BIRTHDAY MOVIES - Your friendly neighborhood CS is a year older today, which isn't important except that it got me thinking about birthday movies and whether there are enough movies centered around birthdays to establish a genre. The only one that immediately comes to mind is John Hughes' 80s classic Sixteen Candles. If you can think of any others, e-mail me at CinemaScoped@hotmail.com or start a discussion in the Feedback Forum.

2:33: Ben Murphy from Milwaukee suggests the Nicole Kidman movie Birthday Girl, which featured Ben Chaplin as a boring Brit who orders himself a mail-order bride from Russia. I never saw it and can't say I plan to, but at least I know what to ask for next year.