I've started playing around a bit with panna cotta. It is a nice canvas for different things - it hangs on to subtle flavors well. Like bay leaf has that floral note that usually gets buried in meat, but steeping it in milk makes it very fresh and new. Cooked milk and flowers has a kind of haunting taste when it's warm and not yet jell-o-ized. It's good with berries.
I saw Defiance the other night (I don't see a lot of movies at night, but I've been having trouble sleeping). It was a good movie, but a number of the people were at the theater to see the sold out Biggie movie. Defiance seemed to struggle with the same issue that every English language film set in another country does: which language do you make the characters speak? (Valkyrie answered this question in a strange way - instead of German, just have them speak a British accented English, except for Tom Cruise). I never really figured out the rule that Defiance used to decide whether they were speaking English or not.
