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"Off The Map" filmed in and around Taos, New Mexico. If you want to see what Taos and Northen New Mexico look like. Now playing on "Showtime".
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"Adapted by Joan Ackermann from her play, Off the Map is part paean to natural wonders and part chamber piece for actors who know how to work their nuances (including J. K. Simmons as George, Charley's endlessly na?ve best friend). That's not so say that every scene grants easy nuance. Some of the metaphorical pints come crashing -- the coyote that Arlene likes to watch is a sign of a dying wilderness; her gardening in the nude introduces William to the spiritual niceties of the body, and Bo's yearning for the sea marks her resistance to her parents' hippie-dippy ideals. The movie digs into pain and, forgiveness, the arbitrariness of market values (William's commercial success is convenient, but not so convincing) and vaguely noted government failures (though no one speaks it, his depression appears to be war-related and wholly untreated). But its commentary on such details of daily life is mostly lost in a meandering, observational style. And yet, at the film's center -- rather submerged -- lies a nicely detailed consideration of gender expectations, as none of the boys and girls quite manage ordinary behaviors. Though William's massive doting on Arlene (or even George's off-screen romancing of a psychiatrist he's been seeing, in order to be prescribed pills to fix Charley's condition) might be mistaken for his search for the perfect woman, the movie links him more closely to Charley. Both are nearly but not quite immobilized by depression. Charley confesses, with a mix of embarrassment and relief, "I'm a damn crying machine. That's why I drink so much water, or I won't have any fluids left in me." William nods in quiet accord: "I've never not been depressed." They are fluid, these two, and so they might model a new masculinity, sensitive and resilient, open to change and even insight."
 
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The Simpsons Movie.

Good, not great. If you count it as one of their shows, probably not in the top 10, but certainly better than the show has been the past few seasons.

on deck is the Bourne Supremecy (although I will probably rent the host soon.)
 
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