Movies I have seen since I started working at a DVD rental place...

Summer of Sam It's nice to see Spike Lee take the ridiculous stereotypes and flat characterizations he usually attaches to the Black community and instead apply them to Italians. Two and a half hours of guido posturing.  However, the most noticeable problem with the film is that the mohawked CGBG punk rockers favorite song is "Baba O'Riley" by the Who... Ex-fucking-scuse Me???   Talk about unbelievable...  I mean, "My Generation", "The Kids Are Alright", "Substitute"  "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", maybe, but fucking Teenage Wasteland.... No No No...

Out Of The Past   I've seen this before, but it's the only film noir (and only Robert Mitchum film)  we stock, so beggars can't be choosers...  what can I say?  A classic film...

Mystic River   Not great,  not bad...  kinda like The Da Vinci Code, where every dumb person you know tells you it's really good so they look smart...  But, some nice shots of East Boston, including  a bar that doesn't exist, but should...  Also, Tim Robbins is good...  worth seeing...

The Hard Word  Nice Australian crime flick.  Fairly clever, nice action sequences, good characters... Next time you are going to rent any action movie with Owen Wilson, rent this instead...

Croupier  pretty crappy English crime film about casinos...  avoid...  like a Guy Ritchie film with no humor and characters you'd pay money to not spend time with if they existed in real life.

Mayor of the Sunset Strip     Makes a rock and roll life seem very boring and sad.

The Anarchist Cookbook  seems like some sort of naughty Nickelodeon series...

Owning Mahowny  not a bad way to spend two hours, and Minnie Driver looks much better in a blond wig...

Coffee and Cigarettes  with the exception of the RZA, GZA, Bill Murray sequence, it's fairly dull...  But, hey, I don't smoke or drink coffee, so seeing a bunch of people deemed hip waffle on about such vices does interest me...  He should have done a movie called "Malt Liquor"...

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie  seems to be the only Cassavetes film not made for women... Quite good...