Summary:

This movie is the adaptation of the enchanting C.S. Lewis novel. During the Second World War, the 4 Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy, are taken away to safety into the huge country house of an old and unconventional professor. While playing hide and seek, young Lucy hides in a massive wardrobe which leads her to the snow covered land of ‘Narnia’. She then takes her siblings and the adventure begins in a world where it is always winter but never Christmas, in a world where the most mystical creatures live, fauns and beavers are your friends and all the animals talk. In this enchanting world, the children must swear alliance with Aslan, the Great King of Narnia, and fight the evil white witch, who has kept Narnia under her glacial spell for over a century and turns to stones everybody who disobeys her. In this defining battle, the children will learn that love and courage can conquer all…

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Plot:

Ewan Mcgregor plays Sam is a psychiatrist who lives with his girlfriend artist, Lila (Naomi Watts) one of his ex patients that survived a suicide attempt earlier. One day, Sam is visited by Henry, an art student that lets him know of his intention to commit suicide the next Saturday, which coincides with his 21st birthday. Sam commits himself to help Henry and prevent the suicide from happening.

Review

My initial impression after watching this movie was that Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, and Ryan Gosling gave compelling performances in this beautifully filmed but rather disjointed and frustratingly confusing story. I walked out of the theatre extremely annoyed at how I mostly wasted these last 2 hours.

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Summary:

In a nutshell, this movie is about the bad sister and the good sister, their relationship and impact on each other’s lives. Maggie, played by Cameron Diaz, is a sexy blond with a knock out body but very reckless and irresponsible lifestyle. She still lives with her father and step mum to save on rent, cannot hold a job and basically goes through life partying, getting totally wasted and sleeping around. Her sister Rose, played by Toni Colette, is a very hard working, lawyer who is overweight and has self image problems. Despite their differences, these two sisters care a lot about each other, share a dark family history and a great love for shoes. Having no place to stay, Maggie moves in with her sister and starts messing up her apartment, clothes and taking her shoes but she really commits the unforgivable act when she sleeps with Rose’s Boyfriend.

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Summary:

Elizabeth Masterson (played by Reese Witherspoon) is a workaholic Doctor, at a hospital in San Francisco. She hardly has time to eat and sleep, let alone date. One rainy night, after a double shift day, she gets into a huge car accident.

Fast forward to few months later, David Abbott (played by Mark Ruffalo), a depressed landscape engineer, is subletting a low rent apartment with a gorgeous view of the city. Only, he is getting more than the view; a beautiful blond mysteriously appears and tells him off for messing up her apartment. As he tries to get rid of these recurrent appearances, a special bond develops between David and the ‘spirit’ and they set off to understand what happened to Elizabeth, only to discover that she is still alive in a coma and in an imminent need to be rescued.

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Summary:

In ethnically diverse and racially strained Los Angeles, a car accident on Christmas weekend exposes, over 48 hrs, how the lives of many people there, so different and disconnected, are so intertwined and connected that a crash is almost inevitable.

Review:

In a style that would have made Robert Altman (Short Cuts) proud, Paul Hagis (Million Dollar baby) cowrote and directed a timely and tight piece on racism and prejudice and their impact on how we feel and think. The result is both powerful and disturbing.

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Summary:

Playwright Barrie (Johnny Depp) is going through a tough time after his latest play has bombed and his marriage to Mary (Radha Mitchell) is more dysfunctional than ever. On a stroll through a park, he meets the Davies family, the recently widowed Sylvia (Kate Winslet), and her four sons, spends the day entertainig them, and shortly afterwards becomes their friend. Barrie becomes attached to the Davies and as he witnesses their daily lives, he begins to get an idea for a new play. He’s mostly intrigued by young Peter (Freddie Highmore) who has had the joy of childhood stolen from him by his father’s recent death and is not even capable of making use of his imagination to briefly escape this tragic reality.

His newly found affection however starts generating gossip about improprieties further straining his marriage.

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