I watched some more movies

Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Other Kenjari and I watched this on New Year's Eve. We were particularly interested to see how it compared to Sherlock Holmes, since the two films were made by Guy Ritchie. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels is a much earlier effort, so it's clearly lower-budget and smaller in scale. It's the story of criminals and would-be criminals in London's East End involving a large gambling debt and a heist to pay it off. Like Sherlock Holmes, it's got a gritty London setting, an intricate plot, charming characters, and clever action sequences. Lock, Stock is scrappier and has a plot that winds back on itself more.

Wristcutters: A Love Story
We watched this quite some time ago, but I forgot to write about it even though I liked it a lot. It's an indie film about a young man, Zia, who commits suicide and finds himself in a bleak yet mundane afterlife populated entirely by people who killed themselves. Zia ends up going on a road trip with his friend Eugene in order to find his ex who recently killed herself. Along the way, they pick up Mikal, a young woman hitch-hiking in search of the People in Charge. It's very wistful and sweet, and often funny. Amusingly enough, Eugene is based on Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello. And Tom Waits appears in the movie, as the proprietor of an establishment that is an odd combination of a summer camp, rustic resort, and retreat.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
( spoilery )