(TV) Weeds. (Season Two, 2006) Grade: B+

Thoughts: In this season, Nancy (Mary-Louise Parker) and Conrad (Romany Malco) venture off and create a grow house and sell weed on their own. It was pretty much more of the same from last season; though a bit more over the top. There was more character development with Celia (Elizabeth Perkins), which was great. Oh and Zooey Deschanel makes an appearance and she is so zany!

(M) North by Northwest. (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) Grade: A-

Thoughts: Roger O. Thronhill (Cary Grant) is an ad executive who gets mistaken for Gerogre Kaplan, a govt. agent. Unknown to him, there is no George Kaplan. It is just a fictional agent created by the US government to get the scent off another agent Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) who is getting close to the enemy. So begins the chase across the states from New York to Chicago and finally to Mount Rushmore. The scenes at Mount Rushmore were very intense and reminded me a lot of To Catch a Thief. Hitchcock is becoming one of my favorite directors. I like the way he used lines and the angles he shoots from.

(M) Year of the Dog. (Mike White, 2007) Grade: D+

Thoughts: Peggy (Molly Shannon) has a simple life where she works and loves her dog. One day her dog dies and Peggy is devastated. With the help of Newt (Peter Sarsgaard), a fellow vet, she starts to recover only to fall deep into a mental mess. The first 20 mins were fine and I enjoyed Molly Shannon’s character but as the movie moved along it got more and more preachy and strange with Peggy becoming an extreme and narrow minded animal activist. My biggest issue with the movie was the feeling it was PETA propaganda. It is a shame to considering the good actors in it like Regina King, Laura Dern and John C. Reilly.

(M) Journey to the End of the Night. (Eric Eason, 2006) Grade: D

Thoughts: Paul (Brendan Fraser) and his father Sinatra (Scott Glenn) are trying to sell some drugs for money. Paul needs the money to pay off his gambling debt and Sinatra wants it to take his wife Angie (Catalina Sandino Moreno) and son out of San Paulo, Brazil. I am amazed this movie got made because it was bad. I love Brendan Fraser but his overacting in this stinker was unbearable, the storyline was typical and dull and everything seems so pointless. The only saving factor was Mos Def who played Wemba, the drug mule and even that could not save this mess.

Movie Count: 81