The Bank Job

Rating: 9

Terrific movie! See it!!

21

Rating: 5

What happened to the Kevin Spacey of American Beauty and Usual Suspects? Now he's just a producer/scenery chewer. Which would be OK if the movies were decent. There's nothing new in 21, and a lot of horrible dialogue.

Snow Angels

Rating: 8

This film is a pretty big downer, but it's well-written, the characters are complicated and interesting, and let's face it: Sam Rockwell is a genius.

R.I.P. Anthony Minghella

Anthony Minghella directed the wonderful films The Talented Mr. Ripley and Cold Mountain. His lush and atmospheric movies will be missed.

For full obituary, look here.

Doomsday

Rating: 6.5

If you're a fan of the post-apocalypse as well as medieval gladiator-type stuff, and if you chuckle at violence humor such as decapitation and humans being barbequed alive on a ginormous grill, you'll probably get a silly kick out of Doomsday. It is a very silly movie, but in a way I cannot quite grasp, or for that matter, describe.