Brief Encounter and the Pee-wee Herman Show were both great fun, packed with theatrical tricks and surprises. Too bad they're closed now.
As is the dreary Haunted, starring a dynamite Brenda Blethyn. Why playwrights insist on writing things nobody would WANT to see is a mystery to me.
The Illusionist--Sylvain Chomet's follow-up to his wonderful though somewhat meaningless look at the grotesque side of how we entertain ourselves, the Triplets of Belleville--does, indeed, have a moral. Points for that. The downside is the moral is--well. I won't spoil it for you. In spite of that, the film is still well-made, mostly dialogue-free and aurally rich (as Triplets was), and mature in the way that the really great anime films of Japan are.
