Rocknrolla - The latest Guy Ritchie flick. If you liked Snatch and/or Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, you'll probably like this story about a gangster who makes his money in London real estate and how the deal goes sour. Lots of action and the kind of quirky dialog Ritchie is known for.
Madagascar 2 - She likes to move it, move it! Honestly, I went to this with Noelle because she's been singing the song from the trailer for approximately ten months now. Low expectations worked in my favor, as this movie is actually pretty good. It's not cinema, mind you, but it was a hell of lot funnier that I had imagined. Lots of penguin action.
Synecdoche, New York - Since I saw Charlie Kaufman's first film,
Being John Malkovich, I didn't think that he could make a movie that was any stranger. Well, I have been proven wrong. There's one thing in this movie that is out and out weird, like the 7 1/2 Floor from Malkovich, but weird permeates this movie in a more subtle, but in some sense more confusing way than in his earlier films. The story revolves around Caden Cotard, a playwright who is plagued by a fickle wife who doesn't love him any more, lots of mysterious physical maladies, and nearly paralyzing case of indecision. Caden is stuck in a rut, but he gets a grant to do his own work and starts on a project about life. This play is small scale replica of the world about the people he knows. Soon he has an actor playing him and others to play the other people in his messed up life. There are other people playing other people who exist in the world, but aren't directly connected to him, in the ever expanding set. It's intellectually very interesting, but also very hard to follow at times. There's a thing in computer science called "going meta" and the film does that at least a couple times. Weird, interesting stuff.
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