112 - 113 New Rose Hotel

113 - New Rose Hotel - I was dissapointed at how this film didn't have the same punch as Abel's King of New York. It felt like one long drunken binge and hangover all at once. I think Walken, Dafoe, and Argento could have done more given the right environment.

(112 - Battlestar Galactica Disc 3) :)

111 - Battlestar Galactica Disc 2

To help feed my BG craving, I got disc 2 (after watching a used disc 1). Like the first disc, it's good stuff. And Richard Hatch returns! (well......as an exiled radicalist) I really like the haunting and drum-heavy soundtrack.

110 - Boarding Gate

There is this fearless quality that just draws me to Asia Argento. That, and the pairing with Michael Madsen was quite odd. The film is a mix of that french eroticism and bits of asian reckless scenes (and not simply because the second half was in China). I wasn't that happy with it, honestly, but wasn't bored watching Asia crawl her way in and out of trouble.

109 - Grace is Gone

I could never have watched this film at your local theater. I was just tearing-up constantly with the outstanding performances by John Cusack and young Shelan O'Keefe. I was pleased to not see any initial scenes meant to show the love the family shared before their mother's deployment. When a daughter tells you she loves her mom very much, you don't ask her to prove it. This film has put to perspective what it is to grieve for loss. It will never be the same for anyone, but the time that needs to pass will always be long, numbing, and painful.