The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist

In 1995 director Bryan Singer ( X-men, Valkyrie ) directed his second fulllenght feature and blew everybody away with The Usual Suspects. It is a movie about five criminals that are put together in a police line-up for a crime they did not do. The five guys, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak and Kevin Spacey, are now set for revenge against to police. The cool thing about this movie is that you have to see it two times, and you will see a complete different movie the second time around. The first time you have a lot of questions that are answered in the last few minutes of the movie and the second time when you know the answers you can ( by watching carefully ) see all the pieces come together while watching the movie.  

The Fastest Hands In The East Meet The Biggest Mouth In The West

Director Brett Ratner ( X-men: The last stand, Red Dragon ) started with Rush hour in 1998 a comedy action trilogy about an American detective that needs to work together with a Hong Kong Detective. Stand up comedian Chris Tucker ( Jackie Brown ) is joined by film legend Jackie Chan ( Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid ) and it a great body cop movie is born. The fast mouth of Tucker and the incredible fight scenes of Chan make this a nice action and comedy movie. A great set up of the characters that sets the base of the next two movies. Enjoy the ride and enjoy the entertainment.

Red, white, whatever. Guys are all the same.

From Director Guillermo del Torro (Cronos, El laberinto del fauna ) comes a great comic book brought to live, Hellboy. The comics of Mike Mignola about a baby boy that is brought from hell for evil but ends up fighting it have found their way to the silver screen with the imagination of del Torro and the help of Mike Mignola himself. Ron Perlman ( Blade II, Cronos ) is buried once again under a lot of latex to give a great performance as the big red avenger. Del Torro has proven again that he has a great eye for visuals and the fact that he brought Mike Mignola onboard to set the whole reality of the Hellboy world on the next level.  

Never underestimate the power of the Schwartz!

Star wars is one of the most copied and parodied movies of all time. Both in movies as in TV series like Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Spaced the makers are given stabs, compliments and homage’s to the Star Wars movies. One of the first parody movies that was totally devoted to Star Wars was Spaceballs by Mel Brooks ( Young Frankenstein, Life Stinks ). Starring great comedians from the 80’s like John Candy ( Cool Runnings ) and Rick Moranis ( Ghostbusters ) and a young Bill Pullman ( Independence Day ) in one of his first major Film roles. The movie takes great care of nice details that even the hard core Star Wars fans will appreciate. A comedy with a lot of laughs and great lines so just relax and prepare to be amused.

Big spies in small packages.

After making movies for grown-ups, director Robert Rodriguez ( Desperado, Sin City ) focused is multiple talents on kids movies. Spy kids was the first in the now quadrilogy. Antonia Banderas ( Desperado ) and Carla Gugino ( Sin City ) are a married couple with two kids. What they did not tell the kids was that they where spies. Set on a new mission since years, they get caught and now it is up to the kids Carmen and Juni to become the new spies in the family and get their parents back. The movie is fun for both kids and parents and has a lot of nice winks to the James Bond and other spy movies. The kids work great off each other and the way they tease and annoy each other you would almost say they are real brother and sister. Enjoyment for the whole family and be careful your kids will want to see them over and over again.

Do not seek the treasure!

There are two main genres in the works of the Coen brothers ( The big Lebowski, True Grit ) Comedy and Drama. Usually the genres follow one after another. And in both these genres they excel. O brother, where art thou? is mainly a comedy with the drama build in. It is loosly based on Homer’s epic poem “The Odessey” but then moved to the deep south in the 1930’s. George Clooney ( Oceans eleven ), Tim Blake Nelson ( Chaos ) and a favourite of the Coen brothers, John Turturro ( Transformers ) spring free from a chain gang and are trying to reach home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist. On the way they meet like Ulysses the strangest characters like sirens and a Cyclops. Accompanied by a great soundtrack, this is a movie to watch more than once.

Good dags. D'ya like dags

What director Guy Ritchie ( Sherlock Holmes ) started in ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ he perfected in the movie Snatch. This fast paced London movie about a boxing promoter, violent bookmakers, amateur robbers, a Russian gangster, gypsies and one priceless stolen diamond set a new style in movie making which is afterwards copied a couple of times without much success. A great cast with wonderful characters and a smooth storyline make this a great ride to get on. To bad that Ritchie met Madonna which made his moviemaking suffer a lot, but since the relation is over his unique style is back and going strong with the 2 new Sherlock Holmes movies. If you liked ‘Lock stock..’, you will love Snatch. And if you haven’t seen ‘Lock stock...’ , shame on you.
And one last tip; don’t try to understand what Brad Pitt is saying in the movie.