media update: december

this, of course, is more for my own remembrance than anything else. asterisks denote something i particularly enjoyed. follow this advice at your own risk.

MOVIES:
The Good Shepard
Can't Buy Me Love (r)
Noise
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
Slumdog Millionaire *
Full Metal Jacket
Tropic Thunder
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (r)
Team America: World Police
Garden State (r)
Milk *
Andromeda Strain (r)
Back to the Future (r)
Fred Claus

MUSIC:
Al di Meola "Bianca's Midnight Lullaby" *
Pierre de Reeder "The Way That It Was" *
Vince Guaraldi Trio "A Charlie Brown Christmas" *
R. Kelly "I Believe" (single, iTunes free download)
Various Artists "Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remixed" *
Enya "O Come O Come Emmanuel" (single, iTunes free download)
Stephen Colbert "Another Christmas Song" (single, iTunes free download)


BOOKS:
Amy Bloom, "Away"