I liked Moon which is a scifi film with a very interesting and spooky twist (not ghosts or scary but thought provoking). Sam Bell is two weeks away from completing his 3 year solo assignment on the moon running a mining station. He is very lonely, missing his wife and daughter and annoyed that the live comm link to earth is down so that he can only view videos of his family. He is beginning to exhibit some bizarre behaviour under the stress of his loneliness.

I almost dismissed this as another worthless crude and unimaginative DVD release type teenage movie.  I'm glad i went to see it! 

When 4 guys, each as different as the seasons get together to go to Vegas to have a bachelor party 2 days before a wedding for one of them, and after taking a celebratory first drink on top of a roof at Ceaser's Palace in the very next scene 3 awake to a suite that is a total wreck, the groom is missing, and no one has any recollection of what happened the night before.

Welcome to the home of the Fitzgerald's.  Sara a once successful lawyer ( Cameron Diaz)  and mother of 3 and loving wife to Brian Fitzgerald ( Jason Patric ) a level headed fireman and loving husband  and father, and three wonderful children Jesse Fitzgerald ( Evan Ellingson ) sharp and personable,  Kate Fitzgerald ( Sofia Vassilieva) a long suffering cancer patient, and Anna Fitzgerald  ( Abigail Breslin) a genetically engineered child to provide compatible blood, plasma and marrow for her ailing sister in an attempt to keep her alive. 

Imagine That

For the actors it must have been painful to try and add a little life to this 3rd installment of a serial franchise.  There is an attempt to add a little freshness, with Ellie being pregnant and the Sid the Sloth wanting his own family.  My issue is the story just doesn't have enough to be a full fledged cinema release.

Sandra Bullock plays a high powered New York book editor.  Faced with the prospect of a looming deportation back to her home in Canada, she quickly resorts to coerce a fellow employ and assistant into marrying her so she can stay in America.

Given the summer movie season with so much silly junk coming out and nothing worth seeing, I hadn't been to see a movie in awhile. So with today's release of Jessica Biel's latest venue, Easy Virtue, I thought maybe there was something worth making an extra trip to Reno to see. I was wrong.

This year I am volunteering time to help with the festival.  I have the time am I enjoy the festival, why not give a little back?  The Rivers family has been working hard over the years to turn this into a true international festival and the whole island is involved.  For more information see

http://www.mauifilmfestival.com/

Aloha -AL

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Saw Sugar today in Reno. It is a wonderful, well done story about a young man from the Dominican Republic, his dream to pitch for the NY Yankees, and coping with the reality of life in the US. It is a very human story very well acted. The hero, named Miguel, has grown up poor with his mother, grandmother and a sister and brother, his father having been killed when he was very young. His family has focused on his ability as a baseball player since his youth and his chances to make it from a training camp in the Dominican Republic to the major leagues in the US.

Saw Angels and Demons the 2nd in the sequence of movies based on the novels by Dan Brown about a secret Roman Catholic society called the Illuminati. The first movie was The DaVinci Code based on the long time best seller of the same name. I enjoyed this one at least as much as the first. This one was a bit less spectacular (the other was over the top) but this one also starred Tom Hanks, whom I do not like so much. Hanks is kind of like John Wayne. No matter who Wayne was playing, you always thought "John Wayne" was on the screen and not the character he was supposed to be.