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== Death of a Ghost Hunter ==[[Image:35star.png]]* HorrorTwenty years after a minister and family were killed by the wife a noted "ghost hunter" is hired to investigate the house. For a low budget movie this story is haunting. Most recently the type of jerky monster special effects in just about every other horror movie is totally avoided here. This one is unique and almost plays like a docu-drama. A reference to Blair Witch Project is made in the movie which, without doing, the film may have reflected on that script. This is a good atypical horror movie that is different from anything else released recently. Recommended.: [http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Death_of_a_Ghost_Hunter/70100349 Netflix]== Hot Fuzz ==[[Image:40star.png]]* ComedyTop cop hero gets shipped off to small middle-of-nowhere town because he's making the rest of the force look like slackers expects to be bored out of his mind in dullsville... but not exactly. It's a parody of police detective dramas and high action films that are all too common today. It is a parody that is both timely and well played. Hot Fuzz delivers an intelligent balance of slapstick comedy and gut busting one-liners that in the tradition of Monty Python type humor, makes you laugh until it hurts. The end of the movie just gets totally out of hand in the way that only the British can do wisely without making you roll your eyes. This movie is a totally silly must see laugh a minute cop caper you'll want to watch again and again.[[Image:15star.png]][[Image:10star.png]]This movie was really weak and there were just way too many logic failures to bother pointing out, so allow me to elaborate on a few of the most obvious ones. Who's running the power plant? All AM frequencies? I guess someone didn't study radio theory. It reminds me of old 1950's last human being alive type movie from the time of extreme low budget Sci-Fi and scripts that were written the night before filming. It's a silly movie that completely fails to render a legitimate world after some type of zombie virus apocalypse. There are better movies with the same theme and a much more believable world situation. The only positive point to this film is the quality acting of Will Smith. Lets face it; he is an underrated actor that performs well even when handed some really dopey scripts. Unfortunately, he exercises little discretion on what movies he agrees to do.This movie was really weak and there were just way too many logic failures to bother pointing out, so allow me to elaborate on a few of the most obvious ones. Who's running the power plant? All AM frequencies? I guess someone didn't study radio theory. It reminds me of old 1950's last human being alive type movie from the time of extreme low budget Sci-Fi and scripts that were written the night before filming. It's a silly movie that completely fails to render a legitimate world after some type of zombie virus apocalypse. There are better movies with the same theme and a much more believable world situation. The only positive point to this film is the quality acting of Will Smith. Lets face it; he is an underrated actor that performs well even when handed some really dopey scripts. Unfortunately, he exercises little discretion on what movies he agrees to do. Update: the more I think about this movie the more I realize it is simply stupid and I doubt I will invest time in watching it again.[[Image:45star.png]][[Image:35star.png]][[Image:35star.png]][[Image:30star.png]]== There Will Be Blood ==[[Image:50star.png]]* Period DramaDaniel Day-Lewis is the driven and amoral Daniel Plainview, who rises from a man with nothing but a dirt hole and broken leg to becoming a powerful oil tycoon. He hates people, in fact he has a total dislike, distrust, and hatred for people in general, but knows how to work their minds. His misanthropy doesn't prevent him from connecting with people just enough to get what he wants. He is a laborer, thinker, salesman, and visionary. He is raising an orphaned child that he tries to install his drive into. This child ultimately proves to resent him after the child loses his hearing in an accident. Plainview trades his deaf son for someone claiming to be his half brother. The impostor is a broken man with no spirit or backbone. Plainview wants so bad to have a prodigy with his motivation and traits he embraces the impostor but ultimately figures out the truth, and punishes the impostor by killing him. Plainview has to exercise humility, which is against his nature, to a fraud preacher to get what he wants. In the end Plainview is alone with no child, no family prodigy, and just his money, but he gets one last moment of satisfaction in squashing his last enemy. This movie is slow paced but always interesting, gritty, and the music and masterful cinematography plus actions of the characters tells more of the story as the sometimes sparse dialog. We are supposed to learn from a reflection on capitalist greed and how it decays family and morality. Yet, despite his sacrifices, Plainview meets his goals and is very accomplished, he wins, he defeats his enemies, but he loses his family. The director of this film, Paul Thomas Anderson, also did the movie Boogie Nights.