Director: Tim Matheson

Writers:

Elisa Bell (teleplay)
Lola Douglas (novel)

Cast:

JoJo Levesque – Morgan Carter, Claudia Miller
Ian Nelson – Eli Walsh
Justin Louis – Sam
Lynda Boyd -  Bianca Carter
Shenae Grimes – Marissa
Valerie Bertinelli – Aunt Trudy

True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet starring singer Jojo Levesque, is a movie about the typical life of a Hollywood celebrity.

Its the usual naddy-nada, about a young, wasted Hollywood celebrity that because of being in too many rehabs, now has to change her lifestyle.

She goes under a makeover that’s unrealistic (changing her hair – sheez, if Demi Lovato changed her hair, everyone would still recognize her), travels to Aunt Trudy and has to live a life as nobody.

I’m quite impressed with the movie plot, especially the first part where they actually showed true celebrity life, where their fame had drowned them into parties and drinking. I wasn’t very impressed by the acting of any of the actors and actresses in the movie.

Either they looked stiff or unmoving; it seemed more like the plot was the only thing that kept me watching. It was also unimpressive how the movie had tried to push a romance between two people, Jojo and her main man, whom she had no chemistry with.

In the end though, the plot seemed to drown in their acting and the movie became painful to watch. It’s not an appropriate movie for kids, nor would it be interesting enough for teenagers or adults either.

5 Reasons why YOU shouldn’t watch this movie

5. Cliche

While some cliched movies are watchable, funny and even great to watch, this movie isn’t. It’s so cliche, you would know what’s going to happen next. Now, I know some movies are even worse in being cliche than this, but let’s just say, it’s one reason not to watch.

4. Cast

Can you say terrible? I kind of like Shenae, but she’s not cut out for a lame movie. And they only show her in like, oh I don’t know 15 minutes of the movie? Plus the leading man! OMG. Please, did anybody even audition for this?

3. The “Makeover”

Her makeover was totally unrealistic. It’s a good thing the movie is not based on a real thing because if it was, the people in the movie must either be blind or stupid. Or living under a rock. On the other hand, maybe the celebrity wasn’t such a celebrity after all. I go for the second.

2. Love Story

Very, very painful love story. Totally readable, no chemistry and really, really painful in the quality way.

1. Jojo Levesque

Okay, I love her as a singer, but as an actress not so much. Please, if she was really good, then she’d probably have more movies. If she wants to be an actress, a little acting workshops couldn’t hurt. Jojo should focus on her singing or maybe toning down her voice for movies. It’s why I didn’t like Aquamarine. She sounded like a man! Or so much older than her best friend then anyway. And there’s just something wrong with that jaw! Or cheeks. Or whatever. Maybe it’s her hair or the make up or the directing. But it’s really distracting and whenever she’s on scene, it looks like her head’s too big for her body.

Anyway. This is my opinion. If you don’t like it, then beat it.
Go suffer one and a half hour of painful acting.

My Sister's Keeper

Director: Nick Cassavetes
Producer: Stephen Furst
Writtern By:
-  Novel: Jodi Picoult
-  Film: Jeremy Leven

Cast:

Kate Fitzgerald – Sofia Vassilieva
Anna Fitzgerald – Abigail Breslin
Jesse Fitzgerald – Evan Ellingson
Sara Fitzgerald – Cameron Diaz
Brian Fitzgerald – Jason Patric
Campbell Alexander – Alec Baldwin
Taylor Ambrose – Thomas Dekker
Judge De Salvo – Joan Cusack

*with spoilers*

The story of Anna Fitzgerald is actually a very, very complicated story. In the novel, so much happened and there must be pages when all you wanna do is cry for Anna and be strong for her and sometimes hit her for being so mean, wondering how it would feel to only be the second in every decision.

The movie and the novel are both different in their own way – not just because of the ending, but because they both have different essences.

My Sister’s Keeper is a movie about 11 year old Anna who files for a lawsuit against her parents for medical emancipation. Anna Fitzgerald is a designer baby, made by parents Brian and Sara Fitzgerald as the perfect match to their ailing first born, Kate Fitzgerald who as a child was diagnosed with AML or a type of leukemia. Anna, grew up as a donor, giving Kate marrows, leukocytes, granulocytes and whatever Kate needed, starting as a newborn.

My Sister's Keeper

Anna, tired of all the prodding and poking and hospitalization she has undergone at such a young age, sells her most precious jewelry to pay Campbell Alexander, a commercialized lawyer, to sue her parents and be emancipated medically.

