These days it seems harder and harder to find a decent film to watch whne you want something to distract you from the hum drum between sleeping and working/ It could be that i’m getting older and wiser (definitely older) but Hollywood seems to be churning out shallow unimaginative stories and then trying to buff them up with ‘wow look at this one’ special effects. Recently I’ve found myself drawn to the foreign releases when browsing through the monthly dvd rental I’ve signed up to . I’m not going all art house,but Spanish German and French films seem to put a lot more effort in trying to draw in the viewer and keep them guessing. They don’t have the same budget that Hollywood has, but the more I think about it, it seems this ,ay not be an advantage for reasons mentioned above. Look at Pan’s Labyrinth, not there’s a story. I was terrified throughout that film and left feeling sad at the end. Now that’s what a film could do more often, move you , without the cheap gory horror clips.

Run Lola, Run is a great German film - a guy on the subway loses 100 euros cash he was delivering to his gang boss. He’s got until mid day to get the sum to the drop off, so we watch his girlfriend running around Berlin (I think) desperately trying to get the money together. I was exhausted from just watching! France? Well its got to be Amelie a weird love story - that’s the best I can do to explain that…

Does this post have a point? Yes it does. I’d like people to refer good films to me. If I can watch them I will, and