When CIA officer Valerie Plame's retired ambassador husband Joe Wilson writes a newspaper article challenging the basis for the U.S. war on Iraq the Bush Jr government kicks into life the only way it knows how. As punishment and deterrent the White House leaks her undercover status leaving Valerie’s international contacts vulnerable, her career, indeed her personal life, in shambles and her life in danger. Fair Game is a sharp, finely acted dramatic thriller, shockingly based on True events duri find out more...

'Julie and Julia' tells the story of 2 women; Julia Childs, who wrote 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' and 'My Life in France', the latter of which is adapted for one half of this film, and Julie Powell, a present day New Yorker who, to escape the tedium of her own life, decided to cook her way through Julia's 524 recipes and writes a blog about doing so. The parallels and the differences between their two lives are highlighted. In the more interesting of the 2 stories Meryl Streep contin find out more...

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The film is not another “Spotlight,” let alone an “All the President’s Men.” The writing, by Joey Hartstone (who scripted Mr. Reiner’s “LBJ”), has more interest in reaching the least-informed viewers than in realism. (Those who deal with national affairs coverage every day don’t have so many expository conversations explaining who’s who; Milla Jo find out more...

Based on a true story about a bunch of privileged upper middle class LA kids who break into celebratory houses to vicariously, dysfunctionally live the dream of the fame game. So far so avoidable, but director Sofia Coppola has created a stylish, intriguing and often witty drama. Yes, her fixation on materially comfortable, yet emotionally vacuous protagonists find out more...

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In 2006, Northern Ireland's bloody Troubles had dragged on for decades. Now with the growing threat of a new generation inspired by the 9/11 attacks to escalate the conflict to new levels of destruction, both the Catholic Republican and the Protestant Unionist sides are finally persuaded to seriously explore a peace agreement at UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's urging. Unfortunately, the principle negotiators, firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and find out more...