SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

jake-flys-helos This movie was really entertaining and had a lot going for it in the story, but I felt like the last 20 minutes of the film just got cut out. Climax, then straight to end credits, with no resolution. The characters and their plights were all appealing and drawing, but the lack of resolution really left me disappointed.

secondtake The Little Death (2014)A quirky, funny indy film about young people trying to stay in love through sex. It involves a series of different couples who each try to keep their love lives alive in different ways—and with most of them backfiring. While never quire hilarious, it is consistently witty and surprising. Yes, a dark comedy of sorts, but very bright and light, too.The lynchpin is worth seeing the movie alone. That is, a deaf man calls a sex line through an online interpreter, who can read his hand signals and repeat them to the sex call provider. The layering, the surprising wit and double entendres, the wonderful acting both restrained and comic, it's all nothing short of brilliant. Textbook brilliant. See it, at the end.There is eventually an interweaving of stories that might seem forced, but really this is about the individual story lines that rotate back and forth, in parallel. In all a beautifully rendered look at young lives in Australia, ordinary people shown to be more than just average. Like all of us.

Kneto Magneto The epitome of a good romantic comedy is usually a Woody Allen for me, and even though I also enjoy the cheaper flicks, I didn't quite think this film would come close to the former, but it does. This film is heart warming and very cleverly written. It was (actually) touching at times and in general really funny. One would think, since it tackles the subject of sex, there would be at least a couple of dumb jokes in there, but there aren't, it's quite amazing. Through it's non-linear writing the movie stays interesting until the end. The acting of all parties involved was stellar!And here comes my spoiler: it's partly tragic! How refreshing, to not sit through a movie that is completely foreseeable and relies on poor plot twists the closer it comes to the end, just in order to wrap up everything nice and neatly. The makers consider the viewer mature enough to not be completely at loss when there is not "happy end" spelled out at the end, figuratively and literally. (And yet there is a happy end...) I can see that some people might have trouble with these open ends for some of the story lines, but they ultimately make the film believable, and, to me, staying realistic is a desirable quality in film and not of disadvantage. Seeing this in a romantic comedy is a healthy change from the norm.

julycarla I expected good things from this film that seemed on the surface like it was about exploring love and fetishes. I was shocked by the disturbing messages of mysogyny. The director did a Q&A and talked about how the things in the film were "harmless" yet it involves a vignette that depicts a husband that drugs his wife and drags her around the house unconscious and tries to depict him as a loving spouse. Yeah, the movie got its laughs, but I think a lot of the women in the audience were laughing more out of shock and bandwagon approach than laughing because they thought this was in any way acceptable. It goes to show how far off-base the disconnect really is between a man's perception and humor and the reality of the world women live in. This was telling a sexist joke to a group of women and expecting them to "see it your way". I don't think story lines like this do anything to make the world a more positive place and exemplify how far we still need to go as a society. I also didn't like how reductive and basic fetishes were made out to be. What I saw here was a bunch of cheap shots at humor and jokes that were just immature. There were some decent vignettes and laughs mixed in but as a woman (and a very liberal one at that), even I found these scenes (and passing them off as harmless or funny) very disturbing, as I did the sex offender character and how no one seemed to care about his crimes over something as small as cookies. Totally unrealistic. To be honest, that storyline didn't feel too different to me from the drugged woman, just really creepy unacceptable behavior being passed off as funny, amusing, or no big deal. Yikes. I really have to worry about what messages this person is sending out.