Now that the fall is in full swing and winter is just around the corner (especially for us New York folk), movies are slowly but surely getting better. Out this week is the Oscar-baiting Clint Eastwood movie Flags of our Fathers, and I've written a review of it here. It's flawed, but I still will not hesitate to say that you should see it, because there's a whole lot to appreciate (that is, if you've already seen The Departed, which remains my only A+ movie of the year). It's also about eighty times more gory than Black Hawk Down, just to warn you.

Eastwood is actually doing something a little innovative here: early next year he'll release another movie, Letters from Iwo Jima, that tells the same story from the Japanese point of view. Sounds cool, and the comparison should prove to be very interesting.