June movies

Hide and Seek - This sucked!

Watched some Buffy episodes on DVD. I loved the movie, but never got into the tv show. After getting hooked on Firefly, gave these a chance. Pretty funny stuff.

Blind Date - crazy 80s movie

Best of Youth - why did this make so many critics' top 10 of 2005 lists? Way too long, way too soap opera, and although they kept setting up lots of possible intrigue and suspense, there just wasn't much.

Transamerica - glad I finally saw it. Felicity Huffman deserved the oscar.

LA Confidential - hadn't seen it in awhile, don't own it for some reason, so Netflixed it. Enjoyable, well done.

Adaptation - one of the funniest movies ever made. Charlie Kaufman is a total hoot.

The Family Stone - somewhat funny story of a dysfunctional Christmas.

May movies

Tristan & Isolde - average.

Breakfast on Pluto - lovely and sad.

Bee Season - liked the book a lot, but this wasn't too badly done

Munich - more interesting, less preachy than I imagined. Complex and interesting in a way I did not expect.

The New World - very beautiful to look at.

Amelie - one of my all time favorites

Last Holiday - better than expected. I really like Latifah.

An Unfinished Life - I really liked this story of people with a bad past coming together for a renewed future. JLo can't really act, but Morgan Freeman and Robert Redford keep things moving. The young girl was a real natural, too.

O Brother Where Art Thou - another all time favorite

Jarhead - more interesting than I thought it would be

Reruns: The Aviator, Boogie Nights, Barcelona, Eve's Bayou.

April movies

Memoirs of a Geisha - slept through it.

The Squid and the Whale - well done portrait of a dysfunctional family.

Derailed - what a dog of a movie. Even Clive Owen couldn't save this one.

Cache - recent Michael Haneke with Auteuil and Binoche. Very intriguing but the sudden violence toward the end is beyond shocking. Like Code Inconnu, you're never exactly sure what the hell is going on.

Good Night and Good Luck - better than I expected, enjoyed it a lot.

Match Point - had a lot to say at the time, but for now I'll leave it at this: Crimes and Misdemeanors remains Woody Allen's masterpiece. He should not have tried to replow that ground, not with this weak plot and those two weak actors.

Prime - hilarious! This is the one where Uma Thurman is in love with the younger man who turns out to be the son of her therapist. A sad ending when I was hoping for a happy one.

Manhattan - don't even know how many times I've seen this. The intro is classic. Hemingway's closing lines get me every time.

Rewatched Firefly episodes. Can't say enough about how much I love that darned show.

March movies

Cripes, didn't realize I hadn't posted since the Oscars. Oh well.

March 2006 -

Proof - I liked this one, a twisty plot, although I hated to see Hope Davis having to play such a shrew.

Flightplan - Better than expected. Very suspenseful.

Ultra Violet - some of us really wanted to go to a movie and there really wasn't much playing. We had fun saying "Blood Chinois" for a weeks after. And wouldn't it be cool to change your hair color, clothing color, everything with just a touch of a button? Yeah, OK, moving on.

Bubble - Disappointing.

A History of Violence - I liked it, those stories of people turning out to be someone else are always interesting on a certain level.

Walk the Line - wow, much better than I thought it would be.

The Ice Harvest - I love John Cusack, I wanted to love this movie, but it bugged me.

Where the Truth Lies - most recent Atom Egoyan, an interesting story of a Lewis & Martin type duo and their sordid past. Complex.

Lord of War - an interesting portrait of a gun smuggler. Nic Cage is pretty versatile.

The Inside Man - Superb! An excellent caper with lots of suspense and unexpected twists. Spike Lee is the man. Oh, and I can't forget the obligatory Clive Owen is hot comment :-)

Love Song for Bobby Long - I liked this even more this time. It's sentimental but I love it.

The Weatherman - a well done portrait of a dysfunctional family. Another solid Nic Cage performance.

Elizabethtown - Cameron Crowe is a bit too self-indulgent. I liked parts of this, but it went on a bit long, although the end was the best -- I'm a sucker for such romantic plot twists.

Reruns - 2046, Happy Times, Broken Flowers, The Crying Game, Speed, In the Cut, Bread and Tulips, Personal Velocity, Eros.