Last week, I watched Kevin Costner’s new movie that you probably haven’t heard of called Swing Vote.  It was a good little movie that I watched in a Casino using a comp’ed movie ticket.

Unless you are a Costner devotee or just love political movies, I probably wouldn’t recommend catching this at the Box Office, but I definitely would recommend watching it once it comes out on DVD, Netflix or Cable.

This is probably going to end up being one of those movies that gets played over and over again and that constantly sucks you into watching it.  Its funny, fairly well scripted and acted and everything just kind of works in the movie.  When I watched the movie, it reminded me a bit of movies like Dave, Moon Over Parador and Ground Hogs Day.  It may not be as good as those movies individually, but there is something about movies like that in which you can watch them over and over again without growing out of them, kind of like they were designed for the purpose, like one of those adjustable Stokke Tripp Trapp chairs designed to fit a person from the cradle to the grave.

I don’t know that Swing vote will fit for people from the cradle to the grave, but it might last from about 5th grade on at least.

A couple nights ago, I came across this gem of a movie, "Lord Love a Duck" with Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld, who looked remarkably like my daughter Zoe (or as she might when she grows up).

Now, right up front this movie is weird, in that beatnik pre-hippy kind of way that some sixties movies are weird.  Its not quite Dr. Strangelove, but it tries to be and succeeds in some ways as a comedy.

This is strange movie, but not one that is really a cult classic must see.  Its more of a cult classic that you watch once just to have the experience and then watch no more so that you don’t have to repeat the experience.  Its not one of those old movies that you wished were made after the invention of HDTV, in fact the quality on the movie reminds me of a Gilligan’s Island episode (which I think were filmed a year or two after this movie).