I recommend the following

I've mentioned how many hours I spend watching films (film reviews beginning again as of tomorrow by the way) so I figured that although I can't write reviews on all of them, because I just don't have the time, I could at least just write a simple list of films I think are good, bad or even wonderfully ugly, which sometimes can be great. I'm also doing this because I constantly look up lists of films that people do/do not recommend, especially on IMDB. So I want to have my own, maybe I can do what others have done for me and point someone in a good cinematography direction, hopefully. (This is in no particular order or genre)


-Wanderlust (2012)
Me- ***     IMDB- 5.6/10
Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston are a married couple with money troubles, standard. They accidentally stumble upon a hippie/free living community and decide to give it a go, not so standard! I fount out about it online, I'd never heard off it before that, which I thought was weird because I found it pretty hilarious.

-Wild Target (2009)
Me- ****     IMDB- 6.8/10
With Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint, it's bound to be good in my opinion.   Someones an assassin, one the assassenee, and the other just caught up in it.

-This is 40 (2012)  
Me- ***     IMDB- 6.2/10
Paul Rudd again. This film is tagged 'the sort-of sequel to Knocked Up', it's the older sister and her husband of the girl in the first film, and obviously it's about them turning 40. I'm not nor have ever been 40 and married, but I thought it was pretty realistic for what I do know of being 40 and married.Writer and director of the movie Judd Apatow shared the making of the film with his wife Leslie Mann and his daughters Iris and Maude Apatow, who play the wife and daughters in the film.

-Feast of Love (2007)
Me- ****    IMDB- 6.6/10
Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear and many other decent actors. This film is based around love obviously, it follows a number of people's stories that are all connected. It truly is a rollercoaster of emotion. Both myself and my friend found ourselves chugging down water to keep the tears back, it wasn't easy! Really good film though, with interesting twists.

-Primal Fear (1996)
Me- *****   IMDB- 7.6/10
Ever since I saw Fight Club when I was younger, I have been in awe of Edward Norton. I think he's pretty damn phenomenal, recently I've watched a lot of films with him in, so prepare to hear more raving about him. This film is about an altar boy being accused of murdering a very loved priest. But of course, there is far more to the story than first thought. Richard Gere co-stars.

-Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Me- ****    IMDB- 7.4/10
I was recommended this film by a friend who has unusual but very good taste in films, she tends to find ones that aren't so well known. It took a year but I finally got around to watching it! And it was very good. Another pretty emotional one, and I have to say after reading about the plot I wasn't sure how good it would be. Basically Lars (Ryan Gosling) has a doll as a girl friend. Sounds very odd indeed, but actually, it's extremely well done, and very heart-warming!

-Mississippi Burning (1988)
Me- ****    IMDB- 7.8/10  
Excellent portrayal of segregation in Southern America in the 60's. Gene Hackman and Willam Defoe are two very different FBI agents investigating the disappearance of three young civil rights activists. The investigation tears the town apart and many are taken as collateral damage.

-Powder Blue (2009)
  ****
Jessica Biel, Forest Whitacker, Ray Liotta and Eddie Redmayne are four characters crossing paths in L.A. as a stripper, a suicidal ex-priest, an ex-con and a mortician, each with their own interesting story/situation.

-Daydream Nation (2010)
Me- ***.5   IMDB- 6.3/10
Cat Dennings is a teenager relocated to a small town with many troubles. Bordeom and naivety entangle her in two dfferent relationships, one with a high school teacher, the other a stoner classmate. This story is just as much about the town itself than the story of Caroline Wexler (Dennings).

-The Oranges (2010)
Me- ***     IMDB- 5.7/10
Two families who have been friends forever and who live across the street from each other encounter a pretty uncomfortable situation when the daughter from one and the dad from the other begin an affair. A mixture of emotion, awkwardness and hilariousness. Very good cast, including Oliver Platt who I've been a fan of since'Lake Placid'.

-Martian Child (2007)
Me- ***     IMDB- 6.7/10
John and Joan Cusack both star in this movie, as brother and sister! John Cusack's character David is a widower who decides to adopt a kid. As he was an odd child himself he gets paired up with a radical little boy who believes he is from Mars. Heart warming, funny, and a good picture of how it might be to take a lost child into your world.

-25th Hour (2002)
Me- ****    IMDB- 7.7/10
Edward Norton again, because I CANNOT get enough of him. Montgomery Brogan considers his options as a convicted drug-dealer facing a seven year sentence. Directed by good old Spike Lee. It's difficult to decide who's side your on throughout this film.