Be Kind Rewind

Mr. Fletcher (Danny Glover) runs a VHS video store in dilapidated street corner in Passaic, NJ which is in danger of being demolished. When he goes off on a trip, his trusted side kick, Mike (Mos Def) in charge. But disaster strikes when Mike's friend Jerry (Jack Black) shows up magnetized and ends up erasing all the tapes. In a desperate attempt to satisfy customers Mike and Jerry start to remake films in their own quirky and hilarious fashion.

The film is Michel Gondry's stab at the main stream film industry that is losing out on innovation and artistry to big budgets and technology. I prefer Joss Whedon's stab to this!

Rating: * +

Rosemary's Baby

Guy (John Cassavetes), a struggling actor, moves into a new apartment (the infamous Dakota building) with his beautiful wife Rosemary (Mia Farrow). As they settle in, an elderly couple living next door starts to engage them like most old people. But when Rosemary gets pregnant under very eerie circumstances, their neighbors start to take an eerie interest in their lives. Rosemary finds herself being fed strange concoctions and observes her husband's career getting magically jump started. Or maybe she is just having a bad case of hormones... Roman Polanski at his twisted best as always.

Rating: * * +