Jason Reitman's Juno is about an unplanned teen age pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. It is probably the best movie of 2007. A funny, savvy, feel-good comedy that reminds you why you fell in love with movies in the first place. It starts out as somewhat of a comedy and ends ups with a list of characters we can all associate with and love, perhaps someone that we knew in our own teen years.
Ellen Page's performance as Juno MacGuff is nothing short of brilliant. A sarcastic and wise beyond her years 16-year-old. She enlists her best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera) in an experiment he is not too eager to join. Of course she gets pregnant after her first attempt at sex and after a trip to an abortion clinic that leaves her cold, she decides to have the child.
With the help of her best friend Leah {Olivia Thirlby} she takes it upon herself to find some adoptive parents. She informs her parents, Mac{J.K. simmons} and Bren {Allison Janney} and their reaction is not what you might except. They seem the "coolest" parents that I have ever seen. After informing them that Paulie is the father, she embarks on her pregnancy with the help of her supportive father and step mother.
While looking through the local penny savor she soon discovers a childless couple.Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner are paired up once again and play the embattled parents to be of this new child while facing their own inhibitions in their not so stable marriage.
This film was an unexpected pleasure and I would classify it as a great film.This was Diablo Cody's first feature film and she did a refreshing job on the topic of teen pregnancy.It's rare for me to say that I would go and see a movie again in a theater, but this film I would and that is one of the reasons that I would rate this movie the best film of the year.
I was taking a break from the old computer and decided to watch some classic film that really wasn't that old. As I was checking the different channels I came across a film called "The Nine Gates" staring Johnny Deep. I remember him in another movie "Blow" that I liked, so I figured that I would watch it for a while and then go back to work.
After about 35 minutes I knew that I would end up watching the whole film. It had a fascinating topic about the Devil.A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones
It is a mystery/Horror thriller film based on the novel The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It was co-written and directed by Roman Polanski, and stars Johnny Depp as Dean Corso, a rare books-dealer who is hired by a rich book collector (Frank Langella) to validate his recently purchased copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th century author Aristide Torchia.
Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a swindling rare-books dealer ]whose only motivation is financial gain. A very rich book collector by the name of Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) hires Corso to validate his recently purchased copy of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th century author Aristide Torchia, one of only three surviving copies in the world,
From the very beginning when Dean Corso agrees to accept Ballan's offer to find and validate the other two copies of the Nine Gates, the bodies start to pile up. First, his friend and business partner was murdered in the style of one of the engravings in The Nine Gates.
Corso then travels to Portugal and after viewing another copy of the Nine Gates, another murder takes place. He encounters a young women that he remembers from his own country. But this young women is no ordinary women by any means. He then ends up in Paris where the killings continue. The ending of this film is not what I guessed it would be, but it was sure entertaining, to say the least. I would recommend this film to anyone who likes suspense and horror rolled into one. Johnny Deep has now entered my perception of what a good actor is. I think lthat he is very talented and plays a very convincing part in this film.