Iron Lady: I heard this movie was very good and so I wanted to see it, I don't think I'd even seen any previews, just heard the oscar talk. This movie was quite good, even though all I knew about Margaret Thatcher previously is that she was the first woman to be prime minister. I'm sure there's more to appreciate about the movie if you know more about Margaret Thatcher but I thought it was quite good and that Meryl Steep did a wonderful job. I did not expect though to be moved to emotion by a biopic about a British politician but I was.

Mao's Last Dancer: Apparently this movie was based on the autobiography of the main character, about his life, being taken to Madam Mao's dance school at age 11 or so, to be trained as a communist and a ballet dancer, later to get to go to America and to defect to the west and become a famous dancer. At first I wondered how much American slant was being given to the communists as the bad guys and the American's as the good guys, finding out that it was an autobiography I feel like if it is a slant, that it's at least more justified. It's very interesting to consider a life so wholly different from mine or any around me. Ps beautiful dancing.