The three dimensions of Drew Barrymore: That’s what can be found in her new movie "Whip It" which marks her directing debut and also features her in a small role. The starring role belongs to Ellen Page whose character Diablo Cody – I mean, Bliss Cavendar – is everything like we’ve seen before by Page except it’s not old yet, at least it won’t be to all, because she is a young actress with undying spunk and a sharp tongue....(more)

Two hundred years ago smart but ordinary people who had the gusto, if not luck, to fall in love could probably have never anticipated that there would be audiences in the future that would have sighed tenderly over their love affair. John Keats, the 1800’s poet of such treasured works as “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “Ode to a Nightingale,” fell in love with Fanny Brawne who became not just his idolized love but his influential muse....(more)

Matt Damon is at his best when he’s in disguise, not necessarily a hair and make-up disguise, but a disguise as to his true motives driving his actions. If you think about the characters he’s played, from Jason Bourne to Tom Ripley to Colin Sullivan , a corporation involved in corn flavoring in mass food products....(more)

The out of sequence structured "The Time Traveler’s Wife" has us wondering about the paradoxes of two different versions of the traveler – one young and one old – arriving approximately in the same space and time. The time travel movie always gets you thinking about such paradoxes....(more)

By Max Evry Competing with Meryl Streep's whirlwind performance as Julia Child would be a challenge for any actress, but luckily the other side of the sterling cast of “Julie & Julia” is the winsome Amy Adams, who portrays real-life blogger Julie Powell. After creating a challenge to cook 524 of Child's recipes in one year, Powell was able to turn her obsession with cooking into the basis for a book, which this movie is partly based on....(more)

By Max Evry Nora Ephron's sumptuous new comedy “Julie & Julia” takes audiences on a journey… or, actually, two parallel journeys in which real-life women of different generations both use food as a means of catapulting themselves into more fulfilling lives. This culinary celebration began when Julie Powell decided to blog her experiences making every recipe in Julia Child's famous 720-page tome “Mastering The Art of French Cooking”....(more)