Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Movies You May Have Missed: District B13

            I watch this movie at least once a year. Every single time, I am amazed at the stunts that are performed throughout. David Belle is the inventor of Parkour. Parkour mixes martial arts, gymnastics and crazy to be a more efficient form of movement from point A to B. Confusing? Yes. But incredible to see.
District B13 takes place in the not too distant France. Paris has been divided up, walling off the ghettos from the rest of the city. Leïto just wants to live in peace without the worries of the surrounding disruption of drugs and gangs. Damien is an elite undercover police officer. He is put in charge of recruiting Leïto to stop a bomb that has been activated that would take out an entire section of the city.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Movies You May Have Missed: Everything is Illuminated


            This movie is based off the book of the same title, written by the author Jonathan Safran Foer. The story follows the character, Jonathan Safran Foer, a young Jewish American as he travels to Ukraine to find the woman that saved his grandfather during the holocaust. Jonathan is a collector of family artifacts, therefore he has an ever-growing collection of trinkets and do-dads; all stored in plastic baggies.

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