The Small Back Room, An American Crime, & Prick Up Your Ears

The Small Back Room is about a drunk bomb expert with a metal leg doing his thing in WWII Britain. As such, it really isn't all that interesting, but it's a Powell & Pressburger film, so I watched it. It's melodramatic to a fault that their other films never approached.

An American Crime has Ellen Page, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, and James Franco in a small role. It's about the true story of a woman who has her children and neighborhood kids torture a boarder in 1965 Indiana. Eesh. Miserable film, especially with the Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge ending. That this is based on a true story makes me wonder how people can do this sort of thing to other people.

Prick Up Your Ears is the story of Joe Orton, a gay British playwright in the 1960s, who was murdered by his lover. Stephen Frears directed, Alan Bennett wrote it, Gary Oldman, Alfred Molina, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, and Wallace Shawn are in it. So it's really extremely good. Maybe a little depressing, but man, Gary Oldman is great.