Changeling

*A True Story

To find her son she did what no one else dared

Review
Los Angeles 1928 on a Saturday morning in a workingclass suburb Christine (Angelina Jolie) said goodbye to her son Walter and left for work. When she came home, she discovered he had vanished. A fruitless search ensues and a month later a boy claiming to be the nine year old is returned. Dazed by the swirl of cops reporters and her conflicted emotions Christine allows him to stay overnight but in her heart she knows he is not Walter. As she pushes authorities to keep looking. She learns that in prohibition-era L.A. women don’t challenge the system and live to tell their story slandered as delusional and unfit. Christine finds an ally in activist Reverend Briegleb (Malkovich), who helps her fight the city to look for her missing boy. Based on the actual incident that rocked California’s legal system, Changeling tells the shocking tale of a mother’s quest to find her son, and those who won’t stop until they silence her.

Changeling Trailer

My rate & Comment	**** I always interest to a true story movie. This is a powerful true story.
Directed by	Clint Eastwood
Produced by	Clint Eastwood, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Robert Lorenz
Written by	J. Michael Straczynski
Starring	Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Gattlin Griffith, Jason Butler Harner, Amy Ryan, Michael Kelly, Geoff Pierson, Colm Feore
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	Cannes Film Festival: May 20, 2008 United States: October 24, 2008 (limited) October 31, 2008 (wide) United Kingdom: November 26, 2008 Australia: February 5, 2009
Genre	Drama, Thriller
Running time	141 min
Country	United State
Language	English
Budget	US$55 million
Gross revenue	US$66.7 million

Plot
In 1928 Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) returns home one day to discover her nine-year-old son, Walter (Griffith), is missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich) publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department for its incompetence, corruption and the extrajudicial punishment meted by its "Gun Squad", led by Police Chief James E. Davis (Feore).

Several months later, Christine is told her son has been found alive. A public reunion is organized by police, who believe the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department. Although "Walter" (Conti) claims to be Christine's son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones (Donovan), the head of the LAPD's Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter and pressures Christine into taking him home "on a trial basis".

After Christine confronts Jones with physical discrepancies between "Walter" and her son, Jones has a doctor visit her. He tells Christine that "Walter" is shorter because trauma has shrunk his spine and that the man who took Walter had him circumcised. A newspaper story appears that implies Christine is an unfit mother. Christine meets with Briegleb, who tells her the story was planted by police to discredit her. He also tells her of the corruption rife in the department, and of the Gun Squad's despotic rule over the city's streets. Walter's teacher and dentist give Christine signed letters confirming "Walter" is an impostor. Christine arranges a press conference during which she tells her story.

At Jones' order, Christine is taken to Los Angeles County Hospital's "psychopathic ward". Christine is befriended by inmate Carol Dexter (Ryan), who tells Christine she is one of several women who were imprisoned for challenging police authority. Dr. Steele (O'Hare) deems Christine delusional and forces her to take mood-regulating pills. Steele says he will release Christine if she admits she was mistaken about "Walter". She refuses.

Detective Ybarra (Kelly) is called to a ranch at Wineville, Riverside County to arrange the deportation of 15-year-old Sanford Clark to Canada. The boy's uncle, Gordon Northcott (Harner), has fled after being unwittingly alerted by Ybarra to his visit. Clark tells Ybarra that Northcott forced him to assist in kidnapping and murdering approximately twenty children and identifies Walter as one of them. Jones tells Briegleb that Christine is in protective custody following a mental breakdown. Jones orders Clark deported, but Ybarra makes Clark reveal the murder site. Briegleb secures Christine's release by showing Steele a newspaper that details the Wineville killings and names Walter as a possible victim. "Walter" reveals his motive was to secure transportation to Los Angeles to see his favorite actor, Tom Mix, and says the police told him to lie about being Christine's son. Northcott is captured in Vancouver, Canada. Christine has an attorney (Pierson) secure a court order to release the women unfairly imprisoned by police.

