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Not quite a zombie movie for the whole family, but Fido is probably as close as it gets. As much as I love Carrie-Anne Moss in tight plastic suits, she’s even better in roles like this one. The 1950’s setting of this movie is classic. Run don’t walk to your netflix queue to add this puppy.

We watched a great movie the other day from netflix called Train Man. Truly hysterical movie about a japanese geek who has his first romance with a girl. He gets help from a bunch of people in an internet chat room. I highly recommend it and suggest you just rent it without reading anything more about the movie till after you watch it. I think that will be more fun. The movie is subtitled but don’t let that stop you.

Kristin gave us this dandy netflix recommendation. Excellent!

Watched Sunset Boulevard last night. Wow. Gloria Swanson was funny and chilling all at the same time. Very good movie.

Oh my! Crash deserves whatever oscar nominations it receives. The story could have been obvious and uninspiring, but it wasn’t. The twists could have felt manipulative, but they didn’t. The way characters kept bumping into each others stories could have felt artificial, but they’d didn’t. In the brave new world of “why own a dvd there’s netflix”, this is a movie I want to own. Good stuff.

Carol and I just finished disc 1 of Season 3 of Six Feet Under. Very funny! I don’t think I’ve blogged about this show before. It makes me laugh, think, and occasionally cry a little.

Good netflix rental. A nice romantic comedy.

A fun netflix night at our place. Woody Allen’s 1979 movie Manhattan was a hoot. I died during the conversation he was having with his buddy while standing next to the gorilla (monkey?) skeleton. (wishing I had an image to link) There’s good woody allen, and there’s bad woody allen. It was good to go back and find good woody allen.

This is a Nicholas “sappy romance” Sparks story. I will quietly admit that I read and liked his book Message in a Bottle. I hate the movie version. I stopped that dvd and gagged. After seeing Rachel McAdams in Wedding Crashers, I remembered Ebert saying how good her actiing was in The Notebook. Boom. Netflix. This movie never made me gag. It’s a sweet and sorrowful story, with great acting and good directing.

Righto. I can’t think the last time a movie has scared the beejezzus out of me, but Kyua (aka Cure) did. Kyua is a japanese thriller I rented from netflix. It stars the guy from Shall We Dance (the good japanese movie, not he junky hollywood version). It was able to watch about an hour of the movie, and then it just got too scary for me. If you want a murder mystery with a big dose of creepy, ritualistic killing, then this movie is for you. Enough of this. I’ve got to go reorder my netflix queue so something really cheery is #1.