MM Film Blog

Disney's latest offering Enchanted is extremely clever, loads of fun, and of course, thoroughly enchanting. Combining animation with real life actors, Enchanted starts with a classic fairytale and turns it upside down, literally. In Alice-through-the-Looking-Glass fashion, our heroine falls down a well and turns up -- where else? -- coming out of a manhole in New York's Times Square!

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The story line of Martian Child is certainly not new. But despite its predictablity, John Cusack and Bobby Coleman (as the child) bring a freshness to this family drama that make it quite endearing.

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Cate Blanchett gives a strong performance in the title role of Gillian Armstrong's romantic World War II drama Charlotte Gray, as a Scottish woman who joins the French Resistance.

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Director Bill Paxton pulls out all the stops in this period golf drama, based on the true story of the 1913 U.S. Open, a battle between 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet and 1900 U.S. Open Champion, Englishman Harry Vardon. This is a wonderful film for golf enthusiasts, but you don't have to love golf to love the film.

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Yes, camels really do weep. I wouldn't have believed it either. Set in Mongolia's Gobi region, the film portrays a group of nomadic camel herders attempting to reunite a rare white Bactrian camel calf with its mother, after being rejected by the mother due to a difficult delivery.

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The Game Plan is formula Disney all the way. But hey, why not? It's a formula for success!

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First, I have to admit that I am quite partial to British films. And among those, anything adapted from a Jane Austen novel is bound to be high on the list. And of those, Pride and Prejudice is among the best of the best. This 1995 television version directed by Simon Langton (of Upstairs, Downstairs fame) is first rate -- it is probably the best of all of the many versions of what is likely Austen's most popular novel.

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A good cast is wasted in Woody Allen's 2005 crime drama, Match Point. Reported to be made in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, this film is a huge disappointment, as it is neither suspenseful nor very interesting. Mr. Allen spends the first 90 minutes setting up the action, so when it finally happens, it is anti-climactic.

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Don't let the title fool you -- the only part of writer/director John Gatin's film inspired by a true story is the story of the horse. Everything about the characters is pure fiction -- but it is fiction at its best. Quite an accomplishment for first-time director Gatin.

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The young adult novel by Ann Brashares is beautifully adapted to the silver screen. Amber Tamblyn (daughter of Russ Tamblyn), Alexis Bledel (The Gilmore Girls), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), and Blake Lively (yes, that's her birth name) portray the four teens who share a pair of pants and much more in this delightful coming of age story. Friends since birth (when their mothers met in an aerobic class for pregnant mothers), the girls happen upon a magical pair of jeans that fits each one of them perfectly, despite their varying sizes. About to be split apart for the summer for the first time, they vow to take turns wearing the pants, each for one week. The girls expect great things to occur while wearing these magical pants. However, at first they seem to get the opposite results. Or do they?

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