I haven't talked much recently about the movies we've been renting from Netflix. This mostly has to do with the fact that we've primarily been renting TV series -- the fantastic first two seasons of Deadwood, the last season of Futurama, then the fourth volume of Family Guy, the excellent Up documentary series (blogged), and so on.

We've also been on a Woody Allen kick, which I don't have much to say about except to say that all of the Woody Allen movies we've rented in the last couple months have been great: Deconstructing Harry, Play It Again, Sam (which he wrote and starred in, but didn't direct), and The Purple Rose of Cairo, which along with Match Point (blogged previously) is Allen's personal favorite of the movies he's directed and which is stunning insofar as its ending completely breaks the conventions of its genre. I couldn't believe that was how he chose to end the movie.

At some point, for some reason, we rented Eurotrip. I'm not ashamed to admit it. It was pretty awful, but I know I laughed at least once.

Last night we watched Girl with a Pearl Earring, which Jaimee put in the queue after learning about the painter and the painting in her Baroque class. It was quite good -- and I'm speaking here as someone who doesn't normally enjoy period pieces -- and Scarlett Johansson, who I blasted in that Match Point review, definitely brought her 'A' game to this one.