1. Shrek Forever After: Yes, the kids wouldn't forgive me if I didn't take them, but I was interested to see how the whole time-paradox-for-kiddies thing worked out. It's hard enough for adults to wrap their heads around those sorts of story lines.
2. The Kids Are All Right: I love the idea of Annette Bening & Julianne Moore playing lesbian mamas, and the two kid actors (Mia Wasikowska, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and Josh Hutcherson, Bridge to Terabithia) are fabulous up-and-comers.
3. Eat, Pray, Love: I didn't read the best-selling book, but I am a huge fan of Javier Bardem, Billy Crudup, James Franco and America's Sweetheart herself (Julia Roberts).
4. Toy Story 3: It's Pixar's flagship franchise, and I think Pixar can do no wrong.
5. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The story alone is worth checking out: A regular guy (Michael Cera) has to defeat a girl's (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) seven evil ex-boyfriends before they can be together.
6. Holy Rollers: Hasidic jews selling ecstasy? As a Brooklyn girl at heart, I can vouch for the believability of this plot. Jesse Eisenberg + Justin Bartha & Q-Tip = compelling indie.
7. Ondine: I love Irish filmmakers, and Neil Jordan is the country's pre-eminent director. It doesn't hurt that Colin Farrell is so easy on the eyes and that the movie sounds a little bit like Splash.
8. The Tillman Story: I'm a documentary nut, and I recently bought my husband Jon Krakauer's book about Pat Tillman, so this is a must-see.
9. Inception: Christopher Nolan is wonderful at messing with our minds (The Dark Knight, Memento, The Illusionist), so if he's brought along Leo, Ken Watanabe, Ellen Page, and Marion Cotillard for a mind-bending ride, I'm definitely going to be on it.
10. Babies: Because I've got three of my own, and they're hard to resist when on-screen. I'm seeing it tomorrow night, so I hope it's good!
I'm sooo fired up for Toy Story III!
Posted by: Emily | May 31, 2010 at 11:33 PM
If I were to see Babies, I would instantly go home and conceive our third child - I think it is safer if I stay way from that movie!
Posted by: Loukia | June 03, 2010 at 10:46 AM
Hi, this comment has absolutely nothing to do with this post, but as it's your most recent one I thought it would be easiest for you to find here. I jumped to you from twitter (I'm squashedmom) where we know a lot of the same people as I'm also an SVMG blogger (on the NYC site). I was intrigued by your 140 character mini bio, in that you write about both parenting and grief, as do I, and I don't know many others mining that specific combo. My blog "The Squashed Bologna" was begun as I was supporting my father through the dying process, and now I am supporting my mother through her widowhood. I have been really moved reading into your blog and will come back again soon (yawn, it's late) and read some more. Come visit me, too, sometime. If I ever post again. (I'm having a crazy day on my blog because The Bloggess listed my latest post in her Sunday wrap up, so now I have all these new readers and now feel performance pressure for my next post, and that tends toward freezing me up.)
OK, I actually do have something to say that relates to this post - I took my mother to see "Babies" on Mother's day weekend and she absolutely loved it. She's getting a bit deaf, so can't easily follow movies with a lot of dialogue and she doesn't like action pics, also she just loves babies, so it was a PERFECT choice. I also had my autistic son in tow, since he loves both movies and babies, too. So it was 3 generations together at the movies, which was wonderful. Add to that it was at NYC's Paris theater, one of the last grand old single screen theaters in the city, and it was awesome.
Posted by: Varda | June 07, 2010 at 01:01 AM
Oh, I love your personal fave lists! Thanks. Adding some to mine now!
:-)
Posted by: Chisti L | June 27, 2010 at 09:27 PM