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On the Run
$14.98
I first saw this movie on IFC. I loved it so much that I went ordered it the next day. Since then I have seen it 11 times! It is one of those great classics that you just have to see again and again. This movie is so damn funny and it gives you a feel for New York like no other. If you are a Sopranos fan you will love seeing two extrodinary actors in a diffrent role than the show. Michael Imperiloi and John Ventamaglia are great together. Imperioli plays the shy travel agent Albert Desantis and Ventamaglia is Louie Salazar, Albert's friend who just escaped prison with only two weeks left on his five year sentence. When Louie goes to Albert for help they end up wandering the streets of New York on one great adventure. Keep your eyes open for many Soprano actors throughout the movie. I'm know good at writing reviews so I'll just end by saying get this movie. It is so worth the money. This is one extremely enjoyable movie. I think it's better than most of the stuff they put in theaters and I saw it for free! SEE THIS MOVIE!

Clockers
$2.99
this film is fused with soulful piano music and techno, as well as a few gangster rap songs to make the setting known. The mood of the film is that of a colorful graffiti'd wall being cleaned by a heavy rain. Just think, if you haven't already seen this film, of the N.Y.C. streets covered with rain and on just about every corner there's a gang-related painting ("graffiti")...when the rain stops everything is still and cloudy. People walk in a sort of dream, "just doing their job", and this hoodlum is walking about, dreaming of bigger and better things, a life he's never had the gumption to get into. This really is a good movie! Not perfect granted, but definitely worth seeing if you'd be so inclined!

Running Scared
$2.99
Watched this On-Demand on HBO, with no real expectations, while I was working on other things. I was surprised at how well laid out the story was, and how I was drawn in. It is a dark story of a rather unfortunate scumbag Joey played by Paul Walker who is supposed to get rid of a murder weapon. Things go terribly wrong when the neighbor kid (Nick Naylor's kid from Thank You For Smoking) uses the gun to shoot his abusive step-father.

From there it is a frantic chase to get to the kid and the gun. Along the way the Joey's gang, the Russians, a Mexican Poker game, dirty cops, a totally effed up pedophile family, a pimp and much much more,

The colors, imagery, and blurred slow to fast shots really make this movie something different than your average action flick. I would consider watching it again.

Unforeseen
$1.99
I am not sure if this was a movie intended to appeal to my prurient instincts (yes, that it did) but I do think there's a good deal of quality to the movie, and I don't think the director really intended this to be just another sexed up movie. Instead, I think the director was willing to let the producers make the first scenes get sexed up so that people would rent it, then would find there are other more solid, durable qualities that make the movie worth watching.

I watched all the way through, and it stood the test of a full-length movie, for me. It was good.