Quantum Of Solace starts right where Casino Royale left off. Mr White has been captured and is about to interrogated, James Bond has been betrayed by his love, Vesper, and there is a new organization that MI6 is just learning of that is so secret that it has been able to plant moles on the inside of MI6.

You have to go back to 1999 Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels or 2000 for Snatch which has been to date still my favorite Guy Ritchie film to understand what is becoming a "classic" Guy Ritchie film.  Rocknrolla gets us there and some.

Seldom in the history of animation sequels ( Shrek excluded)  does the sequel even justify it's existence.  In Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, it is actually better than the original. 

 Saw Rachel Getting Married today. It is very very good and acting is excellent....possibly an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Anne Hathaway as the dysfunctional, narcissistic daughter Kym on weekend furlow from a drug  rehab hospital for her sister Rachel's wedding.  The weekend should be about Rachel, her fiancee and the wedding but Kym keeps dragging her drug addiction and life as an addict and source of a family tragedy.

Changling is excellent, really, except for Angelina Jolie who is awful. Well, at least I didn't like her. Way too wooden, too much red lipstick and dark eye make-up and too many meaningful sighs and poses. But don't let her performance put you off this film. It is excellent, gripping and quite tragic. It is based on a true story, but loosely. It takes place in L.A. from 1928-1935. Evidently the L.A. Police were very corrupt and very brutal (what has changed?).

Saw The Secret Life of Bees in Reno today. Very good rendition of the excellent book of the same name. Story is about a lonely and troubled 14 year old girl named Lily Owens with a dreadful secret who runs away from her harsh father (her mother is dead) and into the arms of the Boatwright family of independent black women in South Carolina in 1964.

Duchess is the "based on a true story" life of Lady Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightly) who becomes, at 17, the Duchess of Devonshire by marrying a cold remote man about 30 years her senior. His only interest is to obtain a male heir. She is pushed into the marriage by her ice cold mother. Naively, "G" believes that the duke loves her.

In a small town in the Southwest, 3 lawmen come to the home of Randall Bragg to arrest two men.  In a second, Randall Bragg ( Jeremy Irons ) draws and cuts the three men down.  The Town leaders of Appaloosa want law and order and make what looks like a deal with the devil himself , in giving control of the town to Virgil Cole ( Ed Harris) and  his deputy Everett Hutch (Viggio Mortenson).