Movies from 2006 that I’ve seen:

An Inconvenient Truth *
Borat
Cars
Casino Royale
Children of Men
Firewall
Iraq for Sale *
Jesus Camp *
Little Miss Sunshine
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Superman Returns
Talladega Nights
Thank You For Smoking
The Departed
The Good Shepherd
The Illusionist
The Last King of Scotland
The Prestige
This Film is Not Yet Rated *
Who Killed the Electric Car? *
Why We Fight *
X-Men: The Last Stand

(* documentaries, strong recommendations in bold)

I’m surprised by how long this list is, and there are still good movies from 2006 I haven’t seen (for example, I didn’t see any of Clint Eastwood’s movies).

Many of the documentaries I saw were very good, and merit more discussion, but I’ll save that discussion for a later post.

My favorite movie of the year is by far The Departed. In fact, it’s probably the best movie I’ve seen in the last few years. Top-notch directing, acting and a super-suspenseful plot. Goodfellas was probably a better mobster movie in general, but The Departed had a stronger plot.

If you’d like to post your own list (great way to procrastinate!), this page may help.

I’m finally starting work tomorrow. My efforts to repair my sleep schedule have been unsuccessful, so it might be a rough couple of days.

I had 24 unread messages in my yahoo mail inbox this morning, and 21 of them were spam, some of it rather obvious. I think it’s time to start migrating my accounts to gmail.