What the Flick

If you've been scratching your head and thinking "what the F" has happened to WTF, scratch no more. Let's just say that in the inevitable letdown after Oscar season (this year with the minor surprise of CRASH outpacing BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN for Best Picture), WTF felt the need to go on hiatus to retrench, refresh, and rehydrate. Okay, so we had a few drinks and waved at Sandy Bullock and Keanu outside the VANITY FAIR party at Morton's. At least WTF was NOT caught asking Jon Voight for his autograph, and it's not like we were recognized or standing on a ladder.

Check this category to see what WTF has on its Netflix queue.

MISS CONGENIALITY 2... the first was magic, and it'll be tough for MC2 to beat the unexpected fun of that outing. Can Gracie Freebush win our hearts again?

FUN WITH DICK AND JANE... remake of a classic George Segal/Jane Fonda movie. Can Tea Leoni and Jim Carrey compete with the original?

GREENFINGERS... is the probably the best movie you've never heard of produced by Trudie Styler (Mrs Sting to you). It stars Clive Owen as a hardened prisoner whose life is changed by a garden. It's one of those based on a true story, quirkly feelgood Brit films that also stars Helen Mirren. Clive is just one of the most manly men around (did you see him in King Arthur?), making almost anything he's in worth it, but this transcends its Clive-itude to be a fine movie on its own.

BRIDE AND PREJUDICE... a second effort from the director of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, this singing & dancing take on the classic Pride & Prejudice sets the story in Amritsar, India, where the Bakshi family's 4 daughters must be married off... according to their mother. Enter handsome American Mr Darcy (Martin Henderson), and the wealthy Bingleys, Indians who live in London. Sparks fly between Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) and Darcy, while her older sister falls hard for Mr Bingley (LOST's and Barbara Hershey's Naveen Andrews) and vice versa. It's more light-hearted and Bollywood lovable than full of deep emotion, but this story is evergreen. Of course, lately I love everything Indian so much that I don't even care that my dentist's answering service is in Bangalore, but I found this a fun movie for a hot summer night.

KISS THEM FOR ME... from 1957, stars Cary Grant, Jayne Mansfield, and Suzy Parker in what is billed as a "hilarious romp" involving Navy airmen on leave in San Francisco from Pearl Harbor and the women who love them. Though directed by Stanley Donen, the film feels like 3 different stories patched together, Grant has one of his very rare off performances, Mansfield just comes across as "poor man's Marilyn Monroe" (she may have been a dumb blonde in real life, but she couldn't play one half as well as MM), and Suzy has the thankless role of love interest. Skip this trip down memory lane.