Not for everyone this! For those of you who enjoyed 'Borat' you will more than likely enjoy this. From 'Jackass' we have Bad Grandpa. Change the character Borat to Bad Grandpa. Sacha Baron Cohen to Johnny Knoxville and there you have 'Bad Grandpa'.
The movie has a main storyline but follows it with hidden camera moments. As they did with Borat, they attempt to achieve the most uncomfortable awkward moments with the general public that they can.
Many will hate it, many will love it - I loved it!
PirateBay wrote their own version of Firefox called Pirate Browser. From what I understand it is designed to use Tor to avoid ISP blocking. I'll have a look.
Edit : It's at http://piratebrowser.com/ it doesn't use Tor so it's not private but it uses the Tor network to find things so you should, in theory, be able to access any site for anywhere.
If that site is blocked there's a number of other sites hosting the download.
if you have problems with ISP blocks then I strongly suggest you install the alternative browser OPERA version 11.5
Make sure you use the 11.5 or 12 version as it has a function called Opera Turbo
Down at the bottom left of the browser screen is a little "speedo" icon. Click on that and turn on Turbo mode
You should now have no issues with ISP blocking as this routes all traffic via OPERA servers in Denmark sort of like a constantly on and built in proxy server. Works a treat on all the ISP blocks the MPAA made UK ISPs put in place.
One that is fresh out of the box, albeit in a DVDRIP format that unfortuantely has Korean hard subs across the bottom
ENDERS GAME
The best way I could describe this is STARSHIP TROOPERS meets HARRY POTTER.
Set 50 years after Earth manages (just) to repel an invasion force of ant like aliens, Ender is a kid at military school whose tactical brilliance gets him kicked up into the big leagues. Sent to an orbiting officer school he has to come to terms with his destiny and conquor his fears. He is fast tracked into command, where he is put in charge of a trainee invasion force to stop the ant things building up a new fleet and starting a new invasion...but all may not be as it seems.
Really after you take away the hype this competent but very much by the numbers space opera has attracted due to the somewhat ugly political philosophy of the bloke who wrote the novels, and what is left is a middle of the road standard kid with a destiny space opera that has been done over and over again since Star Wars, and quite frankly what it does Starship Troopers did years ago a whole lot better and with more aplomb and a smaller CGI effects budget.
I cant say it rang my bell. About a third of the way through I was thinking of packing it in. Then when the "big reveal" twist came in the last third I was yawning, as even a mouth breathing window licker would have worked it out by then so not exactly a surprise. Its a shame, as its well acted and well put together, but a stodgy cliched script full of purile phrasology and over grandiose speechifying, and plot premise so daft even space opera groaned under its unlikelyness, just knackered it for me.
Its well worth a watch, and maybe you will dig it more than I did. Personally I rate even the piss poor second and third Starship Trooper flicks over this one, and the first flick just leaves this kid friendly version of the premise bloody and breathless on the deck.
One and a half cheers. Not keeping it.
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
Hmmmmm. This is a hard one to review because of the way the film is made - I dont want to give any of the plot away as it will spoil it. Its very much like the amazing memory loss messed up crime flick MEMENTO - a taught psychological thriller with memory loss at its core.
A bloke wakes up at the bottom of a deep pit covered in blood and gore, apparently from a type of paralysis and with no memories of who he is or why he is there. Then in the lightning of the storm he finds the pit is full of dead bodies. Suddenly a mysterious stranger drops a rope down, and he follows her to a house in the woods, only to find that the other four occupants all have similar memory loss. As the night turns to day they try to find out what the hell is going on and who they are.....and why the woods are full of dead bodies tied to trees, and theres an open grave pit in the garden.
I really liked it, especially as until the last half hour you are never really sure what is going on and why these people are really in a house in the woods. When the penny does drop its a pleasant surprise, and the ending is very clever as well.
I really recc you give this one a spin. A keeper IMHO, and out and about in lovely DVDRIPs at all the usual suspects.
Three solid cheers
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
The Russians do make great historical dramas, and when they combine them with war films they really do shine. 9 ROTA (9th Company) was a masterpiece of modern war, ADMIRAL told the fall of Tsarist Russia, and this little gem is a similar gritty classic in a can.
After an earthquake in Japan a Russian rescue team comes across 5 western victims trapped beneath a building. To keep their spirits up until they can get them out the head of the team tells them of his mothers experiences in Stalingrad in the terrible siege of 1944, and of the five brave scout rangers who became his proxy fathers. As the Russian counter attack begins the scouts take a building from the German forces, liberating a young girl they had been keeping captive (the rescue team captain's mother). The Germans are ordered to retake the building, and so begins a battle of wits and will between the two forces.
As usual with Russian films its very story and plot driven, relying on the interplay between the five war weary soldiers, and on the other side between a German officer and a woman he has kidnapped. The battle sequences are amazing - think the first scene of Private Ryan with extra added grit and grime. CGI adds to the madness, and the end result is breathtaking, easily leaving ENEMY AT THE GATES with a gaping sniper hole in its chest.
Now for the bad news. While its out in lovely crisp DVDRIPs at most torrent sites, unfortunately the subtitles batting about with some copies are really hit and miss. You may need to dig about on SubScene or another subtitle site to find better ones, but its well worth it.
Three massive cheers, and like 9 ROTA and ADMIRAL its a solid gold keeper.
PS: (you could just drop it in 720P hi rez version using a streaming media capture plugin or site like http://keepvid.com/ of course from
but you will need to find subtitles off SubScene )
PPS: 9 ROTA is available in english dub at
or original Russian with subs at
"Science flew men to the moon. Religion flew men into buildings."
An old one this and I may have mentioned it before, but after just watching it again for the first time in 4-5 years, I quickly remembered why I'd always ranked it in my top ten all time movies, and thought it deserved another mention. Whale Rider - A story like no other I've watched or read before. If you missed this one, I absolutely recommend that you watch it. I just copy and pasted the below from the download link at the bottom of this page.
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
See it for Kate Blanchette's Oscar nominated title performance and Woody Allen working in the style of Tennessee Williams*.
The story starts in present time with Jasmine arriving at her sister's house because she's broke and needs a place to stay. Their backstory is Jasmine and her sister Ginger's lives diverged early. Jasmine married a financial wizard and became a Manhattan socialite. Ginger marries a blue collar guy and settles into the middle class. The story jumps back and forth between the past of Jasmine's decline which ended with her husband going to jail for major fraud and her friends finally telling her he'd been cheating on her throughout the marriage. Both stories show Jasmine in denial, declining emotionally and financially, damaging herself and hurting those around her. It's difficult to watch, also a similarity with Tennessee Williams' stories.
The story's settings include the financial crisis of 2008, greed and social class. Allen is focused on Jasmine's decline, he doesn't make statements about money and class. Financial issues are the backdrop, class issues are only those of the characters.
*You may have seen films made of Williams' best known plays - A Streetcar Named Desire and A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. If not, his work from the era had ... the qualities most associated with Williams' name--strong but driven and sometimes brutal men who dominate their families; sensitive yet ambitious women; a kind of folk poetry (hinted at in the evocative titles of the plays), grounded in vigorous speech rhythms, that is somehow both highly stylized and natural-sounding ... . This film is firmly in that territory.
Will have to try and access through a freebie VPN - just tends to make the download a lot slower.....
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