recommended movies:
five movies we haven't seen yet

Love Liza

Philip Seymour Hoffman is up there with Edward Norton in that we will see any movie with him in it. And this has him in a starring role! In a script written by his brother, about a husband who can't bring himself to read the letter left for him from his wife who committed suicide. Unlikely to be a feel-good movie, we will be there.

Brazil

Something of a clasic, by Terry Gilliam, with Robert Deniro... and we haven't seen it? We don't know why. We have liked everything else Gilliam, and obviously Deniro is amazing. You have probably already seen this, and we haven't but we are going to recommend it to you anyway.

Gerry

The new movie by Gus Van Sant, it stars Matt Damon and Casy Affleck essentially wandering around, lost in the desert. Best we can tell, Damon and Affleck are the only two people in the entire movie, and although they share writer credits with Van Sant, it looks to have very little dialogue, with most of it being improv. If nothing else, it looks interesting, and the cinematography looks amazing. The anti quick edit, speed cut Hollywood movie.

About Schmidt

Of course, having not seen it, ,we are going entirely on what we have heard and who is involved. Sure, we are curious to see Alexander Payne's follow up to Election, but it is Jack Nicholson we really want to see. His is supposed to be an amazing, more subtle and nuanced performance, and we thought he was great and overlooked in San Penn's The Pledge.

Casablanca

Another classic. Humphrey Bogart. Can you believe we haven't seen it?

and one we have seen...

Narc

Although we did see Narc, we were recommending it long before it came out. It is your standard dirty cop/drug movie taken up a notch by director Joe Carnahan and infused with the brute force of Ray Liotta and the many layers of Jason Patric.