divLast year, I wrote: quot;Being in LA has caused me to see a lot more movies and a lot less theater.quot; That has remained true, although at least I#39;ve scaled the movie number back to where it was before coming out here. #0160;In 2006, I saw 22 movies. #0160;Last year, I saw 33. #0160;This year, it#39;s back to 22. #0160;And 4 of them weren#39;t in a theater, so maybe they shouldn#39;t even count. #0160;(I#39;ll also note that 8 additional were free screenings, either through the Writers Guild or some other random screening I found somewhere, so I only *paid* to see 10 movies this year, which doesn#39;t seem like a particularly excessive number.) I#39;ve tried really hard this year -- I try hard every year, but after seeing 33 movies last year, I made an extra-special effort -- to avoid seeing movies I didn#39;t absolutely expect to really enjoy. #0160;I didn#39;t succeed in every case: I was wrong about Gonzo (the Hunter Thompson documentary) after seeing the trailer, and didn#39;t like the movie at all. #0160;I was wrong to even bother watching Baby Mama on DVD. #0160;I was wrong to bother with a free screening of the Harold and Kumar sequel. #0160;And I will ask for a pardon as far as my choices to see Sex and the City and Definitely, Maybe, because I didn#39;t pick them. #0160;At all. #0160;But aside from those, I think I did a pretty good choosing what to see, and I did enjoy most of what I saw. #0160;Although the highlights, I would say, were less high than previous years -- I didn#39;t *love* too many of the movies I saw this year, and a lot more fell into the quot;likedquot; category than anything else./divbr /divBroken up into 4 chunks below -- roughly: loved, liked, didn#39;t like, very much didn#39;t like./divbr /div1. The Visitor/divdiv2. Frost/Nixon/divdiv3. Slumdog Millionaire/divbr /div4. Away from Her/divdiv5. The Great Debaters/divdiv6. Tropic Thunder/divdiv7. Charlie Wilson#39;s War/divdiv8. Role Modelsbr //divdiv9. Milk/divdiv10. Then She Found Me/divdiv11. You Don#39;t Mess With The Zohan/divdiv12. Forgetting Sarah Marshall/divdiv13. Pete Seeger: The Power of Song/divdiv14. 21/divdiv15. Leatherheads/divbr /div16. Bee Movie/divdiv17. Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay/divdiv18. Definitely, Maybe/divdiv19. Baby Mama/divbr /div20. Sex and the City/divdiv21. Gonzo/divdiv22. The Bucket List/divbr /br /divAnswering some anticipated possible comments:/divbr /divquot;Milk is going to win Best Picture. #0160;Why#39;d you only rank it 9th?quot;/divbr /divI liked Milk, but to me it felt like a very standard bio-pic, nothing special. #0160;It was a bit paint-by-numbers, you knew how the movie wanted you to feel about the characters, and it checked all the boxes to provoke those feelings. #0160;I think I learned just as much about Harvey Milk from his Wikipedia entry, and while Sean Penn#39;s performance was fine, even as bio-pics go I don#39;t think it was a standout film. #0160;Don Cheadle and last year#39;s Talk To Me was a more enjoyable, more interesting movie, about a notable person I didn#39;t know much about going into the film. #0160;Not that it#39;s a bad movie -- like I said, I liked it -- but I find it hard to get too excited about it./divbr /divquot;Role Models? #0160;8th? #0160;Really?quot;/divbr /divYeah. #0160;It wasn#39;t amazing, but there were a lot of funny moments, it delivered on the premise, I liked it./divbr /divquot;Zohan? #0160;Higher than Sarah Marshall? #0160;Are you insane?quot;/divbr /divThe hummus jokes were funny. #0160;Sarah Marshall got a little dull in the middle. #0160;For what it was, I thought Zohan was really solid./divbr /divquot;I never heard of The Visitor. #0160;What the heck?quot;/divbr /divIt#39;s a character piece -- a depressed college professor who returns to his long-abandoned New York apartment to find that two illegal immigrants are living there. #0160;He befriends them and typical movie plot unfolds. #0160;It#39;s well done. #0160;Far better than I anticipated./div
Cipro The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin.
The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...
