A few days ago I was watching Journey to the End of the Night. I've heard about this movie sometime last year, mostly because it was an American movie being filmed in my hometown of Sao Paulo City in Brazil.

At the time I only knew a few of the actors in the cast: American actor Brendan Fraser (for his works in movies like The Mummy and its sequels), and Brazilian actress Alice Braga (who I've seen on the all-Brazilian movie City of God - very good, by the way; she's also known for being the niece of famous Brazilian actress Sonia Braga).

The storyline of the movie is alright, and so is the acting. The idea of having all the development of the story happening in the course of a few hours is sort of interesting.

The more interesting part for me, though, was seeing Sao Paulo, the place where I was born and raised, as an important part of the movie. It's unfortunate that only the dark aspects of the city have been shown, but it had to be like that due to the main story being told. Anyway, that helped remembering what parts of the city I definitely do not miss for even a bit of a second (there's no way I could miss urban violence, as well as the terrible mess that is a city that big).

Overall, I recommend the movie.

I've always been a big fan of the X-Files. Then, I've been hearing some good things about Lost. I remember about 2 years ago I even watched a few minutes of one of the episodes while I was at some hotel room, and it seemed pretty cool. 

Last month I decided to rent the 1st and 2nd seasons and started to watch it with my wife. We've already watched the entire 1st season, and are starting to watch DVD #4 off the 2nd season. We like it pretty well. I still like the X-Files better, but Lost is definitely something I enjoy sitting down for 40 minutes and watching.

Currently, the 3rd season is being aired (I think they're about half way into it). I'll probably just finish watching the 2nd season, then wait for the 3rd one to come out on DVD, and then from there on just start recording the 4th season on my DVR to start following the series (even though I hate having to wait a full week to watch the next episode).  :)