Oh my, has the season of films such as Wanted and the Mummy come to a close for another year? Will we at last be able to watch some films made for adults, and children who don’t feel like being insulted or pandered to?

I hope so – here’s some of the films I’m [looking forward to / we'll be reviewing] in the coming months:

House of Adam (Gay closeted cops – and ghosts!)

Ping Pong Playa (alliteration is always powerful)

Able Danger (the film is being directed under the pseudonym ‘Paul Krik’ – why? I don’t know but as I’m writing this as ‘Jett Loe’ I have a soft spot for the folks who made this)

Burn After Reading (Please not another Man Who Wasn’t There or Ladykillers)

Flow (Water Wars?  Mad Max and Waterworld were right!)

Little Red Truck (Documentary about a traveling children theater – how could this not be gold?)

Moving Midway (After my recent experience in Alabama – am looking forward to this documentary about slave owners – hopefully it will help illuminate the strange place I now live)

Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys (hey, who doesn’t love Tyler Perry – and his name is in the title)

Amexicano (sequal to Meximerica?)

Appaloosa (I’m a sucker for Westerns)

Allah Made Me Funny (note to director: please don’t cut to the audience too much for needed cut-aways = learn from Jonathan Demme)

Righteous Kill (Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as police detectives working together to capture a serial killer.   Really? Working together to capture a serial killer.  Is this the best they could do?  Will be the equivalent of watching someone pawn their family heirlooms to pay the rent)

Ashes of Time Redux (if only for the title – sounds like part of a video game franchise for a discontinued game platform)

The Women (you couldn’t pay me to see this)

Towelhead (you know, in retrospect American Beauty was just an awards grab – but I’ll give you another chance Alan Ball)

The Duchess (Keira Knightley as the 18th century aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire – Dear Listener, if you feel the need to see this feel free to do so and email me to let me know how it was – you can reach me at: Jett Loe, care-of A Good Movie)

Ghost Town (Ricky Gervais plays a jerk dentist who can see dead people – this has the potential to be one of the unfunniest films ever made.  Oh, and it has Tea Leoni in it)

Hounddog (Dakota Fanning growing up in rural Alabama – it’s always rural Alabama in films isn’t it?

Lakeview Terrace (This looks like another great portrayal of evil by Samuel L. Jackson – and directed by Neil LaBute!)

Quilombo Country (Slaves escaping and forming their own villages?  Why can’t we rise up like this here in the U.S.A.?)

Blindness (Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, in some sort of vaguely sci-fi dystopia – why do I feel like I’ve seen this already – several times?)

Choke (Sam Rockwell as a lovable loser.  In others Sam Rockwell in the Sam Rockwell role)

Eagle Eye (zzzzzz…..(oh and I bet the ‘mysterious woman’ in the trailers running everything is emergent sentient A.I.)

Miracle at St. Anna (C’mon Spike Lee!  You can do it!  Make at least one great film! ((am not counting ‘Do the Right Thing’ as that should be labeled as co-directed with Ernest Dickerson)

Nights in Rodanthe (not only could you not pay me to see this – I will pay YOU not to see this)

Obscene (They won’t allow you to publish? F**k ‘em)

Right, that’s it for now.

Cinema!

It lives still.