Where God Left His Shoes

Drama, 2008 (NR)

Starring: John Leguizamo, Leonor Varela

A man tries to find a job in order to qualify for an apartment on Christmas Eve so he can get his family out of a homeless shelter for the holidays.

• My heart really went out to this family.
• The situation for the family literally just goes from bad to worse as they are evicted from their apartment and find themselves in a homeless shelter.
• Frank feels so terrible that no matter how hard he tries he can't do anything to help his family. The odds are totally against him.
• What moved me to tears is seeing that no matter how little they had there was still so much love between Frank and his wife. He had nothing to offer her but his love and no matter how bad things got she always loved him back.
• Wonderful movie.

5 STARS

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Martyrs

Foreign/Horror, 2008 (NR)

Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylene Jampano

Rundown: This movie is about a child who escaped from a horrific torture chamber as a child and what happens when she ends up back at the scene of her torment 15 years later.

• This movie is in a word disturbing.
• I have never seen anything like it.
• Extremely graphic and violent.
• I have a high tolerance for violence and gore in movies and even I was left stunned after what I saw. I simply didn't know what to think.
• Certain images from the movie replayed in my head hauntingly so even a couple days after watching.
• It had me literally looking up the word 'martyrs' on wikipedia and then pondering its meaning and how it ties in with the movie.

5 Stars

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