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Kim Hollis: What have you watched lately, and what did you think?

Edwin Davies: The most recent film I saw in a theater was Enough Said, which I've seen some slightly lukewarm responses to but which I thought was a pitch-perfect romantic comedy. Admittedly, the story hinges on a plot point which is very contrived and takes a long time to reveal itself, but the lead performances by Julia Louis-Dreyfus and James Gandolfini are wonderful; natural, funny and real. It's a really lovely film.

At home, I caught up with 50/50, which more than lived up to its reputation as the Terms of Endearments of our time, and The Perks of Being A Wallflower, which so perfectly captured how I remember my teenage years that I wanted to travel back in time, show it to myself and say, "See! Someone gets it! Oh, also, invest in Facebook."

Jason Barney: I saw Gravity this weekend and really liked it. Most of the film was very visually appealing and it made me think about the limited negative reviews I had been exposed to. There are a couple of holes in the film, but nothing major, and I think it has rightly earned all of the praise, attention, and box office support it has gotten. Oddly enough, the film highlights something most people have little awareness of....the amount of trash we have already left in orbit above us. If people knew how bad it was they would be shocked.

Max Braden: I've been pretty absent from the theater since the summer. There were enough movies I wanted to see, but it just turned out to be "when I get around to it." I did catch my favorite movie of the year at the tail end of the summer. The World's End was exactly my kind of comedy. The first half is like one glorious stream-of-thought monologue and then it just gets hilariously crazy. I loved the '80s('90s) references, especially the Sisters of Mercy tribute. The one thing that didn't work for me was the very last scene, that was weird.

I've been big into auto racing the last year or so, although mostly Le Mans format, I was interested in the historical F1 rivalry shown in Rush. But I felt really let down by the movie. It was mostly the cinematography; it looked like they were trying to cover up a limited budget for environments so everything was shot in close up, which reduced the sense of speed for most of the action. It didn't feel very Ron Howard to me. The final race in Japan was pretty exciting, and Bruhl was good.

The only movie I saw in October was the one everyone else saw: Gravity. I actually went to Space Academy when I was in high school, so Gravity is inevitably only 90% as good as Space Camp, but visually Gravity is very exciting. My only problem - both for enjoyment and plot reasons - was that George Clooney wouldn't shut up.

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