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Back to the Movies

After a year’s hiatus from keeping track of shows, I’m starting again. These are on a 5 point scale, allowing 1/2 points as well. Enough said.

(Note to self: I checked and added movies from best of 2007, 2008, 2009 so far in the netflix queue.)

November 2009

• Chocolate (2008) [ * * * * 1/2 ]
• Water Lilies (2007) [ * * * - - ]
• Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007) [ * * - - - ]
• Show Me Love (1998) [* * - - - ]
• The Girlfriend Experience (2009) [ * * - - - ]
• My Summer of Love (2004) [ * * * * ]
  The last scene totally makes this movie.
• The Story of O (1975) [ 1/2 - - - - ]
  This story is just meant to be read or to be an out-and-out porn movie. NC-17 doesn’t cut it.
• Puccini for Beginners (2006) [ * * * - - ]
  Huh. I think I might be a lesbian.

The Nether Region

Here lies a gap between October 2008 and November 2009. I got out of the movie habit as I was extremely busy with freelance work.

Everything below this line is from the old “Movie Show Log” on the old goodlearning.com blog.

2008

• October 20(?):
  Volver (2006) [* * * 1/2 -]
• October 11:
  Wild Hogs (2007) [* * 1/2 - -]
• October 7:
  Taxi Driver (1976) [* * * * 1/2]
• September 7:
  The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966) [* * * * -]
• August 31:
  District B13 (2006) [* * * 1/2 -]
• August 8:
  Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) [* * * * -]
• July 27:
  Borat (2006) [1/2 - - -]
• July 23:
  Persepolis (2007) [* * 1/2 - -]
• July 11:
  WALL-E (2008) [* * * * -]
  (Savoy Theater, Savoy, IL)
• July 7:
  Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) [* * * * -]
  June 29:
  The Heartbreak Kid (2007) [* - - - -]
• June 23:
  Never Talk to Strangers (1995) [1/2 - - - -]
• June 22:
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) [* 1/2 - - -]
• June 11:
  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (2007) [* * 1/2 - -]
• June 9:
  Little Black Book (2004) [* - - - -]
• June 5:
  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) [* * * - -]
  (Harvest Moon Drive-in, Gibson City, IL)
• May 29:
  Lars and the Real Girl (2007) [* * * * *]
• May 16:
  No Reservations (2007) [* 1/2 - - -]
• May 10:
  No Country for Old Men (2007) [* * * - -]
• April 25:
  Juno (2007) [* * * * *]
• April 15:
  Babel (2006) [* * - - -]
• March 13:
  Thank You For Smoking (2006) [* * 1/2 - -]
• March 12:
  Waitress (2007) [* * * - -]
• March 9:
  Sailor Moon R The Movie [* * * - -]
• February 27:
  The Simpsons Movie [* * 1/2 - -]
• February 22:
  Gone Baby Gone (2007) [* * * 1/2 -]
• January 30:
  Once (2007) [* * * * -]
• January 24:
  Fire Down Below (1997) [1/2 - - - -]
• January 22:
  13 Going on 30 (2004) [* * * * -]
• January 14:
  Helvetica (2007) [* * * * -]
• January 12:
  Stranger Than Fiction (2006) [* * * * -]
• January 9:
  Cutthroat Island (1995) [* * - - -]
• January 2:
  Basic Instinct 2 (2006) [1/2 - - - -]

2007

• December 16:
  American Beauty (1999) [* * * - -]
• December 15:
  I Am Legend (2007) [* * * - -]
• December 12:
  The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete First Season (1998) [* * * * *]
  It doesn’t get any better than this.
• December 9:
  Basic Instinct (1992) [* - - - -]
  Basically stinks.
• December 8:
  Stephen King’s The Mist (2007) [* * - - -]
  Stephen King should be pissed.
• November 21:
  Little Miss Sunshine (2006) [* * * * *]
  Not overrated after all.
• November 18:
  The Powerpuff Girls: Birthday Bash etc. [* * * 1/2 -]
  You can’t go wrong with the powerpufff girls.
• November 2:
  Crash (2005) [* * * * *]
• October 29:
  Harold and Maude (1971) [* * * * -]
• October 25:
  Girl, Interrupted (1999) [* * * * -]
• October 23:
  Fat Albert (2004) [* * 1/2 - -]
• October 19:
  Click (2006) [* * - - -]
• October 12:
  The Motorcycle Diaries [* * 1/2 - -]
• October 7:
  Kim Possible: So the Drama (2005) [* * * 1/2 -]
• October 6:
  Memento (2000) [* * * - -]
• October 2:
  Lila Says (2005) [* * - - -]
• October 1:
  Atomic Betty: Vol. 2: Betty to the Rescue! [* * * - -]
• September 30:
  How to Eat Fried Worms (2006) [* * * - -]
• September 27:
  The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) [* * 1/2 - -]
• September 24:
  Almost Famous (2000) [* * * * 1/2]
• September 19:
  The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) [* * * 1/2 -]
• September 16:
  Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) [* * - - -]
• September 13:
  Tomb Raider (2001) [* * * - -]
• September 12:
  Daredevil (2003) [* * - - -]
• September 10:
  Elektra (2005) [* * * - -]
• September 6:
  Atomic Betty: Vol. 1: Betty, Set, Go! [* * * - -]