The Artist: I have been waiting a long time to watch this movie and wasn't disappointed. This movie is a silent movie, made in black and white about two actors in the transition from silent movies to talkies, think Singing in the Rain, but this isn't a musical due to it's silent nature. This movie was so well made, it's a masterpiece and deserves every Academy Award it's received. I really love a truly well made movie because, while I may still enjoy them, so many movies, aren't all that well made. I don't know that The Artist is a movie that I'd watch over and over again, but I still loved it.

Down With Love: This movie caused me to think a lot. The movie is set up to be like a sort of Dorris Day/Rock Hudson movie and I think they did a wonderful job of it, in extended features they talk about the pains they went to, to make it so great, from experimenting with period filming techniques, to making all the wardrobe for the movie as it would have been done in the 60s. It's a battle of the sexes movie in a way that never would have made it past the sensors in the 60s, it's fairly risque. I don't agree with a lot of what the movie was about and it caused me to think about why. A complaint with this movie is that about half way through the movie there begins a series of switches (and a switch on the switch on the switch, to quote Paris When It Sizzles) get so complicated and a bit silly that it sort of goes against the first half.