Not just for the Sopranos anymore.

41 degrees Fahrenheit is what the dashboard read in my car as I traversed the familiar city streets on the way home. The snow banks still bright white from the latest heavy frozen deluge are slowly melting their deeply hidden gem like barbs as the sun sooths it's caress over their grip of the cold's long embrace. What a nice break to remind us all that spring is just around the corner. Maybe the ground hog was correct about spring being early.

On the way past the local Family Video, I stopped to enlist some new movie titles for the resolution and ended up with four DVD cases instead of one.

For tonight, Courtney could chose what she'd like to view. She chose to see:

When the film started, I looked at James Gandolfini and only saw one thing-Mobster Boss. As the movie progressed, the wise-guy persona was sloughed off and a much darker more sullen person arose. This was a welcome sight from a artist such as Gandolfini. His screen presence is in full bloom as he guides the story along. Great supporting actresses round out the main cast, but, I must confess that I felt Kristen Stewart could've done much better with her role-She seemed a bit...lackluster. Stewart definitely did not seem as engrossed in this role as much as some others-One of those roles being; Georgia Kaminski in the 2007 film The Cake Eaters.

Welcome to the Rileys is a spartan look at a dysfunctional marriage after the death of a child. As Mr. and Mrs. Riley tango with their own mental and emotional trauma, they are forced to seek the truth and find one another in the most unlikely fashion. As Mr. Riley is off on a work conference, he crosses paths with a lost soul and a discovers a desire to help this wayward teen to find his own redemption. In the end, these three people find a family bond that stretches beyond the D.N.A. strands and into the soft spot of the human heart.

This movie will appeal to those who've enjoyed Leaving Las Vegas.

The Rileys will get relatively high marks for me. They'll find themselves ranked 7 out of 10 Po' boys.