How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days: I don't know how to rank this movie with other chick flicks, I can't quite decide if it was better than The Proposal or at the same caliper. It's a ridicules story of course, I'm not sure you can really have a chick flick with out the story being somewhat far fetched.

Waking Ned Divine: This movie was recommended to me but I didn't know quite what to expect, except that there was a part with a phone booth going over a cliff (which there is). I didn't not like it but I think it would take a few more times to really appreciate it. It's a foreign film and that changes up the pace and usual suspects of American movies. Warning, there is some old man nudity.

Invincible: This is another one of those inspirational sports movies, but I generally seem to enjoy those. I was thinking about the irony of enjoying movies about football and basketball when I never watch the sports themselves. It was a good movie  though.

The Moon Spinners: I had watched this movie several years ago and wasn't too impressed with it. I saw it at the library and got it for some reason. I think the first time I got the movie, the best thing about it was the handsome leading man. He wasn't so handsome this time around. The back of the case compared the movie to Hitchcock, no, not even close. It was okay at best, not terribly suspenseful (though it may have been more so the first time I saw it) I really was annoyed by the leading girl who was the poster child for pathetic and useless female leads. Also the leading man was supposed to have been shot in the shoulder but his arm seems to be fine in the many fights he's in, etc. Also why did none of the people fighting him punch him in the arm where they'd get the upper hand? Perhaps these things weren't taken into account in 60s/70s violence?

The Proposal: There seems to be a sort of morbid curiosity about movies that you know will be stupid. I knew this would be a dumb chick flick and yet I watched it any way. A warning to those like me that didn't read the reasons for the pg-13 rating, there is significant nudity or partial nudity, far more of actors and actress then I ever wished to see. It was a dumb chick flick and is highly implausible.

What Did You Do in the War Daddy?: This movie was utterly ridiculous.  An American company captures an Italian company in WWII, the Italians are willing, if they can have a festival first... it sort of spirals out of control from there.

Wild Target: This movie was funny but... not a great movie overall, it was okay but not great. Also there was far more of Rupert Grint in the tub than I ever cared to see - not that but just much more than I care for. It was kind of a cute and quirky movie though. Also did I miss something where Rupert Everett just decided to be a character actor or something?

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.

Kiki's Delivery Service: This is probably the second Miyazaki movie that I ever saw. It's a fun movie and of course beautifully animated. As a kid I didn't notice or think about it but watching it now I noticed discrepancies in in the time periods represented but that's part of the fun in Miyazaki movies.

Castle in the Sky: Another Miyazaki movie, another one of the first that I saw. There are parts of this movie that I love, like airborne pirates, there are also parts that I don't like, which are too much and perhaps make the point a little too strongly for me. Overall it's a good movie but it's not my favorite

The Lodger: This was apparently Hitch's first thriller, it's a silent movie and as it began I wasn't too impressed, the quality was not very good (film quality, not movie) and it is an adjustment to watch silent movies where you don't always get a write up of what's being said. It was good thought.