A unique attraction forms between the two women and the film shifts gears, focusing more on Chloe and Catherine’s relationship than David’s seemingly obvious adultery.

At this point, I basically had the film figured out and I certainly was not shocked by the “thriller” aspect of the plot.  While everything was fairly predictable, I will give credit to the actors.  Julianne Moore is always excellent, and Amanda Seyfried secured her place in the acting world as more than a throw-away teen romance star.

Upon further research, though, I found that Chloe is actually a remake of the French film, Nathalie, released only seven years ago in 2003.  The plot is identical and the trailers are almost scene-for-scene.  While it comes as no surprise that America could not come up with an original screenplay of this sort, I am increasingly angry with this growing trend to “Americanize” films that are not yet decade old – especially when the original foreign film is often far better.

Chloe gets zero stars for originality, but just over two stars for good acting and a mildly entertaining (but recycled) plot.  If you are in the mood for some psycho-drama and a couple of steamy (pretty much pornographic) bedroom scenes, check out Chloe (on DVD now).

Valentine’s Day is based on all different types of love and heartbreak that occur on the most romantic day of the year.  The film opens up with a proposal, then goes into other couples giving cute little gifts.  Everyone in the film is connected to someone by family, friend or acquaintance.  There is a grade school boy in love with his teacher, a sex hotline operator who is starting a new relationship, a cute high school couple wanting to go all the way and much much more.  This film stars many of our favorite actors including, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Garner, Patrick Dempsey, Julia Roberts, Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, and the two most popular Taylors, Taylor Lautner and Taylor Swift.

I give this film 4.5 stars!  I thought it was such a cute movie with most of my favorite actors.  I like these movies where the plot is pretty much the same for each couple, and somehow everyone knows each other.  I think these films are fun, and there were two surprises at the end that I did not expect at all.  Of course it is the typical romantic comedy, but I thought it was great.  I watched it with my husband, and he said that he also enjoyed it, and he did not even fall asleep! (which he does in almost every movie we watch!)  He said that even though it was a chick flick, there were so many stars that it kept his interest.  I think this film would be great to watch with your significant other or your best friends on a girls night!  I would definitely buy this movie and watch it again and again!

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In order to pull off this complex scheme, Cobb assembles a team consisting of his long-time extraction partner, Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Leavitt), a newly recruited dream architect, Ariadne (Ellen Page), an expert forger, Eames (Tom Hardy), and an expert chemist, Yusuf (Dileep Rao). The team determines the plan will work best if they exploit Robert’s strained relationship with his father. They also decide that the optimal time to plant the idea in Robert’s mind is while he is on a 10-hr flight to Los Angeles and it will require them to enter a dream within a dream within a dream (three layers). This is where the chemist comes in. He creates a powerful sedative that will allow them to enter the different dream levels. To give the team plenty of time to do the inception, Saito buys off the first class flight attendant and the entire first class cabin of the airplane. The team gets to work immediately after Cobb slips Robert the sedative. Time begins ticking away and soon the “kicks” will be activated to wake them all out of the dream. Not only will Cobb and the rest of the team have to fight off Robert’s subconscious defenses to pull this off, but Cobb’s own secrets threaten to derail this carefully crafted dream scheme.

Ok, yes, it definitely lives up to the hype. This movie is really, really good. During the first 15-20 minutes though I was getting a little nervous. I was worried that I was going to be the only person in America that didn’t like this movie and initially I couldn’t help but be reminded of Shutter Island. I hung in there though and the deeper you get into the dream levels, the more you get sucked in. Christopher Nolan cleverly uses Ariadne to explain the whole extraction/inception process to the audience and he did a great job sticking to the “rules” involved. I can’t tell you how annoyed I get when movies don’t stay true to their own rules that they create (uh hum….Avatar). You’ll probably end up arguing with your movie going partner about the last scene of the movie….at least I did. It definitely creates quite the conversation. Finally, a great summer movie! What are you doing reading this review? Go see it right now.

The Good Guy is very predictable, right from the start.  I really enjoy Alexis Bledel and it was nice to see  her in a different type of film, but I was just not interested in this movie.  If I didnt have to right a review on it, I would have turned it off.  Even after reading the Netflix description, I thought it was going to be something different and more romantic, but it just wasn’t.  I would not suggest this film to many people.

This movie is about two supervillains who are in competition on who can steal the next biggest thing.  Gru (Steve Carrell) feels threatened when he learns that there is another supervillain amidst him who has stolen the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.  After Gru meets the supervillan,Vector (Jason Segel) coincidentally, he comes up with a plan using three orphan girls, cookie robots, and minions to steal the moon….yes, the moon.  I thought that this was totally impossible, but apparently NOT if you have a “Shrink Ray.”

Dr. Nefario (Russell Brand) not only is the creator for all of Gru’s mastermind ideas, he also continues to give Gru focus on stealing the moon.  Gru grows more fondly of the three orphan girls, Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier), and Agnes (Elsie Fisher) that he had adopted.  Their desire to be loved changes Gru completely.  Dr. Nefario sees this and believes the children to be a distraction for Gru so he calls Miss Hattie (Kristen Wiig), mistress of the orphanage, to come and get the children.  Gru accomplishes his goal and races back to Earth to save his relationship with the girls, but finds out that he is too late.  Dr. Nefario and the minions help Gru and save the children from Vector who had kidnapped them, and they live happily as one dark, happy family.

There were definitely funny parts within the film where I caught myself and other adults in the theatre laughing uncontrollably.  My favorite part was when it was storybook reading time….”Three little kittens….”

If you are considering to see this film soon, I would recommend making it a matinee.  My son and I did not see it in 3-D, but we were both fine with it…not a necessity.

