And now for something completely different

I'm going to institute a new thing here on confessions...every Friday I'm going to ask the Five Favorite Flicks question. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to see if you can narrow down you faves in said category. So here goes....

Since today is Friday the 13th I thought we should kick off our Friday Fest with Five Favorite Fright Flicks. These can be anything that startled, scared or just generally creeped you out. I'm a person who is easily scared so no laughing at my top five because the generally public will most likely find them lame...but they scared me.

Secret Window - I can't look at a black wide brim hat the same

Psycho- A boy's best friend shouldn't be his mother...

Halloween- Yuck, William Shatner never looked so bad...or maybe he did?

Skeleton Key- Love that voodoo that you do so well

The Shining- and I thought I liked the mountains of Colorado

Alright guys...I've showed you mine. Now you show me yours!

Sound off....

I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars... and you. What else you need to know?

I know I have neglected my duties as a purveyor of movie knowledge. There have been so many summer movies this year that I haven't really been writing about them I have just been watching them. If I didn't have my one and only reader (you know who you are) hounding me to write something for her I might not have the motivation to sit down and actually do it.

I am lucky enough to be married to a proud movie nerd such as myself, so going to the movies is not necessarily a chore for him. we are able to see a lot of the movies that come out in the big seasons (summer, fall, Christmas). So this year we have seen quite a bit of the blockbusters that have raided our movie theaters and TV set. This should be the first of several movie reviews that will be coming.

As most of you have guessed from the above quote, I'm going to talk a little bit about Public Enemies. This was the much hyped Michael Mann summer blockbuster starring the two big summer smash stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale. Unlike a lot of over hyped summer movies ( Transformers2), this movie actually lived up to the excitment.

For those of you who may not know, this is the story of the rise and fall of the Dillinger gang. John Dillinger, played by Depp, was declared Public Enemy #1 by the head of the FBI at the time, J Edgar Hoover, played by, one of my favorites, Billy Crudup . A lot of historical liberties have been taken to make it a more interesting story, but it is delightful all the same. Hoover sends his best man to bring in Dillinger. This is a young gunslinger by the name of Melvin Purvis (Bale). Unfortunately, Purvis is incapable of thinking like a criminal and needs to bring in help from Texas.

The story itself has always captured the American public's heart. we love our gangsters. Our own Robin Hoods as it were, with larger than life personalities and devil may care smiles, they have always been played by some of the best Hollywood has to offer. (Gable, Cagney, Flynn) Add Depp to that list and you have it rounded it out, but this picture offered us something more.

There seemed to be no good or bad guy. Everyone had on gray hats. Each had their own trouble and their own demons, and neither ened well.