After submitting my reviews of "The Lucky Ones" and "War, Inc.", thought I should add these "Red Box Reviews" too:

Must See:
Burn After Reading

I watched this Cohen Brothers flick on DVD in a hotel in Palm Springs and probably scared the shit out of the people in the room next to me.  There you are, enjoying George Clooney and Brad Pitt playing the biggest knuckleheads ever caught on film and then suddenly BAM!  I must have screamed in the middle of the night at least three times.  Kudos to Clooney, Pitt and everyone else that helped make this a Cohen classic, including John Malkovitch, Francis McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins.  My favorite Cohen Brothers film of all time after "Fargo".  Rent, watch, enjoy!

Must Miss:
Changeling

"Black Nerd", civilian star of Reelz Channel's Movie Mob, put it best: "This movie stars Angelina Jolie and her lips".  I think Jolie's lips stood out in part because girlfriend was looking really skinny!  Skeleton plot foreshadowing?

Despite the fact that this film was helmed by Oscar-winning director Clint  Eastwood, "Changeling" can only be described as the most boring Lifetime movie ever.  Even the painfully period pins that poignantly appear on every Jolie costume out-shined the plot.  Besides, like, I'm so sure!  We're supposed to believe Jolie would turn down a free kid...what, just because he's a really bad child actor?

I paid $1.50 to see "Changeling" at a second-run movie theater in Palm Springs and still feel cheated.  Halfway through I was so bored I went to the lobby and bought a hot dog... added mustard, onions, relish...got back to my seat...hadn't missed a thing.  She wanted her kid back and no one would listen to her because she was a woman!  Sigh.

Suffice it to say things only got interesting when little boys started getting hacked up...and even that didn't last long enough.  Then I had to sit through a graphic depiction of death by hanging...far more graphic than the scenes of chopping up kids...so, what, was I supposed to enjoy watching someone hanged to death...because he was evil?  It's still graphic, gratuitous violence, man!  And for the record, even that didn't keep me from daydreaming about the frozen bonbons back at the concession stand.

This movie's just weird.

The clothes were cool.  And I liked seeing Jolie roller skating around in her job as telephone operator shift supervisor...but only because my dad used to tell me stories about how he'd roller skate around the "Sears Roebuck" catalog warehouse on his job as a stock boy (Dad was pretty old...).  But none of this was enough to justify Eastwood's snoozy take on this creepy piece of SoCal history.

File this as one of those movies you can glance at while doing something worthwhile...like roller skating around your apartment...

Oh, And...

"W"

This movie really boils down to what Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush is probably really like in person...Now, why do I care what Oliver Stone thinks George W. Bush is probably like in person?  Oh, yeah, I don't!

God bless Oliver Stone for serving in Vietnam and penning "Midnight Express", but the only thing more boring than his movie about George W. Bush is his DVD commentary...that and even the film itself are best enjoyed as background noise while filing taxes online.

Props, though, to mercurial Josh Brolin ("Milk", "No Country for Old Men", Diane Lane sex slave) as "W".  Delightfully uncanny.

All the other actors in this ensemble cast are overrated...seriously.

Now that Obama's president, is there really any reason to sit through this movie?  No!

Skip it and rent "Shut Up and Sing"...then join my prayer circle for an HBO biopic on Sarah Palin!