The Academy award winning film, Crash was a 1995 hit. Starring an A-list ensemble of actors, Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, and William Fichtner, Crash is poignant, riveting, and intense.

The director, Paul Haggis describes this movie as a “passion piece”. That’s very apparent, the way every character is crafted. I cared about every character and they were all “human”. Sure, far from perfect, but trying, each in his own peculiar way, to do what’s right.

It would be simple to say that this movie is about racism. It’s not. It’s true message seemed to be that racism is just an excuse, a way of finding differences amongst ourselves where no differences really exist.

Check out the Crash movie trailer here.

I had a chance to view one of the five movies nominated for an Oscar in the Best Picture category for 2007, “Little Miss Sunshine”.

Here’s the Little Miss Sunshine Movie Trailer.

The cast is an ensemble starring Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell and Greg Kinnear.

Watching the antics of this dysfunctional family was amusing. Their quest to get Olive to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant in a broken down VW van was not without it’s mishaps.

The ending scenes will bring a tear to your eye, and place laughter in your heart. I rather doubt Little Miss Sunshine will bring home the Oscar, but if you enjoy the quirky movies Fox Searchlight Pictures puts out, you’ll probably enjoy this.