Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo

Rating: 4

Why did I see this? Because it was playing a block from my house and it was Sunday and it was raining. And because the first one wasn't without its charms. This one was charmless. I guess I've become a little spoiled by Judd Apatow comedies. I like fart jokes and dick jokes as much as the next fella as long as they've got some flair or originality.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Rating: 7

Cute.

In your face, 24 fps!

Errol Morris is using this new super slo-mo camera in his new film. It can take a million frames per second!

(Unlike the Interra-tron, though, he didn’t invent it.)

Pretty incredible.

Married Life

Rating: 7

Because it could be described as a bit talky, Married Life may not be for everyone (the movie or the institution.) But in the case of the movie, there's lust, betrayal and poison, as well as Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams. I can dig it.

R.I.P. Jules Dassin : 1911-2008

Here's a review I did of The Naked City. Other favorites include Brute Force, a little-known Burt Lancaster prison movie, and the brilliant Rififi, which Dassin made in France after being blacklisted in the States, and against which I must compare all other heist flicks. Wikipedia says about the film, "The film's legendary 'heist sequence' not present in its source novel was an invention of the director and has since been imitated on countless occasions." This was undoubtedly the case with the break-in scene in The Bank Job, which I just saw last week.

Jules Dassin lived a good long life, like all great directors should.