Two DVD recommendations:
"Milk". Sean Penn is mighty good here (Oscar noticed) as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man in America to hold public office. You can feel the optimism break through the fear of thousands gathered together in San Francisco's Castro District, simply because they had nowhere else to go to be themselves. Milk wasn't an egotist, just part of a movement. While the film drags a little bit once it leaves the streets, this is modern history not to be neglected.
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Jason Segal (Marshall from "How I Met Your Mother") wrote and stars in this comedy as a TV composer just dumped by his longtime actress girlfriend---who apparently was out of his league in the first place. While they both get away to "forget" each other, they end up in the same place and cross paths every day and every night. The humor is crude ("40 Year Old Virgin and "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow produced), but somehow heartfelt staying plausible in an Access Hollywood kind of way. Better than "Knocked Up" and certainly in a league with "The 40 Year Old Virgin".
Both films are Rated R and for grown-ups.
"Milk". Sean Penn is mighty good here (Oscar noticed) as Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man in America to hold public office. You can feel the optimism break through the fear of thousands gathered together in San Francisco's Castro District, simply because they had nowhere else to go to be themselves. Milk wasn't an egotist, just part of a movement. While the film drags a little bit once it leaves the streets, this is modern history not to be neglected.
"Forgetting Sarah Marshall". Jason Segal (Marshall from "How I Met Your Mother") wrote and stars in this comedy as a TV composer just dumped by his longtime actress girlfriend---who apparently was out of his league in the first place. While they both get away to "forget" each other, they end up in the same place and cross paths every day and every night. The humor is crude ("40 Year Old Virgin and "Knocked Up" director Judd Apatow produced), but somehow heartfelt staying plausible in an Access Hollywood kind of way. Better than "Knocked Up" and certainly in a league with "The 40 Year Old Virgin".
Both films are Rated R and for grown-ups.
