I've had a couple of DVDs sitting on my shelf for a while and hadn't got round to seeing them this weekend, and they were BOTH great! Not just good, absolutely go-and-buy-it-now fantastic. Saturday's showing was
A Scanner Darkly, adapted from the novel by
Philip K Dick, about a not too distant future where everyone is constantly under surveillance in a battle against widespread addiction to new drug 'Substance D'. It's really beautifully, strangely accurately, animated through
rotoscoping. At times you really have to remind yourself that it's animated because your brain kind of tricks you into thinking it's 'real'. Which complements the story quite well, too.

I also finally got around to watching
Spirited Away. Again really beautifully animated, and a really charming, lovely, funny and engrossing story. The only other
Studio Ghibli film I've seen is
Princess Mononoke which I caught on tv a while ago, and I'm definitely going to hunt some more down now...