The Academy Award winning film, Juno is directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) while the script was written by Diablo Cody. It stars Academy Award nominee, Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman.

The movie is about a sixteen-year-old girl, Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page) who faces an unplanned pregnancy after a night with Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). Soon, she decides to keep her baby instead of an abortion and give up her baby for adoption. She then finds a suitable couple, Mark Loring (Jason Bateman) and Vanessa Loring (Jennifer Garner). Follow Juno as she faces her problems along the way of delivering her baby to the baby’s adopted parents.

The movie’s soundtrack, Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs is made available on iTunes. There are 15 songs in the soundtrack, with vocal stylings ranging from Kimya Dawson (who performed several songs in the album) to the star of the movie, Ellen Page.

Get this award winning movie and soundtrack from iTunes…

Jumper has jumped into iTunes… You can now download this movie from iTunes. Click the above image to download!

Jumper, a film directed by Doug Liman is currently at the number 2 spot in iTunes, Top Movies. The movie stars Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Bilson and Jamie Bell. This is not the first time the first two had worked in a movie together. They had both starred in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith as Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu respectively.

In this movie, Jumper, David Rice (Hayden Christensen) first discovers that he has a gift to ‘jump’ from one place to another. However, he soon finds out that the gift has been around for centuries. Thus, there are others just like him and they are called Jumpers. Unfortunately, there are also those who were sworn to kill the Jumpers, called Paladins.

Catch Hayden Christensen as he jumps in Jumper in a war between Jumpers and Paladins.

Camp Rock, a Disney Channel Original Movie debuted on June 20, 2008. It has a star-studded cast which includes Demi Lovato (Barney & Friends, As The Bell Rings), Alyson Stonner (The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, Cheaper By The Dozen, Phineas and Ferb), Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (Hannah Montana), Jasmine Richards (Naturally Sadie), Maria Canals Barrera (Wizards Of Waverly Place) and of course, musical stars, the Jonas Brothers.

The movie revolves around Mitchie Torres (Demi Lovato), who aspires to be a singer and as the title suggests, she wants to go to a prestigious rock camp. However, her family could not afford to send her there. So, she has to work in the kitchen alongside her mother (Maria Canals Barrera) in between classes during camp.

Meanwhile, Shane Gray (Joe Jonas), a hot-tempered, ill-mannered and self-centered guy, who is a part of a teen band, Connect Three (which includes his brothers, Nick and Kevin Jonas as Nate Gray and Jason Gray respectively) is persuaded by Nate to go to Camp Rock. Thus, Shane heads for Camp Rock as an instructor.

At the camp, Mitchie meets Caitlyn (Alyson Stonner) and a group of popular girls in camp, consisting of, Peggy (Jasmine Richards), Ella (Anna Maria Perez de Tagle) and leaded by Tess (Meaghan Jette Martin). Tempted to be in the clique, Mitchie invents a glamorous life and tries to hide her poor, unglamorous life.

In the kitchen, Mitchie is overheard singing by Shane. However, she is not seen by Shane. As a result, Shane sets out to find the girl of his dreams…

Will Shane be able to find Mitchie?

Will Mitchie come out of her shell?

Catch the Disney’s latest original movie, Camp Rock and its star-studded cast when it airs. Remember to watch out for Brenda Song (The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody, Wendy Woo: Homecoming Warrior) in a cameo appearance in the movie…

It’ll be a great hit like another Disney Channel’s original musical, High School Musical!

Besides that, don’t forget to check out the Jonas Brother’s latest video, Burning Up. In the video, you’ll catch a few glimpse of Selena Gomez from Wizards Of Waverly Place, Danny Trejo, David Carradine, Maya Kibble (Nick’s childhood best friend) and a rap solo by Big Rob (their bodyguard).

Apart from that, Miley’s coming out with her new album, Breakout which will definitely be a breakout from her Hannah Montana character. Looking at her huge fan base, her second album, which is produced without any sight of her alter ego might also boom in sale as her debut album, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus.

Good for Miley! She is set to be back on track since the controversial Vanity Fair photo.

