Dan In Real Life - I was excited for this one's arrival.  We put it in Weds. night and it was kind of blah...so we turned it off until the weekend.  I'm glad that we put it back in, because it does pick up, and it does end up being a nice romantic comedy.  It was nice to see Steve Correll doing something different.  He wasn't his normal odd comedic character, but rather a good guy that your heart went out to.  However, I will say, he was still able to deliver the funny....put it on my tab, and rent this!  It's cute.

August Rush - I didn't know if I wanted to see this movie, because I thought it was all about a child that had been placed with an adoptive family, but wanted nothing else but to desperately find his birth parents.  That was not the case.  He doesn't want a new family, because he is holding on to the knowledge that he has, that his parents are out there and looking for him.  He turns out to be a remarkable musical prodigy.  Throughout the movie I felt like I was watching a musically driven Oliver Twist.  Instead of meeting the Artful Dodger, he instead meets a fellow street musician kid who brings him back to the swindler that takes all the money from his building full of runaway musicians.  So I think it ripped Charlie (Dickens) off a bit....BUT....This was a sweet movie...chic flick of course, with an ending you see coming, but sweet, and heart warming.  I say rent it.

The Brave One - Ok...it's been established that I, in fact, live in fear.  What happens to this couple in the park is what I fear all the time.  Random acts of violence.  You never know when you will become the victim.  It's a sad fact.  I don't want to say that I live in fear, but I think of these things when I go into the Nice N Easy after a certain hour at night...even though I'm in a town that I have spent most of my life in...I still get weird thinking about what could happen in the blink of an eye.  So back to the movie....the movie itself was good.  Nothing to rave about.  Foster of course is the victim that fights back...why should she play anything else right....stick with what works.  The ending did surprise me...I thought the cop would do the "Right thing." But I do love her attitude after she recovers...or should I say it is her recovery that I like....she takes the city into her own hands...makes it her job to clean up and take back her city.....she's like  a female, unmasked batman....I'd say rent this movie...it was pretty good.