I rarely get movies from our Netflix.  More Brian's thing.  And even if I do get a movie, often times Brian will have watched before I got home or while I am busy with something, so I don't really pick movies for our queue. 
However, last night I got Coraline.  Nicely timed since Brian has something on Tuesday nights and my cooking class was over.   
First off, I got it because Neil Gaiman wrote the book.  And while I have to be in the mood for his stories, he writes delicously creepy and warped stuff.  I first found his work when I worked the comic books at the bookstore. Sandman and my favorite Death;The High Cost of Living.   
Second, cool stop-action animation which was better than the old Christmas TV specials.
Brian claimed that I liked it because the main character was an only child trying to keep from being bored.  So that is possibly third. 
But what I loved about it was the girl Coraline had to keep telling people that her name was NOT Caroline.  Somehow that hit a stronger chord than anything. 

I did like the movie, but don't recommend it for young kids. Not every animated movie is for little kids.  Probably would say that 12 -13 year old kids who are getting into fantasy would be a good age. 

We usually only go to 2-3 movies at the theater so I am usually watching movies a year later. 
However, we did just go see The King's Speech and it was amazing. 

Got our newest netflix and it was one of the Shakespeare Retold disks.   They take Shakespeare and have it rewritten for modern times. It isn't a true version of Shakespeare just set in modern times like some movies have been like Hamlet with Ethan Hawke or the Richard III with Ian McKellen set in 1930's England.  Which both still use the same words of the Bard. 
These were done for BBC as a mini series and have been utterly reworked to have modern language, but yet the story and some key lines are still in them.  The names are kept, but as last names instead of first.
Glad we got this one. It had Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummers Night Dream.  Dream was ...okay.  And I forget that it isn't one of my favorite Shakespeare plays anyway. 
But Shrew was fabulous.  The Shrew (Katherine) is a tempermental bitchy politician in today's parliment.  Her sister, the lovely Bianca is a fashion model.  It is fun.  The fight scene that is usually done broadly in the theater, is done quite cleverly.  And it is getting both the Shrew AND her crazy husband tamed.  
What was more fun was seeing actors that I knew but had trouble placing.  Twiggy was an easy one, but Kate and Petruchio I had seen (and heard in Kate's case) but couldn't place them immediately.  Rufas Sewell is Petruchio and that was easier to remember where we had seen him.  But even seeing the credits, I still could not place Shirley Henderson and I knew I had heard her voice before.  I will let you figure it out, but it was obvious after a fashion. 

Saw Paradise Road last night after running errands.  Glenn Close and several other wonderful actresses. 

It is about a group of women who were being sent home from Singapore during WW2 just before the Japanese invaded.  The evacuation boat is attacked and sunk.  The majority of the passengers end up in Sumatara and in a Japanese prision camp.  The Glenn Close character starts a vocal orchestra with the other women. Not a choir that sings, they hum full orchestral pieces like Bolero.  It is based off of a real story.  The one character who is in on the orchestra from the beginning reminds me so much of my mother, down to her shaming the camp commander without being "fresh" or aggressive.
There are a couple spots I had to turn away from, but overall it is a good story and kept both DH and my interest. 

We got the movie Pride last night from our Netflix.  My uncle Corky had recommended it last year and said that it was amazing.   Partly because he had also been a coach for black swimmers in the late 60's or early 70's.  

Yes, it is a sports movie, so there are some of the sports movie things that happen.  But it is amazing and affirming and based off a true story.  

I almost just read my book through the movie when I saw Bernie Mac's name fairly close to the top of the list of actors.  Then I saw Tom Arnold's name.  Eh?  Super-kinetic boy in a serious movie?  Great, just great.
I actually like Bernie Mac's character.  He was the manager of the center that was going to be torn down.  And I have no idea how the director kept Tom Arnold in his shoes, but he did a really good job as well.  

The young team of swimmers were funny and had wonderful quirks to them.  My favorite was the actor who played Reggie.  A shy sweet boy with a slight studder.  Amazing.

Overall just a good movie, some language (but more with the "N" word rather than the few cuss words sprinkled in), but very true to the time.  Also a couple of places of fights that are fitting for their place in the storyline.