Friday, September 30, 2011

What's Your Number

Ally used to have many boyfriends who are losers. She thinks that she will not be able to find her knight in shining armour until she sees one of her ex-es become a successful person. It is based on Karyn Bosnak's book 20 Times a Lady. There are some good laughs thrown in.

Friday, September 23, 2011

Moneyball

Brad Pitt stars as Billy Bean a baseball coach of a Major League Baseball lowest salaried team. He becomes the coach after losing as a MLB player. Hence, his fear of losing in the baseball games. However, his number crunching friend Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) convinces him that he should hire based on key performance statistics that pointed to undervalued players. They manage to get a team and trained to become one of the biggest challenges in the MBL.
This show is not the conventional baseball sports show but more on strategy building and the fast and terse dialogue between the actors make it very gripping. Based on a true story, this is another motivational show for you.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Johnny English

The spy who made me laugh is back. This time he must redeem himself for the failure he made in his previous assignment. He had been honing his skills in Tibet when has been reassigned to MI-7 at her majesty's service. A group of assassins are out to kill the Chinese premier and Johnny English will employ some sophisticated gadgets to thwart the efforts. Mr English, I believe in you!
Those of you who are Mr Bean's fans will see some similarity of his antiques with the comedy show.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Smurfs

The blue little creatures are back! This time they are running around in New York. Clumsy Smurf was getting an ingredient for Papa Smurf's magic potion when he fell into a magical portal called the Cave of Wonders. He became friends with a family who earlier mistook him for a toy.
Back in Smurf Village, everyone looked for Clumsy Smurf and came up with a plan. At the same time, Smurfs' evil enemy Gargamel is lurking around the corner with the blue creatures in his mind.