She's the Man looks like it's just my kinda comedy. I gotta rent that!

I actually thought Colin Farrell was really strong inMiami Vice, I thought he nailed the whole "living with seediness/becoming sleazy" aspect of the character. I just rewatched it as a rental too, and I thought the movie got a bum rap, and is much stronger than people give it credit for. And Gong Li WAS fantastic...even if that accent wasnt.

I just watched Nine Lives and really enjoyed it. The vignettes are of differing quality, the Jason Isaacs/Robin Wright Penn is easily the strongest, but the acting is universally excellent.

Ah, The Cool and The Crazy, such a bizarre, lifetime-y movie. But pretty.

My friend and I were just saying this the other day - that Sylvia, as portrayed in that movie, was so damned annoying, it almost forced us to be in Ted Hughes' corner.

This Daniel Craig obsession is getting very bad. I rented Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. I vaguely remember seeing it in the theater, and I think I liked it OK then even though I'm unfamiliar with the video game. Honestly, I fast-forwarded through most of it, though I did like the music--Nine Inch Nails and Basement Jaxx, yay. I forgot that Jon Voight plays Angie's dad in the movie. That was a surprise.

Now, about that shower scene. He looks fantastic, he's naked and wet and he's got a gun and he speaks Italian and...I'm sorry, what just happened? I think I just blacked out. But the dialogue is terrible, he really doesn't have much chemistry with Angie and he has to speak with an execrable American accent. I just hope Munich is better.

Clerks II is on my university's movie station -- I definitely want to watch it; I've heard good things from my similarly geeky friends. And The Da Vinci Code has been on as well, which I tuned into just for the LOL factor. Oh, Paul Bettany, you and your strangely hot self and your ridiculous accent made me happy.

I rented The Dreamers. Thanks for the free anatomy lesson, Bertolucci. Seriously, I don't have issues with nudity, but could the nudity a bit less in your face? I now know more about Michael Pitt's and Eva Green's body that I wanted to know. And the strong incest vibes were creepy.

I actually didn't think the incest thing (nor the bisexual thing) was pronounced *enough* to work like the story was supposed to (and did in it's original source material). The Twins should come across as outright depraved, and Bertolucci paints them as more like slightly rebellious taboo flaunting pretty people.

So in the original source material, everything was much more pronounced? The incest and the bisexual thing? And here I thought the whole thing was just your run of the mill coming-of-age/sexual awaking story.

I watched The Librarian : the Quest for the Spear which was every bit as awesome as I had hoped. It was like they'd taken my life and put it on film. So very cool.

I haven't watched them yet, but I rented Last Tango In Paris and The Woodsman from my library. My best friend said that Kevin Bacon's performance in that movie was amazing.

Battle Royale. A Japanese film about some out-of-control kids. The totalitarian government decides they want to do something about it, so they randomly select one seventh-grade class, drug them, and transport them to an island far away. Their task? To kill each other until there's only one person left alive. And if more than one person is alive at the end of the three days, they *all* die.

Fucking awesome movie. I thought it was going to be gore and nothing else, but it was psychologically thrilling and suspenseful as well. And, even more surprisingly, there were some really moving, poignant scenes throughout the film. It was even funny sometimes. I'd say "not for those who are easily scared," but I am easily scared, and I loved it anyway. Rent it!

Lower City it is porn with theme but not plot. It starts off well enough but quickly gets boring. The lead actress is Sonja Braga's neice and is quite good in spite of the movies general suckage.

Awesome, I Fuckin' Shot That - totally fly feels like your there Beastie Boys concert film, shot by 50 audiences members at their Garden show on their last tour. No "Get it Together" or "Professor Booty" but I still totally want to own it. My love for Mike D, will never die.

My Daniel Craig movie festival continued apace this weekend with Munich and The Mother.

I hadn't yet seen Munich and I thought it was excellent, if a little long and a lot depressing. I thought that Spielberg was very even-handed toward both the Israelis and the Palestinians. The use of the news footage was well done (the famous shot of the guy in the ski mask stepping onto the balcony was particularly good). Everyone put in a very good performance. And, to be shallow those were some seriously hot Jews. Oh my God, Eric Bana. The tight pants on him! Mama loves.

The Mother...oh man. Where do I begin. What a movie. Weird and a little disturbing but incredibly compelling. Anne Reid was absolutely fabulous. Why she didn't win more awards for her performance I'll never know. The characters are just beautifully drawn. They all defy categorization.

High School Musical is arriving tomorrow! I haven't seen it before, so I am looking forward to experiencing its cracktastic cheesy goodness for the first time.

We watched Friends with Money last night, which had lots of people I like in it, but it just didn't quite click for me. I got that it was a small and sort of quirky movie, but I just really didn't care for most of the characters, even the ones I obviously was supposed to feel some sympathy toward.