Director Fabian Bielinsky’s directorial debut was a great movie called Nine Queens, released in 2000. Five years later he directed El Aura. And with this great film he completely avoided any kind of "sophomore slump" - let’s call it the sophomore bump.

The Secret Life Of Words is about Hannah, a hearing impaired factory worker (Sarah Polley) who is forced to take her first holiday in years and ends up traveling out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man, Josef, suffering from severe burns who is also temporarily blind (Tim Robbins). There are six other people on the rig, which has been shut down due to the accident that led to Josef's injuries.

Josie And The Pussycats is a film that I think could have appealed to two very separate audiences but instead just ended up getting lost to both.

Bug is a film that came and went, back in 2007, with relatively little fanfare. Which I remember finding somewhat surprising given that it was directed by William Friedkin. Although, maybe I shouldn’t have been, given that most of the general film-going public probably wouldn’t recognize the name or his place in film history.

Hunger is the story of the last six weeks of Bobby Sands - an Irish republican who went on a hunger strike while in prison in 1981. What is so interesting about this film is that we don't really get introduced to bobby sands until maybe the second third of the the movie. The first third of the film is focused on one of the english guards in the prison and two other inmates. Actually, there are so many interesting things about this film, and that is but one of them.