I never got to talking about the movies I watched during my AR marathon! I’ll only talk about the ones I hadn’t seen before though.

Mesmer - About a real life doctor in the 19th century(I think) who has very odd methods indeed, methods considering to be merely theatrics which don’t do anything by others. It was a nice movie, not too uplifting or depressing but very thoughtful. Makes me interested in looking up more about the man. Alan’s costar, Amanda Ooms, was fantastic! Looking at the cover I figured she was much much younger but that was merely a bad photo. Alan won an award for this movie, I think it was a film festival award.

Blow Dry - This is the comedy that came out in 2001 I had never heard of. On the cover is Josh Hartnett and Rachel Leigh Cook so I was a little iffy… They didn’t detract from the movie so no worries. Josh’s character is the son of a barber(Alan Rickman) and his somewhat estranged mother wants to enter Britain’s big Hairstyling competition which is coming to their town just like they used to do. It also had the actor that was in Love Actually, the rockstar, who devilishly played an old competitor with Rachel as his daughter. A very humorous, entertaining, and somewhat sad film from the writer of The Full Monty.

Rasputin - My oooooh my. There’s so much mystery surrounding the Romanovs and the man Rasputin that I really don’t know the accuracy of the film as I haven’t studied the subject. Jen and I were arguing about the dates actually because our history sucks ^^;; This film left me crying at the end because no matter how evil the Czar might really have been, I think it’s wrong to kill a family because of the actions of the father or one family member, particularly children. I recommend watching it for the acting by Alan Rickman, Ian McKellan, and Greta Scacchi is excellent and getting to see a Russia that is rarely portrayed in movies. Winner of three Golden Globes, including Best Television Movie or Miniseries, Best Actor–Alan Rickman, and Best Supporting Actor–Ian McKellan.

And I think that was it. We also watched Dogma, Sense and Sensibility, and Galaxy Quest but those I’ll say nothing other than watch them.