Five Months

Has it really been five months since I listed movies & DVDs? Damn. It's well past time I did something about that. Just don't expect in-depth analysis.

• Penn & Teller - Bullshit!: The Complete Third Season.
  
• The Film Crew: Killers from Space. MST3K-like commentary on an old, bad movie.
  
• Penn & Teller - Bullshit!: The Complete Fourth Season.
  
• Mystery Science Theater 3000: Ring of Terror.
  
• Final Fantasy Unlimited, v. 1. Four episodes of an anime series loosely based on the Final Fantasy video games. Weird and not very good.
  
• The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Shorts Block 1.
  
• Shorts Block 2.
  
• Cthulhu. Filmed in Astoria.
  
• Shorts Block 3.
  
• The Thing. I saw this at the very first HPLFF, and again at the most recent one. It is a great movie.
  
• Wishbaby.
  
• Nobody. Dark, noir-ish film involving a time-loop.
  
• The Twelve Chairs. A Mel Brooks film set in the early years of the Soviet Union.
  
• The Simpsons: The Complete Sixth Season.
  
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
  
• The Maltese Falcon. Oh, what a fantastic movie.
  
• Neil Gaiman's A Short Film about John Bolton. I think the ending could have been better, but still quite good.
  
• Rope.
  
• Doctor Who: Genesis of the Daleks.
  
• The Simpsons: The Complete Eighth Season.
  
• Doctor Who: Keeper of Traken.
  
• Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete First Season. Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie in the title roles. Very funny. Delightful, except for the decision to adapt a story that involved Bertie putting on black-face.
  
• Yellow Submarine.
  
• Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Second Season.
  
• Futurama: Bender's Big Score. Too many call-backs to the tv series, but otherwise excellent.
  
• Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Third Season.
  
• Nobody's Fool.
  
• The Golden Compass. Visually stunning, & excellent casting, but it felt rushed. I think there is simply too much plot to cram into the movie's run time, so characterization & context got sacrificed.
  
• Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete Fourth Season. Several of the stories in this season were preposterous, even by the standards of Bertie Wooster stories.
  
• Samurai Jack, Season 4.
  
• MST3K: Santa Claus.
  
• MST3K: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.
  
• Duck Soup. My favorite Marx Brothers movie.
  
• Scrooged.
  
• Love Actually. I adore this movie.
  
• X-Men: Last Stand. Simply terrible. The best thing this movie has going for it is Kelsey Grammar as Hank McCoy.
  
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Eh. I much prefer the version with Angela Lansbury.
  
• The Bourne Supremacy.
  
• The Bourne Ultimatum. We also watched the first Bourne movie while we were at Teena's parents', but I didn't pay all that close attention, so I'm not listing it here.
  
• It's a Wonderful Life. This was an amateur stage production we saw while in southern California. It was quite good; the only problem I had with it was that the director never told the actors not to mug to the audience when they didn't have lines. There were times I wanted to slap the guy playing Clarence.
  
• The Philadelphia Story. How can you not love a movie staring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Jimmy Stewart?

Well, I'm not caught up yet, but that does take me to the end of 2007, so I think I'll stop for now.