Montage Film Reviews Sunday DVD Rental Suggestion - (SDRSP)

The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of 17-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood. Over the course of a summer, the two best friends, while living out a carefree cross-country escapade with a gorgeous older woman, also find connection with each other, themselves and the world around them.

Two brothers slip in and out of blackmail as a career choice.

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez) a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer (Gael García Bernal) who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance encounter, the character reflects on her childhood sexual victimization and the trauma of closeting her sexual orientation.

"Amores Perros" is a bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Inventively structured as a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narratives, "Amores Perros" explores the lives of disparate characters who are catapulted into unforeseen dramatic situations instigated by the seemingly inconsequential destiny of a dog named Cofi.

Before he actually signs up to the Communist Party Argentinean Ernesto Guevara Del la Serna travels across the South American Islands on a rusty motorcycle with a friend. The injustices that he sees along the way will shape his political ideals for the future.

The Pre-Crime Corporation has the ability to detect murders before they happen. By using this ability they have eradicated murder in the District of Columbia. However when the process names one of their own as the next perpetrator everything goes pear shaped. John Atherton becomes a man on the run once the authorities become convinced that he is about to commit a murder, but he begs to differ as he has never even met the man that he is supposed to kill.

Johnny Walker (Mickey Rourke) is a down-and-out boxer with brain damage who has recently moved into a sea-side resort. He falls in love with Ruby, a carnival owner who has a lot in common with Johnny. He also befriends Wesley Pendergrass (Christopher Walken), a corrupt promoter. Wesley and Johnny form a strong friendship, and it's clear that Johnny comes to idolize Wesley who wants to use Johnny as muscle in a robbery and asks for his help. Johnny has to choose between the love of Ruby (Debra Feuer) or the friendship of Wesley.

Hubert Selby Jr.’s book of rape, violence, poverty, drug abuse and homosexuality comes to life on screen with a cast of performers who would then go on to make big names for themselves.

Five Corners is a neighbourhood that the 50’s is very much trying to hold on to, but the sixties will not be denied its days of glory and as the civil rights movement moves in to town a ghost from the past threatens to drag everyone in to hell with it. The neighbourhood has been reasonably quiet since the incarceration of Heniz the local psychopath, but when he is released his former victims engage their brains in order to come up with a plan to protect themselves from him with fatal results.

Monster is a 2003 crime drama film about serial killer Aileen Wuornos a former prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men (she was not tried for a seventh murder) in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Wuornos is played by Charlize Theron and her semi-fictionalized lover, Selby Wall (based on Wuornos' real-life girlfriend Tyria Moore), was played by Christina Ricci.

The Misfits is a 1961 American drama film written by Arthur Miller, directed by John Huston, and starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift. The supporting cast features Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach and Kevin McCarthy. It marked the last completed film of Gable and Monroe. For Gable, the film was posthumously released, while Monroe died the following year. The plot centers on a recently divorced woman (Monroe) and her time spent with a cowboy (Gable) and his rodeo-riding friend (Clift) in the Western Nevada desert in the 1960s. The film was a commercial failure at the time of its release, but received positive critical comments for its script and performances, and is highly regarded today.