Two best friends, Alice and Darlene, (Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsdale) are planning the trip of a lifetime.  The two recent grads determined to take a great trip to the great country of Thailand for one last “hoorah.”  While on their trip, they befriend an ever-so-charming good looking hunk from Australia, who seems to take interest in Darlene.  He proposes the three of them take a trip to Hong Kong.  After much persuasion, she and Alice head off to the airport with their free tickets to Hong Kong to continue with their adventure.  Until they were conned by the hunky Australian and stopped dead in their tracks for smuggling drugs out of the country.  The girls are trapped in a whirlwind of foreign languages and policies that they know nothing about.  Next thing they know, they are spending their days at a women’s prison which would look like today’s work camp.  With no seemingly way out, the girls contact a “yankee” attorney, Hank, (Bill Pullman) who attempts to save the girls from a life of misery.

Besides the corny late 90′s costume attire, I love this movie!  This film is the story of two strong female friends who are against all odds.  I enjoy both of their characters and cherish the growth of each character.  Brokedown Palace is a strong dramatic film that has probably been lost in the past 10 years (it actually came out in 1999!)  I encourage you to go back in time and watch this one!

PS.  Can anyone tell me where Claire Danes has gone??  I love her acting ability and haven’t really seen her since Shopgirl which came out in 2005.  (This is also an amazing movie!)

Roger Greenberg (Stiller) is an out-of-work carpenter who has committed himself to doing nothing with his life for a while.  Previously living in New York, Roger returns to his hometown of Los Angeles to watch his brother’s home during a family vacation to Vietnam.  When confronted with old friends – his old bandmate Ivan (Rhys Ifans) who remains bitter about Roger’s decision to back out of a record deal many years ago, his old girlfriend Beth (Jennifer Jason Leigh, who co-wrote the film) who wants nothing to do with him romantically, and many other not-so-friendly faces – Roger easily falls victim to habitual anxiety, the reason for his recent time in an institution.  Spending his days inside his brother’s mansion-style home, he soon meets the family assistant, young and pretty Florence (Greta Gerwig) and begins a strange, complicated relationship with her despite their 20-year age difference.

Ben Stiller is awkward and excellent throughout in this roller-coaster plot, and Greenberg certainly helped me appreciate him as a person and an actor.  However, the film’s new face, Greta Gerwig, really steals the show with her genuine appearance and natural acting skills.  Together, the two take a jumbled, somewhat typical storyline and make it worth watching.

Packed with romance, hardship, sex, drugs, unsure emotions, humor, and even a bit of action and suspense, Greenberg is an uncomfortable realistic journey that offers something relative for everyone.

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are both good actors, although I’m not a huge fan of theirs, the chemistry and charisma the two create in this film makes me want to watch them more often.  Roy Miller, (Cruise), plays a super spy who meets June Havens (Diaz) in Wichita, Kansas at the airport on her way to Boston for her sister’s wedding.  Cameron Diaz plays the somewhat scattered brain June with a great believable performance. Roy secretly slips something into June’s bag in order to get it past security. He then joins her on the flight where they begin to chat while drinking mini bottles of tequila. The chatting turns into flirting when June finds herself really liking this charming, handsome man she just met. Then June excuses herself to go to the restroom after turbulence causes her to spill a drink on herself. Roy escorts her.  Once June is safely inside the restroom, Roy turns around when the handful of passengers on this flight are revealed as assassins who are there to kill him.  Fights breakout and everyone, including the pilots, are all killed by Roy, except one pilot who was accidentally killed by the other pilot. The next thing you know Roy is crash landing the plane into a cornfield.

The plot has to do with a battery called the zephyr, invented by young genius, Simon Feck (Paul Dano). Everyone wants it, (“good guys, bad guys, and worse guys”) because it is supposedly the greatest energy source since the sun. Roy has to find Simon to get him and the zephyr to safety. Meanwhile, he feels he needs to keep June safe for inadvertently getting her involved in this situation.  This takes June on a journey to exotic places, where she has no clue how she got there because Roy drugs her for her own good.  She ends up on high-speed chases with cars flipping end-over-end and even stampeding bulls in Spain.

It’s all here, action, drama, comedy, and romance. There was never a dull moment. Knight and Day is the perfect movie to see this summer.

After meeting this beautiful woman who leads a seemingly normal life, Spencer (Kutcher) decides it’s time to leave the assassin game and start anew.  Jen (Heigl) is happy to have finally met her ideal man.  Spence’s boss warns him that he can’t just walk away, but walk away he does.

Flash forward 3 years – Spence and Jen are happily married, have normal occupations, and regularly discuss property lines and block parties with their neighbors… until Spence receives a little note from his old boss.  Suddenly, everyone he and Jen know seem to want him dead and will stop at nothing to see it through.

The role of Spencer Aimes is a practical, level-headed change of pace from Kutcher’s usual impulsive goofball characters.  It takes some getting used to in the beginning of the film – you may be waiting for his first crack of a joke or inkling of exaggerated sarcasm – but refreshingly, it never comes.  Heigl’s character, Jen, is the “jokester” between the two when they first meet.  I found myself “aaawwwwww”-ing at their scenes together because of how well their characters complemented one another.  A job well done on both parts; if it weren’t just a movie, it’d be easy to believe they were deeply in love.  Catherine O’Hara and Tom Selleck deserve props for their performances as well, they were fantastic.

The mixture of action and comedy in Killers is a little disconcerting at first – it’s hard to be on the edge of your seat when you’re chuckling at something silly that’s just happened, but it just wouldn’t have Kutcher’s thumbprint on it without the laughs.

Overall, Killers is a great flick!  I’d watch it again =)

For Parents: No sensuality, no crude humor; minimal cursing (one ‘S’ word, one ‘F’ word towards the end).