"A-B-C-D-E-F-Garlic" Reviews (7/1 - 7/7)

7/1

The Incredibles (2004, Brad Bird, dvd) - 9

Special Features
Jack-Jack Attack (short, 2005, Brad Bird) - 7.5
Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell (short, 2005, Rick Butler & Osnat Shurer) - 8
Mr. Incredible and Pals (short, 2005, Roger Gould) - 9
Boundin' (short, 2003, Bud Luckey) - 5

7/2

Alphabet Soup (short, rewatch, 1995, William Wegman, vhs) - 10
I actually watched this twice in a row.

7/3

Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Len Wiseman, theater) - 9

1408 (2007, Mikael Hafstrom, theater) - 8.5

Charley Bowers: The Rediscovery of an American Comic Genius (shorts, dvd)
Egged On (1926, Charley Bowers, Harold Muller, & Ted Sears) - 8.5
He Done His Best (1926, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 9
A Wild Roomer (1927, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 9
Fatal Footsteps (1926, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 7.5
Now You Tell One (1926, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 8.5
Many a Slip (1927, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 7
Nothing Doing (1927, Charley Bowers & Harold Muller) - 7
7/4
Grill Room Express (1918, Charley Bowers & Bud Fisher) - 6
A.W.O.L. (1918, Charley Bowers) - 6
Say Ah-h! (1928, Charley Bowers) - 8.5
It's a Bird (1930, Harold Muller) - 9.5
Believe It or Don't (1935, Charley Bowers) - 7.5
Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939, Joseph Losey) - 6
Wild Oysters (1941, Charley Bowers) - 8
A Sleepless Night (1940, Charley Bowers) - 7
Overall rating for the DVDs: 8.5

7/5

Black Sheep (2007, Jonathan King, theater) - 3.5
Aside from the jokes all being too-obvious one-liners that aren't funny, I couldn't really put my finger on why this movie failed to entertain me. It just wasn't drawing me in, and I was pretty bored almost the whole time. All there is to enjoy is a few moments of decent gore.

7/7

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989, Joe Johnston, sho) - 8

Screenshots of the week

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Now Playing movies I need 2 see
Fido
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (midnight on tuesday!)
License to Wed? The vicious reviews make it sound really tempting, but I don't know. Mandy Moore's got a pretty shitty track record.
Midnight Mass: Desperate Living (with Mink Stole and Tura Satana in attendance. I finally get to see this in the theater.)
Midnight Mass: Female Trouble (with John Waters in attendance)
Sicko
Transformers