I like looking thru movie review books and reading movie reviews. I used to regularly see films in theaters (about once a week).
The whole experience was enjoyable, including going to the theater (there used to be a multiplex, the Whitestone, within walking or biking distance, for instance) and so on.
The increase of movies on cable and computers in general tempered things some. Other issues also arose, including COVID. I have not gone to see a movie since COVID led to the closing of theaters. There are often not even films in the theaters that really interest me.
Things such as the NY Daily News no longer having movie reviews or even listings (at least in their ever-decreasing hard copies) don't help either. Fridays used to be a big thing for me with reviews and so on. I also have less patience for films generally. Again, it helps when you are not at a movie theater. After paying and all.
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So, I was glad to enjoy Natural Selection, including Rachael Harris. She is great in this film as a naive woman who deep down is someone a guy would like to have as a wife. The idea her husband doesn't want to have sex with her (after a botched abortion) is a travesty really. She surely wants to have sex!
We find out about that abortion when she finds a guy [it best not to think too hard about her finding him] who is the result of her husband secretly all these years donating at a sperm clinic. If the abortion is botched, you would think it was before it was legal.
[The biological son is in his early 20s so maybe it works if it is the early 1990s. Sperm banks apparently started in the 1960s. The film seems to take place in the 1980s at best. No computers, cell phones, and so forth. Surely doesn't look like 2011.]
The film has a good supporting cast and the reprobate son is also very good. The film also doesn't quite go in the direction you might think (no happy ending where she runs away with the guy) though her getting pregnant (it barely is clear they even had sex, but it is lampshaded by him saying he is very fertile -- he already has three kids). Harris deserved more leading roles!
BTW, contra Roger Ebert's review, if she takes a literal fundamental view of things, she probably would consider having sex with her husband's son incest.
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I tried some other films that didn't work. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands is a famous 1970s film with a sexy reputation with a young Sônia Braga. It takes place in Brazil, but the DVD commentary (the director was even younger than Braga at the time!) by the director is in almost accent-less English.
I got bored with the film since the first part is dominated by the first husband, who basically isn't that interesting even if one can see why Dona Flor would be turned on by him. The commentary track was interesting enough if the film was more so. We do see some nudity though a Brazilian nude (without from what I saw any of her crotch, to be blunt) really comes off like some Showtime late-night soft porn with tanned actresses.
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I believe I saw Mississippi Masala in the theater back in the day. Yes, I did. I have a list of books and films in theaters since 1988. I saw it at the Whitestone, gave it 3.5 stars (of 4), and said "performances + characters are a treat to see." I saw some other films directed by Mira Nair (including the not that good Amelia Earhart film). Recall watching her Kuma Sutra film.
I checked out Nair's Vanity Fair (a bit of her commentary and all the extras), a form of the very long [though it was originally a bunch of installments] British 19th Century novel. I listened to the very beginning of her commentary on Monsoon Wedding. No. It's a film I might have handled when it first came out all the same. Her narration is fine though. Very down to earth. Again, slight accent, influenced by a lot of English language education, perhaps.
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I have no real interest in watching The Da Vinci Code film (partially since the bad history will annoy me) though just read (re-read?) Bart Ehrman's book on real history. The book is basically cotton candy reading since it is not only short (around 200 pages but a small 200 pages) but he covers the same ground I read about (including by him -- his books repeat certain key bits) already. Still, like an easy-to-make/eat pasta dinner, why not?
After all, Easter is tomorrow. I will check out a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar (the last DVD to watch) on that date. I watched a bit of a couple scenes already before. I also have a soundtrack CD. Maybe I'll comment. ETA: Nah.