Sleepy Hollow

(I have no idea why I didn't see it before now.)

I am probably the last person on the planet to finally see "Shaun of the Dead," but that has been remedied. Now we have "School of Rock" waiting patiently in its little Netflix envelope, but it will have to wait as we're still catching up on backlogged episodes of Heroes that happened while we were moving.

watched "Pan Labyrinth" last night - it's rated R, in subtitles - it was ok - different than what i normally watch.

Pan's Labyrinth was a very cool movie with a too-sad ending.

Boondock Saints. It was alright, but not nearly as good as I'd been led to believe.

Broken Flowers

Winged Migration.

I dug it out of my stack and watched it again. Absolutely AMAZING nature movie, with subtle social commentary, and supernaturally-filmed sequences of birds flying against the landscape all over the world.

the music can be a tad annoying sometimes, and there are a couple of squicky places, but HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

. . . and besides. Birds Are Cool.

Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam should have done way better with that concept)

XXX: State of the Union (I still haven't figured out why I didn't just turn it off in the first 10 minutes and move onto something else. There was absolutely nothing surprising in the movie.)

A Man Apart (Predictable plot, but Vin Diesel, yum)

Ocean's Twelve. The dialogue was clever and amusing. The overall plot was retarded.

Ghostrider - but had already seen it at the movies - if we like it there we usually buy the dvd

Hannibal Rising

I was very disappointed. Not really up to the rest of the series, and didn't flow as well as the book, even with the author writing the script.

Brothers Grimm--sooooo disappointing, though Heath Ledger was really good in it. The movie just was awful, and I'm normally a fan of that type of movie, and not critical. It was just--bad.

Just bought the latest version of Monty Python & The Holy Grail
I've said before that I'm not a huge Python fan, but there were so many extras on the DVD (2nd hand, £6) that it seemed worth it. I'd only ever seen it on TV before and I read Michael Palin's diaries last year and it whetted my appetite.

So far I am disappointed.
Not with the film - I knew what I was buying there.
I started with the extra I was most excited about - the commentary by Cleese/ Idle/ Palin. They were all recorded separately and spliced together. So no interaction, very often no comment at all, and no really amusing anecdotes.

I'm spoiled. My comedy heroes (The League of Gentlemen) are close friends and naturally funny - even when they're bitter the commentaries are worth the price of the DVD on their own. And they bounce off eachother marvellously - their special guest commentary on Blood on Satan's Claw is a comedy masterpiece.

And of course Mssrs Pegg & Wright who balance and counterbalance eachother's geekiness/ technicality/ humour with damn near perfection. Or at least they provide so many extras any dross gets forgotten :)

I'll bear with it - a host of extras I have yet to watch, including the Making Of mentioned in Palin's diary (this is a published book btw, I didn't just break in). It may satisfy me yet.

The Last King Of Scotland.

Excellent. four stars.

Charlies Angels-Full Throttle. Funny, lots of eye candi, Drew Barrymore (one of my favorite actors) the panty dance, Helen Zass . . .:biglaugha

do you think the opening scene (with Helen drinking in the Mongolian pub) is deliberately evocative of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark?