An interesting look inside another culture. I liked how the movie used the feelings and actions of the parents to portray the feelings of the son. The theme of names and changing names could have been more smooth.

Intense, thrilling, and of course, flawed. The opening of the credits shows the history of the US-Saudi relations. I hope that this movie is less realistic than the filmmakers would have us believe.

Funnier than your run-of-the-mill Ben Stiller paycheck, but not Zoolander or There’s Something About Mary. Worth watching on a snowday, or when you’re home sick, but not necessarily for DVD night. Couldn’t have been much better, but could have been a lot worse.

-Rolling Stone comes through with a long article about how America is losing the drug war and wasting money.
-Here is the The New York Times Magazine List of Ideas and the
The 2007 Esquire 100. I had grand schemes to read both of these all the way through so that I could comment more thoroughly, but alas.
-Huzzah!!! The Big Dig is finished! There’s a stat in there about how the average trip through Boston has gone from 19.5 minutes to 2.8 minutes. Which is true and beautiful.
-Someone is killing musicians in Mexico. Probably the drug cartels.
-Two movie relate links from kottke.org. Ebert’s 10 Best Films of 2007 and a list of movies coming out in 2008. Ironman and Batman both look great!

The role David Duchovny was born to play – a writer’s blocked novelist slacker in love with the otherwise engaged woman he refused to marry for 14 years. Doesn’t portray Los Angeles in a very flattering light. One new show from which I hope we see a second season.

As soon as I started this movie, I wondered to myself, “Oh no, isn’t Dane Cook in this movie?” I should have known. This was a bad movie, don’t get me wrong, but it was made watchable by the fact that Dane Cook was “acting” and not doing a stand up routine.

The first in a trilogy of US remakes of the Dutch movie maker Theo Van Gogh’s movie. Most of the dialogue was a beat slow which made me think it was either improvised or written for the stage. There was a point to this movie, and not being able to figure it out didn’t hurt my enjoyment of it.

I love Will Smith, which makes it impossible for me to give this movie an unbiased review. The one thing that I’d like to see just once from a post-apocyliptic story is the time during which society is breaking down. Cute dog, though.

By documenting 2 gay bars in the rural south, this movie does a good job portraying what life must be like a gay person living in these towns. If anything, the movie might not have gone far enough in illustrating the perils and hardships faced. Crossroads sounded like more fun than Different Seasons.

I liked how fantasy was mixed in subtely to create an alternate reality more interesting than this one. This was illustrated best by an unimportant reaction to stardust. I liked this the way I liked The Princess Bride.