**** House of Cards
*** Where the Wild Things Are
*** Bride and Prejudice

House of Cards was tremendous, Ian Richardson (who should look familiar; I had just seen him as Mr. Book in Dark City) was a very very good wicked politician, with his asides to the camera, his almost-indetectible smirk, and his polished sheen masking a malevolent mind. Susannah Harker (Jane in the 1995 Pride & Prejudice) was good as the young reporter, and the rest of the cast were all good. The story is nice and twisted, with Richardson slowly plotting his political rise by taking out everyone in his path, while letting them continue to believe he’s on their side.

I suppose it would be impossible to make a movie of Where the Wild Things Are without fleshing it out a bit, unless you wanted to make a very short movie. I liked some things about the way the story was fleshed out, and a lot of the look and feel of the movie, and some of the monster interactions, but I got kind of bored with the “ha ha monsters have interpersonal problems too!” aspect and the whinier monsters and the middle of the movie, which just seemed too long.

Bride and Prejudice was pretty good but not as good as I’d remembered it.