Snow Cake

Snow Cake has just about everything I like in a movie: good cast/acting, strangeness, made up games and words, nice soundtrack. That makes it my favorite movie of December 2006. Or maybe even...of the second half of the year.
The movie stars Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carie-Anne Moss. Basically (taken from imdb), it is a drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman (Weaver) and a man (Rickman) who is traumatized after a fatal car accident (which killed the dauther of weaver - he had given her a lift). Carie-Anne Moss lady is a neighbor.
One of my favorite parts was "Comic Book Scrabble". You can use any word you want or make one up. Kaboom, Shazaam, or whatever you like. However, you must be able to give an example of how to use the word in a sentence. They came up with two great words: Yaamool and Dazlious.
I don't wanna go too into the movie...it'll ruin it for you. Both my friend and I felt some form of inner glee after watching it. When it comes out on dvd I'll definitely get it.

If you wanna flip through some clips though, youtube has a bunch.

Now...some other movies.
-There was a preview for a movie about the lady who wrote the peter rabbit books. it looks awesome. Will see.
-I saw Eragon yesterday...meh. I think I may be tired of the mandatory english accents for people in fantasy movies and how they have to speak some other language (like elvish) to do magical spells...as well as dragons. It ends up being this repetitive thing where a boy discovers something, he doesn't know what it is. He decides to investigate. Then he finds out the world is in trouble and he's been chosen to save it. He doesn't want to, but he must accept his fate because everyone is willing to die for him and need him to restore peace in the lands. He decides, okay, I'll do it, and also saves some pretty lady who doesn't fight very well (wants to meet at some later date to have some fun :P), and defeats the evil ones. The End.

I think the only series of fantasy movies I'll keep up with is Harry Potter because it's fun and more imaginative/childlike (the main characters are youngin's after all)...most enchanting :).