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Howards End - Edwardian costume dramas rock. This was actually pretty depressing though because the secondary storyline had a kind of kicked-puppy feel to it; everytime that particular character showed up, something bad happened. I prefer A Room With a View.

A Tale of Two Sisters - Asian horror movies are now so in vogue that I found a copy of this at Walmart and it probably didn't even play in a theater within a hundred miles of Oklahoma City when it came out. The story is about two sisters who've recently come home from a mental institution and have to deal with their unresponsive father and control freak stepmother. It's pretty boring and not particularly scary. I still love the poster for it though; it looks like a Korean version of V.C. Andrews cover art.

Intermission - I thought Cillian Murphy was so pretty in Batman Begins that I netflixed a bunch of his other movies. This one is sort of like Magnolia or Pulp Fiction, in that it has a bunch of interconnecting stories. It was cute and kinda funny. Colin Farrell is also in it, playing a dumb crook, which doesn't seem like too much of a stretch.

On the Edge - Cillian plays a suicidal young man sent to a mental institution after a failed attempt by driving off a cliff. I really liked this one; it had a black sense of humor that reminded me of Harold and Maude. Nice soundtrack too.

Disco Pigs - This is an incredibly odd movie. Pig/Darren and Runt/Sinead are born minutes apart in the same hospital to mothers who live next door to each other, so they spend their whole lives together in a weird, symbiotic relationship. They live in a fantasy world where they are king and queen and speak in a mixture of baby talk and Irish dialect. And for some reason, this movie isn't subtitled. It's very difficult to understand Pig and Runt as a non-Irish viewer, although the other characters in the movie seem confused by them as well. It's described as "A Clockwork Orange if directed by Bjork" which is fairly apt. Because of his inability to deal with reality, Pig grows increasingly unstable and violent. Cillian is really good at playing crazy characters though. Poor crazy, disturbed, sexy Pig.

Manhunter - a coworker lent me this. It's the first movie adaptation of Red Dragon, featuring Brian Cox as Hannibal Lector. It also has William Petersen as Will Graham, so this was like a very '80's version of CSI. Very, very 80's. It's creepy, but not nearly as creepy as the novel it's based on. I think the 80's-ishness cuts down hugely on the creepy factor. I have to admit that I laughed out loud because the opening titles were in the bright neon green Nickolodeon font.

Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen - My friend Sarah made me watch this. Conclusion: I live in the scariest, fucked-up country in the world. What's wrong with these people?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - I love Johnny Depp's crazy ass. He looked beyond freaky; his Willy Wonka is a paler shade than death. The movie is probably not quite as freaky as the original, but it comes very close. I really liked it at any rate, especially Grandpa Joe's little jig when Charlie wins the Golden Ticket.

Million Dollar Baby - a good movie and it made me cry. Morgan Freeman was awesome. Still don't understand the point of competitively beating the shit out of people, but whatever.