For Your Consideration - A Little Bit for Everyone But Us Edition

For Your Consideration is a weekly round-up of upcoming indie limited releases. The idea is to either expose you to or remind you of films that can't afford to plaster their posters on the sides of buildings or accompany your Happy Meal in toy form.

Welcome to a weekend filled with a little something for everyone, except for us here at Calanander. Looking for some tried-and-true-and-is-this-stuff-still-around torture porn? Then look no further than Saw VI. Want something a bit less convoluted? Hit up the still going strong micro-budget "Iz Can Be Filmmaeker Now, Plees?" stylings of Paranormal Activity. But maybe neither of those are enough for you, perhaps you don't have a soft spot for cinema verite-y horror, and the bloody soap-opera aesthetics of Saw VI are just too hackneyed for you. If that's the case, check out Lars Von Triers love-it-or-hate-it-he's-still-the-self-professed-greatest-director-alive's latest effort: Antichrist. We personally fall on the hate it side of it's spectrum, but if you enjoy what he does, then you're going to hit this up anyway. If nothing else, check out the haunting trailer and try to pretend the film isn't wildly reported to be a master class in misogyny.

Don't want horror? Need a little action? There's an Ong Bak for that. Ong Bak 2 to be exact. Tony Jaa punches elephants in this one - and they no doubt cut to 4 different camera angle replays of it. Pumped? Yeh, us neither.

Does none of that sound appealing? Do you just want award season to start already? Well, then may I introduce Ms. Swank's latest entry into her never ending quest to not only out Oscar Meryl Streep, but teach her the glorious power of win percentages: Amelia. Unfortunately, early reviews confirm the suspicions set forth by the trailer; this film is little more than a by-the-numbers period bit of Oscar bait completely devoid of any spark or jazz. On a positive note, the film's refusal to use much CGI is said to grant a certain beauty to the aerial scenes.

Unfortunately if you're looking for something different, something more - something character based, but not heavy handed or cliche - then you'll unfortunately have to wait another week or two or just catch up on other films currently in theatres.

And those are all the films worth noting, but not recommending. You'll find the trailers for them and the other films not even worth noting below.

Everything & Everything Else

SAW VI


ANTICHRIST


ONG BAK 2


AMELIA


UNTITLED