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Randy, You might also want to take a look at "The Host," a sort of Korean "Godzilla." It's strange and ambitious.

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Hi Randy, I'm not sure if you've seen any of these titles or not but Sundance channel also plays quite a bit of Asian horror midnights each Sunday. Some you might have already seen: "Ringu", "Ju-On"(The Grudge),"Tale of Two Sisters" and "The Heirloom". Also "Three Extremes" I can't remember if this was from the Vengeance series or not, two were okay--"The Dumplings" from "3 Extremes" was kind of wacky, but taste in movies, (pardon the pun) is relative. I wasn't a fan of "Audition" at all. If I think of any more I'll let you know. Happy viewing!

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Randy, First there’s the ending. I don’t object to the “open” quality of it or the fact that two key events occur off-camera. The last thing we see and hear is Tommy Lee Jones describing a dream. For my money, that’s just lame. In any novel or movie, if a writer or filmmaker is reduced to talking about a dream, it’s an admission that he or she couldn’t come up with anything real. Normally, when the dream talk happens in the middle of things, it’s just throat-clearing. But to place it at the end seems almost like a conclusion that a committee would come up with. I think it would have made more sense to end with the scene between Tommy Lee Jones and his father. Then, there’s the beginning of the film. We open with that powerful scene where Chigger (or whatever his name is) is arrested by the deputy and then kills the deputy by strangling him with handcuffs. We cut from that to James Brolin discovering the drug deal gone bad and the money. It’s another long, mostly silent and really powerful scene. Then, if memory serves, we meet Tommy Lee Jones and another deputy in a diner. They may mention the killing of the first deputy, but if they do it’s only in passing. After that, nothing. He’s never mentioned again. It’s almost as if the first deputy didn’t exist at all. Mopey old Tommy Lee certainly isn’t noticeably upset about it. So, as much as I admire most of the film, I can’t put it up there with the great Coen brothers movies—“Miller’s Crossing,” “Fargo,” “Blood Simple,” or “The Big Lebowski.” And by the way, even if I can’t lead cheers for “No Country,” I’m really looking forward to their next one, “Burn After Reading.”

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Mike- I just saw No Country For Old Men. I read your blog entry where you said you "have problems", with it. I would like to know what a couple are. I am firmly on the fence with this one. I may see it again just to see if I fall off the fence one way or the other. Meg- I like the horror genre, like you, we have talked about a few. You mentioned Asian horror. Can you give me a couple of titles to check out? I have dabbled in a couple of Japanese horrors. Without luck. One was Ichi The Killer. I just thought that one was hokey and I don't even remember and didn't get through the other. Any suggestions? Thank you

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Bill, If you're checking out older action movies, take a look at Richard Brooks' "The Professionals" from 1966 with Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster. It's one of my favs.

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I'll have to check those out, their descriptions online look good. The only other Charles Bronson movie that I've seen is Death Hunt, which I thought was okay. There's something special about the "old time" action movies, even when looking back just a couple of decades, compared to what we see today with all the special effects. I like some of the current things as well, but most don't have that same vintage feel. I thought 3:10 to Yuma was right on though for a recent pick.