Best movies you've never heard of revealed here
Beau Stucki
Issue date: 3/3/10 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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Still, good movies find a way of getting through sometimes.
Movie lovers already know about "Shawshank Redemption," "The Dark Knight" and "Finding Nemo," but some good movies just don't get the audience attention they deserve.
Readers should note that this is not an attempt to select the best movies of any category, nor are the movies listed in any order of preference.
"Brick" (2005) is written and directed by Rian Johnson, photographed by Steve Yedlin, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner and Matt O'Leary.
"Brick" is a hardboiled detective story; a throwback to the film-noir movies of the '30s and '40s, set in a modern day high school.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 Days of Summer) fills the Humphrey Bogart role as Brendan Frye, a self-imposed loner who's still in love with his former girlfriend.
The opening scene shows his ex-girlfriend lying dead in a gutter, with Brendan standing over her in the despair of arriving too late. The mystery never lets up from there.
The story is thoroughly entertaining and gripping. It feeds cleverly crafted dialogue through a maze of tough thugs, sassy dames, drug dealers and crime pins as its hero desperately searches for the answers to this cool caper.
Movie goers who liked "The Fugitive" or "The Brothers Bloom" should see "Brick."
"An Ideal Husband" (1999) is written and directed by Oliver Parker, photographed by David Johnson, and stars Rupert Everett, Jeremy Northam and Minnie Driver.
"Husband" is based on the play of the same title by Oscar Wilde and permeates with the wit and sophistry of its author.
Sir Robert Chiltern (Northam) is enjoying a successful career in politics and has won the admiration of the public when an old acquaintance appears with a piece of information that could take it all away.
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