Mini-Review: You look back on a failed relationship, and the memories start from the beginning. You remember the meet-cute, the awkward courtship, the silly, sexy first kiss. But memories don't always finish out in a linear fashion. Before long you juxtapose your best moments with your worst. The time your joke killed and the time it died. Listen, that's life. You can't annotate something both so simple and complex: sometimes you get together, sometimes you break up, and sometimes you misread The Graduate.

Mini-Review: (Note: this also applies to all past Final Destination movies, as well as any future ones, at least until the novelty wears off.) A very immature part of my brain digs the Final Destination series. The movies are little more than gory Rube-Goldbergian kill-mobiles, but they have a sly, goofy campiness, and that makes them much more entertaining than your Saws or Hostels. And I like the way they play with the conventions of typical horror movies (and, later, even the series' own conventions).

Mini-Review: Oh my God. This is what I expected when "Borat" got raves -- it's a shocking, satirical, and hilarious mockumentary that's twice as funny and ten times as consistent as Baron Cohen's last attempt. Every line is crossed (there's an exaggerated, explicit montage in the first five minutes whose purpose seems to be to get all the prudes out of the theater early) and no holds are barred (except for taking out a Michael Jackson bit -- respek). Baron Cohen isn't just hilarious: I admire his balls.

Mini-Review: Yawn. Another year, another Pixar masterpiece. It's the same old thing: these show-offs spend their time refining a story to cinematic perfection, with peerless animation skills and unwavering storytelling instincts. Then the finished product's met with universal acclaim, record-breaking box office tallies, an Oscar or two, and a fanbase that endures for years to come. Rinse and repeat. After just about fifteen years of this shit, it's getting to be a bit of a bore. Why can't they suck for once?

Mini-Review: A good documentary about a good idea to revitalize a good game -- think "Who Killed the Electric Car?", only about pinball.