( Judi Dench: With a Crack in Her Voice, The Shortest Way to Hades, The Tudor Throne, Gold Diggers: Striking it Rich in the Klondike, Admission, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption, Fire, The Lincoln Lawyer, Lord John Gray and The Scottish Prisoner, A Place of Hiding, Thirty-One Brothers and Sisters )

Buried (2010)
Ryan Reynolds plays a truck driver in Iraq who has been kidnapped and buried alive with a cell phone and a lighter; the whole movie is shot in the box - it's incredibly claustrophobic but really powerful. Recommended if you like tense, problem-solving, action movies. (Though this is not an 'action' movie exactly, it has that feel.)

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Pirate Radio (a.k.a. The Boat That Rocked) (2009)Directed by Richard Curtis. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Rhys Ifans, and a bunch of British people (mostly guys) who live aboard an illegal (pirate) radio ship broadcasting rock and pop music from the North Sea in the 1960s. Kenneth Branagh is the bureaucrat who wants to shut them ( Read more... )

Last night I went with listersgirl and SFD to see Potted Potter, an unauthorized parody of the Harry Potter books, seven books in 70 minutes. It's a two-man show, and honestly it was more MANIC than I expected (having seen One Man Lord of the Rings I suppose I was expecting something more like that?) but it was really funny - the two guys did well, and were ( ( Read more... )

Hello! I spent the morning at a library conference* so this is my quick break of posting (I cleverly typed it last night, saving the LJ formatting for actual LJ posting) before I work late (to make up the hours) and then go out to dinner with shaes_shire who is in town for the same conference ( Read more... )

Top Ten Reads of 2011-Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage by Elizabeth Gilbert ( Read more... )

( Only Time Will Tell, A Prison Diary Volume 1: Hell, Come Thou Tortoise, A Prison Diary Volume 2: Purgatory, A Prison Diary Volume 3: Heaven, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, To Hold the Crown, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Attachments, The Amateur Gourmet )

November 2011
-Sons of Anarchy: Season 2 Discs 2-4 (2009)
-The Ghost Writer (2010)
-Transformers (2007)
-How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
-Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
-Gunless (2010)
-Sons of Anarchy: Season 3 Discs 1 and 2 (2010)

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October 2011
-Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 Discs 1-4 (2009)
-The Next Three Days (2010)
-The Philadelphia Story (1940)
-Primal Fear (1996)
-To Catch A Thief (1955)
-Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
-Sons of Anarchy: Season 2 Disc 1 (2009)

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I'm having trouble with LJ cut-tags (I swear my HTML coding is right but it's just not working if I try to put more than one word as cut-text) so here are the titles reviewed/discussed beneath the cut ( Read more... )