How much do I love my library? Free DVD borrowing. You get them for 2 days, and can only renew them once. However, you can't put a reserve on movies, so you have a guaranteed renewal for 2 more days.

Ha! I can get them for 7 days, with up to two renewals. The downside is that they don't seem to have anything later than 1964, for some reason. I haven't looked THAT hard, tho. Oh, yeah, and a $1/day late fee, but no more than a total of $4.

Lurker-in-this-thread peeking in...

I think Michael J. Fox was on Canadian TV as a kid, or at least as a teenager, though.

Finally saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the Little Indie That Could. There's not much ridiculously fantastic about it, but it's a nice movie about culture clash (and not too different from my own situation). Bend It Like Beckham is better, though. There's far more going on in that one; here there's pretty much one plot and a teeny weeny subplot. And I think I like John Corbett as Aidan better. He's too schmoopy here.

Now I'm going to watch Ginger Snaps.

Yeah, they made him too damn perfect. But I was happy because he was my imaginary boyfriend in high school. And how much did I want to be Carrie Bradshaw the year that she had him and Big to choose from?? Very, very, much. Although me as Carrie is pretty funny, if you knew what my closet looked like.

I thought K-PAX was okay. Better than David Gale, which has the Most Ridiculous Twist Ending Ever.

I did not much careforMy Big Fat.... I mean, there's nothing really WRONG with it, it's just (IMNSHO) a 90-minute pilot for a sitcom I wouldn't watch. (and, in fact,nobody watched.) It might have been a victim of its own hype, though.

I liked it a lot, but it's not...art.

K-PAX made me want to create new orifices in people with sporks.

Big fuzzy bailout movie.

So Ginger Snaps is really good for a low-budget horror movie. Is the sequel any good?

(Huh. Not even the same writer or director, and the third one looks ridiculous. Maybe I'll just pretend the other two don't exist.)

One of the best movies I've ever seen has finally made it to DVD.

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

It was (at one time) the record holder for the longest movie I ever watched in a theater in one sitting, being 3 hours long.

I can't really describe its virtues well enough to make anyone want to see it. It's Italian, set at the turn of the century (made in the early 80s). The best I can do is to say it is completely transporting, like reading a very rich and humane historical novel. It is about one peasant family, and their lives. And I know that sounds dry as dust, but it's not in the least. In fact, it is one of the most memorable film going experiences I've had, and very moving.

I wonder, however, if its beauty would be diluted on a small screen. It's visually very beautiful and being surrounded by it, immersed in Italy, is one of its virtues.

P-C, there's a review of Ginger Snaps II here that you might be interested in.