Check out this fantastic review of Michael Moore’s Sicko.
We recently watched Fall which turned out to be an Eric Schaeffer movie, the same guy who wrote and directed Mind the Gap, which I’ve previously reviewed. (I really did mentioned it in there, somewhere… says mysql.) We really liked Fall. Or, hrm… I liked Fall. “Joanna, did you like Fall?” I ask. “Yeah, I liked it very much,” she says. So, like I said, we liked Fall. A contributing factor is certainly that Amanda de Cadenet is astonishingly sexy. Probably the accent. (Which isn’t French.) Or maybe just that she’s supposed to be the sexiest girl in the world,…
After watching Thumbsucker I asked Joanna how she’d rate it. “Ben would like it,” she responded. And I agree, Ben would like it. It’s entertaining and suitably serious without being depressing. It will probably appeal more to a younger audience as ostensibly about a teenage search for truth. Much of the movie tends to focus on age, investigating at what sort of activities are appropriate for a given age and position: all the characters tend to violate our preconceived notion of “normal” parameters. A-. Happy Endings is worth watching simply because its style is unique. It too is entertaining, and…
I’ve gone and done it now… watched two good indie movies in a row. Considering that the ratio of bad:good indie movies is about 10:1, I’ve got 20 bad ones in store. And I don’t think I can take it:) Junebug is hardly one of those movies that I’d tell anyone, “You really should watch this movie,” not because it was bad, but because it’s not the sort of movie I tell people to watch. It’s about a small-town southern family and is an honest portrait. The movie quietly points out how funny these people are without making fun of…
For a period of time, I felt compelled to offer movie reviews. Mostly because Nathan acted interested. I stopped mostly because it started to have a shopping list-like quality about it. And who wants to read shopping lists? (Well, if you miss the movie reviews, leave a comment and maybe I’ll bring ’em back.) In any case, we just watched Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human which is definitely one of the better indie movies out there. It’s an absolutely hilarious nature show style documentary on human relationships. We both really enjoyed it– you probably will too. It’s worlds better…