On the Fringes:

Guilty Pleasure Movies

- Dumb and Dumber
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Father of the Bride
- Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban
- 100 Girls
- Bend It Like Beckham
- The Governess
- Beautiful Girls
- Lolita
- Another Day in Paradise
- L'Amant
- Finding Nemo
- Nine 1/2 Weeks
- Unfaithful
- Clueless
- The Breakfast Club

Most Annoying Songs

- Madonna: Ray of Light
- Nickelback: Photograph
- Melissa O'Neil: Let It Go
- Hilary Duff: Beat of my Heart
- Eminem: Ass Like That
- Incubus: Megalomaniac
- Avril Lavigne: Skater Boy
- Kelly Clarkson: Since U Been Gone

Good Songs

- Jimi Hendrix: Little Wing, All Along the Watchtower
- John Lennon: How
- The Killers: On Top, Andy, You're A Star
- Green Day: Jesus of Suburbia, Holiday, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
- Jonathan Richman: I was Dancing in a Lesbian Bar

Movies that I Didn't Really Like but Can't Seem to Forget and will not NOT Recommend

- Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- Life Aquatic (with Steve Zissou)
- Down with Love
- Ken Park
- Anything Else
- The Thin Red Line
- The Blue Lagoon

Movies that I Flat-Out Disliked

- 40 Days and 40 Nights
- Reality Bites
- Catch Me if You Can
- Léolo
- Matilda
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
- Anchorman
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
- Jerry Maguire
- American Pie
- Alex and Emma
- Boys and Girls
- Loser
- Selena
- Batman Forever

I call myself a film buff, however, I have not seen these films. For shame!

- Casablanca
- Pulp Fiction
- Reservoir Dogs
- King Kong
- The Piano
- West Side Story
- Some Like It Hot
- Unforgiven
- The Quick and the Dead
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Taxidriver
- Raging Bull
- Godfather Trilogy
- any of the original Star Wars films
- Deer Hunter
- Boyz n the Hood
- Malcolm X
- Spartacus
- Ben Hur
- Gone with the Wind
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Mary Poppins
- Cleopatra
- Madame Butterfly
- Sixteen Candles
- Heathers
- Velvet Goldmine
- Little Women
- The Passion of the Christ
- St. Elmo's Fire
- Monty Python
- Pretty in Pink
- Footloose
- Dirty Dancing
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- actually, not that I think of it, anything with Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor

That is all that I can think of for now.

dir. Gus Van Sant
written by: Gus Van Sant
cast: Alex Frost, Bennie Dixon, John McFarland

92/100 Amazing, self-assured direction by van Sant. It doesn't try to give answers to questions it doesn't know.

( Elephant )

Closer
dir. Mike Nichols
Screenplay: Patrick Marber
Cast: Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen



( Closer )

97/100 If I ever were to write a movie, this would be the film I would want it to turn out to be. I am so over-reaching, I can't even believe it. To even dare to think that I could write something of this calibre is absurd.

Dogville
dir. Lars von Trier
Screenplay: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård



( Dogville )

97/100 A perfect cast, perhaps with the exception of James Caan - too stereotypical and adds a modern-day unwelcomed twist to an otherwise period piece (somewhat). A great and disturbing story. Very ambitious. The lack of setting is a little jarring at first, but you get used to it.

Garden State
dir. Zach Braff
Screenplay: Zach Braff
Cast: Zach Braff, Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Ian Holm



( Garden State )

67/100 - It tries. Braff is fun and has depth, as a director and actor. Promising premise. Good look to the film. But fails in its own trappings to be "quirky" - a very overrated term used to describe this film.