TV and 19.08.2012, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: A man is found on the shore of a small mediteranean french city and a doctor takes care of him. He doesn't remember who he is, but he finds out he is very good at killing. For him will follow a race across Europe, looking for clues about his past and the mysterious project Treadstone 71.
Review: I was curious to see how the Ludlum best-seller was adapted back in 1988, fourteen years before the hit starring Matt Damon. I didn't know it was not a movie but a TV mini-series, made of two episodes for a total duration of three hours. This has the advantage of giving more time for a more complex story and sub-stories, but the drawback of distillating the action. This action is not displayed in the same dynamic way that made the success of the 2002 version, but is entertaining nonetheless. The actors in this TV show are not very good, and the way of shooting is not very exciting (the love scene at 1/4 of the movie is pathetic), but the story is quite OK, probably thanks to the original book. If you have 3 hours to spare and like the character of Jason Bourne...
Rating: 5 /10

White Squall (1996)

	Also Known As: Lame de Fond
	Year of first release: 1996
	Director: Ridley Scott (Alien, 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, Prometheus)
	Actors: Jeff Bridges (Tron, Tron Legacy, The Big Lebowski, True Grit), Caroline Goodall (Schindler's List, Hook), John Savage
	Country: USA
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 17.08.2012, DVD, 32" TV
Synopsis: In 1960 a group of teenagers embarks for a trip around the Americas on a school boat. They will also learn navigation, to work as a team, and eventually the dangers of the ocean.
Review: I bought this DVD years ago for 1 or 2 euros, and it is not at all what I thought it would be! I though it was some kind of maritime thriller like Dead Calm. In fact it is based on the true story of the sinking of the Albatross in 1961 probably caused by the rare meteorological event known as white squall (grain blanc). The story of this group of youngs that are going to discover both friendship and death reminds me of Dead Poets Society. The boat trip can be seen as a transition to adulthood, and the separation from the parents. The movie is well done as you would expect from Ridley Scott, althought it was not a big success, similarly to his previous film (1492: Conquest of Paradise), and the characters well played. One thing I could maybe reproach is that there are somme ellipses in the story, and that the reaction of the characters are sometime difficult to understand, but I have noticed that it is often the case with movies that try to be close to a real story (like Mesrine or Che).
Rating: 6 /10

Troll Hunter (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Director: André Øvredal
	Actors: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum
	Country: N
	Genre: Documentary, Fantasy
	Conditions of visioning: 15.08.2012, DVD, 32" TV, French version
Synopsis: A group of student want to shoot a documentary obout bear hunting for their school. They end up following a weid lone hunter that hides a big secret.
Review: The movie is exactly as I expected: Norwegian B-movie that had its success during the festivals in 2011. It belongs to the category of "found footage" movies, and the scenes of running in the forest immediately bring The Blair Witch Project to mind. I wouldn't call the movie spectacular as the cover says, but it is not badly done: the story is simple but good, the trolls apparitions are funny and a bit scary at the same time, the Norwegian landscapes are beautiful, and the whole movie contains this typical nordic humor / second degree that reminds me of Rare Exports. Maybe it would have been better watched in a home cinema to enjoy all the cracking sounds of the trolls surrounding you in the forrest.
Rating: 6 /10

Parada (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Srdjan Dragojevic
	Actors: Nikola Kojo, Milos Samolov
	Country: SRB, SLO, HR, MK, MNE
	Genre: Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 13.08.2012, Schauburg, OV
Synopsis: In year 2000, Mirko wants to organise a Gay pride in Belgrad. He and his boyfriend, Radmilo, have good jobs and are fed up to be insulted and beaten on open street by the homophobic majority of the Serbians. By circumstances, an ex-warrior turned gangster is forced to help them, by protecting the demonstration in the street. As he does not find any support in Belgrad, he makes a round in the Balkans to find people.
Review: The story is very original. The way people hate others because they have another nationality or sexual orientation is shown all along the movie by very drastic ways. The way people can go over this hate in the most unexpected situations is shown in a very funny way. By the way, the corruption, the neonazis, the homosexual scene, are depicted with an acid humour still close to the reality. The dialogues are also very natural and good, even if fully not political correct. The situation of nationalism and chauvinism in the Balkan is depicted with cruelty and humour. It is therefore impressive, that this movie got a financial basis all over these countries and such a big success. Via humour, this comedy could have a political impact, showing that hate is actually stupid. The actor play and the scenery have nothing special, but no mistake neither.
Rating: 7 /10

Munich Fantasy Film Fest 2012 - what to watch?

Each year takes place in Munich (and other cities in Germany) the Fantasy Film Festival (FFF), a week of showing horror, thriller and science fiction movies:

http://www.fantasyfilmfest.com/

This year it takes place from August 28th to September 5th, and I will give you here some recommendations of what you can go and see.

