The Hundred Foot Journey: I was really excited for this movie and looked forward to seeing it and perhaps I had hopes too high. It was a good movie but as I watched it, it seemed familiar, like something I'd seen before. As I watched I found the first half of the movie at least, quite similar to the movie Chocolate. I think the second half of the movie was a bit better but over all I was a bit disappointed in the movie.

1735 km of Vietnam: So I enjoyed this movie, it was cute, it's also It Happened One Night, Vietnamese. It is more exotic than the original by virtue of it's being set in Vietnam and being in color. See both. Apparently you can watch it online here.

Guardians of the Galaxy: I didn't know what to expect from this movie but I ended up quite enjoying it. I think if I think too hard about the plot or the movie it might diminish a bit. I did like that it was kinda different from your standard action/super hero movie. I also realized that it bore quite a few similarities to Star Wars: A New Hope, so there you go.

It Happened One Night: This was one of the first dvds I ever watched, back when the format was new and I was young enough not to think much of black and white movie. This movie is a delightful...I'm trying to decide if screwball comedy is quite the right category, I think so; it also is a fine example of Frank Capra's celebration of the common people.

42: This is a biopic based on Jackie Robinson's autobiography, which I think had the same title. I read the book a while back. The movie seemed to stick quite closely to the book but the movie focused only on Robinson's ascension to and and rookie year with the Dodgers and the book covered the majority of his life. I thought the movie was really good, but as a warning, there's a lot of language in this movie which is only fitting, I'm sure it's only a tiny percentage of what the Robinsons had to endure. It's quite an inspiring story.

Spy Kids: I don't think I've written about this yet. So there's three Spy Kids movies, but I think this one is probably the best (because like many franchises, I don't think there was more than one originally planned.) Spy Kids had great actors, a good messages and special effects that don't actually look too out of date, which is an impressive thing.

Joyeux Noel: This is a French movie but it also includes English and German. This is the story of the Christmas truce in WWI, in this telling it centers on groups of Scottish, French and German soldiers who do a wonderful thing in coming together, across battle lines for Christmas. Despite the good in this movie, it depressed me a lot, I think this took place the first year of the war, all these people had three or four more years of bloody war, more than that the truce didn't continue and at least in the movie these individuals were reprimanded. There are no happy endings before the end of a war.

Steamboat Bill Jr.: This is a fantastic Buster Keaton movie, the plot is not wonderful but that's not really what one watches a Keaton movie for and his work is amazing in this movie, including what I've heard called the most dangerous stunt he ever did. It is an amazing monument to the man's art and very funny.

Chocolate: I don't think I've written about this before, though I have seen it before. It's a good movie that perhaps falls in the 'foreign film' category. Judi Dench is in it and of course she's wonderful, there's a great ensemble cast, which I always love. The movie is thought provoking on many subjects, chief among those is what is or makes someone good? It's a good movie, sad and serious with light moments and a happy ending.