Tenderness

This is a Russell Crowe movie from 2009 that I don't really remember hearing much about. It's disturbing in some parts but it's a pretty powerful movie. Crowe plays a semi-retired cop who is convinced that a kid convicted of killing his parents but released when he turned 18 will kill again. Despite its hard subject matter at times, I thought this was really good.

Robin Hood

This was a great take on the beginning of the Robin Hood legend. Russell Crowe is amazing and this was just an all around good movie.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Skip this movie. There are shots in the movie that don't make sense. There are scenes that last too long. The movie is about an incredibly corrupt cop who never bears any consequences for his actions. Really not good on many levels.

Broken Embraces

I was skeptical about this movie because I didn't like Volver, which was also Penelope Cruz as actress and Pedro Almodovar as director. I will say that this was better than I thought it would be. However it is too long. Also, the ending is a bit awkward.

The September Issue

This is a documentary focused on Anna Wintour and the making of an issue of Vogue. Apparently the September issue is said to set the trends in fashion for the following year. I found it really interesting. Especially the fact that her daughter and siblings seem to find her line of work to be a bit trivial. And, while I agree that fashion can be trivial, it also generates big money and employs a lot of people, and there's nothing trivial about that.

3:10 To Yuma

I watched this again the other day (the re-make with Russell Crowe and Christian Bale). This is a really good movie. Russell Crowe plays such a great bad guy who still has just a touch of good left in him. I'm not much of a western movie genre fan, but this is just a straight up good movie.

Sherlock Holmes

I've seen this twice now and I liked it better the 2nd time I saw it. The first time, I was concentrating so hard on understanding the english accents that a lot of the humor got by me. The second time, I watched it with subtitles and liked it better.