On the day of the city council's hearing into the case, Christine and Briegleb flee police whom they believe want to prevent her testifying. Outside Los Angeles City Hall, they encounter thousands of protestors who are demanding answers from the city. The hearing is intercut with scenes from Northcott's trial. The council concludes that Jones and Davis should be removed from duty, and extrajudicial internments by police must be reviewed. Northcott is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Two years later, Christine has not given up her search for Walter. She is told Northcott is willing to admit killing Walter on condition that Christine meets him before his execution. Northcott refuses to tell her whether or not he killed her son, and he is executed the next day. In 1935, David Clay—one of the boys assumed to have been killed—is found alive. He reveals that one of the boys with whom he was imprisoned was Walter. David, Walter and another boy escaped, but were separated. David does not know whether Walter was recaptured, giving Christine hope he is alive.

Taken

A spy relies on his old skill to save his estranged daughter.

"One of the most action movie this season.."

Review
A former spy (Neeson) relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter (Grace), who has been forced into slave trade. In "Taken", Neesson will play an ex-CIA "preventer" that faces his daughter is kidnapped by sex-traffickers while traveling in Paris, France. The soldier must track her down before she's shipped off and lost forever.

Taken Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * Great movie and great performance of Neesson. Great action and the story. There are also some sensitive / sentimental scenes. Worth to see.
Directed by	Pierre Morel
Produced by	Luc Besson
Written by	Luc Besson Robert Mark Kamen
Starring	Liam Neeson Famke Janssen Maggie Grace Xander Berkeley Holly Valance Katie Cassidy
Distributed by	20th Century Fox Europa Corp.
Release date(s)	France: February 27, 2008
Genre	Action, Thriller, Drama
Running time	93 min.
Country	France
Language	English, France
Budget	$45,000,000
Gross revenue	$61,144,470

Plot
The film follows an ex-CIA "preventer" faced with recovering his daughter after she is kidnapped by sex-traffickers in Paris, France.

Bryan (Liam Neeson) is a divorced, former US intelligence agent whose 17-year-old daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) lives with his ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen) and her new husband Stuart (Xander Berkeley). The nature and dispositions of the major characters are established early in the film: Kim is a happy, affectionate girl who loves horses and has aspirations of being a singer, while her mother maintains a frosty, somewhat antagonistic demeanour towards her ex-husband. Bryan’s skill and quick-thinking are demonstrated when he agrees to escort a pop diva - Sheerah (Holly Valance) - the diva is attacked, but Bryan efficiently disables a knife-wielding assailant and gets her safely out of danger. Thankful, Sheerah expresses some interest in Bryan’s daughter and furnishes him with some contacts to get Kim’s career started.

The next day we discover that Kim wants to take a vacation in Europe with her friend Amanda (Katie Cassidy) to follow U2’s European tour. Kim’s mother has no objections, but Kim also needs permission from her father. Fearing that the over-protective Bryan will not consent, Kim pretends (with her mother’s implicit agreement) that they will only stay in Paris to visit museums. Reluctantly, Bryan agrees, and only discovers their real itinerary at the airport.

Arriving in Paris, a seemingly friendly young man named Peter (Nicolas Giraud) proposes to share a taxi with Kim and Amanda to the house where they are staying; the girls agree gladly. However, the man works for an Albanian criminal organization to which he reports the address out of earshot.

In the house, Kim receives a phone call from her father which she answers in the bathroom. From the bathroom window she sees men entering the main room and abducting Amanda. Bryan is able to gain critical information about the kidnappers in the final moments after Kim is kidnapped by telling her to shout out everything about them that she notices. Briefly, Bryan talks to one of the kidnappers, warning him that unless Kim is released, he will pursue him and kill him; the kidnapper wishes him "good luck" before smashing the daughter’s phone.

Exploiting his contacts in the CIA and the business connections of his ex-wife’s husband, Bryan travels to Paris to find her, informed that the kidnappers are sex-slavers and that he has only 96 hours to recover his daughter before she will disappear forever. The particular kidnapper he talked to is revealed to be an Albanian named ‘Marco’.

Under the eye of Jean-Claude, himself a former operative and now deputy director of Direction centrale du renseignement intérieur, Bryan pursues the kidnappers. He uses digital photos from the smashed remains of Kim’s phone to locate Peter, who is hit by a truck while trying to escape. By hassling prostitutes Bryan gets himself threatened by an Albanian mobster, and is able to plant a covert listening device on him. With the help of a translator he discovers that the kidnappers have a brothel in a nearby construction site; before leaving, Bryan obtains an Albanian–English dictionary from the translator.

