The Jane Austen Book Club

A group of friends decide to help out one of their own who has recently divorced by starting up a book club. They decide to discuss a different Jane Austen book each time they meet. As they progress they each battle some relationship issues in their own lives. Filled with a great group of actresses I found this movie cute and a lot of fun to watch.

Dan in Real Life

Dan (Steve Carell) a widower raising 3 girls on his own and writing a parenting advice column is making it one day at a time. Then one day he runs into a woman that he is instantly attracted to, but unfortunately quickly finds out has just started dating his brother. When they are all stuck together on vacation Dan just hopes to survive. This is a great movie full of great actors. You fall in love with the whole family.

Hitman

A group of young boys are taken in at an early age by the "Agency" and trained to be the perfect assassins. They do not have an identity other than a number and live only for the job. When one assignment starts to go wrong Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) starts to question his job for the first time. I thought this movie was great. It is action packed and Olyphant does a great job.

August Rush

The movie begins when a singer/guitar player and a cellist meet and have one amazing night together. They unknowingly create a baby and when they are forced to part after their one night the father doesn't even know the result. When the mother is told that the baby didn't make it through delivery she tries to go on with life, but no longer finds joy in music. After 11 years of being raised in an orphanage Evan runs off to the city and is quickly discovered to have an amazing musical talent. Evan is determined that through his music he will find his parents. A really cute movie that I recommend watching.

Lust, Caution

During WWII the Chinese are resistant to the Japanese occupation of China and one group of college theater students decide they are going to do something about it. They decide one of the girls Wong Chia Chi is going to pose as fictitious Mr. Mak's wife and try and lure Mr. Yee (a "traitor") into an affair so the troupe can kill him. As time goes on the charade gets more and more complicated and difficult to play. This was a really good film that is worth watching.

Michael Clayton

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is the clean up guy for a major corporate law firm and is great at what he does. He keeps the firm out of trouble and the clients happy. When one of the firms' lawyers and Clayton's friend (Tom Wilkinson) goes crazy and decides to work against the firm Clayton is called in to clean up the mess. This time he is torn between his job and what he knows is right. The movie is a little slow at the beginning, but if you can get through the first part it keeps getting better. I thought it was worth watching!

American Gangster

Denzel Washington, usually such a typical "good guy", shows a different side when he plays Frank Lucas a Harlem Gangster who rules the streets with his pure heroin and his vicious enforcement. Russell Crowe takes on the role of "good guy" by playing Richie Roberts the cop leading the unit trying to take down the key drug lords. I thought this was pretty good. It has kind of a small plot twist in the end that I thought really made the movie enjoyable.