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All posts in this blog are intended to highlight movies (either really good or really bad) that run the risk of being overlooked by the public. Great movies that are well known to the general public need not apply. The following movie is in the Good category: Defendor stars Woody Harrelson as Arthur Poppington, a man with a developmental disability who puts on a makeshift costume and fights crime as Defendor while seeking out Captain Industry, whom he believes killed his parents. Along the way he meets and befriends a street worker, Kat Debrofkowitz (Kat Dennings). This movie, by first time director Peter Stebbings could have gone horribly wrong. When your lead character has a developmental disability, the acting needs to be a bit restrained, and Harrelson has been known to overact at times. Thankfully here he hits the right note. Arthur is sympathetic but believable, neither a caricature nor some idealized person with a disability; he’s no Forrest Gump spouting words o...

All posts in this blog are intended to highlight movies (either really good or really bad) that run the risk of being overlooked by the public. Great movies that are well known to the general public need not apply. The following movie is in the Good category: The German movie What To Do In Case of Fire, original name Was tun, wenn's brennt? (2001) is about a long disbanded group of anarchists who are forced back together when a bomb they planted in Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall over a decade earlier finally detonates. With the police now after them, the group is forced back together and forced to examine their old life including why they left (except for one of them who's still active), and the life they now have. This movie is a great look at how our ideals change as we get older and start a new life, and how we must sometimes reconcile who we were with who we are now. I've seen comments online from people commenting on historical inaccuracies, and i...