Lifer Movies

Title: Free Jimmy Rating: 2.5/5 Genre: Animation, Comedy Starring: Woody Harrelson, Simon Pegg Director: Christopher Nielsen Four stoners, five vegans, three mobsters, four hunters and a million reasons to free one junkie elephant. Sometimes, even when a film succeeds in getting on board a whole host of stars, a film just doesn't seem able to get it's foot in the door; Free Jimmy tells the tragic tale filled with heartache, tragedy, hope, and a whole lot of drugs. This is one animated film that won't be accepted by the family friendly Pixar or Dreamworks industry; in fact they had to travel all the way to Norway to find a company with a sense of humour strong enough to tackle this material. When three stoners agree to join their old buddy in working at a dodgy Russian circus, what they didn't expect was Jimmy; an elephant addicted to crack, who in true style soon escapes from his incompetent captors. Onwards ensues their quest to save Jimmy, but they aren't...

Title: Dead Snow (Død Snø) Rating: 4/5 Genre: Horror/Comedy Language: Norwegian (Eng. Subs) Ein! Zwei! Die! As a huge horror genre fan(and self-confessed zombie aficionado), it was with some reservation that I approached this Norwegian entry into the horror comedy sweepstakes. The reasons for this were twofold. First of all, over the last decade, the industry has been flooded with zombie pictures (indeed, horror/comedy), and even I was suffering from a little fatigue with the sub-genre. Secondly, I knew very little of the Norwegian film scene, and was wary of a film shot in this little known industry. Well, forget all of that because this film is a stunning success, a fitting addition into the cream of zombie film lore. The plot involves a ski trip by several medical students which is interrupted by unspeakable evil, Nazi zombies!!!! The film begins without promise, rounding the bases in terms of horror cliché. We have the standard mix of youthful characters, each representing a certai...