In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. The Room - See my review below!
   
2. High School Musical - Shut up.
3. Bullit - Standard fare except for the great car chase and the airport set-piece.
   
4. The Dirty Dozen - An awesome film with an unbelievable amount of star power. Tarantino probably stole a lot of this one for his new film.
   
5. If… - It’s slow to start but Malcolm McDowell is great and the film becomes just surreal enough. 60’s England must have had a heart attack when it saw this one.
   

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. Bruno - Kind of gross, very awkward for the sake of being gross and awkward.  Not as funny as Borat and didn’t have nearly as much to say.  Mildly amusing at best.
   
2. Knowing - Nicholas Cage does his solve a puzzle thing again. I’m always struck by how lazy Hollywood is about research and how easily people eat it up.  Just because it’s sci-fi doesn’t mean you can make up your own rules.  And why include a documentary that refutes what happens in the movie as impossible as part of the special features on the DVD?
   
3. Napoleon Dynamite - It’s the 2000s, but everyone in Idaho still dresses like it’s 1984.  And it’s awesome.  How did Jared Hess go from making this quirky, genius of a film to the festering turd that was Nacho Libre?
   
4. The Shawshank Redemption - The Greatest Story Ever Told.  The novella by Stephen King is so good it should be part of the Bible.  The film trumps it.  Every single frame of this movie looks like a Norman Rockwell painting, if Norman Rockwell had had the balls to paint prison sex instead of baseball games and family dinners.  It’s the closest thing to perfection cinema will ever know.
   

In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. The Thing - Great sci-fi horror from Carpenter. It was lovely in Bluray.
   
2. Crash - Who in their right mind would read Ballard’s Crash and think it could make a good film, and actually be right about it? Cronenberg of course.
3. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - Has some funny bits but too long and too predictable to be any good.
   
4. Comedian - I wish I could be a standup comic. It’s such a romantic job. “Romantic” in the classical way.
   
5. Batman: Gotham Knight - Another DC Universei animated film.  This time its anime Batman. These strung together shorts were sometimes great, always good, but solid all around.
   
6. Wonder Woman - An amazing DC Universe animated film telling her origin story. These people are like Pixar!
7. The Bank Job - A fast-paced British heist film with a good script and good direction.
   
8. Roxanne - Steve Martin, Cyrano de Bergerac.. what else could you want? A good film, but not Martin’s best.

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - Full review coming soon.  Probably a decent movie if you haven’t read the books, but definitely fell far short of expectations.
   
2. Zack and Miri Make a Porno - Very enjoyable even if it’s a bit predictable.  Still, better than anything Kevin Smith has done lately.
   
3. Role Models - Spectacular and hilarious!  Stiffler and Rudd make a great team.
   
4. Encino Man - It’s hard to believe that 17 years after this was produced A) this movie is still awesome and B) Sean Astin went on to be in some of the best movies of all-time.
   
5. Rambo - About three minutes worth of story and 87 minutes of gore, what more would you want?  Perfect ending to the series.
   
6. He’s Just Not That Into You - The female neurosis is put on full display in this movie where every man is a prick and every woman suffers from some sort of mental retardation.  Very true to life.
   
7. Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Two unlovable schmucks turn a simple trip from Wichita, KS to Chicago, IL into an odyssey of moronic hilarity.  It’s the 80s.  It’s Steve Martin.  Of course you’ll love it, even if it’s one of his weaker films.
   
8. Twilight - one of the worst movies of all-time.  Who could like that atrocious piece of trash? Synopsis: “Well, despite the fact that everything bad that has ever happened to me is directly attributable to you and you admittedly want to drink my blood, I completely and irrevocably love you”–Kristen Stewart

In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. Three Amigos - Not my favorite Landis film, but funny and full of some really good bits.
   
2. The Program - College football told as after school specials. It was an entertaining diversion.
   
3. Superman: Doomsday - Direct to DVD DC universe animation. This was a lot of fun and made me realize why I hate the latest season of Smallville so much.
   
4. Bruno - See my review below!
   
5. Borat - Still funny, and better than Bruno.
   
6. Justice League: The New Frontier - More surprisingly great DC universe animation. This deft story of the formation of the Justice League is well-written, and action-packed.
   

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. Balls of Fury - Amusing, but ultimately forgettable.  Ho-hum.
   
2. Three Amigos - Awesome movie from my childhood that gets better with every viewing.  How could a movie that features a singing bush and an invisible swordsman be bad? Answer: it can’t.
   
3. The Program - A college football team full of troubled players struggles to make a bowl game.  Pretty awesome and entertaining, even if it is like watching a dozen after school specials concurrently.
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall - quite possibly the awesomest romantic comedy of all time, complete with a dracula musical featuring puppets.  Jason Segel is my hero.
   

In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. Zoolander - Not as bad as it looks, but overlong and Will Ferrell yells too much.
   
2. Wall-E - A sci-fi masterpiece! It may be Pixar’s best, which says alot.
   
3. Away We Go - Simple, sweet and better than it thinks it is.
   
4. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - A love-story entirely in song. A film that could only be made in 60’s France.
   
5. A Decade Under the Influence - IFC’s documentary on 70s film. I found a whole bunch of films that I have to watch now.
   

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. Zoolander - Genius in its idiocy, it even managed to make TC smile and, dare I say, giggle….several times!
   
2. Mr. Woodcock - Dear New Line Cinema: a film about an asshole banging Stifler’s mom is only funny if that asshole is Paul Finch and the movie is called American Pie.
   
3. Ghost Busters - If you need me to tell you how awesome this film is in a weekly viewing log, you’re probably already dead on the inside.  Expect a visit from Drs. Venkman, Stantz and Spengler (as well as my fist) in the very near future.
   

In case you were wondering what we have been doing all week, here is a list of the films we have watched since last time.

The Cinesthete:

1. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - What did  I expect?
2. Trekkies - Well made, good natured, and geeky.
3. Conversations with Kevin Smith - His movies may be so-so, but he is a very smart and entertaining individual.
   
4. The Man Who Wasn’t There - Classic Coen. Not as good as their early stuff, but better than most of their films.
   
5. Intolerable Cruelty - I have now seen every Coen brothers film. This one is funny, but shallow and forgettable.

The Lowest Common Denominator:

1. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - managed to make rock ‘em, sock ‘em robots and Megan Fox’s breasts boring and confusing.  Utterly disappointing.
2. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - the second viewing made it clear that only Michael Bay can make a movie that fails everything, including failing.