Nixon/Frost - 4 stars (by Ebert)

Let the MoLT family (and the other half of the Kinsey family) consider themselves warned that when we are using Borda counts to decide what to do with the night, I will be putting Nixon/Frost on the list. I'm just saying, because Ebert put it in his top movies of 2008, it's directed by Ron Howard, and the historical events on which the movie is based sounds fascinating.

What [screenplay writer, Peter] Morgan suggests is that even while Nixon was out-fencing Frost, two things were going on deep within his mind: (1) a need to confess, which may have been his buried reason for agreeing to the interviews in the first place, and (2) identification with Frost, and even sympathy for him.

Of course, like all my movie recommendations, I fully expect Borda counts to reveal that it will be ranked last when all the votes are cast. Sigh.