On arrival, Bryan acts like a customer; once inside he begins to search for Kim. Unfortunately, he finds only her jacket next to another woman. He is then discovered, and escapes under fire with the semi-conscious woman.

Nursing the girl back to health from an involuntary drug addiction, Bryan finds out where the kidnappers took her after she was abducted. Bryan heads to the address and poses as an official negotiating a new "rate" (i.e. a bribe) to overlook the illegal activities going on within. Before leaving he asks the apparent leader to translate from Albanian the words "good luck," which confirms his identity as Marco; he quickly subdues Marco and kills most of the kidnappers. He searches for Kim, but instead finds Amanda, handcuffed to a bed and dead of a drug overdose. Later, through torturing Marco, Bryan ascertains that Kim was sold to a man named Saint Clair.

Bryan visits Jean-Claude’s home and chats amicably with his wife while she prepares dinner. Jean-Claude, however, failing to have Bryan arrested for the mess he has caused at Paris, brings his gun to the dinner table. Jean-Claude angrily points the gun at Bryan when accused of complicity in Kim’s abduction, but to no avail: Bryan unloaded it earlier. To demonstrate that he is serious Bryan shoots Jean-Claude’s wife on her arm and, by holding Jean-Claude’s family hostage, extracts Saint Clair’s location from Jean-Claude.

By impersonating a police officer, Bryan gains entry to the building where new girls are being sold, and secures entry to one of the buyers’ viewing booths. When he sees his daughter being sold, he forces the client to bid for her, but is captured and knocked unconscious moments later. Suspended from the ceiling, Saint Clair questions his identity before leaving his security guards to execute him. Bryan escapes and kills the guards before finding Saint Clair, whom he kills after learning that his daughter is being taken by Arab clients. Bryan manages to follow the car his daughter is being taken in to see her being taken away on a large motorboat. He jumps on to the ship from a bridge and eliminates all the people inside, finally killing the client and freeing his daughter.

Back in the US, Kim is reunited with her mother. Bryan introduces Kim to the diva he saved at the beginning of the film, having arranged an audition with her vocal coach.

Plot source: Wiki

Juno

"A Fresh, Unusually Intelligent Comedy" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Review
Juno (Ellen Page) is a Mid-Western highschooler, who decides one day, out of boredom or curiosity, to have sex with with her friend Paulle Bleeker (Michael Cera), a member of her school's track team. She likes him well enough, but isn't hung up on him. This one time encounter results in Juno's pregnancy. She and her best friend Leah (Olivia Thiriby) decide to take control of the situation by browsing for prospective adoptive parents in the local Pennysaver newspaper, and Juno settles on seemingly the perfect, affluent couple mark (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner) who is desperate to have a child.

Juno Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * Actually the reason I watched this film because of Jennifer Garner on it. But then I found this movie very interesting. The story is kinda slow but its different and not boring. This movie is cool.
Directed by	Jason Reitman
Produced by	John Malkovich, Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
Written by	Diablo Cody
Starring	Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney, J. K. Simmons, Olivia Thirlby
Distributed by	Fox Searchlight
Release date(s)	September 1, 2007 (Telluride) December 5, 2007 (limited) December 25, 2007 (wide)
Genre	Comedy - Drama
Running time	96 min.
Country	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$6.5 million
Gross revenue	$229,911,304

Plot

Sixteen-year-old Minnesotan high-schooler Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) discovers she is pregnant with a child fathered by her friend and longtime admirer, Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). While at first she intends to have an abortion, she changes her mind and decides to make a plan for the child's adoption. With the help of her friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby), Juno searches the ads in the Pennysaver and finds a couple she feels will provide a suitable home.

Along with her father, Mac (J. K. Simmons), Juno meets the couple, Mark and Vanessa Loring (Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner), in their expensive home and expresses a desire for a closed adoption.

