Birthday Release Date

Whenever it's the year that you are (un)fortunate enough to have your birthday land on a Friday, you are especially reminded by all the commercials for movies released on that day. It's kinda cool but also kinda annoying.

If the movies released on your birthday are any reflection upon you or the year you are about to have, I'm screwed. The 5 films being released this Friday, January 9th, are an eclectic mixture of films, to say the least.

Not Easily Broken - a husband's love is tested when his wife gets into an accident -- Thank God I'm not in a relationship this year. Even still, I would easily pass this test by getting into an equally disfiguring accident.

Che - A doctor becomes a rebel and then becomes a Cuban revolutionary hero -- That sounds like me. Too bad I have no one to lead and nowhere to revolt.

Yonkers Joe - a scam artist changes his life to take care of his son who has Downs' Syndrome -- This is what I have to look forward to if I continue pretending to be what I am not (I still don't know what that is).

The Unborn - a woman is haunted by a dybbuk, a soul of the dead barred from heaven -- Great. So I have to battle another demon this year.

Bride Wars - best friends battle when their weddings are scheduled the same day -- I cannot believe this opens on my birthday. The redeeming quality about this film is that it stars Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson, both women who are my type.