I couldn't really include this with the others, this deserves a little page on its own, we're talking so far out of left field that you'll need more the head gear to protect yourself when it hits...

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Mullholland Drive - stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring

Wow, David "Twin Peaks" Lynch strikes again! I tell you, if there's one person that can start start somewhere, take you nowhere, and finish up anywhere, its big Dave. I quite enjoyed "Lost Highway", and for a whole bunch of reasons that make me hate the more mainstream movies that tend to hit town, and that was my reason for hiring this. I mean what's next right? The video store chick looked at me and said "You do realise that this is really weird right?", I'm like "Yeah, this is David Lynch!", she goes "Oh, so you're a fan? Have you seen Lost Highway?", I'm like "Hell yeah, great flick", she's like "Well this is 5 times weirder then that". I go "So what's normal?", she shutup. I hate when people question my tastes, I mean why would you do that, does she think she knows me? Same thing happened when I hired Magnolia, and that was from a chick who'd never even seen it. Get outa my face, at once! But I digress...

I can't give you anything about the plot, nothing at all about the characters, but I can tell you this is cinematic genius! David has the midus touch when it comes to painting moving pictures, and it must be a painstaking process for everyone involved...except Dave of course, this is his bread and butter.

Stunning performance by Naomi Watts, her best by a mile. She came to fair prominence back in '95 with Tank Girl, then appeared in one of my personal fav's from the Aussie industry "Strange Planet". But here she's broken any boundary, any stereo type, and pigeon hole she might've been in, I was totally blown away. Oh and Heegs, she's got a great bod man, I'll say no more. Laura Harring is also picture perfect, though I'm not familiar with any of her previous work. The rest of the cast are typical Lynch fair, and how cool was it seeing Marcus "Good Guys Bad Guys" Graham playing his cameo, top stuff.

Now for anyone not familiar with David's cinema work, let me warn you, he's an acquired taste. Don't go into it thinking plot line, structure, logic, caus' there ain't none of this, and worse, its competely the opposite. But don't shy away from it just because its a challenge, and it is a challenge, this thing sends your brain into overdrive just trying to work out where its going and why. There's lots of silence, lots of overtones, characters and sub-stories that don't even get explained, and toward the end you're thrown in a complete spin when the characters all start...I can't say, just go see it.

Be challenged, be mind blown, put yourself where you may not have gone before. 4 stars.

BH