Movie #149 - 28 Days Later *2002*

Reason 1.  The empty London streets.

Reason 2.  Fast zombies.

Reason 3.  Danny Boyle is like Steven Spielberg poessed by the devil.

Rating:  ★★★★

Movie #148 The Killer *1989*

Reason 1.  "The Killer had two 45's, now everybody wants two 45's".

Reason 2.  Advertised as more BPM's (bullets per minute) than any film prior.

Reason 3.  Quintessential John Woo action scenes.

Rating:  ★★★1/2

Movie #147 Rififi *1955*

Reason 1.  A 20+ minute dialouge free heist scene.

Reason 2.  Le Stéphanois.

Reason 3.  The song Rififi being sung at the French night club.

Rating:  ★★★★1/2

Movie #146 Do the Right Thing *1989*

Reason 1.  The Public Enemy soundtrack

Reason 2.  The best use of ice ever put to film.

Reason 3.  It's the most important black film since Sweet Sweetback's Baddddassss Song.

Rating:  ★★★★★

Movie #145 The Wild Bunch *1969*

Reason 1.  Slow motion ultra violence.

Reason 2. The cast: Warren Oats, William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Struther Martin & Ben Johnson

Reason 3.  Peckinpah's delicate, subtle nature.

Rating: ★★★★

Movie #144 8 1/2 *1963*

Reason 1.  It is the film everyone mocks when they are trying to spoof an Italian black and white 60's film.

Reason 2.  Federico Fellini

Reason 3.  The women.  I posted that 8 1/2 has more beautiful women in it that I had ever seen on screen.

Rank: ★★★★1/2

Movie #143 The Adjustment Bureau *2011*

Reason 1.  The Chemistry between Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.

Reason 2. If you are a fan of fedoras...

Reason 3. Terribly flawed script based on a Phillip K Dick short story.

Rating: ★★★1/2