We’ve been subscribing to KenFlix for 23 days and loving it! Here’s what we watched:

• Juno – better than I expected.
• Saawariya – the first ten minutes were so bad we turned it off.
• Once – we saw it in the theater and liked it. still good, but this movie is best watched once.
• Sopranos – Season 5 disc 4. They all blur together. I can’t watch any more of these for a while.
• No Country For Old Men – Good, but far too violent to watch with Jess and the parents.
• Someone to Eat Cheese With – Much better than I was expecting.
• Planet Earth on Bluray – We got this to test Bob’s sweet new home theater system. The encoding quality was disappointing. The places where you can usually hide quantization noise (foliage, high-freq areas) were encoded very poorly. It was sad to see panning shots across the forest exhibit so many compression artifacts. These guys need to use an encoder tuned to such scenes. Note: don’t ask a video codec engineer to review encoding quality of Bluray discs unless you want to get an earful..
• Be Kind Rewind – Slowish, neat plot but could have been much better.
• Congorama – Whoa. Unexpectedly, my favorite KenFlix so far!
• War – dunno. Only Bob watched it.
• Wave Twisters – Great, but Bob hadn’t seen it, and the DVD wouldn’t play. Oh well.
• Futurama: Beast with a Billion Backs – Disappointing. We had such high hopes!
• Eastern Promises – Very intense. Good, but good thing Jess didn’t see this one.
• Stray Dog – Japanese noir. Kurosawa is always good.
  

14 in 23 days.. I don’t think we’ll be able to keep this rate up once Bob starts work. We’ll probably drop down to about one a week. We’re a long way from the 165 per month theoretical maximum!

Bob & Jess, anything to add? Did I forget any?

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