Movies of march

[oneiriad]

17. Young Sherlock Holmes
You know, I wish I had seen this years ago. It would have joined movies like Labyrinth and Midt om natten in my personal canon of most loved movies. Now it's just fun, but not fun enough to be something really special. The only annoying thing is how they apparently had to have a female love interest for SH. Ah well...

18. Torchwood season 2.
You know who Jack Harkness reminds me of? John Constantine. Seriously. Both are awesome, bisexual (alright, pansexual - well, JC's had relationships with demons, so surely he qualifies too?), handsome men, who know a lot more about something dangerous and exotic than the average bloke, be it aliens or magic. And both leave a trail of dead friends and terrible and hard, but necessary choices, making them often come across as, well, bastards. Mind you, JH's got the cuter boyfriend :-)

19. Franklyn
Well, "it's all just the delusions of a seriously PTSD'ed veteran" is a little better than "it was all a dream", but not much. Mind you, the people behind this should be given a big bag of money, China Mieville's Bas Lag novels and a tv-series slot, because Meanwhile City looks awesome.

20. CSI season 9.
You know, I wonder how many season's before this suffers the same fate as ER, namely all the interesting characters gone and the viewer slipping away because the replacements are boring. I miss Grissom already, and honestly, that Langston guy? A character that is at once supposed to be the newbie and the worldwise mentor? Not a good idea, alright?

21. The Fall
You need to see this movie. Understood? It's gorgeous. It's like whoever made it bought a pile of those photobooks a la Yann Arthus-Bertrand's, and decided to do a movie set in all the most gorgeous settings. The story is alright too, pretty sad, and especially the ending got me, but oh, it is a beautiful movie. Beautiful.

22. Alice in Wonderland
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Okay, so the UST between Alice and the Hatter is kind of creepy, partly because JD for once has managed to hit the unattractive end of the slippery scale of freakishness, and partly because, well, they met when she was a little girl, and I know there is supposed to have been something with Lewis Carroll and the real Alice, and I've encountered reviews talking about sibling relationship or father-daughter, but sorry, I read it as UST and it's creepy. But the movie is awesome, the Jabberwock, the Dormouse, the White Queen, the Knave of Hearts (honestly, what did the Red Queen expect? of course he's a knave?) - actually, Alice is pretty much the most boring part, at least until quite a while into the movie. Ah well. Can I have a Bandersnatch?

And, because I don't want feel like waiting a month before squeeing about this, even if it's strictly speaking a movie of april...
23. Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
This is a squee-worthy sequel. It's not as good as the first movie, but sequels rarely are, but it's fun - the MacManus brothers return with a vengeance, as appropriately, and there's lots and lots of jokes that you won't get, if you haven't watched the first movie. Actually, I sat down to watch it expecting to be annoyed with the female FBI agent, because the one actor that was conspicuous by his absence was Willem Dafoe. Then I wound up spending most of the movie fully expecting Eunice Bloom to be revealed as post-surgery-Smecker. Funny, that. Also, the best part about the ending? It's so saying sequel. Another one, I mean. Of course, we should probably be patient, considering how long this one was in the works...