Kung Fu Panda (2008)

It was meant to be.

District 9 (2009)

This film begins as a fascinating political allegory on the motifs of segregation and xenophobia but degenerates into a typical action movie shoot-em-up. No one comes out looking good in this film. Except, possibly, for the aliens.

The Parking Lot Movie (2010)

This movie began as a Buddhist meditation and gradually crescendoed into a montage of rage and frustration against humanity before then settling down into an existential comment on man's relationship with control.

Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)

An amazing, heartbreaking film by Louis Malle. Takes place at a French boarding school during WWII. Please see it. Based upon actual events of the director's life.

Escabana in da Moonlight (2000)

A deer hunter in Michigan needs to "bag a buck" so that, at 43, he doesn't become the oldest member of his family never to have done so. I wouldn't have though it possible to combine goofiness and mysticism, but that's precisely what this film does. Jeff Daniels writes, directs, and stars. If you want to call it that.

Blue State (2007)

Nice movie about political convictions, vows upheld, and vows reconsidered. Premise: In 2004, the main character vows to move to Canada if W. is re-elected. He is and he does. The film manages to represent a number of different political views without appearing awkward and preachy. The actress who plays Sookie on True Blood is the female lead. (Actors listed on the Netflix blurb: Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, and Mike Bell.) Some Canadians don't like folks from the United States.