Last night, hanging out with T-Bone, we watched a couple of movies.

• A Home At The End Of The World (imdb | rotten tomatoes | metacritic) was, for me anyway, a little disappointing. Colin Farrell was good, but I kept waiting for the movie to get going. It seemed to be in a perpetual state of establishing scenes and characters without even letting anything develop, and by the end of the movie the only reason I knew a little bit about what the characters were actually thinking or feeling was because they clumsily expressed it as a line of dialogue (e.g., “I can’t be alone”). Well, don’t tell me that, *show* me that. Not a bad movie, but I wouldn’t watch it again. Nellie and T-Bone loved it though. Personally I think the presence of Colin Farrell skews their judgment.
• Maria Full Of Grace (imdb | rotten tomatoes | metacritic) was — again, for me anyway — a much better movie. The story was compelling and more than a bit disturbing, the lead actress was incredible and I actually gave a shit about the characters (unlike the previous movie) because they let me experience the fear or anxiety or exasperation rather than beat me over the head with it.