Off the Beaten Path: Valentine's Flicks

I know there are a lot of Valentine's haters out there, but I've never really seen the point. Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love; we all (hopefully) have some form of love in our lives, be it romantic, familial, friendly. And we get an entire day to remember it, celebrate it and share it! I think it's lovely.

We enter a very important phase of Valentine's Day preparation: the film. What you watch and who you watch it with can make a world of difference between a memorable Valentine's Day and a "that time we watched Love Actually that wasn't Christmas" kind of day. We all know the classics: Titanic, Romeo + Juliet, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Boring (or not, I'll be watching Romeo + Juliet, don'tlookatme). But, dear reader, whether you've got a honey by your side on the big day or not, I shall now draw upon my five years of cinema scholarship and select five more offbeat films that will make your night something to remember.

Romeo Jacket: The Inspiration

This is going to be the first "track the project" on this enterprise. After Peter's leather jacket made such a great hit at Masquerade, I've sort of been jonesing to make him another one in black. After all, every rock star needs a little color variety, right? Right.