5 days in Austin, Texas ... tough to beat.  Our thoughts:

1. "I Love You, Man" is very very funny. Good effort by Rudd, Segel, Favreau, and the girls at the Q&A too

2. "ExTerminators" also quite good ... But was about girls getting revenge, not former robots

3. a trifle disappointed with the first batch of shorts, some winners though

4. "Pulling John" ... Fantastic, exciting doc about pro arm wrestling ... John Brzenk is a mythical slayer of monsters!

5. "Objectified" was a little light on real ideas, a little heavy on industrial designers high giving each other. Looked nice though.

6. "Moon" was alright, outer space and talking computers and all.

7. Impressed by "Alexander the Last" ... Watch it now on IFC on demand ... Joe Swanberg raises the bar for the mumblecore crowd.

8. "Artois the Goat" was an entertaining romantic comedy about French cheese made in Texas.

9. "Garbage Dreams" doc about Cairo's garbage collecting social class ... Interesting but heavy.

10. "Modern Love is Automatic" ... sad & apathetic nurse turned dominatrix ... filmed in pastel colors with a death metal soundtrack, pretty awesome ... but with a creepy Todd Solondz-ish vibe.

11. "Drag Me to Hell" by Sam Raimi (in person, vaudeville-style) ... scary, scary flick ... with bats flying around inside the theater.

12. Special screening of Linklater's particularly awesome "Me & Orson Welles." That Efron kid actually has talent ... who knew?  Christian McKay may be the ghost of Orson Welles back from the dead.  I saw "F is for Fake" ...

13. "Best Worst Movie" ... "Troll 2" ... you can't piss on hospitality!  Nice.

14. "The 2 Bobs" ... Foul mouthed video game nerds find romance and foil jay chandresekar's spam plans ... Kinda funny, as long as you don't mind Christian bad guys.

15. "Observe and Report" is insane!!!

16. "Letters to the President" ... superbly interesting doc about Ahmadinejad and the power and perils of populism.

17. Rode the cow of awakening in "splinterheads" ... with shooter mcgavin, marty mcfly's girl, and the pretty hacker from transformers.

18. "Four Boxes" ... tricky but meh.

19. "Trust Us, This is All Made Up" ... every day, I say.

20. "Saint Mishbehavin'" ... Wavy Gravy is pretty awesome.