The painful movie (in the emotional sense, not the quality sense), is about what the family had to go through, the parents during the time they discovered Kate’s illness, their decision to create a designer baby to match that of Kate’s, the parents’ not being able to pay attention to their young boy who was suffering from dyslexia and because of this grew to be troubled and problematic and the choices and decisions each of them had to make for the situation.

Thomas Dekker as Taylor Ambrose and Sofia Vassilieva as Kate

The movie runs on in both Kate and Anna’s view. Kate’s view, apologetic about how she wasn’t able to take care of her younger siblings like she was supposed to, how she got to meet APL patient Taylor Ambrose and got to experience love, dating, prom and sex despite her young age and her limiting days. We see through how inspiration of love brought Kate up and down when Taylor died. We see the hardships of being diagnosed with leukemia and having to suffer each day just to live one more.

Sara shaving her head for Kate

Each scene makes us tear up as Sara fights for her daughter’s life, refusing to give up by all means. We see Brian, the ever-understanding father who cannot choose between his dying daughter and his other daughter. Jesse, the unnoticed, who would come home to a family that never even noticed he wasn’t home yet. Kate, suffering from such an illness at such a young age, dealing with teenage issues like insecurity, love, incapability and her will to resort to what was inevitable. And we finally realize what was Campbell’s reason for taking up a job where he wasn’t paid enough, but because he knew the feeling and understood Anna in a different way.

Prom

Was Anna really made to be a donor? Is that her only purpose in life? Maybe. Anna suffers through her purpose in life – on whether she must save her sister or she fight for her life as well.

The difference between the movie and the novel is not just about the ending.

Anna and Campbell Alexander

In the novel Anna dies, giving way for Campbell to allow her body parts to be transferred to Kate, thus making Kate live on. The novel gives an essence that one of them really had to go, and that it had to be Anna, who served her purpose in life – to save her sister. It may not be a happy ending, but it’s a solemn ending. A unique appreciation to the meaning of sisterhood, love, the inevitable and fate.

Kate

On the other hand, in the movie, Kate dies after all, indicating a much happier ending version. That in the movie, the essence is in the fact that Anna’s purpose in life wasn’t just to save Kate and she wasn’t able to. A happier ending, because everyone was ready for Kate’s death, even Kate was ready and tired and just wanted to rest.

This must have been the reason why the producers saw the ending more appropriate – because it was more humane. Now don’t get me wrong, Jodi Piccoult’s book is a hundred times better than the movie and a thousand times more meaningful (and tear-jerker). I guess that’s what made her book so good – all the sacrifices made, the unique ending and the realizations at the end of the book makes one really, really good book with many lessons in family, love and life.

7 Reasons to Watch the Movie

7. It’s Unique

You can’t find a movie with the same theme. This is why Jodi Piccoult’s book was made into a movie. No one has ever thought of going through the same situation and why in the world would they? Can you believe having to choose between your sister and yourself? Or your two daughters?

6. Thomas Dekker

So I have a new discovery. Despite the fact that he plays a cancer patient and looks really awkward and sick with his baldness and paleness, he exudes a certain charm as a boy and as an actor. Although, you can’t really see the pretty boy in him with all his “sick” make up, you can’t help but fall for his cute ill self in the movie.

5. Evan Ellingson

Okay, so maybe Jesse wasn’t given as much attention in the movie as he was in the book. He also seemed a little too young to be the Jesse in the book. But anyways, it’s always nice to see Kyle Harmon out of CSI Miami.

4. Sofia Vassilieva

Ah. What can I say about Sofia. Applaud, applaud, applaud. I applaud her for the real baldness, I applaud her for portraying the tired, ill teenager. I applaud her for making me cry at the same time scream when she started puking blood. I applaud her for playing a leukemic patient so realistically that I don’t ever want to experience that. And will surely inspire many people to understand and help the people who experience the same situation.

3. Cameron Diaz

I love Cameron Diaz. I’ve seen her in Charlie’s Angels and despite the fact that I thought she was wrong for the part, I was wrong. Gorgeous, spunky, fun and perky Cameron Diaz transformed herself into the loving mother who was torn between losing a child and being a mother. I thought she was wrong for the role and I didn’t think she could handle it. Instead, she proved me wrong. She was good. She portrayed the mother who wouldn’t give up on her child, the mother who loved too much to let go, the mother who’d do anything for her children.

