Short, Quick, Down-And-Dirty Reviews

BRAIN: Saw two movies this past week and I'll give thumbs up for both.

CASINO ROYAL. Loved this one. Always been a big Bond fan so I can be easy to please, but this one is good. The best one since... I don't know. That's hard for me to do. The best one in a long time though. Daniel Craig does a great job and I'm looking forward to more. You have to get by the fact that this is his origin basically and he has all of the technology of today. A-

TENACIOUS D in THE PICK OF DESTINY I laughed out loud a bunch of times during this one. Unfortunately, being a fan of their first album, I could see a lot of these jokes coming. Even though the re-hash, I enjoyed it. I secretly wanted to hear some of the old songs in here but I understand why they weren't. B-