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Title: The Full Monty - Fully Exposed Edition
Year: 1997
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 5 out of 7
It’s 1972, and the town of Sheffield, England is booming, thanks to the highly successful steel industry. A voiceover cheerily explains the many uses of […]

Title: El Crimen Ferpecto (The Perfect Crime)
Year: 2004 (released in the US in 2007)
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Guillermo Toledo, Mónica Cervera, Luis Varela
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 5 out of 7
There’s an old saying that states, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Unfortunately, all the lemonade in the world wouldn’t have helped the […]

Title: Shaun of the Dead
Year: 2004
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 6 out of 7
Before I begin, let me just say that I don’t normally like zombie movies. Not only do I find them extremely gory and nauseating, but I feel that most zombie films lack any […]

Title: El Labertino del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)
Year: 2006
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring Cast: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
Rated: R
NoFace for Film rating: 6 out of 7
Set in a Post-Civil war northern Spain in 1944, Pan’s Labyrinth follows a young girl who resorts to fantasy to cope with her new life. Young Ofelia (Baquero) and […]

Title: The Tiger Blade
Year: 2005
Director: Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn
Starring Cast: Atsadawut Luengsuntorn, Phimonrat Phisarayabud,
Pongpat Wachirabunjong, Srungsuda Lawanprasert, Amornrit Sriphung,
Chalad Na Songkhla
Rated: R
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
Reviewed by: TheMarina
NoFace for Film rating: 1 out of 7
Oh my. I’m not quite sure where to begin with this one. It looked great, the story sounded good but it was just […]

Title: 十面埋伏 (House of Flying Daggers)
Year: 2004
Director: Yimou Zhang
Starring Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang
Rated: PG-13
NoFace for Film rating: 5.5 out of 7
If anything can sum up House of Flying Daggers, it’s the notion that things are not always what they seem. Just when you think you’ve got the movie and the characters all […]

Title: Persona
Year: 1966
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann
Rated: unrated in the U.S.
Review by: Mark N.
NoFace Rating: 7 out of 7
Today’s review is by Mark N. of Movie Masterworks. He focuses on films that you may not necessarily find at your local video store. These include independent films, foreign films, art house films- […]

Title: Kung Fu Hustle
Year: 2004
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring Cast: Stephen Chow, Xiaogang Feng, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen
Rated: R
NoFace Rating: 4.5 out of 7
I actually recommended renting Kung Fu Hustle to my boyfriend and his parents while I was on vacation with him a while back. I hadn’t seen the movie but I had heard […]

Title: 少林足球 (Shaolin Soccer)
Year: 2001; released in the US in 2004
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring Cast: Stephen Chow, Man Tat Ng
Rated: PG
NoFace Rating: 4 out of 7
I actually watched Kung Fu Hustle several months ago, before I watched Shaolin Soccer (which I watched this past Monday). I didn’t quite know what to make of the former film, […]

Title: Watership Down
Year: 1978
Director: Martin Rosen
Voices: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, Harry Andrews
Rated: PG
NoFace rating: 4.5 out of 7
Watership Down is another film that my boyfriend Netflixed because he saw this movie as a kid and wanted to see again. Wary of past childhood movies that he Netflixed and forced me to watch […]