Watched Across the Hall, The Lovely Bones, Mulholland Drive, The Ghost Writer, Cold Souls, and Brick.
Brick I'd already seen. I love that movie so hard.
Mulholland Drive is David Lynch acting like David Lynch. It had been forever since I'd seen it so I snagged it super cheap at a sale. The naked lesbians are for idol. Everything else is just for me.
Across the Hall turned out to be a decent little thriller with a few good twists. Not the best movie ever, but it was worth watching.
The Ghost Writer was a compelling watch with a pretty shitty ending. One of those things that could have satisfied if it had tried a little harder, but somebody clearly had no idea how to end their story, that or they just decided what they did would be powerful or poignant or something, but they didn't guess right. Still a pretty good flick on the whole.
Cold Souls was good dark humor with a lot of heart and a little bit of niche film atmosphere. It was certainly original, and well worth watching.
The Lovely Bones was the biggest surprise for me. I really didn't know what to expect, exactly, but it turned out to be nothing like what I thought it would be. It surprised in a lot of good ways and was a lot artsier and more introspective than I thought it was going to be. Some of this didn't work quite as well as it should have, and it did have to sacrifice some character depth at times and, oddly enough, shove its main characters a little further from the forefront in order to do what it wanted to do, but it was unique and fairly well carried off.
Still to go: Big Man Japan and The Orphanage.
