So far this week I have seen:
SEXY BEAST with Ben Kingsley and another guy who looks exactly like the guy who runs the storage space I rent from. You'd never know Kingsley played Ghandi by this performance as an absolute bastard.
But then again, without the captioning on, his British accent is so strong, it's like trying to decypher an interview with Oasis.

The Great New Wonderful was just that and I am becomming more and more a fan of Maggie Gyllenhall every day. Good movie, quirky at times and very sad during others. The only thing was the entire time I was watching Tony Shaloub, all I could think of was Monk.

Man About Town was pretty damn good considering it was a Ben Affleck movie. Not the best thing in the world but if nothing else is on it is at least enjoyable.

This is more than I can say for The Matador.
If it had only been Pierce Brosnan being snarky and making snide comments and killing people it would have been fine but it also had Greg Kinnear sucking the life out of every single scene he was in! And NO ONE -------I don't care who you are........no one wants to see Greg Kennear having sex! Ew.

I saw two indy films that were both really good: Mind The Gap and Happy Endings. Happy Endings had the best of everything-------Maggie Gyllenhall singing, Tom Arnold NOT being completely revolting, hot boys making out and a good story.
Lisa Kudrow looked like a vole with that brown hair ------again, EW. But the movie was great.

Mind The Gap was much more serious and sad but it had a really sweet ending. I spent the entire movie wondering who was playing the character of Jody, a singer with a pacemaker who was travelling to NY for her first real gig. The voice was incredible and she looked so familiar.Turned out it was Jill Sobule, the girl that had that novelty song (that, well, changed my life) I KISSED A GIRL, in the early 90's. Good to see her around still, she's awesome.

The movie was sad and disturbing at some points and there was girl with red hair that I was so sure was Heather Graham but actually wasn't. Her name is
Elizabeth Reaser
Alan King was also wonderful in this movie.
A lot of the time when people do movies about "Seven people whose lives converge unexpected", a lot of the characters just get lost in the jumble. In this one every one stood out and you felt for each one of them.