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Homo Erectus is Adam Rifkin’s new caveman comedy and it looks fantastic, you can check out a trailer on the website.  National Lampoon has signed on to distribute it and it also stars David Carradine and Talia Shire.

OMD says:

A philosophical caveman (Rifkin) yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones and raw meat.

And if you are thinking that it is just an updated take on caveman, well, maybe so, but it still looks like it will be an enjoyable 90 minutes.

[10:29:30 AM] Has anyone seen Hedwig and The Angry Inch?

[10:29:34 AM] JP says: ?

[10:30:15 AM] JTk says: It was this indy film that IMC channel showed over and over - and I finally watched it last night

[10:30:26 AM] JTk says: http://www.finelinefeatures.com/sites/hedwig/

[10:30:45 AM] JTk says: Adapted from the critically acclaimed off-Broadway rock theatre hit, Hedwig and The Angry Inch tells the story of an “internationally ignored” rock singer, Hedwig, and her search for stardom and love.

Born a boy named Hansel whose life’s dream is to find his other half, Hedwig reluctantly submits to a sex change operation in order to marry an American G.I. and get over the Berlin Wall to freedom. The operation is botched, leaving her with the aforementioned “angry inch”.

Finding herself high, dry and divorced in a Kansas trailer park, she pushes on to form a rock band and encounters a lover/prot�g� in young Tommy Gnosis, who eventually leaves her, steals her songs and becomes a huge rock star.

[10:31:53 AM] JTk says: Okay, it is wacky and often disturbing - but ultimately a pretty good movie.

[10:31:55 AM] JTk says: but

[10:32:45 AM] Smyan sez: they did a stage rendition of it last week a couplpe days down here @ Hal & Mals

[10:33:07 AM] JTk says: there was one song from the movie that is driving me crazy - It’s called The Origin Of Love and it is about guy/girl looking for its other half

[10:33:49 AM] JTk says: I am not sure what it is about that song……

[10:35:19 AM] JTk says: but I seriously cannot get it out of my head, it is consuming me

[10:35:38 AM] JTk says: This should be a blog post….

Just watched Layer Cake, a british crime drama where Daniel Craig ( The new James Bond ) plays a nameless West End coke dealer that is trying to get out of the business but is tasked by bossman Jimmy Price ( HBO’s Rome’s Pompey Magnus - Ken Cranham ) to take on a couple unconventional tasks.

Layer Cake was produced and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Lock Stock and Two Smokin Barrels fame ( also Guy Ritchie’s best man when he married Madonna ) and it features his trademark look, without the over the top flash of Lock Stock or Snatch, nor any of the fun of those films.

If Layer Cake is not gritty it does feature a more realistic atmosphere and more down to earth characters. It tries to take the standard plot twists to an extreme featuring double cross after double cross told from the point of view of the main character.

Overall, while this is not a great movie, it is enjoyable if you enjoy the genre and deserves a slot in your netfilx queue.

Raging Bull
Maybe the best movie by arguably the best actor of all time. De Niro delivers a full on tour de force performance as Jake La Motta. Scorsese thought this would be the last movie he would ever make and he and De Niro created a masterpeice.

Bull Durham
The genius of Bull Durham is that it is a baseball movie that is not really about baseball (and minor league baseball at that), but about life, love, and all of the bullshit in between. Susan Sarandon gets the MVP ( Oh My ), and Robert Wuhl is awesome in his small supporting role. It is based upon the minor league experiences of writer/director Ron Shelton.

Caddyshack
“This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia.” Come on, you know that you know some lines from this movie. It’s hard to believe that Chevy Chase was once funny.

Hoosiers
Okay this is the same formulaic sports movie that has been made over and over - so why does Hoosiers work? The continually underrated Gene Hackman. Hackman is simply awesome, Barbara Hershey is freakin gorgeous, and Dennis Hopper is Dennis Hopper.

North Dallas Forty
I like this movie, in spite of this movie.

Eight Men Out
I can’t believe this list only has 2 baseball movies…. This Blacksox movie is excellent even though Cusack is in it.

Brian’s Song
Somebody once told me that this is the only movie that men can watch together and cry during… To be fair, it is pretty damn sad.

Any Given Sunday
Even though this movie looks like it was edited by bingeing speed freaks, and is basically an updated, slicker North Dallas Forty, Oliver Stone ultimately delivers a fairly interesting football film.

Hoop Dreams
If you wonder why this documentary makes the list, I would bet that you haven’t seen it.

Slap Shot (25th Anniversary Special Edition)
Yea, it’s a hockey movie. But it is a wild, vulgar, 70’s Paul Newman hockey movie.

Most folks that know me know that I was a Cohen Brothers freak. I say was because, as of late, their films just haven’t been doing it for me. Do any of you really think that LadyKillers or Intolerable Cruelty are great or even good movies? No of course not. While I still watch Millers Crossing once a month or so, I have started thinking that I am enjoying Wes Anderson’s films just as much as the Cohen’s.

Time was when I wouldn’t have believed that I would ever think I could enjoy anything as much as Blood Simple, Rasing Arizona, and O Brother but I think that Bottle Rockets, Rushmore, and The Life Aquatic stack up pretty well against them.

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