Saw Shooter last night. It was pretty much what we went for--gunmanship and action. A lot of explosions considering the gunheavy premise, but what can you do? I managed to spot at least one gun error, my companion more (but that's kinda his job), but it was decent fun.

Some medical "whuzzat?" happening there, but Wahlberg is nice and sulky and Michael Pena does a good job with his role too. Danny Glover does a good creepy. The women aren't...well, they aren't too developed. They support the action. That's their gig.

I'm pretty sure I chose my college solely because Real Genius was filmed there.

Finally watched Casino Royale. That was both a good and bad movie.

I saw The Host today. It was interesting, but I can't rave about it like I've seen some reviewers do. The authorities, Korean AND American, seemed too cartoonish for the rest of the movie to me.

Once again, I need the hivemind. I've done some googling, but I wanted to verify.

Given that it's a fictionalization, are there any historical...inaccuracies, if you will, in Judgment at Nuremburg? Not that these specific things happened, but that things didn't happen like that?

My TiVo suggested it to me, and it seems like a good place to start my classroom library.

Just saw The Lookout, and recommend it highly. Very well written and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is amazing and nuanced. All the actors are great, really. It's a character study disguised as a caper film and succeeds on both counts.

JG-L rocked on Third Rock from the Sun as a mature and wise scientist having to assume the persona of a teenager, so I'm not surprised he's moved on to better things.

Salon has a really insightful intewview with him regarding The Lookout and his career: [link]

He's becoming a favorite of the indie circuit for his willingness to take on darker and conflicted characters. Not bad for a guy who cut his teeth on Angels in the Outfield.

I had seen Gordon-Levitt as a child actor, was most familiar with him for a Lifetime movie about a child who divorced his neglectful parents to stay with an adoptive or foster family. But he absolutely blew me away in the first few episodes of first season Third Rock. Amid all the buffoonery of the adults, somehow this kid seemed to embody the mature and wise scientist Theo notes above. He didn't parody it, he didn't overplay it. In quiet minutes between himself and Lithgow, he simply was this wise elder.

Of course he played human puberty for laughs, but it was the "old soul" business that got me. Similar to Christian Bale, actually.

JG-L fans have seen Brick, right? He's really good in that.

I always think of JG-L in Ten Things I Hate About You, aka my favorite teen movie not made in the 80s.