Vanessa is extremely anxious around Juno and their initial interactions are uneasy. However, Juno and Leah happen to see Vanessa in a shopping mall being completely at ease with a child, and Juno encourages Vanessa to talk to Juno's baby in the womb, where it obligingly kicks for her. On the other hand, Juno more easily forms a friendship with Mark, with whom she shares tastes in punk rock and horror films. Mark, who has set aside his rock band youth (now confined to memorabilia displayed in the one room of the house allowed him by Vanessa), works at home composing commercial jingles. Juno hangs out with Mark a few times, ignoring a warning from her stepmother Bren (Allison Janney) that she should not spend time alone with a married man.

As the pregnancy progresses, Juno struggles with the emotions she feels for her baby's father, Paulie, who is clearly—although passively—in love with Juno. Juno maintains an outwardly indifferent attitude toward Paulie, but when she learns he has asked another girl to the prom, she is hurt and angrily confronts him. Paulie reminds Juno that it is at her request they remain distant and tells her that she broke his heart. He also suggests that she has feelings for him she is unable to admit.

Not long before her baby is due, Juno is again visiting with Mark when their interaction becomes strongly emotional. Mark then tells her that he will be leaving Vanessa. Vanessa arrives home, and, to her shock, Mark tells her he does not feel ready to be a father and that there are still things he wants to do first—dreams Vanessa does not share. Juno watches the Loring marriage fall apart, then drives away and cries by the side of the road before coming to a decision. Returning to the Lorings' home, she leaves a note.

After a heartfelt discussion with Mac, Juno accepts that she loves Paulie. Juno then tells Paulie that she loves him, and Paulie's actions make it clear that her feelings are reciprocated. At his track meet, when Paulie notices Juno is not in the stands and realizes she must be in labor, he rushes to the hospital to be with her (she had not told him because she did not want him to miss the meet). He arrives to find Juno has given birth, and comforts Juno as she cries. Vanessa comes to the hospital where she joyfully claims the newborn boy as a single adoptive mother. On the wall in the baby's new nursery, Vanessa has framed Juno's note—addressed only to her—which reads "Vanessa: If you're still in, I'm still in. —Juno."

The film ends in the summertime with Juno and Paulie playing guitar and singing together, followed by a kiss.

Plot source: Wiki

Click

What If You Had a Universal Remote....
That Control Your Universe?

Review:
Adam Sandler portrays Michael Newman, a family man whose busy career as an architect doesn’t leave much time for his wife, Donna (Kate Beckinsale), and two kids. Unable to figure out which of his many remotes turns on the television, he goes shopping for a universal remote and finds the perfect device through Morty (Christopher Walken), who gives him a one-of-a-kind remote with magical powers. With each click, Michael is able to control his career and personal life. But complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.

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My rate & Comment	* * * Just fun to watch. Click!
Directed by	Frank Coraci
Produced by	Jack Giarraputo, Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe, Adam Sandler
Written by	Mark O'Keefe, Steve Koren
Starring	Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner, David Hasselhoff
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	Australia June 22, 2006 United States June 23, 2006 United Kingdom Ireland September 29, 2006
Genre	Comedy
Running time	107 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$70,000,000
Gross revenue	$237,681,299

Plot:
Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is an architect whose desire for promotion leads him to assume many tasks on behalf of his boss John Ammer (David Hasselhoff), with the result that he is often missed by his family. One night, Michael goes in search of a universal remote control for his appliances. Finding most stores closed, he enters the still open Bed, Bath and Beyond, where in the "Way Beyond" section he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), an eccentric inventor who gives him a remote control answering to the description of "universal", warning Michael that it can never be returned.


To Michael's amazement, he finds out that the remote is literally universal, in that it controls the universe (as seen from his perspective) and interprets his wishes, even learning to anticipate them. After having used it to fulfill momentary whims, Michael "fast-forwards" himself to the promotion that he thought to be three months away, but which is in fact one year in his future. Further use of the remote control reveals that it is automatically programmed to skip or fast-forward through sickness, sexual intercourse, bathing, traffic, arguments with Michael's wife Donna, and promotions. In each case, he is alive but "on autopilot" during the interim, so he has no conscious experience of it. This presents a problem, in that during such interims his behavior is mechanical and unresponsive to the actions of others, alienating him further from his wife and children. Having learned of these effects, he attempts to rid himself of the control, but cannot.


