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Shine is a semi-biographical movie about Austrian pianist David Helfgott and his life long goal to make his father proud of his amazing musical talent. Growing up both my sister and I took piano lessons and my grandfather performed regularly with his accordion. While I quit piano at age 12, my sister continued to practice and ended up going to college for music. As a result of my upbringing and love of music, I really looked forward to and enjoyed this movie.

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Lars and the Real Girl has been on my personal queue for nearly two years but every time it came up to near the top I had some other movie that I decided to watch instead. The main reason I kept pushing off the movie is due to my gut feeling that the movie would end up being an indie version of Weekend at Bernie’s. While the movie was still very campy and strange, the characters and acting are really endearing.

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A recent graduate from the Midwest heads to the big city in hopes of landing a high paying business job and getting the chance to manufacture his brilliant idea. While this seems like a good plot for a serious coming of age movie, The Hudsucker Proxy is as much a comedy as it is a cliché story idea.

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When I saw that I’m Not Scared was the next movie in my queue, I has a little concerned. Not because it has subtitles but because I have never been a fan of horror movies. I had seen the trailer and went into the movie thinking that I would be nervously watching the movie, just waiting for something to pop out at me. Outside of one scene, however, this movie was a joy to watch.

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So what do you get when you put a cast of five (yes, only five) unknown actors, a script with no more than four (yes, only four) pages of dialog, and a $80,000 (yes, thousand not million) budget together? You get a a movie with less substance than most short films on YouTube and a whole bunch of gratuitous nudity and violence. In fact, if it weren’t for the gratuitous scenes and the “video nasty” labeling put on the movie in the early 1980′s I have no doubt this movie would have fallen to the wayside like so many other low-budget horror flicks.

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