A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie hammer in J. EDGAR

There are some good choices on the long holiday weekend.    Like Crazy is a romance, pure and not so simple.

J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood’s interesting take on J. Edgar Hoover’s twisted psyche has some fine performances, but draaaaags. In contrast, Margin Call is a taut financial meltdown drama with superb performances by Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci. Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In is a beautiful and disturbing thriller – Out There as only Almodovar can do. The Ides of March is a fine political drama with Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and George Clooney. Drive is a stylishly arty and ultraviolent action film, also with Ryan Gosling.

On the lighter side, 50/50 is an engaging cancer comedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen. The raunchy comedy A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas is filled with lots of jokes and hilarious cameos by Neil Patrick Harris and Danny Trejo.

PBS is featuring the top rate British spy drama Page Eight on this week’s Masterpiece Contemporary.

If you can still find it, don’t miss Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols’ brilliant tale of a psychotic breakdown with Oscar-worthy performances by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. One of the Best Movies of 2011 – So Far.

I haven’t yet seen the The Descendants or Into the Abyss, which open soon. You can see trailers of upcoming films at Movies I’m Looking Forward To.

My DVD of the Week is a threesome from my Best Movies of 2011 – So Far:  the wonderfully sweet Beginners, with Ewan MacGregor and Christopher Plummer,  Incendies (the year’s best movie so far) and Errol Morris’ gutbustingly funny documentary Tabloid.  Other recent DVD picks have been the Jenna Fischer dramedy A Little Help , the heartwarming documentary Buck, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy (1979).

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: light up and lighten up for the Holidays

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Come on, you’re yearning to see our irresistible stoners in a Christmas movie.  There’s not much of a story here – just the two appealing characters and lots and lots of jokes.  The light hearted but very raunchy humor targets recreational drugs, racial stereotypes, the 3D movie fad, and lots more.

Neil Patrick Harris returns in another hilarious cameo.  And the reliably frightening Danny Trejo shows up as Harold’s menacing new father-in-law.  See my Danny Trejo and his scary friends.

You don’t need to see this movie in 3D.  I saw it in 2D and enjoyed the 3D jokes, which are apparent in 2D.

Movies to See Right Now

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Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones being romantic in the romance LIKE CRAZY

As we go deeper into autumn, we’re getting quite the menu of movie choices.  Like Crazy is a romance, pure and not so simple.

PBS is featuring the top rate British spy drama Page Eight on this week’s Masterpiece Contemporary.

J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood’s interesting take on J. Edgar Hoover’s twisted psyche has some fine performances, but draaaaags.  In contrast, Margin Call is a taut financial meltdown drama with superb performances by Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany and Stanley Tucci.  Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In is a beautiful and disturbing thriller – Out There as only Almodovar can do. The Ides of March is a fine political drama with Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti and George Clooney.  Drive is a stylishly arty and ultraviolent action film, also with Ryan Gosling.

On the lighter side, 50/50 is an engaging cancer comedy with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.  The raunchy comedy A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas is filled with lots of jokes and hilarious cameos by Neil Patrick Harris and Danny Trejo.

If you can still find it, don’t miss Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols’ brilliant tale of a psychotic breakdown with Oscar-worthy performances by Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. One of the Best Movies of 2011 – So Far.

I haven’t yet seen the psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene. You can see trailers of upcoming films at Movies I’m Looking Forward To.

My DVD of the Week is the wonderfully sweet Beginners, with Ewan MacGregor and Christopher Plummer.  Other recent DVD picks have been Incendies (the year’s best movie so far), Errol Morris’ gutbustingly funny documentary Tabloid, the Jenna Fischer dramedy A Little Help , the heartwarming documentary Buck,  and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy (1979).