Friday Foster (1975)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1975
	Director: Arthur Marks
	Actors: Pam Grier (Jacky Brown, Foxy Brown), Yaphet Kotto (Alien), Karl Weathers (Rocky)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 12.08.2012, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: A journalist (Grier) is the involontary witness of the assassination attempt on a billionaire.When she starts digging, she uncovers more and more mystery around a senator and a mysterious Black Widow operation.
Review: The movie contains all the ingredients that can make you like Blackploitation (action movies of the 70's made by Black people for Black people): a sexy heroin, a conspiracy, some action, crimes, gunfights, fistfights... and a groovy soundtrack. Friday Foster is maybe the best I have seen in the genre, and I enjoyed it a lot! It must have been the inspiration for the more recent "hommage" to the genre: Black Dynamite.
Rating: 7 /10

Teenage Hooker became a Killing Machine (2000)

	Also Known As: Daehakno-yeseo maechoon-hadaka tomaksalhae danghan yeogosaeng ajik Daehakno-ye Issda
	Year of first release: 2000
	Director: Gee-woong Nam
	Actors: Dae-tong Kim, So-yun Lee
	Country: ROK
	Genre: Horror, Action, Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 09.08.2012, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Well, all is in the title! This girl gives her body to one of her teachers. He gets her killed. She comes back to life as a robot to get her revenge.
Review: I have seen some pretty bad movies in my life and this is one of them. There are a few good intentions in it, but it is extremely cheap (image, sound, acting...). It looks like it was shot with an iPhone. One scene is clearly inspired by Nikita. Some others are kind of "arty", with monologues and saturated colors. At least it is short (60 min). It helps if you are a bit drunk when watching it.
Rating: 1 /10

Staying Alive (1983)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1983
	Director: Sylvester Stallone (John Rambo, The Expendables)
	Actors: John Travolta (Saturday Night Fever, Pulp Fiction), Cynthia Rhodes (Flashdance), Finola Hughes
	Country: USA
	Genre: Music, Romance
	Conditions of visioning: 08.08.2012, DVD, Home cinema
Synopsis: Five years after Saturday Night Fever, Tony Manero still has the Disco fever. He is now trying to become a profesional dancer, but he has a lot to learn about this new world, and the people in it.
Review: Looking for a movie shorter than 90 minutes that evening, I found 2 movies on my shelf of not-yet-seen. The other one was Teenage Hooker became a Killing Machine (60 minutes)... Well at least I could watch Staying Alive with my girlfriend.This movie is definitely more a romance than a typical dance movie (Flashdance being the prototype). Tony Manero looking for a job is only an excuse at the beginning and the end of the movie to wrap it up, but the main story is about this Brooklyn boy learning to live in the Big Apple, falling in love with a the lead dancer while neglecting his girlfriend (a "regular" dancer). The soundtrack by the Bee Gees is nice. I couldn't believe the movie had been directed by Sylvester Stallone (who also plays a small cameo in it)!
Rating: 4 /10

Where to buy DVDs and Blu-rays?

It is a good thing to know where to buy DVDs and Blu-rays, when you want to watch movies at home, and want to find what you are looking for, in good quality, maybe get them delivered at home, and for the best prices.

I will give here some ideas of where I bought most of the disks in my collection that contains now more than a thousand.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2012
	Director: Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Memento, Inception)
	Actors: Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation, The Machinist, American Psycho), Anne Hathaway (Interstellar, Brokeback Mountain), Tom Hardy (Bronson), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception), Marion Cotillard (Inception, Taxi), Gary Oldman (Harry Potter, The Fifth Element), Morgan Freeman (Deep Impact, Invictus), Michael Caine (Zulu, Harry Brown)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, Action
	Conditions of visioning: 06.08.2012, Arri Kino, digital projection
Synopsis: Gotham City has been at peace since Batman rid it of the Joker and of organized crime. Bruce Wayne lives recluded in his manor, with a degrading heath. But now the man known as Bane is planning to ruin this peace. What will the masked vigilante do?
Review: The epic conclusion to Christopher Nolan's trilogy. And a nice conclusion I would say. We explore once more the troubled psyche of the Batman. The big villain poses yet another threat to Gotham City, after madness in Batman Begins and chaos in the Dark Knight, now it is anarchy and senseless desctuction. The movie is a good mix of the two first ones: sometimes (rarely) a pure super-hero movie, but more often one with police and terrorists, kidnapping and robberies. The atmosphere of the movie is as dark and pessimist as in the two previous, maybe too much. This is what annoys me with this movie, like it did in the Dark Knight: there is never a release of the tension. I understand this has to do with the "dark" atmosphere of the movie, but without lighter moments, it is more difficult to feel involved when one catastrophy follows another. This being said, I cannot blame Nolan for taking his spectators seriously, when I see so many other movies where we are taken for idiots.
Rating: 7 /10