Finding: The Queen is as satisfying as a stale crumpet

Ever wish you could be a fly on the wall at Tony Blair's breakfast table? Just dying to know what the Queen and her mother might talk about on a stroll through their garden? Your dreams have come true.

The critics would have you believe that this painfully predictable piece of rubbish is "witty" (it is not), "poignant" (what movie isn't, according to them?), and i'm sure at least one has called it a "tour de force." They are wrong. See the movie and you will begin to wonder just whom Tony Blair had to sleep with to get this poorly disguised propaganda film produced. It is as interesting as watching your grandmother working on a needlepoint portrait of a cucumber sandwich.

Finding: Germans make some really lame movies

Again, not a new finding. In fact, the featured picture is not from the lame German movie that Mr. French and I saw last night, even though that is the one that prompted this post. The featured picture is from this other really lame German movie that I saw a few months ago with Jacquelyn, Schultze Gets the Blues. It SUCKED. And the movie that Mr. French and I saw last night, The Edukators, also sucked.

BUT, I would like to add a little sub-Finding to this Finding: Some of the best films ever made are German. Like Das Boot, which is the BEST movie EVER. And Die Tausend Augen von Dr. Mabuse which is brilliant. Not to mention Nosferatu and so many other spectactular silent films. But still, they do make some really lame movies.