Watched two movies from Zip yesterday; the first I got from a “most overlooked movies of the 90s” list, the second won acclaim at last year’s TIFF.

• State Of Grace starred Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, John Turturro, John C. Reilly & Robin Wright…quite a cast. Oldman was a little over the top, and missed the accent entirely, but Penn and Wright were great. The story’s been done to death, there were no surprising twists — except maybe that Wright’s character didn’t become a cliche — and I didn’t buy Ed Harris as the chief badass, but it was a good movie. Overlooked, certainly.
• Love, Sex and Eating The Bones got a lot of attention at the festival last year, and it starred Hill Harper (who we’d grown to like from his role on The Handler). It was funny, it was realistic…I love movies like this. It was just a love story, but funny & silly & just dumb enough to be like real life.