CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC * INKHEART * PINK PANTHER 2 * CROSSING OVER * DRAGON HUNTERS * CHERRY BLOSSOMS
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AVAILABLE WEEK OF JUNE 23, 2009:
CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC
COMEDY - All she ever wanted was a little credit...
A new job? Hopefully. A new man? Possibly. A new handbag? Absolutely! Rebecca Bloomwood (Isla Fisher) is a sweet and charming New York City girl who has a tiny, little problem that is rapidly turning into a big problem: she's hopelessly addicted to shopping and drowning in a sea of debt. While Rebecca has dreams of working for a top fashion magazine, she can't quite get her foot in the door—that is, until she snags a job as an advice columnist for a new financial magazine published by the same company.
Overnight, her column becomes hugely popular, turning her into an overnight celebrity, but when her compulsive shopping and growing debt issues threaten to destroy her love life and derail her career, she struggles to keep it all from spiraling out of control...and is ultimately forced to reevaluate what's really important in life.
Based on the best-selling series of books by Sophie Kinsella. Cast: Isla Fisher, Hugh Dancy, Joan Cusack, John Goodman, John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Fred Armisen, Julie Hagerty, Krysten Ritter, Robert Stanton, Christine Ebersole, Clea Lewis, Wendie Malick, Stephanie March.
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INKHEART
Fantasy - Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), share a passion for books. What they also share is an extraordinary gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: when a character is brought to life from a book, a real person disappears into its pages.
On one of their trips to a secondhand book shop, Mo hears voices he hasn't heard for years, and when he locates the book they're coming from, it sends a shiver up his spine. It's Inkheart, a book filled with illustrations of medieval castles and strange creatures—a book he's been searching for since Meggie was three years old, when her mother, Resa (Sienna Guillory), vanished into its mystical world. But Mo's plan to use the book to find and rescue Resa is thwarted when Capricorn (Andy Serkis), the evil villain of Inkheart, kidnaps Meggie and, discovering she has inherited her father's gift, demands that she bring his most powerful ally to life—the Shadow. Determined to rescue his daughter and send the fictional characters back where they belong, Mo assembles a small group of friends and family—some from the real world, some from the pages of books—and embarks on a daring and perilous journey to set things right.
PINK PANTHER 2
COMEDY - When legendary treasures from around the world are stolen -- including the priceless Pink Panther Diamond! -- Chief Inspector Dreyfus (John Cleese) is forced to assign intrepid-if-bumbling French police detective, Inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to a team of international detectives and experts charged with catching the thief and retrieving the stolen artifacts.
That's enough synopsis. No need to spoil the plot. We all know Inspector Clouseau, Steve Martin, the laughs we're in for and , of course, the theme tune: da da, da da, da-da da-da de-da... but I digress. Just watch the trailer. Cast: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, John Cleese
DRAGON HUNTERS
** One of the highest grossing animations in Europe
** Nominee for 'Best European Producer 2008'
ANIMATION - Zoe is a little girl who believes in fairy tales. In order to help her uncle Lord Arnold get rid of a terrible dragon, Zoe decides she has to find some heroes. When she meets Gwizdo and Lian-Chu – a couple of two-bit, fly-by-night dragon hunters – she decides that she's going to believe in them anyway!
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Mary Matilyn Mouser, Rob Paulsen, Vincent Lindon, Patrick Timsit, Marie Drion, Jeremy Prevost. Languages: In French or English.
SO visually stunning that we also got the Blu-ray version (for those of you with Blu-ray players) for enhanced viewing pleasure - check out the trailer and you'll understand!
CROSSING OVER
Drama - Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. Crossing Over explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find—and create—in 21st century Los Angeles.
Can't ask for much better in casting - special mention for Ray Liotta's sleezy guy role that only he can pull-off so well. Yet again, this is one of those films that probably deserves better than the critics gave it according to the higher approval ratings found in viewer reviews and audience polls.
CAST: Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, Jim Sturgess, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga, Alice Eve, Justin Chon, Summer Bishil
CHERRY BLOSSOM
FOREIGN DRAMA - Ratings: IMDB 7.7/10 Rotten Tomatoes 84%
It's never to late to start living!
And this week we save the best for last with a beautifully touching film by one of Germany's foremost filmmakers, crafted to make viewers stop and smell the roses - if only for 127 minutes. When Trudi learns that her husband Rudi is terminally ill, she suggests visiting their children in Berlin without telling him the truth. As Franzi and Karl don't care much about their parents, Trudi and Rudi go to the Baltic Sea, where Trudi suddenly dies.
Rudi is thrown out of gear, and leaves for Tokyo, where another son lives. Unfortunately, this one is also less than thrilled to see him. Finding himself alone in the big city, the widower makes a pilgrimage to Mount Fuji in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence and new beginnings.
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