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On DVD:

American Reunion was only enjoyable to see the full cast reunited.

Wanderlust cracked me up a lot, largely because of the supporting characters. If you liked Role Models I expect you'd enjoy this. "Cut to..."

Casa di mi Padre - Will Ferrell's Spanish novella was mildly funny because he was more toned down than usual. A narrator's interruption detailing an accident with the animals on set got the biggest laugh from me.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is an example of how filming for 3D might work once in theaters but it falls flat in 2D.

The Three Stooges - I had no interest coming into this, but Sean Hayes actually got to me. The act of naively shooting an arrow straight into the air and walking away is very Mr. Bean and my kind of humor.

Breathless is a straight-to-DVD heist movie you know was written by a guy steeped in stage work because it's all talk in one location. I had to see it because Val Kilmer's in it. I know, I know...

Meeting Evil is a straight-to-DVD thriller with Samuel L. Jackson harassing Luke Wilson. Leslie Bibb, Luke's wife, has a great bit of dialogue telling off a female cop.

Being Flynn is about a writer son (Paul Dano) of a writer homeless man (De Niro). I continue to hate indulgent movies about writers.

Silent House has a moderately intriguing premise because home invasion is always scary...until you add a Big Psychological Twist! Lousy. (But I'm still crushing on Elizabeth Olsen.)

The Raid: Redemption is an Indonesian martial arts movie with the best hand-to-hand combat since Ong Bak, and apparently the direct inspiration for the upcoming Dredd movie's plot.

The Dictator was not as funny as his double. I did enjoy his insults to Anna Faris, though.

Get the Gringo is a straight-to-DVD prison movie starring Mel Gibson (remember him?!) in the tone of Payback. I liked it.

Piranha DD is pretty much the over the top exploitation you'd expect. I think that's the right approach, but the Final Destination series is better at it.

Bernie's acting was good but the real life townspeople in their interviews were the best part.

High School is a boring, convoluted high school stoner comedy. Adrien Brody was interesting as always, but it's not really worth it to see him.

Age of the Dragons looks like a SyFy movie (Moby Dick as told on land with dragons, and Danny Glover as Ahab) but has better production value and decent dialogue since most of it is taken from the literature. The result is, as anyone who's read the book will tell you, it drags.

4.3.2.1 looks like it should be an exciting heist movie starring sexy girls, but wow is it boring and repetitive. I felt like the movie should be wrapping up when it was barely an hour in.

I also caught one of the showcases at the DC Shorts Film Festival this past weekend. If you ever get a chance to see Deleting Emily from director Zak Klein, you won't be disappointed.

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