Shooting new reviews for MovieWithMe.com is a lot of work. We’re constantly searching for what we like (and think you will like too), choosing clips, shooting New York City backgrounds, writing copy, arguing about the best and worst attributes of the films, scheduling make-up and shooting, editing, coding-and finally getting the reviews up on the site.

In the rush of all this, our focus is on the new films we are adding, and we often lose track of the gems already on the site. Here are two that I keep thinking back on (there are others, but two is enough for one blog post). They are: OUTSOURCED and COMMONWEALTH. Outsourced is the kind of romance that plays like a good novel. He’s and American sent to straighten out his phone sales company office in India, she’s one of the telephone reps. He falls in love with her, and with India.

I guess falling in love with a country as well as a girl is not something we see very often, and it is one thing that makes Outsourced very special. Common Wealth is the very worst name for a movie. It sounds like a British political treatise. Who would suspect it is actually a dark comedy about human greed filmed in Madrid? The Spanish title is “Comunidad,” and it refers to an apartment house where an old man has won the lottery and hidden the money in his cramped garret apartment. Everyone in the building knows it, and knows they only need to wait until he dies to rush in and find the money. But real estate agent Carmen Maura (a very funny comedienne) is selling an apartment in the building and decides to try it out with her lover for a night. She discovers the money (how she discovers it is part of the “dark” in dark comedy). Is that a great set-up? Take a look at Cris’s review and the clip with it.