Can a pure chick flick become a hit? Yes, if it draws a diverse enough swath of female moviegoers. For "Sex and the City," that will be the big question.
More is more in "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian," the follow-up to the 2005 fantasy hit "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." It's simultaneously darker and funnier.
Before she tried on a pair of magical pants or transformed herself as the award-winning star of "Ugly Betty," America Ferrera appeared in the indie charmer "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer."
The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with "Speed Racer," one which has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world.
Set in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, in the 1990s, a plain-Jane teacher, played with heavy makeup by Jiang Wenli, the director's wife, sets her eyes on a career as an opera singer.
Fundamentally incurious about the war itself, the film allows the 9/11-Iraq connection to pass unchallenged and issues relating to soldiers' trauma are finally simply abandoned.
Mackenzie Crook plays Paul, a depressed London subway train-driver who has two people fall in front of his train in a single week.
Jessica Alba plays a blind violinist who gets a cornea transplant and can see again but finds herself plagued with horrifying visions, courtesy of the previous, traumatized donor.
The story is simple and old, which can happen in any country, any time. But the movie is unique and fresh - its success results from the genuine feeling it brings to the audience.
Expertly directed by British moviemaker Pete Travis, the movie is the first filmed screenplay of American Barry L Levy.
Like a bit-part player at a slumber party, first-time director Jonathan Levine's film has a fatal flaw that guarantees a bloody end.
This film is Paul Thomas Anderson's first since the curious Adam Sandler comedy Punch-Drunk Love five years ago.
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