Then, the awards giving ceremony started with Steve Carell and Tina Fey, both from The Office and 30 Rock respectively, giving out the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Award. This award is won by James Grandolfini who plays Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. James was shocked to know that he had won the first award and said, ” I didn’t know this was the first award. Man, this is kind of freaky.” Next, Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta, both from Hairspray stated the nomination of Hairspray for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. After that, another cast of Hairspray, Zac Efron together with Debra Messing gives out the next award. The Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series is won by Edie Falco, who is also from The Sopranos. Then, to bring us back in time to the history of the Screen Actors Guild, a video of Blair Underwood explaining a brief history of the guild was shown. Continuing with the awards giving ceremony, Vanessa Williams from Ugly Betty and William Peterson from CSI: Crime Scene Investigation presented the next award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. Since the casts of The Sopranos had won the first two awards, there’s no doubt that they’ll also win this award. This is their second time winning this award. Thus, they have dominated the drama genre for this year.

-> The cast of The Sopranos who dominated the drama category of the 14th Screen Actors Guild award show.

After that, two casts of Into The Wild, Emile Hirsch and Hal Holbrook introduced Into The Wild as one of the nominations for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. Then, Javier Bardem was awarded the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his role as Anton Chigurh in the movie, No Country For Old Man.

Diving into the comedy category, Chandra Wilson and Eric Dane, both from Grey’s Anatomy presented the award for the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. And the actor goes to…Tina Fey for her performance in 30 Rock as Liz Lemon. She ended her acceptance speech by thanking the Screen Actors Guild for supporting the Writers Guild of America, which she is also a member of. Next, the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series was presented by James Marsden and Kate Beckinsale, who are from Hairspray and Vacancy respectively. The award also goes to a cast of 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin who plays Jack Donaghy. Unfortunately, he could not be there to receive the award. Then, Russell Crowe indicates American Gangster as a nomination for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award. Up next, Micheal C. Hall and Jeanne Tripplehorn gives out the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. After watching The Sopranos dominating the drama genre, you would think that 30 Rock would dominate the comedy genre, but the award goes to the cast of The Office. Then again, some people might not be surprised as this is their second consecutive win.

-> Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and the cast of The Office.

A video of Blair Underwood is shown again, and this time, it was about the contributions of the Screen Actors Guild in the past years. Next is a word from the president of the guild, Alan Rosenberg. Then, Denis Leary gave a brief speech about Charles Durning, who is the recipient of the Life Achievement Award and a video on Charles Durning’s life journey was shown. Before he became an actor, he was a dancer, a boxer, and even a World War II veteran. After the video was, Burt Reynolds who appears in several films together with Charles Durning presented him the award.

-> Charles Durning, who had won the Life Achievement Award.

Next, James Spader from Boston Legal and Holly Hunter presents the award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries. The award goes to Kevin Kline for his performance in As You Like It as Jacques. However, Kevin Kline was not there to receive the award. Ben Foster who acts as Charlie Prince in 3:10 to Yuma includes the movie as one of the nominees for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries is next and is presented by the 87 years old, Mickey Rooney. The award is won by Queen Latifah for her role as Ana in Life Support, but she could not make it to the award show either. Then, Josh Brolin presented a video entitled ‘In Memoriam’ in remembrance of the dearly departed actors.

-> Kevin Kline and Queen Latifah who both could not make it to the award ceremony.

The 14th Screen Actors Guild Awards show continued with a video of Blair Underwood on the progression of the industry throughout the years. Viggo Mortensen then presents the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role. And the award goes to Ruby Dee for her role as Mama Lucas in American Gangster. After that, Tommy Lee Jones states the nomination of No Country For Old Man, in which he acts as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Award.

Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey who both acted in How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days and most recently Fool’s Gold presents the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role. The award goes to Daniel Day-Lewis who has won the same award for his performance in Gangs Of New York and now, for his role as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood. Next, Forest Withaker takes on the stage to present the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role award to Julie Christie for her performance in Away From Her.

The last award given out for the night was presented by Tom Cruise. He presented the award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, which had been the talk of the night. Finally, the anticipation ends and the award goes to the cast of No Country For Old Man. Josh Brolin gave the acceptance speech in representative of the 47 casts in the movie. He and Woody Harrelson gave the last laughs of the night as Woody interrupts Josh’s speech. Then, Tom Cruise closes the award giving ceremony and bid everyone goodnight.

