- The Time Traveler's Wife, *****The whole movie is a time travel paradox of Heinlin proportions! A time traveler erratically goes back and forth in time and creates a relationship with a normal girl. It is an amazing way to tell a love story, I'm really hoping to get my hands on the book as soon as I clear my current reading list.
- Going Postal, ****So far, the last film based on Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Ankh-Morpork is suffering from a monopoly of telecommunications and needs to revive its postal service, what a better man for the job than conman Moist von Lipwig? As always, there's romance, murder, adventure and a lot of laughs.
- Lone Wolf and Cub, ****I have the feeling that this one should be on the first place because I surely missed a lot of the technical, photography and cinematic details. The Ogami (similar to Okami, that is wolf) clan has been murdered in a political game during Tokugawa's shogunate, only the clan leader Itto and his son remain taking the path of the assassin and searching for revenge. An awesome masterpiece from the seventies and the first of a series of six (or maybe seven) films.
- The Rite, ***A faithless man is recruited in the exorcist ranks of Vatican and confronts his first demon, Ba'al, in a faith inducing and almost mortal experience. Allegedly based in a true story
- Red State, ***A trio of teens looking for sex are captured by a fundamentalist sects somewhere in rural america and there's a big screw up by the ATF. Kevin Smith—disclosure, I'm a fan of the Jersey saga—portraits fundamentalist America, both civil and government, and its screw-ups.
Most of the series have gone to hiatus so I had to go for Rafael's recommendation and some more...
- Breaking Bad S01E01-07, ****Walter White, a brilliant chemist gone South surviving teaching at a high school in Albuquerque, finds himself facing death and the prospect of leaving his family without a cent and up to the neck in debts, that's when he decides to cook meth with one of his old students and break bad. In the beginning I didn't like it but as Rafael told me, it really gets worse with time and that's good.
- Tin Man E01-03 (Miniseries), ****
Three generations ago, Dorothy Garland walked Oz and fought the bad witches of Oz. Now, a witch is free and her grand daughters played a major role in liberating the witch. It is the turn of D.G. and a rag tag band composed of an empty-headed scarecrow of a man (a former adviser to the Queen), a heartless tin man (copper, police) and a coward lion to find a way into Oz emerald and vanquishing the witch.
- Good Luck Charlie S01E01-23, **Charlie, short for Charlotte, is the few months old baby of the Duncan family. Her sister Teddy is video logging a diary so Charlie can learn from the past. The family is rounded up with PJ the oldest and brainless sibling and Gabe, the second youngest and the evil mind of the pack. Good innocent laughs, refreshing after so many pseudo-procedural series and good for waiting the return of Last Man Standing tomorrow night.
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