Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

Me And You And Everyone We Know (2005)Me and You and Everyone We Know” tells the story of Richard Swersey (John Hawkes) and Christine Jesperson (Miranda July) and how they get along in their daily lives.

Richard just separated from his wife and is taking care of his two sons when not working as a shoe salesman and Christine is struggling to become an artist and driving a cab for elderly people to make a living.

They fall in love with each other, a love at first sight sort of thing and a complicated one. The one just divorced and afraid to lose his children. The other yearning for the perfect man, expressing herself in ways no one else cares or is able to understand. They both find themselves at the crossroads of their lives. Which way will they turn?

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The Brothers Grimm (2005)

Brothers Grimm (2005)The Brothers Grimm” is a silly movie. It has a certain pythonesque quality that you need to be able to appreciate otherwise you will most likely think it’s a stupid movie. It isn’t. There are of course countless references to Grimm fairy tales and sometimes these are presented in a most absurd manner – something you have to expect from Terry Gilliam and it’s something he delivers.

At one point we suddenly cut to the two brothers Wilhem (Matt Damon) and Jacob Grimm (Heath Ledger) wearing bonnets while scrubbing the floor and making dinner for their italian torture master Cavaldi (Peter Stormare), easy to spot as a reference to “Cinderella” but also very… “pythonesque”.

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“Mass Effect” for XBox 360

Bioware does it again! “Jade Empire” was one of the reasons why I bought an XBox and if I ever needed a better reason to buy an XBox 360 then “Mass Effect” is it. I just love space RPGs and this dystopian space odyssey most certainly has me interested and I am very much looking forward to finding out more about the revolutionary RPG it promises! Oh, and the ambient sound on the site is very reminiscent of the “Fallout” theme, don’t you think?