Bancho Libre (Bancho)

Your prototypical rom com: a man and woman at odds with one another get forced into an awkward situation and eventually fall in love. And there is a crazy old relative.

The two things that shine in The Proposal is the chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, and the tiny washcloth Sandra Bullock has to cover herself with in one scene... do these things make the film worth watching? You decide.

A middle-aged man in a suburban neighborhood starts to get bored with his life and the way people step on him; he even tolerates his wife cheating on him repeatedly. Soon, he befriends a young boy, begins exercising, smokes some weed, and realizes that he doesn't need this life. So begins American Beauty. ...I mean, Meet Bill.

Why have Jessica Alba in your film if you only use her for 10 minutes? To get poor suckers such as myself to watch it. At least Elizabeth Banks doesn't disappoint. The relationship between Bill and his cheating wife seems too contrived to keep things moving. And the similarities to American Beauty are too great to ignore. But again, if you like Elizabeth Banks, WATCH THIS FILM.

My favorite movie. Great story, realistic violence, and a twist at the end. Amazing cinematography, especially the hallway fight scene. Also, there are some disturbingly raw scenes, like when the main character eats a live squid. I like when filmmakers get brave and put stuff like that in their films. There's a cute girl in it, too, which is a plus, except what happens to her in this movie is just gross.

This movie depicts teenagers killing other teenagers, which makes it automatically controversial in nature, but it's the premise and the characters' emotional dilemma that truly make the film intriguing. Any time you put your characters between a rock and a hard place, conflict will arise and characters flourish. That's textbook screenwriting. And what worse situation can you imagine than a class of teenagers forced to slaughter their fellow classmates, some of them close friends, or be killed themselves? Seeing the different impacts this dilemma has on each and every one of these poor kids is pure genius on the part of the director. Excellent story, brutal cinematography, and amazing acting (with a twist of randomness at the end by Beat Takeshi). I just wish they had left it at that and didn't try to milk a sequel out of it.