Michael later goes to work by bicycle, wearing his bathrobe, to avoid automatically fast-forwarding through traffic or showering. When he arrives at work on his first day as his ex-boss's business partner, Ammer queries his lax dress-code and is convinced by his explanation. He is so impressed by Michael's answer that he, again, gives him a promotion. Thereafter, Michael is put into "autopilot" for ten years until the year 2017, where he finds that Donna has divorced him and married their son's former swimming instructor Bill while Michael himself has become grossly overweight, as has his son Ben. Samantha, Michael and Donna's daughter, has become prone to attending orgies. Later, Michael and Donna begin to argue, whereupon Michael's remote control "fast-forwards" him to the year 2023, just as Michael is knocked unconscious by the family's third dog. Having been, in his concussion, diagnosed with cancer, he is "fast-forwarded" through a period of serious sickness. When he wakes up, he is no longer fat, but retains copious quantities of loose skin as a result of liposuction. Later, he finds that his son Ben has lost weight and is now taking over his father's work, while Samantha has become her brother's friend. Here, Ben reveals that Michael's father Ted died during Michael's sickness. With the aid of the remote control, Michael attends his father's grave and learns that he had insulted his father shortly prior to the latter's death, but had never apologized. During Michael's grief, Morty appears and reveals that he (Morty) is the Angel of Death, a revelation that may explain his name, which includes the syllable "mort", a French synonym of the English "Death". Upon hearing this, Michael tries to attack Morty, but is unable to do so owing to the other's ability of teleportation.


Michael then transfers himself seven years into the future, to arrive at Ben's wedding in 2030. There he hears Samantha calling Bill "Dad" and is thereby shocked into breaking one of his own arteries. He is saved by Ben and Samantha, who transport him to a hospital. There, Ben suggests that he, like Michael, will attend more to his work than to his wife Julie, frightening his father. Michael, despite Morty's warnings, discards the instruments keeping him alive and walks out into a heavy downpour to warn Ben of the danger. He succeeds, but dies in the act of doing so. His death is witnessed by Ben, Samantha, and Donna, who mourn him as he loses consciousness.

There is then a white flash, and Michael wakes up on a displayed bed in Bed, Bath and Beyond, alive. Believing his misadventure to have been a dream, he rushes to visit his father, ultimately atoning for his insult and inviting his parents to dine with him each day. He then hastens to reassure Donna, Ben, and Samantha of his affection for them and for his dog Sundance. At the end of the movie, Michael finds the familiar remote on his kitchen counter, bearing a note from Morty stating "Michael, like I said, good guys need a break. I know you'll do the right thing this time, Love Morty. P.S. Your wife's rockin' body still drives me crazy". This shows that the misadventure was not all a dream, but Morty has rewound Michael's life back to this point to give him another chance. Learning what he must do as well as what he must avoid doing, Michael throws the remote aside and begins to enjoy life.

Source: Wiki

Righteous Kill

From the writer of Inside Man

Most people respect the badge. Everybody respect the gun.

Review
A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't.

Before they can hand up the badges, they are called in to investigate the murder of a notorious pimp, which appears to have ties to a case they solved years before. Like the original murder, the victim is a suspected criminal whose body is found accompanied by a four line poem justifying the killing.

When additional crimes take place, it becomes clear the detectives are looking for a serial killer, one who targets criminals that have fallen through the cracks of the judicial system. His mission is to do what the cops can't do on their own-take the culprits off the streets for good. The similarities between the recent killings and their earlier case raise a nagging question. Did they put the wrong man behind bars?

My rate & Comment	* * * * I like both actors. Interesting when they could play in the same movie. Gotta watch it :)
Directed by	Jon Avnet
Produced by	Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Daniel M. Rosenberg, Lati Grobman, Randall Emmett
Written by	Russell Gewirtz
Starring	Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Carla Gugino, Donnie Wahlberg, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo
Distributed by	Overture Films (USA) Lions Gate Entertainment (UK)
Release date(s)	September 12, 2008 (USA)
Genre	Thriller, Drama
Running time	100 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$60,000,000
Gross revenue	$71,335,208

Righteous Kill Trailer

Butterfly on A Wheel

"a good movie coming your way" - E!Online

Review
Neil and Abby Warner have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream... until today. When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductors demands.

