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I realized recently that I watch a lot of movies. Too many in fact. I own two years of the 8 movies to die for and the recent collection of 8 Ghost House movies released for Halloween.

We are truly frequent buyers when it comes to the local Best Buy and virtually every night, there is a movie of some sort on our television. Between Netflix, Starz and a personal collection of about 500 movies, I am rarely lacking for something to watch.

In addition, I also have eclectic tastes, owning everything from Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Ratatouille. So, I decided to start this blog about movies. Mostly, it will be about reviews of movies that I have seen recently, but I will also on occasion drift back in time to revisit old favorites or I might venture out to the web and find out the news of the day on upcoming projects.

Most often, the things that you will find here will be horror. It's a household favorite. But few things are skipped over completely.

Last night, the film of the day was "A Mighty Heart" with Angelina Jolie. Now, to be honest, I like Angelina Jolie. From Beowulf to Hackers, she is one of my favorite actresses. I liked Wanted.

I didn't particularly like her in this movie. Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, wife of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan just after the war in Afghanistan began.

The story is interesting, but Jolie cannot hold the French accent of Mariane Pearl. I thought she did a great job of reflecting the sort of stiff upper lip that Mariane exhibited through most of the crisis, but the accent and lack of it were distracting.

The real problem with the movie is that it slips between English and Urdu randomly and without subtitles. We didn't want to leave the subtitles on during the English sequences, but had to in order to avoid missing parts of the Urdu. And, well, we knew how it ends.

Although I am sure Jolie took this role to be considered a more serious actress, I think she has given better performances in more mainstream, but less acclaimed films. The film got a lot of attention because it was written by Mariane for her son, so that he would know how hard everyone searched for his father and how much his father stood by his principles.

As a good look at international cooperative efforts and the attacks on journalists across the world, this is a great film, but for pure enjoyment, skip it.