I can't think of a more striking and succinct demonstration of the gratuitousness and lack of subtlety that makes the Star Wars prequels so inferior to the original trilogy than this.

GAH! I had to stop watching. It was becoming strobe-like!

In limited release, just got tickets for The Wildest Dream for Monday after work. :D

Not everyone's movie of choice, I've long been fascinated by this tale and loved the bio of Mallory of the same name.

Besides, I'm so terribly shallow, Alan Rickman is one of the voice-overs. Therefore, it is a must see (hear) for me.

That looks very interesting.

And let us praise the restraint exercised in not giving the Ewoks light sabers, lest they become unsubtle.

Saw THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT last night and was very happy to find myself watching a brief period of time in a family's life, a family that just happened to be unconventional. After seeing it, I think the film's title was clearly written to say, "This is a family portrait. This is not going to be a movie about kids struggling with their lesbian parents in a world that doesn't want lesbians raising children." And it's a very good family portrait, at that. It's not overly dramatic, doesn't sentimentalize, and doesn't fixate too much on circumstances that would be handled with the subtlety of an after-school special by other filmmakers.

Characters were incredibly well defined and I was hugely impressed with both Mia Wasikowska (who was stellar in the unstellar IN TREATMENT series, and who was kind of terrible in ALICE IN WONDERLAND) and Mark Ruffalo (some of his best and funniest work, I think).



Bening and Moore were great, and each have two scenes in which they really standout. But expecting to be mostly impressed by their performances, I was surprised to be blown away by the other two.

I watched Monsters vs. Aliens last night on a whim, and was glad I did. Pleasantly surprised by how funny and delightful it was.


Toy Story 3 was amazing, and I loved it. But I've been consistently surprised and pleased with this year's offerings by the "lesser" animation studios - with How to Train Your Dragon, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, and now Monsters vs. Aliens.

It's true I haven't seen all that many live-actioners this year, but it's seeming to me that the animateds are more consistently good.



Oh, and I loathed once-tops Disney's entry into the market. The Princess and the Frog was horrible (imo).

BTW, the sound of Insectosaurus's roar in Monsters vs. Aliens is the best sound I've heard in movies in decades!

It needs to be pointed out that I gave Lani a choice of three movies and she is the one that picked The Expendables.

What were the other two options?