2. Abigail Breslin

The role Abigail Breslin played was Anna. I didn’t like her for Anna when I first heard. I wanted Dakota Fanning as Anna and I still think Dakota could have played Anna better. Still, as the 11 year old girl, too young to even decide for herself – had to split her family up – either to save her sister and endanger herself, or to save herself and help her sister and split her family. It was a choice she didn’t have to make and didn’t have to go through, but Breslin did well. She deserves all the awards this movie is going to make.

1. The Essence

Mother and Daughters

This movie holds more than a night in the cinemas. It’s a lifetime movie where you wonder the same thing: what is your purpose in life? Were you just brought into the world to save or replace someone else? Are the choices you make for you or your family? What would you do in the same situation? This movie shows how these people fight for their family, their lives and how they accept the consequences of the situation. It shows the eternal and unconditional love of the parents for their children, a sister to a sister, a sister to a brother.

Let’s also not forget Brian, Campbell, Judge and Judge DeSalvo with whom the movie cannot survive without.

Sisterhood

Best Lines in the Movie

“So you stand up for Kate?”
“I do!”
“But the real question is, who stands up for Anna?” – Campbell Alexander

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“You almost had me believing that you care about Anna,”
“Funny. I was about to say the same thing to you,” – Campbell Alexander

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“And you can look at me and say how awful I am for doing that to my child. But you know what, it is awful. But it is not as awful as putting your child in the ground,” – Sara Fitzgerald

This is the spin off of Beverly Hills 90210, apparently that was created many years ago. I’ve watched most of the episodes already available and I can only say one thing: this show sucks. Maybe I’m being mean. But it really does. Let me tell you why:

1. The plot SUCKS! It’s predictable, not interesting at all. There are even some scenes that seems so familiar like they’ve been copied off another show. The scene with the baby? Hello? Baby-sitters club? What about the whole episode with Kimberley and her drug case? I’ve seen those episodes before. Boston Public I think it was and One Tree Hill. Maybe I liked them in those shows. But they don’t have to copy the whole plot. They should have just kept the original actors from whatever movie/show they got that from. So lame.
2. The actors and actresses are total amateurs except for just a few. Most of them don’t even match their characters in the plot.
3. Let’s start with the Wilsons, shall we? Dixon. Who was he again? I don’t even remember him. That’s how unnoticeable he is. He doesn’t know how to act nor does his character have any big deals on 90210.
4. Naomi Clark. Or Annalynne McCord has a good character in the show. Honestly, she has one of the best characters to play in the show. The question is: is she fit for it? She doesn’t even strike me as beautiful. Every time I see her nose grow bigger when she’s hurt or starts to cry I feel like throwing the television. Maybe she could have done a better job. She probably should start kicking it out, because the show would bomb without her character. She can NEVER, I repeat, NEVER be compared or even BE Blair Waldorf. Her character’s just a psychopathic bitch who lacks attention.
5. Dustin Milligan aka Ethan Ward is undoubtedly hot. He’s got the looks, yet he doesn’t play his character well. How stupid is his character anyway? Men like that don’t deserve to be dated! Seriously, secret dating? He should get expelled or something. Or be killed off the show. Seriously.
6. Jessica Stroup aka Erin Silver had an interesting character in the first episode. Then wham! That girl was gone. Yeah, she had major deals about her mom and all that. Then it was all gone. I had a first impression that her character was a strong, independent person. Now she’s just the character.
7. No comment much about the parents. Stupid plots around them Tracy’s a w*ore, Harry’s a principal-parent kind of guy with a w*oring background with a kid, Tabitha’s a grandmother feeling kid type, Charles Clark is the worst father ever (and actor), Gayle doesn’t even deserve to be on this show, how in the word could she even face Naomi? Kimberley is non-existent.
8. Navid is in this list only because he left Adrianne when she was pregnant. What an assh*le.
9. I saved the best for last. Shenae Grimes character Annie is unquestionably pretty. BUT SHE SUCKS. If I have to see her brush her hair away from her face again or smile that crooked smile of hers, I’m really going to throw the TV. She’s so annoying, that pathetic “I’m so good, I’m the principal’s daughter” character should be killed off. Her character is LAME. She’s so thin I can see her bones in her clavicle. I bet you can play the guitar on her ribs. Whenever they say she looks hot or the episode that Ethan checked out her ass, I feel like puking. Okay, maybe she looks hot from head to upper neck. But aside from that, she’s as thin as a BROOMSTICK. Eat something girl, she looks like such a malnourished girl. She’s the only actress on this show that actually looks 15. Ethan looks like he’s hogging an underage kid when they’re kissing. I saw pictures of her wearing a halter dress and it literally showed her ribcage. God, you’re not showing the tattoos girl, you got a guitar!

