People often ask, “How do you choose the movies you show?” Well, in this case, a conversation at the dog run brought Moon to our attention. The description was intriguing, and my fellow dog walker was someone whose opinion I felt compelled to trust. How random is that? Still… what if we hadn’t had that conversation? Not many of our friends had even heard of Moon. It was the latest in a string of “moderns” to grace our screen, and a superb bit of film making, all the more impressive for being a debut. Sure… there will be those who belittle Duncan Jones’ success with Moon since he could surely take no wrong step under daddy David’s supervision (and people assume that that supervision existed, somehow), but they’d be missing the point: a good movie is a good movie is a good movie.

Hell, we’re even happy to cut the unbearably confident Canadian James Cameron some slack… whatever we thought of him before, Avatar is undeniably two-and-a-half hours of wonderful entertainment… even if we’ve seen the story lines played out before. I can’t remember feeling so exhilarated at the close-up of an opening eye. Oops. Did I spoil something for you?

Next time, something old. After that we’re going 7.1 surround sound, so I guess we’ll choose something to show that off. Is that OK?