That's a pity about Jauja… I hope you enjoy The Salvation! I've yet to watch The Hunt, so I'll get on that right away :) Looming binge!

I hope Jauja ended up being as good as the trailer made it look (which is very).

"AA": Appropriate in light of all the (assault and) battery.

You don't want to know what I was on while watching Crank…

Me too. It actually deflated my hopes of a Jeff/Annie 'ship: people don't joke around that crassly with their secret love.

"the surrealism is usually more subdued and doesn't factor into the actual narrative"

Dang it all to heck, I clicked! :)

The Limey is great and it's quite stylized in parts, with little sequences shown out of chronological order. It also uses old film footage of both Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda.

I have a bias against Wild Card in that I can't bear to watch the trope where the gambler can't resist betting his huge winnings one more time, after which he naturally loses it all; it just makes me anxious and heartsick. But the movie has two or three great sequences (the spoon attack, and a girl kicking the shit…

LOL at "The AA"! I don't think you can call it that unless everyone agrees: they're unanimous, you know.

From the Wikipedia list, Snowpiercer and The American seem like perfectly representative examples.

Looking at Jason Statham's filmography, a few more of his movies might count: Wild Card (great takedown with blunt silverware); Parker (real-estate hijinx); Redemption (hot nun); Safe (cannot tell it apart from a Transporter movie); Blitz (Paddy Considine); The Mechanic (maybe simply action, but lower-budget and…

That's good info to have, the name of the subgenre; I'm surprised there are enough exemplars to warrant coining the term. Thank you for the heads-up! I liked "Hanna" a lot, and "Killing Them Softly," though 'talkier' than one would expect, was refreshingly original. "Seven Psychopaths" was, appropriately enough,…

Tom Welling is in this?

One of the flavors is strange.

We could, like, mortgage Rhode Island. That's a good thirty or forty bucks easy.

She was so good I feel like high-fiving her parents.

I look forward to the creative mispronunciation of "lox."

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever Dean.

I think you need to make that "everyone" a little more shout-y.