Movies, Jango's Day for Fame

(Jango bagged--Ann bought me/us a new coffee maker; after the cut, non-demonic Jango.)The movie watching continues. If you're keeping score at home:The Cleaner - B-minus thriller with Samuel L. Jackson as a crime scene cleaner.Edmond - B-plus psycho-thriller with William F. Macy as a businessman on a crazy bender, from a Mamet script.Across 110th Street - B-movie noir action thriller with Anthony Quinn, involving stolen mob money.Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - A solid "A" for this dynamic comedy of errors with Francis McDormand set in London in the late 1930s. Stunning sets and even better acting. A truly refreshing romantic comedy.X-Files Movie #2 - C+/B- thriller involving a supposed psychic, missing women, and some Frankenstein experiments that has its moments but comes up short.Hancock -The first 2/3rds of this down-on-his-luck superhero movie are superb, but once we got to the explanations, it's more like a B/B-. Which is a shame, because it had the potential to be amazing all the way through.A Christmas Story - Still my favorite holiday film of all time. An A+ stone-cold classic. It's wonderful to watch it again, after having seen it so many times, because you can focus on lots of different things. This time, I paid special attention to the pitch-perfect narration. The film's a study in economy, in that there're no wasted scenes, no wasted words, the narration perfectly integrated into the action. Still gets huge belly laughs from me.Love and Death - A- Woody Allen 70s flick parodying Russian 19th Century literature. A laugh riot most of the way through.Upcoming, Baby Mama, Wall-e, Kung Fu Panda, John Adams miniseries, Journey to the Center of the Earth.