This is going to be a tough week for me. It's not Oscar season yet, so there aren't more good movies than are spaces in my top 3, but this is a very close top 3.
1) She Hate Me
2) Garden State
3) The Village
Sperm donors, disaffected youths, and monsters! Oh my!
The Village
No one is better at making you afraid of what you don't know than M. Night Shyamalan. Yes, he may have a formula, but it's one very good formula. I'll let you know when it stops working.
The Manchurian Candidate
I don't know why people say that the citizens of LA don't care about the environment. People who work in Hollywood recycle all the time.
Thunderbirds
Another recycling effort. This time it's a 60's TV show that no one ever watched about a family with nifty planes who fight evil.
Maybe it would be better if producers stopped recycling crap.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
What's the big deal about pot? Really. Humor me. I've tried it and it made me do was want hack up a lung. The worst part about the experience was that I was actually stupid enough to try it again. Peer pressure is a bitch. Don't let anyone tell you different.
This movie is a dumbed down version of a Cheech and Chong flick.
She Hate Me
A white-collar biotech executive is fired for being a whistle blower and forced to father children for lesbians in order to make ends meet. The cherry on top of this sundae of plot is the fact that the movie was written and directed by Spike Lee. I love him.
"A sperm bank? That's like trying to Gucci at Wal-Mart." Funniest line I've heard all year.
Garden State
If you've seen Scrubs and witnessed Zach Braff in his goofy comedic brilliance, then you will be genuinely surprised by this movie.
This movie about a young man returning home during his 1/4 life crisis is visually striking and written with what I can only call a solemn quirkiness which I find to be a daring first writer and director effort for Braff. I can't wait to see it, but only after She Hate Me. Age before beauty, after all.
Intimate Strangers
A beautiful young woman tells all her secrets to a psychiatrist, who doesn't have the heart to tell her that he is actually a tax accountant. Opps. That never happens to the ugly chicks.