The Enchanted Disney movie is definitely an enchanting movie as it starts in Andalasia with a woodland princess, Giselle who finally found her Prince Charming, Prince Edward. They decided to marry the next day. Then, Queen Narissa, step-mother to Prince Edward banished Giselle from Andalasia to keep her status as the Queen of Andalasia. Giselle magically transformed from an animated character into a real-life character and was sent to the present day New York. No doubt, Giselle was ignored by the people of New York, where she met people from all walks of life. She even met a man who she regarded as Grumpy, one of the seven dwarfs from ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‘. That is until she met Robert, a divorce lawyer and his daughter, Morgan.

At first, Robert was reluctant to let Giselle stay at his house, but changed his mind after seeing Giselle sleeping on his couch. The next morning, Giselle was stunned by the dirty condition of Robert’s house. So, she hummed a tune and within seconds, urban animals such as rats, coach roaches and birds made their way to Robert’s house. She sang the Happy Working Song which was with references from Whistle While You Work from ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ and The Work Song from ‘Cinderella’ while cleaning the place.

Robert and Morgan woke up with dismay when they saw their house filled with wild animals. They eventually chased all the animals out of the house. Then Robert’s soon-to-be fiance, Nancy Tremaine came knocking on the door and saw Robert with Giselle, which caused a mis-understanding. After Robert sent Morgan to school, he brought Giselle to the office with him.

The story continues with Prince Edward going through the vortex in search of his bride. One of Giselle’s animal friend, Pip who is a squirrel followed him and flew into the real world. Unfortunately, Pip could not talk in real life. So, he had to pantomime everything that he wants to say, to Prince Edward. Meanwhile, in Andalasia, Queen Narissa was worried and restless that her plan would fail. She convinced Nathaniel, her henchman to follow Prince Edward, so that he does not find Giselle and take over her throne.

Giselle weeped after finding out that a couple was getting a divorce. So, Robert gave some money to Giselle, asking her to go and find her Prince. When he saw her giving all her money to an old lady sitting on a bench, he went to accompany her at the park. At the park, they talked about their love relationships, which got Giselle to sing the song, That’s How You Know . Her singing resulted in the people in the whole park singing along.

Giselle asked two birds to send a wreath of flower along with the tickets to the Kings and Queens Ball, to Nancy. Nancy was so excited when she received the gift and forgave Robert. Robert allowed Giselle to continue staying at his house because he believes that her prince would never come for her. While they were in a conversation about that topic, Prince Edward knocked on every door in the building and finally knocked on Robert’s door. Thus, he finally succeeded in finding his bride.

Spoilers ends here.

However, that’s not how the story ends… Will Giselle finally marry Prince Edward? Will Giselle finally have her true love’s kiss? Will Robert finally marry Nancy? Or will something unexpected happen?

You’ll just have to watch the show to know. It’s an amazing show to watch and is suitable for the whole family. Click below to download the movie into you’re iPod…

A Must watch movie: Enchanted Disney Movie

-> Animated Giselle in Andalasia and real-life Giselle in New York.

Amy Adams has already won 11 out of 17 nominations and still counting. She is a rising star and got even more popular with the release of Enchanted movie. She has been the talk of movie-goers since they watched the show. People just couldn’t take their eyes off her highly energetic performance. She’s absolutely brilliant in playing her role as a Disney princess in this story. Amy truly did bring the fairy-tale princesses to life. Movie-goers would definitely agree with me that she really reflects how Disney princesses would act in their respective stories.

-> Animated Prince Edward in Andalasia and real-life Prince Edward in New York.

The box-office Enchanted movie is a predictable and yet interesting movie until the end of the story. For most comedy shows or movies, there is usually the ‘not so smart’ character to spice up the story. Enchanted the movie is not an exception as the character is Prince Edward, which is portrayed by James Marsden. There is no doubt that he acted exceptionally well in the movie as he was also the Cyclops in X-Men, X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand. Besides that, he recently sang a number in Hairspray named ‘Trouble On The Line’. No wonder, he could sing harmoniously with Amy Adams the song, ‘True Love’s Kiss’ in the movie, Enchanted .

