Mirror, Father, Mirror

Holly gets total nipple boners for Ghost World's Josh, Brad Renfro, who just got busted trying to score heroin in the Skid Row section of Los Angeles. Meow!

Speaking of movies, it's Top Ten o' 2005 time, baby! I guarantee you this list'll be kitty litter for Paper Cat to go all-Dookie on.

10. The Aristocrats
--A great behind-the-scenes look at comedians at their most politically correct and scatalogical.
9. Jarhead
--The weakest Mendes film so far, but has some wonderful scenes and a new take on the war film genre (i.e. the "boredom" of contemporary warfare)
8. Syriana
--Makes the obvious points (big oil is corrupt, directly linked to terrorism, yadda yadda), but is fun soap opera.
7. Brokeback Mountain
--A heartbreaking film about falling in love at the wrong time ... and they're gay. Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams are great.
6. Capote
--The Oscar goes to Philip Seymour Hoffman. Very good biopic about the making of Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood (1966).
5. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
--Covers Dylan's best era with unprecendented access to the mystical mumbling liar himself.
4. Munich
--Suprisingly good effort from Spielberg, and, somehow, he keeps the cheese to a minimum in this examination of the stupidity of the marriage of churches and states. Paranoia hasn't been rendered so fulfilling in years.
3. Land of the Dead
--Great return to form from George Romero. Fun, fun, fun zombie killing excitement. Includes plenty of subtle jabs at the Bush administration and zombies, which is really just a way of saying that people are stupid. We do the same thing when we see fireworks :)
2. A History of Violence
--Wonderfully paced film about a man inhabiting two worlds--rural smalltown Americana and the urban underworld. Viggo Mortensen is convincing in both roles, and the transition between the two is seemless.
1. Me and You and Everyone We Know
--I'm googoo for this film.

Of course these kinds of lists are never complete at years' end because I do not have press-screening access to films that I'm dying to see like Malick's The New World and Woody Allen's Match Point. Also, since I, like most Americans, speak only one language, I've not been able to see many of the great foreign films that probably won't make it over here for another six months. If anybody has any recommendations, holla atcha Holly.

As you can tell, 2005 was not a very strong year for films. With the exception of Me and You, there was a crop of dependable, but hardly exciting films.