Fairly recent would be good, last 5 years or so, American, gritty, exciting, dramatic, interesting, quirky, well acted, limited release type stuff,guns?

what is/was there?

ypu can’t go wrong, doubt i’ve seen it

How I Spent My Summer with Mel Gibson

End of Watch… Best film I’ve seen in some time.

Despicable Me 1 & 2.
Not what you asked for, but funny as.

Red

Drive

Bad Ass

50/50.

Joseph Gordon Levitt is brilliant. Funny, sad, heartwarming etc

Nothing but the Truth

The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty are worth a watch

kick ass
monsters
127 hours
black swan
tinker tailor
xmen 1st class
dredd
cabin in the woods
batman

Lawless is worth a watch, Brick too but that’s a bit more than 5 years old. If you’re up for a foreign language film then Headhunters (Norwegian) is one of the best films I’ve seen in a while.

Argo, a bit Yee-ha! Americah! But a really well made film.

Fish Story

It’s kind of a funny story – good lovefilm find the other day, based around a mental health clinic, deep, dark and funny.
Otherwise, the Adjustment Bureau surprised me, thought it would be quite different and Inception is one of those films that needs rewatching to see what you missed, like Fight Club/Donnie Darko/Pulp Fiction

Starbuck, French Canadian with sub titles, I thought it was going to be a bit **** but turned out to be one of the funniest films I’ve watched recently…

Argo, End of Watch, Hurt Locker, Drive +1
Flight
Warm Bodies
were the last 2 I watched

In Bruges , best film I’ve seen for years . Brilliantly acted , great story , beautifully paced , well filmed .

Ticks all your boxes except not American which IMO is usually a good thing .

the watchmen

Garden state, bit older though but a truly brilliant film.

Syriana
Zero Dark Thirty
Inglourious Basterds

For a slight change of pace, The Men Who Stared at Goats

Populaire
Hitchcock
Let the right one in (Swedish version)

Just watched Sightseers, not big on comedy but was funny, and had a potential STW’er in it.

Also, Jack Reacher – not bad for Tom Cruise

The bike Thief (1948)

Django Unchained – For Leonardo’s performance.

Also, Jack Reacher – not bad for Tom Cruise

Still not good, watched it on a plane, passed the time thats it. More comedy though

Cabin in the woods! You are having a laugh.. the crappest film!
Time

Bronson – not 100% its American but a damned good watch…

Cheers

Danny B

super 8.