We’re used to seeing Mariah Carey all glammed up, like she was on the red carpet premiere of “Precious” at Cannes last week. But in the movie itself, she is anything but glam. No makeup, dowdy hair, the whole works.
“Precious” tells the story of an overweight teen (Gabourey Sidibe) in Harlem who’s pregnant with her second child. But when she’s invited to enroll in an alternative school, it just might turn things around for her.
“Precious” has already scored three wins at Sundance, and looks to be a darling of the film festival circuit. It opens in theaters (limited) on …read more

Check out the trailer for "Veronika Decides to Die," starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as a girl in her mid-20s who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life, and ends up in a mental hospital where she learns she has 5 days to live.
We learn that the reason tried to kill herself is because she felt constrained by the rules and expectations of ‘normal’ society and decided she’d already experienced all that life had to offer. (I’ll interject my 2 cents here and beg …read more

I saw “Australia” today and loved it! In this clip, actor Hugh Jackman and director Baz Luhrmann talk about what they learned from working with Brandon Walters, the young aboriginal boy who narrated the story. That kid was fantastic!

Ooh, “Revolutionary Road” looks dramatic. How fun to see Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio on screen together again, and I love the music and 1950s stuff. This movie hits theaters in limited release Dec. 26, 2008. Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity.

It’s not often that the words “I [heart] someone” spring to mind, but that’s exactly what I thought about “Nobel Son.” Specifically, I [heart] Alan Rickman. One of my favorite roles of his was in “Quigley Down Under” – he played the bad guy to Tom Selleck’s good guy. Anyway, here’s the trailer for “Nobel Son,” a movie about family dysfunction and the Nobel Prize. It’s due in theaters Dec. 5, 2008 (though the movie’s been in the hopper for a couple of years).