The kidnapped - Ryan (Pierce Brosnan), a cold and calculating sociopath takes over their lives with the brutal efficiency of someone who has nothing to lose. In the blink of an eye Neil and Abby's safe and secure existence is turned upside down.

Butterfly on A Wheel Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * How come Pierce Brosnan can be a bad guy.. ? watch it and you will know. So entertaining.
Directed by	Mike Barker
Produced by	William Morrissey, David Valleau, Beau St. Clair
Written by	William Morrissey
Starring	Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello, Gerard Butler, Callum Keith Rennie
Distributed by	Icon Entertainment Lions Gate Entertainment
Release date(s)	August, 2007
Genre	Drama, Thriller
Running time	98 Min.
Country	United Kingdom, Canada
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Gross revenue

Plot
Chicago residents Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) and his wife, Abby Randall (Maria Bello) have the perfect life and a perfect marriage. With their beautiful young daughter, Sophie, they are living the American dream... until today.

When Sophie is suddenly kidnapped, they have no choice but to comply with the abductor's demands. The kidnapper, Tom Ryan (Pierce Brosnan), a cold and calculating sociopath, takes over their lives with the brutal efficiency of someone who has nothing to lose. In the blink of an eye Neil and Abby's safe and secure existence is turned upside down.


Over the next twenty-four hours they are at the mercy of a man who wants only one thing: that they do his bidding. It soon becomes clear that Ryan's demands are all the more terrifying because he doesn't want their money.

What he wants is for Neil and Abby's life, the life that they have built over 10 years, to be systematically dismantled and destroyed, piece by piece.

With time running out on their little girl, Neil and Abby realize their nightmare is just about to begin. They will have to submit to Ryan's challenges over the next 24 hour period.

How far will they go to save the life of their child? - would they kill an innocent man to save their own child? In the far distance a solitary light burns in the window of a lodge as the car glides to a halt - and Neil knows it is a question only he can answer - when Ryan hands him the gun…

Kiss the Bride (2008)

Guess who's coming out for the wedding!

Review
In high school, Matt (Philipp Karner) and Ryan (James O'Shea) were best friends. More than friends, actually. But in the ensuing ten years, they've lost contacts. So when Matt receives an invitation to Ryan's wedding he's surprised - especially that Ryan's is marrying a woman! Matt interrupts his ideal alternative lifestyle to return to his hometown. He plans to rescue his former love from whatever 'she devil' has trapped him into this huge mistake.

Ryan (James O'Shea)

On the other hand, Ryan's perky fiance Alex takes quite the liking to Matt. Is she very cunning, disarmingly ditsy, completely adorable - or all three? As Matt tries to rekindle the old flame, Ryan is intent on putting out any sparks. Ryan dismisses their old romance as just a high school thing, but Matt realizes Ryan may still be the love of his life. All the while, Matt must deal with 'his new best friend' Alex, the two families, and a hometown he thought he'd left entirely in the past.


As the wedding day fast approaches (like a meteor hurting toward ground zero), old feelings resurface and secrets are revealed. Each of them must balance the past with the present, and make a choice that will determine the rest of their lives: the boundaries of love, sexuality and identity are never constant. Written by Ty Lieberman/C. Jay Cox

My rate & Comment	* * Sexy dudes :) but not my kind of movie.
Directed by	C. Jay Cox
Produced by	C. Jay Cox
Written by	Ty Lieberman
Starring	Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner, James O'Shea
Distributed by	Regent Releasing
Release date(s)	April 18, 2008
Genre	Drama
Running time	115 min
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$500,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue

Kiss the Bride Trailer

August Rush

An incredible journey moving at the speed of sound

Review
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.

August Rush Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * This movie is sweet, sentimental and also entertaining.
Directed by	Kirsten Sheridan
Produced by	Richard Barton Lewis
Written by	Nick Castle James V. Hart Paul Castro
Starring	Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, William Sadler, Alex O'Loughlin
Distributed by	Warner Bross
Release date(s)	November 21, 2007
Genre	Drama
Running time	113 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Gross revenue	$65,278,570 (worldwide)

Plot
A boy named Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore) lives in an orphanage, all the while believing that his parents are alive. He believes the music that he hears all around him is his parents communicating with him. He meets a counselor, Richard Jeffries (Terrence Howard), of the New York Child Services Department. Evan tells him he does not want to be adopted, because he believes his parents are still alive and will come to collect him eventually.

