Thoughts: Alex (Allen Covert) is a 35-year-old video game tester who gets kicked out of his apartment due to missing rent. With nowhere to go he moves in with his grandmother Lilly (Doris Roberts) and her two roommates played by Shirley Jones and Shirley Knight. The movie was made for horny guys who play lots of video games and smoke weed all day. I wanted to hate it and it was pretty bad BUT Nick Swardson as Jeff made the movie for me. His character had me cracking up although Linda Cardellini did a nice job as well.
(M) Black Snake Moan. (Craig Brewer, 2006) Grade: B-
Thoughts: Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) finds beaten up, sex addict Rae (Christina Ricci) on the side of the road and takes her in to “fix” her from her wicked ways. It was better than I expected but it is a very tense, raw and ugly movie. I enjoyed watching Lazarus and Rae work out the demons within their lives. It made for a good character study however the ending wasn’t dark enough for me. Justin Timberlake did a decent job playing Rae’s boyfriend.
(M) Waitress. (Adrienne Shelly, 2007) Grade: C+
Thoughts: Jenna (Keri Russell) is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress at a local dinner in the deep south. When she goes to the new doctor in town, Dr. Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), they are attracted to each other and begin an affair. I did not buy Keri Russell as a poor Southern girl; maybe because she looked too polished. The whole movie was just alright and I mainly rented this for Nathan Fillion because I loved him from Firefly. Odd that that director was murdered around the time the movie was suppose to come out.
(M) Fire. (Deepa Mehta, 1996) Grade: B-
Thoughts: Jatin (Javed Jaffrey) has just married Sita (Nandita Das) to satisfy his family even though he is in love with another woman who he still sees. Sita moves in with her new family – older brother Ashok (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), his wife Radha (Shabana Azmi), his mother and a servant. Over time Radha and Sita develop a relationship that moves from sister-in-laws to lovers. The movie was extremely controversial for its time due to the lesbian relationship. Indian films are deeply rooted in their culture and I am slowly getting use to watching them.
Movie Count: 116
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