The Boys from Baghdad High, 2007

Follows four high school boys from Baghdad. Much of the footage is shot by the boys themselves.




An interesting view of life in a war-torn country, that asks the question: how different are we really?



Melody's Stars: **


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system

Son of Rambow, 2007

Set in England in the early 1980s, a young boy from a religious family becomes friends with a trouble-maker who owns a video camera. The unlikely friends pair up to make a movie together. Complications arise when a popular French exchange student wants to join in.



Staring Bill Milner, Will Poulter and Jules Sitruk. Directed by Garth Jennings. Bittersweet, funny coming-of-age story.

Melody's Stars: ***


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system