Through a series of flashbacks, his parents are revealed to be named Lyla Novacek, (Keri Russell), a famous concert cellist, and Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), an Irish guitarist and lead singer of a rock band, who spent one romantic night together and never saw each other again. Lyla became pregnant, which her father did not approve of, instead wanting Lyla to have a successful career without the obstacle of a child. After an argument with her father, Lyla ran out of a restaurant and was hit by a car. While in hospital, she gave birth to a son. Afterwards, she was told by her father that her child had died, unaware that he had actually been delivered successfully and then been sent to an orphanage by her father.

Evan Taylor (Freddie Highmore)

Evan has a strong faith that as long as he follows the music he hears and reacts to it, he will have a chance to be found by his parents. He makes his way to New York City, where he is taken in by a man known as "Wizard" (Robin Williams), who houses various orphans and runaways, employing them to play music on the streets and taking a large cut of their tips. Evan immediately proves to be a musical child prodigy. Wizard enlists him and gives him the name "August Rush", convincing him he will be sent back to the orphanage if his real name is ever discovered.

Lyla only discovers that her son is alive when her father, knowing that he is dying, confesses what actually happened. Lyla immediately sets out to New York to look for her 11-year-old son.

Louis has never forgotten Lyla and does not know about Evan. Both have since given up music careers.

After a raid by the police, Evan takes refuge in a church, where he again impresses with his natural musical talent and is enrolled at the Juilliard School as "August Rush." A work he composes is chosen to be performed by the New York Philharmonic in Central Park, but Wizard barges into a rehearsal, and Evan reluctantly follows him back to his life of performing music on the streets.

Meanwhile, Lyla has discovered Evan's identity and has decided to stay in New York while searching for her son. While there, she decides to resume her cello career. She is then chosen to play in the same concert, which features Evan's piece. Louis, being wrongly told that Lyla has since married, also returns to New York to resume playing with his former band. He has a chance meeting with Evan in Washington Square Park and they play music together, although neither knows who the other is.

Louis Connelly (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Lyla Novacek (Keri Russell)

The night of the concert, Evan finally chooses to run from Wizard in favor of performing at his concert. In the meantime, Louis races to the park when he sees Evan's pseudonym along with Lyla's name on a sign billing the concert. Evan conducts his piece, and at its conclusion, he turns around to see Lyla and Louis standing hand in hand, and he finally makes the connection that they are his parents.
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Sex and the City (The Movie)

"Sensational! Beautiful"
And better then ever - Neil Rosen, NY1 News/New York.

"Poignant, incisive and proudly outrageous, Sex and the City is the love letter fans have been waiting for" - Rossiter Drake, San Francisco Examiner.

Review
For too long, Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) had been looking for love in all the wrong places... but in all the right shoes. In this much-anticipated movie event, Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattral), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) are back, four years after the hit TV series ended. As they continue to juggle career, relationships, motherhood and life in Manhattan, the girls realize that more than even, true friendship never goes out of style.

Sex and the City (The Movie) Trailer

My rate & Comment	* * * * * Awesome, so chic romantic and funny.. This is really what I have been waiting for and I like their fashion style :p and Mr. Big..? hmmm.. Charming as always!!
Directed by	Michael Patrick King
Produced by	Michael Patrick King, Sarah Jessica Parker, Darren Star
Written by	Michael Patrick King
Starring	Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth Jennifer Hudson, Candice Bergen
Distributed by	New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. HBO Films
Release date(s)	May 30, 2008
Genre	Comedy
Running time	Theatrical cut: 145 min. Extended cut : 151 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$65,000,000
Gross revenue	$400,454,627

Plot

Charlotte (Kristin Davis), Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Samantha (Kim Cattral).

Set four years after the events of the series finale, the film begins with Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Big (Chris Noth) viewing apartments with the intention of moving in together. Carrie falls in love with a penthouse suite far from their price range, which Big immediately agrees to pay for. However, Carrie experiences doubts over the sensibility of this arrangement, explaining that they are not married, and as such she would have no legal rights to their home in the event of a separation. Quelling her fears, Big suggests that they get married.

