The Host

I didn’t mention this, but I saw The Host. It’s not as good as a lot of critics are claiming, but it’s kind of fun at times, and takes a sort of stab at being a politically-relevant B movie in the style of old Carpenter/Cronenberg/Corman flicks. It’s not terribly well paced, and the mish mash of competing tones—melodrama, slapstick, tragedy, big-effects monster movie—don’t mix together all that well, but it’s usually at least amusing. The thing plays kind of like cinematic Engrish, as if the filmmakers had some sort of idea of what an American monster movie should be like, but couldn’t quite approximate it and got some goofy results in translation.