> If the critics are any indication, this October has been one of the best movie months in recent history. Everything from the early awards candidates to pulp entertainments have been getting good reviews and/or good word of mouth. I've put more new releases down in my Netflix queue faster than ever before. Things like Wallace & Gromit, Good Night and Good Luck, North Country, Dreamer, Stay, In Her Shoes, The Gospel, Touch the Sound, Separate Lies, Two For the Money, Domino, and Elizabethtown (the last apparently successfully recut after poor showings at Toronto) have all met with respectable if varying degrees of praise.
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> This rich October serves as a lead-in to a far more promising holiday season than last year, when there was very little I got excited about and the few greats (Maria Full of Grace, Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda) came out of nowhere with little advance fanfare.

Ain't that the truth. A lot of good movies this year. I don't normally go to theatres, preferring the company of DVDs - the last year I went to a theatre was 1998, when I went twice - once for Titanic, and once for Mulan. This year I've seen Flightplan and Sky High in the theatres, and may soon be seeing more. I'm especially curious about Pride and Prejudice, as the trailer was quite interesting. It's also the only Jane Austen book I've ever read.