A Hijacking

 Here's a good Danish movie.  A Hijacking (2012) is about a Danish cargo ship that's taken by African pirates.

If you're looking for "Die Hard VIII: Vengeance On The High Seas" this is not your movie.

This is a slow-developing (at first), highly-suspenseful drama - more concerned with humanity than bullet-ridden bad buys. Thank you, Denmark!

The acting is great. It seemed more like a documentary than fiction. But I really liked its use of subtitles and different languages. These may seem like a trivial things, but writer/director Tobias Lindholm uses these better than any movie I've ever seen before.

I, personally, would've made a couple different choices than Lindholm did later in the film. But it really is a personal, suspenseful drama worth renting!

Room 237

Did you like Stanley Kubrik's 1980 masterpiece The Shining? 

Yes: Watch Room 237! 
It's OK: Watch Room 237!
No: Skip the rest of this review. (And re-rent The Shining!)
Never Seen It: Rent it now! (Then goto step 1)

Room 237 offers an insight into The Shining's hidden meaning. (If it has one.) 

It has a disclaimer at the beginning (and on the poster) distancing itself from Kubrik, Kubrik's family and the studio. This may not be what the director had intended. Or did he?

This documentary is a fascinating look into its possible interpretations, reading between the lines, of a brilliant movie from a brilliant director.

What I loved about this movie is that it actually shows what the pontificator is talking about. Arrows point to t-shirts, posters, they enlarge stuff, etc.

And I love that, as in The Shining, things are never as simple as you'd like.

The beautiful part is I actually know the answer. I'd tell you the real meaning - and it may or may not be in Room 237 - but I'll keep you guessing for a while.