I have no idea how this film came to be in my NetFlix queue, but I’m glad I finally popped it in. Imagine if David Lynch wrote and directed an episode of Firefly. As a rock musical. This is one of those low budget films where such constraints actually elevate the art. The costumes and props are brilliant. The special effects are barely there, with fantastic still frames standing in for any sort of animation. And it stars The Man Who Looks Exactly Like Hugh Jackman But Somehow Isn’t.

Anyone considering this film should be warned that it is an acquired taste, not for casual consumption. If you couldn’t sit through Eraserhead or Mullholland Drive, then American Astronaut will test your sanity.

But it is one of my new all-time favorite films.

1. Children of Men
2. Stay
3. American Astronaut
4. Pan’s Labyrinth
5. Apocalypto
6. Heavenly Creatures
7. Uzumaki
8. The Host
9. Russian Ark
10. Ghost World