You've Got Mail: I watched this movie because I read that it was a remake of Shop Around the Corner. The plots of the two movies are quite similar but You've Got Mail is updated for 1998 and tweaked a little bit from the original. It's an interesting premise that two people can hate each other and love each other at the same time...however I think a lot of stories whether in film or print, have some reference to this idea. I wonder why that's one that has occurred so much and if it's a case of art reflecting life. I prefer Shop Around the Corner but this is also a good movie, it's the same as I feel about the versions of Sabrina.

Oceans 11: I've never seen the original movie with the Rat Pack, but I'm referring to the latest version. It's pretty cool to see all the devious things that were planned up in order to knock over three casinos. It's been a while since I saw the movie though and I'd forgotten just how much swearing was in the movie though. I suppose in a way Danny and his crew are the underdogs and we all root for them.

Desk Set: I liked this movie, it's a comedy but through the advance of technology it's a bit more comical than was originally planned on. At the heart of this movies plot is the issue of man (or in this case woman) verses machine. There's also an element of feminism in there that I enjoyed. Katherine Hepburn is marvelous in this movie.

Mrs. Brown: This is a historical fiction... I think, at least I know it's based on history, however I don't know how accurate it is, anyway this movie is about Queen Victoria and how after Prince Albert died, she was coaxed out of grief by a servant whom her husband admired, as their friendship grows the Queens family etc. are scandalized.

O Brother Where Art Thou: I think I can safely say that this was unlike any other movie that I've ever seen before. The Odyssey meets the south in the 30s in this movie. I think the thing that interested me most was the setting of the south, the south is a place I've only been once and it seems to almost have a mythical quality about it. I don't know if I'd put it together before that while the north was modernized, the south was hanging back several decades. It's been a while since I've been forced to read the Odyssey so I don't know how well the two compare, there were a few main points like the cyclops and the sirens.