Merry belated Christmas!  Christmas Day itself had relatively little fanfare, but I did get to briefly catch up briefly with some old friends.  That was nice.  Bonus: randomly ran into JKuo while at Cupertino Village to find someone else, haha.

But I mostly came here to write about Her, which I watched last night.  It's definitely different and ( Read more... )

I watched Argo. It was quite solid. My embarrassing admission is that, before going in, I hadn't put 2 and 2 together to figure out which current event it's about. But it became clear about 3 minutes into the movie ( Read more... )

I watched Arbitrage yesterday. A friend wanted to see it because Ebert gave it four stars ( Read more... )

I watched Drive. I didn't like it ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep, so at about 3 AM I got up to watch Dial M for Murder. 'Twas very good!

Academy Awards - are you ready! I will be cheering for: The Artist, Jean Dujardin, Rooney Mara, and A SeparationAlso, on Friday I watched Gran Torino. I liked it; it reminded me of Million Dollar Baby (for fairly obvious reasons). I like movies directed by Clint Eastwood. I'm still slightly hesitant about Unforgiven, but eventually I'll ( Read more... )

Among other activities, vacation has given me time to watch movies for the first time in months.

I finally watched The Green Mile - after having it from Netflix for 4 months. At this point I was almost literally watching it to be done with and continue with my queue. But actually I really enjoyed it. I didn't think that I would; I'm hit or miss ( Read more... )

I saw The King's Speech; just in time for the Oscars!

I liked it better than I thought I might - I never quite know what to expect from period pieces - but it's probably a strong 7 in my book, and not more. I'm still cheering for Black Swan at the Oscars, even if it's a longshot for Best Picture.

I just watched The Machinist. ( Spoiler review )

I went on a movie binge toward the end of the year; 5 movies in December to bring my 2010 total to 30 ( Read more... )