I'll be the first to admit that when it comes to Luke and Owen Wilson, I'm biased. I like the bros, and they really can't go wrong in my book, well most of the time. But I was seriously surprised at how much I loved The Wendell Baker Story. It fell under the radar during its release and I wouldn't have even heard of the movie had I not referred to my Wilson brother IMDB bookmark. Trust me when I say, rent this dvd. It's funny and sweet, and Owen Wilson plays a hilarious geriatric nurse (reminiscent of Ben Stiller's character in Happy Gillmore). Eva Mendes is great as well.

If you haven't seen Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent, I suggest you get out and rent it now. It's a sad/funny/heart warming story of Fin, a NJ dwarf and train aficionado who finds himself lost when his only friend and co-worker dies. To cope, he retreats to a far away abandoned train station in rural NJ, left to him by his late friend. Fin wants to be bothered by no-one, but instead finds himself having to deal with obnoxious Joe (the roach coach owner who sets up shop by the station), and Olive (a neighbor in just as much pain as Fin after losing her son).

Though the critics are split on the little indie flick and it did not fare so well at the box office, I have an unabashed love for Cherish. The story revolves around a daydreaming, eighties pop music loving, computer animator Zoe, (Robin Tunney) who lives in San Francisco. One night Zoe downs one too many drinks while dancing with her work crush (none other than Jason Priestly---yes!) and subsequently finds herself on house arrest for the accidental murder of a cop. From there all turns to Zoe's new little world inside her home, how she interacts with the world outside it, her relationship with her reserved jailer, a complete makeover, a lil rollerskating, a stalker, and plenty of Hall & Oates. Works for me!

Putting my boyfriend in charge of our Netflix queue can go two ways. Sometimes he'll find an amazing old school movie I would have never heard of - or sometimes he'll find an old school movie I would have been better off without. He found a gem this time around with Alberto Lattuada's Mafioso - a 1962 Italian flick about Sicily, honor, family and unwanted facial hair. Maybe it's my Sicilian heritage, or fondness for Mafia movies...but this one is a favorite in my book. 

I have a running list of movies that I "have" to see but I just never get around to putting it on the old Netflix line up.      A cult classic in the fashion circle, The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant was one of those films.   This weekend I bit the bullet and was wondering all along what took me so long to watch this film. It was incredible!!!  It is a tragic story of a diva fashion designer, her assistant whom she treats horribly but adores her in return, and her fit model with whom she, Petra, falls desperately in love.  It's your classic lesbian love triangle (which was rather shocking for audiences in the 70's) but it is told so beautifully by these three women who are decked out in the most amazing clothes, jewelry and killer wigs.  It's fashionably delicious!