Mr. Big (Chris Noth) - Sex and the City: The Movie finally reveals his full name to be John James Preston. He is the primary on-and-off love interest of the series' protagonist, Carrie Bradshaw, who usually simply refers to him as "Big".

Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) is finding balancing her home, work, and social life ever more difficult, and confesses to the girls that she hasn’t had sex with Steve (David Eigenberg) in six months. She is devastated when Steve reveals he has slept with another woman, and immediately separates from him. Samantha (Kim Cattrall) is living with Smith (Jason Lewis), who has a successful television career. They live in a seaside beach house in Los Angeles, where Samantha is finding it difficult to take time for herself. She is traveling frequently between L.A. and New York, and grappling with her persistent desire for sex with other men; her handsome and sexually active next-door-neighbor, Dante (Gilles Marini), in particular. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) is happy in her marriage to Harry (Evan Handler), with their adopted daughter, Lily.

Carrie's wedding plans escalate into such a lavish event that Big begins to experience doubts. Carrie is given a Vivienne Westwood wedding gown after modeling it for a photo shoot in Vogue. Carrie reads to Big from a book of famous love letters she has borrowed from the New York Public Library. She teases Big for never having sent her a love letter. While returning Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1 to the library, Carrie sees a wedding being held there and chooses it for her own venue.


After an argument with Steve at the rehearsal dinner, Miranda, still upset about Steve's indiscretion, tells Big bluntly that he and Carrie are crazy to be getting married, as marriage ruins everything. On the day of the ceremony, he decides he cannot go through with it, leaving Carrie devastated and fleeing from the library, where their wedding was supposed to take place. Big, however, changes his mind and intercepts Carrie as he sees her limousine drive past. Carrie, humiliated and betrayed, proceeds to attack Big with her bouquet, screaming her dismay at him, while he earns furious looks from Miranda and Charlotte. The four women subsequently take the honeymoon that Carrie had booked to Mexico, where they de-stress and collect themselves.

On her return to New York, Carrie hires an assistant, Louise (Jennifer Hudson), to help her move back into her old apartment and manage her administration. Charlotte learns she is pregnant after a visit to her doctor. Miranda eventually confesses to Carrie about what happened during the night of the rehearsal dinner, and the two have a brief falling out. After reflecting on the argument she had with Carrie, Miranda agrees to attend couples counseling with Steve, and they are eventually able to reconcile. Samantha begins overeating to keep from cheating on Smith with Dante, but eventually realizes that their relationship is simply not working, and that she needs to put herself first. The two break up, and she moves back to New York. Charlotte for several months is concerned that something might happen to the baby, as her life seems to be too perfect.

A surprise encounter with Big at a restaurant leaves Charlotte so furious that she goes into labor. Big delivers her to the hospital, and waits until baby Rose is born, hoping to see Carrie. Harry passes on the message that Big would like her to call him, and that he has written to her frequently, but never received a reply. Carrie searches her correspondence, before realizing that Louise has kept his e-mails password-protected from her, after Carrie earlier announced she wished to sever all communication with him. She finds that he has sent her dozens of letters copied from the Love Letters of Great Men book she showed him in the weeks before their wedding, Love Letters of Great Men, Vol. 1, culminating with one of his own where he apologizes for screwing it up and promises to love her forever.

One hour before the locks are due to be changed on their shared penthouse apartment, Carrie travels to the home Big had bought for them to collect a pair of mint condition Manolo Blahnik shoes she had left there. She finds Big in the walk-in closet he had built for her, and the moment she sees him, her anger at his betrayal dissipates. She runs into his arms and they share a passionate kiss. After spending the final hour in their apartment together, talking and apologizing to one another, Big proposes to Carrie properly, using one of her diamond-encrusted shoes in place of a ring. They later marry alone, in a simple wedding in New York City Hall, with Carrie dressed in the original dress she had bought in a vintage shop. They hold a get-together at a local diner with their friends. The film ends with the four women around a table in a restaurant, sipping cosmopolitans, and celebrating Samantha's fiftieth birthday, with Carrie making a toast to the next fifty.
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