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Firewall (2006)
Can't find a reference to the original in any of the reviews...
Interestingly enough, the director of Firewall (Richard Loncraine) made a very similar movie with a different cast way back in 1987. Bellman and True, starring Bernard Hill in the Harrison Ford role (can't you imagine him as a middle-aged computer geek?), and a lot of good English characters as the bad guys.
Hill's step-son, referred to as "The Boy" all the way through the film, is an important, integral, mouthy character, as opposed to being a weepy, frightened little hostage. What violence there is in this movie is minimal but shocking. No surprise that the computer geek is a pretty timid, easily cowed guy, generally not the most physical of people.
The bad guy characters are WAY more interesting, and certainly just as menacing. It's also a fascinating look into the mind of the working British gangster in the late 80s.
You can find the VHS for sale (as a bargain-basement sale on Half.com), but this has never made it to DVD. Hopefully, Handmade Films will eventually give this wonderful movie the format it deserves.
Sour Death Balls (1993)
Painfully funny
Essentially, this little movie is a series of headshots of people (mostly children) trying to keep a very nasty candy in their mouths for as long as possible. For some it's simply an interesting experience; for others, it's THE worst thing they've EVER tasted. Some kind of Chinese sour/salty plum thing, I think.
The music is delightful, a kind of sleazy fifties tango with a long, drawling trumpet.
Not one child liked this candy as far as I can tell. Especially love the image of a little girl wearing a paper crown and a necklace made of rings of construction paper, with an absolutely disgusted look on her face. Kind of a "But I'm a PRINCESS" look. The adults range from the sort of confused "why would anyone eat this?" to the "Oh. My. GOD." kind of thing.