Movie night

Blaine has found a new movie-downloading service: Jaman. For $1.98, he downloads a movie for a week's rental and we watch it over a few nights. They are all independent films, not Big Hollywood.

Tonight - Friday night - we and the children are watching "Kintaro Walks Japan," a documentary about a 20-something guy who, yes, walks the length of Japan's four islands. It's pretty neat. You can watch the whole 1 hr doc via Google.

Last week, we watched two films that we both liked: a darkish Danish movie called "Prague" about a cold-fish Dane who takes his unhappy wife to Prague when his father dies there. And a pleasant Norwegian film called "Import-Export," about a Norwegian guy who wants to marry his Pakistani-Norwegian girlfriend. (The Variety reviewer I've linked to didn't like it, but we did.)

We can see major Hollywood movies in theaters (anything with Brad Pitt, basically) but not much else. Apple's downloadable movie list is tragically lame. Why haven't the studios made their catalogs available yet?