Gung Hei Fat Choy!

Today marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year. 2006 is the year of the Dog. The Fire Dog to be exact.



Birth years for this sign:
1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006.

Common Dog personality traits are loyalty, honesty, trustworthiness, and stubbornness. Dogs make good leaders. Compatible signs are Rabbits, Horses and Tigers.

Celebrity Dogs include:

Madonna
Gary Oldman
Bill Clinton
David Gilmour
Viggo Mortenson
Uma Thurman
Steven Spielberg
Donald Trump
Mother Theresa

Much prosperity and luck to you and your families!

It's a Blockbuster weekend...

Went to Blockbuster after work yesterday and picked up

The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Cinderella Man
The Interpreter
Must Love Dogs
Flightplan

So far have watched

Flightplan

I love Jodie Foster. I've followed her career since she was a kid. I'll see her in anything, for she is that awesome. This movie was pretty good. I know that reviews have been mixed, but I liked it well enough. Kept me watching, and wasn't boring in the slightest. Plot: A new widow (Foster) and her daughter are flying from Berlin to New York with the husband's casket. Settled in their seats, the woman takes a nap, only to awaken to find the little girl missing, with nobody having seen her... she isn't even on the flight's passenger manifest. Tension and suspense builds as the hunt is on to find the little girl and other twists begin to unfold. Gets kind of far fetched but entertaining anyway.

Big ol' plothole at the end, and I feel that the end result could have been gone about in an easier way on the part of the "bad guys" but all in all yes, a good thriller. And oh yes... mad props for Sean Bean as the flight's Captain!

(See the trailer)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

I had to see if this one was anywhere near as scary as The Exorcist. And since it's based on a true story, well, that drew me in too. Plot: A lawyer (played by Laura Linney) takes on a case to defend a priest (played by the always great Tom Wilkinson) charged with the negligent homicide of a young girl named Emily Rose (played by Jennifer Carpenter) after she dies post exorcism. What really happened during the exorcism? Was Emily really posessed by demons? The film leaves you with many thought provoking and unanswered questions.

This was really well done. Was it as scary as The Exorcist? They are two different movies, and both equally as chilling. Jennifer Carpenter's performance here is quite effective as Emily and there are a few truly freaky sequences.

And let me just say, my eyes actually flew open last night, and in the dark, I looked at the digital clock. 3am. *shudders*
I'm not joking.

(See the trailer)

I'll update again as I watch the others.