Which films did you watch last week? (March 6 - 12)?

Doctor Strange (2016) 8/10
Captain America: Civil War (2016) 7.5/10
Carnage Park (2016) 7.5/10

Didn't watch a lot, but they were all solid and entertaining stuff.

White Palace (1990): A-
Loving (2016): A-
The Rain People (1969): A-
Night and the City (1950): A-
Romance (1930): A-
Once Around (1991): A-
Marie Antoinette (1938): B+
Havana (1990): B+
The Star (1952): B+
Paradise Road (1997): B+
Pirate Radio (2009) : B+
The Human Factor (1979): B+
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962): B
East Side West Side (1949): B
Prince of Players (1955): B
What Price Hollywood? (1932): B
Love Nest (1951): B
She's the One (1996) : B-
Three Loves Has Nancy (1938): B-
Mo Better Blues (1990): B-
The Woman in Red (1935): B-
His Brother's Wife (1936): B-
The World's End (2013): C+

I watched quite a bit, due to the fact that I was ill and I have vacations, I watched quite a bit:

Julieta (2016): 7
Aqui no ha pasado nada (2016): 6
To Catch a Thief (1955): 8
Upstream Color (2013): 3
The Signal (2014): 5
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970): 6
Riso Amaro (1949): 9
Mon Roi (2015): 5
Black Sea (2014): 6
The Beguiled (1971): 8
Creep (2014): 5
Plemya (2014): 8

The Truman Show (rewatch) - 8.5
Chicago (reawatch) - 8
The People vs. Larry Flynt - 8
The Passenger - 8
Heat - 7.5
The Birdcage - 7.5
Georgia - 7.5
Becket - 6
Young Frankenstein - 6
I Shot Andy Warhol - 6

Love & Friendship (2016) -- Jane Austen is my favorite novelist, and I'm thrilled to say that this captures her style of comedy better than any other adaptation of her work. It's a hysterical comedy of manners, and took its place as my favorite film of last year. 9/10 at least.

Our Little Sister (2015) -- This is a very Japanese movie. I mean that in the best possible way. Japanese stories are willing to breathe and let things flow in an entirely different way than stories from anywhere else. And Our Little Sister (inexplicably changed from it's Japanese title translating to Seaside Town Diary) is a prime example of that unique mindset, focusing on moments that create a mood, rather than a narrative. It's nothing more than collected vignettes following these four people, but it's sad and happy and funny and serious and all kinds of wonderful in a way that isn't possible in a more focused "narrative." I loved these characters and it hurt to part from them, which is far more than I can say of most movies. 9/10 at least.

Red Dwarf (Series VI) -- I've been a big fan of this show, but it really fell apart in this season. I scrounged around the internet looking for someone else who disliked this season, and found this review that echoes all of my own thoughts on what Grant/Naylor did to their once great sitcom. opinionscanbewrong.blogspot.com/2016/08/red-dwarf-series-vi-overview.html I'm more upset about the drop in quality than this reviewer is, but we're totally agreed on why it failed. 4/10

Death Billiards (2013) -- Ah, the classic short film setup: Put two people in a room, and tell them that one isn't leaving alive. There's always a task that the two must perform, and the enjoyment comes from watching the characters squirm. In Death Billiards, the task is, of course, billiards... but what makes this short so excellent is in its refusal to grant the audience that sadistic enjoyment. This movie has a heart, showing its characters as flawed people at the end of their ropes who are scared to death at the thought of what they're going through, and we're meant to sympathize with every outburst of profanity laden anger, every boneheaded decision, every mistake that they make. It humanizes these victims instead of making them dispensable pawns in a game, and that gives weight to the ending that isn't about winners and losers, but rather about removing the boundaries between the characters and making them (and us) step into the shoes of someone else. I'm definitely interested in checking out the TV show that spun off from it (something called Death Parade), but this is a beauty that works on its own. 8/10

The American President (1995) -- It's a funny Capra tribute, sweet and warm and forgettable. Special mention to Marc Shaiman's horribly overwrought score, but it's balanced out by a lot of good performances and a warm, fuzzy script. 7/10

I had an excellent week

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964): 8.5/10
The Milky Way (1969): 10/10
The Phantom of Liberty (1974): 10/10
Alphaville (1965): 10/10
Kong: Skull Island (2017): 5/10
Angst (1983): 10/10
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943): 8.5/10
Whatever Works (2009): 7.5/10