The Jane Austen Book Club (viewed 4/25/08)

A great movie. Very entertaining for Janites. I can't wait to go back and watch it again and determine who each person is supposed to represent from Jane Austen's novels. Definitely a go see!

The Orphanage (viewed 4/23/08)

Awesome. Guillermo del Toro is a badasssssss. (more to come...)

3:10 to Yuma (viewed 4/20/08)

Awesomeness. Boyfriend was fabulous. Extra backup boyfriend was great, too. Yeah, yeah, more later...

Saboteur (viewed 4/19/08)

Alfred Hitchcock's WWII propaganda movie calling up all patriots and calling out all communists. A very famous scene at the end on the Statue of Liberty. (not to be shy about driving home the concepts of American freedom. Go Alfred.)

Taxi Driver

Netflix cover says: "Alienated, psychotic Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) drives a cab by night in New York City, and spends his days alone in his room or in porno theatres. When he meets 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster), he is determined to save her. After he is rejected by a beautiful campaign worker (Cybill Shepherd), Bickle begins his rampage, starting with an attempted political assassination, and ending with a violent bloodbath in order to rescue Iris. R 114 min. 1976."

Good Will Hunting (viewed 4/8/08)

We watched this movie last night for the first time in years. Our dear friend Lisa was in town for the night and got to pick our movie selection and came up with this one. I always forget how much I love this movie. It makes you want to be a better person and to do more with your life - or at the very least, to be true to your heart. I love to see the actors in it before they became full of themselves in their Hollywood lives and to sense the depth that can be there for their performances but is less and less so (Mr. Affleck, it is you of whom I speak). I love Robin Williams in this movie. You are comfortable in knowing that there will not be any Good Morning Vietnam ad-lib going on and he is so very intense in his depression. Stellan Skarsgard is one of my favorite token weird dudes. I always forget he was in that great movie Wind and most people know him as Bootstrap from the Pirates series. He was also in The Hunt for Red October for you who are trying to place his face from farther back in time. Minnie Driver is another of my favorites. She and my favorite comedian, Eddie Izzard, have a show called The Riches which is quite good. Minnie has also been fabulous in another great movie, An Ideal Husband. Ahh... Rupert. Also, Grosse Pointe Blank.

The Return of the King (viewed 4/4-4/5/08)

Yup. It's good. I'll cover these movies later. Too much to chew.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix (viewed on 4/4/08)

Gonna go get my book out and read this one again. Very excellent.

Sweeney Todd on DVD!!! (viewed 4/4/08)

So happy to have meat pies at home! Missing a song from the soundtrack, however, so that is a bit odd. More later, but you can read my other Sweeney review from when we saw it in the theater.

Atonement (viewed 3/29/08 @ S&R's)

Oh my god. So good. So painful but so, so good. More in depth later...

Becoming Jane (viewed 3/28/08 at GFM)

Quite good. I really liked it and was glad to see they were faithful to her life story for the most part. Very good job by Anne H. and I usually think she has too much artificial sweetener in her roles.

Enchanted (when was this one? 3/23?)

So fun. I didn't think I would like it, but I can watch Amy Adams do anything!

10,000 B.C (viewed on 3/22/08)

Matinee on Easter weekend. In my opinion this is one long entertaining Orbit commercial.

*DING!*

Across the Universe (viewed 3/7/08 and 3/16/08)

Love it. Singing songs in my head right now because of it. I'll delve into it after a glass of wine - later.

G.I. Jane (viewed on 3/2/08)

It still weirds me out to think that Master Chief is Aragon. He is such a jerk in this movie, but that is why we love him. More later...

Outfoxed (viewed 3/1/08)

Makes you think. Makes you not trust the news. Only NPR and the BBC for me.

American Gangster (viewed 2/28/08)

Very excellent.

Michael Clayton

I wanna watch it again already. (I'm playing catch up on my posts but wanted to get it on here so I remember when I saw it!)

Transformers

More than meets the eye! Gonna get back to this one...