Super 8: nice little retro alien horror flick. Lots of stylistic throwbacks to the kind of flicks children of the 80s grew up loving.
V For Vendetta: finally got around to watching this graphic-novel adaptation. And rather enjoyed it.
Cocoon: filling in a bit of a gap in my 80s repertoire. If you can get over the weirdness of seeing Brian Dennehy transmogrify into an angelic alien, this is quite a touching, yet cautionary, look at what happens when a fountain of youth is discovered.
Spaceballs: another inexplicable blank in the gekko canon. As a hard-core Star Wars aficionado, it's probably just as well I didn't watch this growing up as I may well have resented seeing my beloved franchise mocked so irreverently. Watching it now, as an only slightly-less defensive aficionado, I found it amusing in parts but pretty cheesy.
The Young Ones: inspired by my long-time admiration of his Lord Flasheart character from BlackAdder (Woof!), I decided to check out Rik Mayall's breakthrough comedy which was co-written by Ben Elton. Has its moments, but hasn't held up anywhere near as well as Blackadder.
Bottom: Rik Mayall's follow-up to The Young Ones, also featuring his comedic cohort Ade Edmondson (Viv from the Young Ones). Pretty forgettable fare; it went for 3 seasons but really wasn't good for it.
Searching For Bobby Fischer: a slightly Hallmark-esque drama about a father and his chess-prodigy son, based on a true story. Lawrence Fishburne has an amusing, though implausible, turn as a street-smart chess hustler.
The Killing (Forbrydelsen): excellent crime thriller t.v. series from Denmark. Blends some of the real-time urgency of the 24 series (in that each episode corresponds to a day), with a dash of Se7en thrown in. Each season (there are 3) deals with a single murder and its implications for a range of unrelated characters.
To Catch A Killer: we had a bit of a Brian Dennehy thing happening, so we went with it. This is a surprisingly good made-for-tv crime drama from the early 90s, based on the appallingly true story of serial killer John Gacy, played chillingly by Dennehy.
The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes: I was rather disappointed with this attempted reboot/coda of the Apes franchise. The plot unfolded like a join-the-dots attempt to take us from present-day earth to a planet populated by super-intelligent apes.
The Bourne Legacy: speaking of franchises, I actually really enjoyed this addendum to the Bourne, um, legacy. I liked Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker, and I like him again here.
Men Of A Certain Age: probably the highlight of this installment of AndroidTube. By turns funny and serious, the show is about three middle-aged blokes in LA, who are buddies since high school and all going through some sort of mid-life crisis. The big 5-0 may be a ways off for me, but I really related to some of the issues faced by the characters, as they come to terms with where they're at in life, what they've accomplished versus what they had hoped to, etc.
Abandoned: a special dishonourable shout-out to Bad Santa (what was Billy Bob playing at?), and the catastrophic Rock Of Ages.