Characters that should be killed off:

1. Ethan Ward, what an assh*le! His character should die. I’m mean. So what? He doesn’t deserve the spotlight on him.
2. Kelly Taylor, although if I thought about her son maybe I could write her off here. Her character is lame.
3. Charles Clark is the worst father in the all time shows. Yet, he doesn’t deserve credit for it. Dan in One Tree Hill is another story, the guy, bags a plot around him. This Charles, is just a selfish, unforgiveable sick man that happened to be Naomi’s father.
4. Annie Wilson, she already looks like a skeleton. Is there any difference if she died?

Okay, I’ve been mean enough. How about some perks? Yes, genius, there are perks in this show. Yey!

1. Adrianna Duncan, or Jessica Lowndes is such a beautiful girl. You’ll enjoy watching this show just by looking at her. She’s also a good actress by the way and she plays her character, which by the way is the only one aside from Naomi’s that’s worth saving. She sings really well and she’s one hell of a character to play an addicted. I thought she and Navid made a good couple though. But Navid’s an ass.
2. Adam Gregory is HOT.
3. Jessica Stroup’s eyes. Gorgeous eyes.
4. …oh! And of course, Beverly Hills! Although they don’t show much of it.
   

I also don’t think the fact that 15 year olds should be allowed into clubs. At least not yet. Plus they get to drink? Okay, I was drinking early in my years too, but, come on? Portraying that in a TV show many teens watch isn’t going to help the teens stop drinking/having sex at such an early age.

I really don’t like this show. But it’s for you to decide. I’m not satisfied with it and I don’t think I’m going to change my opinion for a while.

Rate: 10/10

Director: George Wolfe

Cast:

Richard Gere as Paul

Diane Lane as Adrienne

Can Nicholas Sparks be any more crueler? This is my 2^nd movie of his book (1^st was A Walk to Remember) and though I totally love him for writing it, and though I totally adore him for the plot and the whole love story, I really hate him for turning me into a tear-jerker. Did he really have to kill Paul in the end? Oh right, just like Jamie in A Walk to Remember.

Nicholas Sparks has done it again.

1. Richard Gere is growing old. Yet, he still has that same charm he had when I first saw him in… well, I forgot when I first saw him. But he’s still the same great actor, he holds himself, he did well.
2. Diane Lane. Although, I don’t remember where I first saw her, she’s great. I cried in the end. She’s a good actress. She brings in good emotion and I really felt for her and I hated Nicholas Sparks for killing her happiness like that.
3. It’s by Nicholas Sparks. Come on. The master of such tear-jerkers. I love him. Totally.
4. It’s a very inspiring, very sweet and romantic love story. It has a good plotline, it was real and it was sad.

I recommend this movie for everyone who loves romantic movies, love stories and anyone who wants to cry.

Nights in Rodanthe

Beautiful movie, beautiful story.

Rate: 6/10

It wasn’t bad. Really. I love Anne Hathaway and the guy was totally hot. I just didn’t really get the plot. Yeah, they had some kind of 6^th Sense going or whatever, and I really didn’t get it. I had to read some of the spoilers online to finally get it. There are perks though.

1. Anne Hathaway. A great actress, beautiful, very fun to watch. Any movie with her in it, you’d totally enjoy. She did well, I didn’t expect her to do so well, I didn’t think it was a thriller-suspense kind of movie. I’m so used to her being such a pretty princess, a high classed hot girl like in The Devil Wears Prada and all that, but she did a really good job. She’s got emotions, she brings herself and she does know how to looks scared.

1. Eric, or whoever the guy is in real life is cool too. He and Anne had good chemistry, he’s hot, so that’s a perk.

1. There was a semi-failed attempt at a love story but it didn’t really have any place in the plot so I’m not sure if that’s a perk, but at least it was semi-tried.

1. I have no complaints at the directing. I think the director did great.

So, at least there are some perks. They just needed an up for the plot. The end was kind of a shocker though. I didn’t expect her to be dead too. But beneath it all, I didn’t think it was impossible for her to be dead as well.

It’s an okay movie. It has a finished ending and it doesn’t really leave you hanging…of course, that is, if you did understand the movie.

It would be worth a movie night. But not so for P110 for a cinema seat.

Anne and her Leading man

Anne Hathaway’s HOT.