I mentioned this briefly in Thursday’s “What are You Watching?” column, but I’ll mention it again here since this your comments on this column actually encouraged me to add this new feature to the site.
I am working with the folks at Letterboxd.com to bring a new feature to the site and, should things go according to plan, it will be live by the time I review The Butler and Kick-Ass 2 this coming week. I’m also hoping to start to use Letterboxd a little more myself, such as this list I just made ranking all the films I saw at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. I’ll do the same thing for my upcoming trip to Toronto and I’m planning on creating the same thing for all of my top tens as I am putting together a brand new feature surrounding the films I believe to be “great”.
Oh, and if you don’t follow the site on Facebook, this last week I started to be a little more active over there and plan on being even more active from now on. So, if you’re on Facebook and don’t yet follow the site, give it a “like” and join the conversation over there as well.
All that aside, this week I watched the much talked about documentary The Act of Killing, Criterion titles Seconds and Babette’s Feast and even caught some of The Transporter and Rock of Ages on television. I have to say, Tom Cruise deserves way more recognition than anyone gave him for his work in that film. Without him it would be 100% unwatchable, but with him it’s this weird mix of terrible matched with brilliance. It’s a film at battle with itself.
Enough from me though. It’s your turn, what did you watch this week?
