Brick (DVD)

- Story - A lonely teenager, Brendan, finds his ex girlfriend Emily dead near the entrance to a nearby sewer and is left wondering what happened. He slowly remembers a phone call from a few days back, when she hinted that she was in trouble. He ends up...

It's a very clever concept, to be fair: taking a film noir style and applying it to the modern day American high school setting and characters. The direction is crisp for the most part, the acting quite good (again for the most part), and the elements...