The Week in Movies

Haven't kept up on my blogging about the many new movies we have seen in the past week. Quick notes about each, cuz I am feeling super lazy this morning. Do you care?

The original War of the Worlds. Fun, creepy, cheesy and rated G for the fabulous death scenes. Great for the kids when those people are evaporated before your eyes.

Squirm: One of those late 70's "creature features" from American International; the makers of Frogs and the Joan Collins cheese-fest, Empire of the Ants. Storms cause downed power lines to pump electricity into the ground; making the worms in the earth go crazy and start eating people. This movie was very cheap, and very slimy. I literally wanted to bathe after this was over. It made me feel sweaty and dirty. But it was fun, and the lead no name actor was sort of cute.

Constantine: Keanu Reeves was fine. The movie was alot of fun, much more so that I would have expected. Rachel Weisz was great and Tilda Swinton was fabulous as Gabriel. Some fun scary images and a bit less popcorn-y than I figured it would be. Good times.

Donnie Darko: A great big mind fuck of a movie. Spooky, interesting, with great performances. Frank; the rabbit, could not have been creepier. Worth all the hype? I would say so. Drew Barrymore never looked better!

Love Liza: A small film with Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates. He is a man whose wife recently killed herself and Kathy is his mother-in-law. It is about his addiction to gasoline sniffing and the fallout from his wife's suicide. It also follows his new desperate interest in model boats and airplanes; something to fill his void. Not the most interesting movie, but strange and sort of endearing. All of the gas sniffing left me with a real headache.