Our (pathetic) 2009 movie list

The Wrestler (3 stars)
Milk (4 stars)
Je suis Pierre Riviere (1 star? I fell asleep)
Gomorrah (2.5 stars)
Limits of Control (3 stars)
Tokyo! (3 stars)
Home (4 stars)
In the Loop (1 star)
Moon (4 stars)
Cold Souls (1.5 stars)
Informant! (3.5 stars)
Precious (2.5 stars)
The Road (4 stars)
A Serious Man (4 stars)
Where the Wild Things Are (2.5 stars)

Well, there you have it. I might have missed a few, but I stopped keeping my ticket stubs because I wasn't updating the blog at all. We averaged 1.2 movies a month, and my ratings averaged about 3 stars, which doesn't seem very good when you consider how many 4 stars ratings are up there. I put my top 5 in bold.

Here's to more movies in 2010.

2009 was not my movie year

I can't believe I haven't updated this since February. Actually, I can. I have a home business, a part time job and an 18 month old. So those are my excuses.

I won't even attempt to go back and write reviews for the movies we have seen in the theater this year, but I will make a list (maybe with star-ratings?) so that we can at least remember what we saw...

...this is pathetic. Here's to a more diligent movie blogging 2010!

The list will be posted next week.

I, Pierre Rivière, Having Butchered My Mother, My Sister, and My Brother…

I have no place reviewing this film. I fell asleep. It wasn't that it was bad. I am just a sleep-deprived mom. The part I saw was tres francais and a little bit weird. Did I mention it was long? And dark and warm in the theater? And there was no baby crying or wanting to nurse? Pure heaven.

The Wrestler

I so appreciated that this movie didn't do anything it wasn't meant to do. It was just the right amounts of funny and sweet and weird and gross. Nothing drastic or shocking happens, it doesn't wrap things in a pretty bow, but it was touching and realistic. Micky Roarke is pretty incredible, albeit pretty horrific to look at. I think the surprise here is Marisa Tomei, who delivers an amazing performance for which she is nominated for an Oscar. (I CANNOT believe she is 43!)

Milk

I knew a little bit about Harvey Milk from my Queer Studies class at UC Santa Cruz. It certainly wasn't necessary to know anything about him to thoroughly enjoy this sad, inspiring biopic. Sean Penn, who does very little that I enjoy (except this and this) (and I didn't realize he did this, but I liked it a lot too), was phenomenal. Completely great. I loved the 70's vibe that Van Sant captured and I feel like Van Sant's approach to this movie was so much more accessible than most of his other movies, many of which I really enjoy, but I respect that he wanted this to reach more people. Nicely done.