In Theaters Now: Highly Rated

1. A PROPHET (Rating 96)

French director Jacques Audiard's grim, disturbing prison picture slices through gangster clichés to hit raw nerve. -Colin Covert, Star Tribune

2. AN EDUCATION (Rating 94)

Despite the lingering aroma of Victorian rot shrouding 1961, An Education is excitingly young. -Kyle Smith, New York Post

3. THE WHITE RIBBON (Rating 83)

This great film is set in rural Germany in the years before World War I. All
has been stable in this village for generations. Haneke's films are
like parables, teaching that bad things sometimes happen simply because
they . . . happen. The universe laughs at man's laws and does what it
will. -Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Tribune

Ratings from our favorite movie site: Rotten Tomatoes

Three Great Wines Under $20

Vinofina, where these wines are stocked, also gives to a non-profit of your choice with every purchase of wine.

1. Pellegrini Family Blend $12 Spicy blend of Zinfandel, Merlot and Carignan. Yummy berry-cherry flavor is perfect for outdoor grilling.

2. Rutherford Ranch Chardonnay $16 Apricot and honey aroma with peach, pear, vanilla and lemon flavors. SF Chronicle Winner.

3. Hunterdon Pinot Noir $16 Micro-oxidation could be the secret to this perfect pinot. Balanced flavor of earthiness and cherry.

Good Fiction 2010: 3 Great Books

THE MUSUEM OF INNOCENCE
Already one of the most anticipated releases of the year, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence (Faber), is an epic tale of an obsessive love set amidst the dizzying melting pot of Istanbul. The story spans three decades and the book is due to be feted with a real museum: Pamuk is said to be planning a house of ephemera that will be stocked with his protagonist's keepsakes. 

HOMER AND LANGLEY
Minimalists beware: EL Doctorow's new book Homer and Langley (Little, Brown) could be your equivalent of The Shining. Based on the lives of the Collyer brothers (notorious hoarders and recluses who seldom ventured from their New York townhouse and eventually met their deaths as a result of the toxic environs they created) the story functions as a narrative prism through which Doctorow refracts a century of American life. 

Martha Stewart's Printable Spring Cleaning List

Confession: we secretly worship Martha Stewart for infecting the world with her executive approach to homemaking. So who better to tell us how to properly prepare chez nous for Spring? We found Martha's downloadable Spring Cleaning List and thought, if you have 100 hours to spare, you might find it useful too. Download here.

We Live In Public

Ondi Timoner, the filmmaker who gave us Dig! in 2004, just unveiled a new cautionary tale titled We Live In Public; a documentary about the rise and fall of Josh Harris, often dubbed "the Warhol of the Web." Remember him? Back in the early 1990s, the charismatic man who founded the first Internet market research company and the first Internet-based television network (Pseudo.com) produced live streams more eccentric than you'll ever see on Chatroulette, foresaw social networks and the domination of virtual reality – and like all geniuses who party a little too hard, he eventually took his game too far. Judging solely from the movie trailer, it's obvious his story will be thrilling to watch.