Parsley Days

Parsley Days (2000)

 

The review says it all; endlessly charming. That it was. I seriously loved this movie.

It was poorly done, low budget, bad acting, Canadian, but it was a really cute movie.

Cate, is a girl (shown on poster) who runs a bike repair shop and class. She is dating Ollie, a Contraceptive Counsellor, who has affectionately been named "The Contraception King".

Cate somehow, despite Ollie's magnifying glass checking, gets pregnant but does not want to keep the baby as she finds that she loves Ollie but is not in love with Ollie.

She can't go get an abortion because Ollie would find out, so she turns to her hippie/artist friend who is an herbal healer and recommends her for "the parsley diet".

There is something in parsley that starts the hormones necessary to kickstart the menstrual cycle, and if Cate consumes enough of it, it will bring on her period, ultimately terminating her pregnancy.

I don't want to tell what about it is charming, but it is just the cutest freaking flick.

It is very adorable and Ollie's undying love for Cate is so cute.

Cate's kind of a bitch, but it's a lovely film.

 

Perfect for a night by yourself with that someone who loves you, it is a movie to warm the heart and has a definite low budget charm to it.

I personally loved it. I have tried watching it with some other people and they didn't like it, but if you're into the same movies as me, you'll love it.

 

3.5 stars, the others are missing for the bad acting and low film quality.

I think if this movie was done properly, it would be a fantastic flick.

 

No trailer available on the Youtubes but there is one here:

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=104386192938591

Death Note (デスノート)

デスノート (2006)

Aw Yeah! Familiar Territory! This movie was awesome!

I mean the graphics were pretty bad, and the acting was mediocre, but it was still awesome!

I'm very enthusiastic about Japanese Films. I love them to death (note). But seriously, great plot. Of course, this is based off of a manga series.

I just love how they portray death and the grim reaper, it's cool. I love apples twice as much now as I did before i saw this film.

I saw this film in my 7th block Japanese class. I like "L" better than i like Light but maybe it's because "L" has a sugar problem... Like me!

But really, the whole concept of the "death note" is so cool, it's crazy. Renée gave me a notebook with black pages and I drew the Death Note logo (see above) in it. I loved this film.

The comedic aspect of it was funny as well. But seriously, Light's own father??!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch the movie you guys!

It's seriously good! It is! Don't worry, there's subtitles.

Do you understand how awesome it would be to have that sort of power over everyone?

actually, hold the phone. Let me explain the "Death Note" concept.

So Light (left) is a boy who finds this notebook lying on the ground. The Death Note's instructions say that if a person's name is written within it while picturing that person's face, that person will die. There is more rules in the book that I can't remember. Light is skeptical of it but then he realizes it actually works. That's when our friend Death shows up, and he is hilarious.

Some people find Light to be a hero, and others a villain.

you'll have to watch to discover what he truly is.

4/5 stars. I just wish the graphics were a little better.

OK so I couldn't find a good trailer with English subtitles, but maybe a fellow brother or sister can help me out a little in the comments below.

enjoy!



The High Cost of Living

The High Cost of Living (2010)

 

Oh. My. God. What a terribly depressing movie. What a horribly tragic, sad movie. I like Zach Braff, I really do. This was just sad. I was crying my beanball eyes out.

Zach Braff is a drug dealer (that's important info.). He's all drugged up and driving down a one way street, but the opposite way. Meanwhile, Nathalie is having Braxton Hicks contractions (contractions that happen when you're pregnant. They are not actual labor contractions, they are like prank contractions) and her husband is not home to take her to the hospital. It is night and she looks down the street and crosses but Zach Braff is all drugged up and doesn't see her. Boom. He hits her straight on.

He gets out of the car and calls the ambulance, but he drives away.

Nathalie wakes up in the hospital to doctors telling her that she has lost her baby. The baby is dead but her body is not strong enough to undergo surgery so she will have to wait and deliver her now stillborn child. She ends up meeting Zach Braff (Henry) and they become friends. Henry knows she was the woman he hit because he sent a kid from his friends' restaurant to check on her.

Knowing he was the one to blame, he still takes Nathalie in after she leaves her husband. Nathalie doesn't change her shirt because she doesn't want to have to look at her belly. She finds out Henry is a drug dealer but still accepts him.

Nathalie asks Henry to be there when she has to give birth to her baby (sadness you guys.) and he agrees.

Okay so after this I can't tell you what happens. This is as far as I can go without spoiling any info.

So like I said, a terribly depressing. If you like crying, this is the film for you. If you don't like crying, this is the film for you. This is just a great film. It both equally beautiful and depressing. It's exciting and shocking. It is, like I said, a great film. I love sad films.

5 out of 5 y'all. 5 out of 5.

 

I'm getting choked up watching the trailer...



Dead Snow (Død snø)

Død snø (2009)

 

Okay people, you all know my love for Norwegian Films. You all know. This one was bad but good at the same time.

First off, it is listed as a "zombie comedy" so that should explain a lot.

Død snø is, like I said, a Norwegian flick. Seven friends decide to take a short trip up to the mountains near the city of Øksfjord, as one of the member's families owns a cabin there.

Whilst in the cabin, a strange dude comes to their cabin and tells a story about how this area was used as a Nazi base back during World War II. Yeah, that hiker that showed up at the cabin ends up dead the next morning after one of the members has a freaky dream.

People start poking there noses where there noses are not welcome, and that's when it starts to crazy! That's when the zombies come out to play!

Get this; they're Nazi Zombies! Elite Killers! Cruel and Undead! It's such crap it's gold! This film royally sucked, but was awesome at the same time!

Somehow it was ranked in one of the 25 best zombie movies of all time.

I totally agree, probably because I love Norwegian films. See, Norwegian Foreign Films just have a certain element that other films just don't have. All the Norwegian flicks I've seen just have this... this thing. This certain feel that American, Canadian, Asian or other European films don't have. Of course, Asian films also have an element that other films don't have, as well as Canadian and American, it's the same with German films. I just happen to love Norwegian style and Asian films.

Anywho, this film got 3 stars out of five because it was kind of low budget. Here's the trailer if you maybe still want to see it.

 

(trailer)

 

And here's the full movie!

 

 (full film)

Grace

Grace (2009)

 

Wow. No words. This movie, was fantastic. It had all of the elements i look for in a horror film. It had Suspense, a creepy baby, an old lady who loves to breastfeed, blood, birth, a car accident, Cannibalism, murder... It had eerie music and just so much more. This movie actually scared me. It actually gave me the heebie jeebies.

 

The movie portrays a young woman who is trying to conceive with her husband. Finally! It works! She is pregnant and they are happy. Then, a car crash. It was coming. Her husband dies, and due to trauma, she has to carry her dead baby to full term. She ends up having to deliver the baby, but she wants a few minutes with her dead baby. She tries to breastfeed it (Birth does crazy things to people), when it comes back to life.

 

This is when the tang is stirred. When she brings home her infant (whom she names Grace) she notices flies in her home, and she starts to smell this god awful death smell on Grace, so she gives her a bath. It is during this bath, that little Grace bruises like a peach and bleeds. She has to put a mosquito net over baby Grace's crib to keep her safe. Another thing she notices is when she breastfeeds, she bleeds. Not just a little like how it sometimes happens. No, like leaking down her, horrible re-occurring scab kind of blood. Grace isn't after her breast milk...

She's after her blood.

 

Honestly, 5 stars out of 5, but it could have been a little better. If this was a big Hollywood movie, it would have been awesome.

 

Here's the trailer; Goosebumps just watching it!