I could forgive this musical's one-to-one correspondence of character for character and plot point for plot point with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but though the campiness here was great, the music itself wasn't.  Excellent cast, however.  Ironically, I only rented it to see Kristen Bell, but her performance was among the weakest precisely because she is too smart to play a character as dumb as hers was supposed to be.  Great on the eyes though.

Traffic is to drugs what Syriana is to oil.  Basically, it's refined but ubiquitous.  Same as you find at the pump.

There were some interesting visuals involved in the transitions, but I didn't buy the premise for a second and saw the end coming in 1990 when Jacob's Ladder came out.  Go rent that instead unless you're Dani and have a crush on Ewan McGreggor.

One of your usual later, not-too-terribly funny films from Woody Allen.  I know he's prolific, but I have a long list of films by him I would recommend over this one.

Pretty good little crime caper movie, but skip it unless you're me and you have a crush on Jodie Foster.

Okay, I splurged on Kristen Bell projects this month.  The library had the last two in the season, so I went for it.  Good wrap-up, but too much too quickly.  Save something for next season, damn it!

Collections of interviews with people worth talking to back when talk shows did that: Show people talking.

You would think documentaries (except perhaps medical ones) would be at the opposite end of the spectrum from pornos, but this one is remarkably interesting in terms of how involved the story is, and it pack quite a bit more material than your usual oral histories.  Wait.  That sounded kind of dirty.

I am honestly at a loss.  I cannot tell you whether I love this movie or hate it.  Let's just say that if you thought Hard Candy was intense, you're in for some serious trauma.

That they stretched a 45 minute episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents into a two hour movie...?  That, Ladies and Gentlemen, is magic!

I'm surprised how little updating they did to the original in the 2005 remake.  Both are crap, notable only for the phenomenal violence to plot ratio, thanks especially to the demonimator here being lower than the demographic they were aiming for.

Honestly, I'm consistently amazed at the way the show manages to keep itself fresh.  It's always one step ahead of me.

Ricky Gervais will hate me for saying this because he likes surprises, and this won't be one: The show is good, but The Office was so much better.  I like this, but I don't love it.  I can be friends with it after a few more dates, but I'm going to marry The Office.

This film gained notoriety as the first NC-17 picture.  But you know what?  It is really, really good.  Contrary to some reviews, the sex is never gratuitous at least in part since, after all, that's what the movie is about.

They're running out of material.  Probably because the girls talk so fast than they've written about ten seasons worth of dialogue to get them only this far.

Heh.  Cute.  Forgetable fun, although that's not what the victims or their lawyers would call it.

Speaking of a certain Old Arizona Senator's position on Iraq, here's another case of stretching too little material too far.

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