Then, there is Patrick Dempsey who is well-known for his role as Dr. Derek Shepherd in the television show, Grey’s Anatomy. In this movie, he plays a divorce lawyer who accidentally stumbles into an animated character who came to life, Giselle. The dreamy Patrick Dempsey stays dreamy even though he acts as a divorce lawyer who do not believe in a “happily ever after” story.

Besides acted characters, there are also CGI(Computer Generated Image) characters such as Pip, the chipmunk from Andalasia(the animated world). For example the CGI created roaches, mouse and birds in the scene where they helped Giselle to clean up Robert’s apartment. The CGI characters looked so real. It is really amazing.

Furthermore, there were also amazingly well choreographed songs in this Disney movie, Enchanted. The songs that were sung in the movie are:

• True Love’s Kiss
• Happy Working Song
• That’s How You Know

True Love’s Kiss was sung in the animated world while the Happy Working Song and That’s How You Know was sung in the present world. The Happy Working Song was sung by Amy Adams and there were also some singing and humming by the urban animals helping her cleaning up the apartment in the movie. The song, That’s How You Know on the other hand, is the most complex song as it involves hundreds of people dancing and singing along to the song. Enchanted is another Disney movie that should not be missed.

Personally, with it’s awesome cast, animations and songs, I would give it a 9 out of 10 rating.

Beowulf epic has been approved by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to compete for an Animated Feature Oscar. So, let’s see whether it can be one of the three nominees.

Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Produced by: Steve Bing, Robert Zemeckis
Written by: Neil Gaiman, Roger Avary
Starring: Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie, Crispin Glover, Robin Wright Penn, John Malkovich, Brendan Gleeson, Alison Lohman
Music by: Alan Silvestri
Cinematography: Robert Presley
Editing by: Jeremiah O’ Driscoll
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures (US), Warner Bros.
Release date: November 16, 2007
Running time: 115 min.

The main character is Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Ancient Sweden. The antagonists are the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a fire-breathing dragon. The story was based on an ancient poem of unknown authorship. The poem details Beowulf heroic exploits and his battle with the three antagonists, until his death after being mortally wounded in the final battle.

Beowulf: Beowulf, the main character in the movie is a Greatish hero. In the movie, Beowulf is portrayed by Ray Winstone. Beowulf is the ultimate hero, who exemplifies all the traits of a true hero - courage, strength, loyalty, courtesy, pride and compassion. In his youth, Beowulf was a great warrior and a great King when in old age. He become king when King Hrothgar died. He fought in three major battles. In the final battle with the dragon, Beowulf succumbed to his injuries and died in the arm of
Wiglaf.

Grendel: Grendel is a trollish creature descended from the Biblical Cain. This character is portrayed by Crispin Glover. Unable to stand the loud celebration of the newly constructed mead hall, Grendel attacked and devoured King Hrothgar’s warriors. King Hrothgar offered a handsome reward for anyone who can defeat Grendel. The battle of Grendel and Beowulf is the first battle of Beowulf. In this battle, Grendel’s arm was torn by Beowulf and Grendel ran off to his home in the mashes to die.

King Hrothgar: King Hrothgar is a Danish King. In the movie, King Hrothgar is portrayed by Anthony Hopkins. He was good and generous king. In the opening scene of the movie, King Hrothgar was shown celebrating the construction of his new mead hall called the Heorot. The noise from the celebration infuriated Grendel who broke into the Heorot and killed King Hrothgar warriors.

Grendel’s mother: An unnamed character, who is the mother of Grendel was portrayed by Angelina Jolie. Grendel’s mother attacked the Heorot in revenge, after Grendel was killed. She killed King Hrothgar’s most trusted warrior, Eschere, in revenge for Grendel’s death. Later, she battled with Beowulf with he ventures into her cave home. She appears to Beowulf as a beautiful nude woman with gold liquid dripping from her skin. Grendel’s mother nearly won the battle until Beowulf found a sword in the swamp. She was killed by Beowulf with the sword.

The Dragon: The dragon’s battle with Beowulf is the third and last battle for Beowulf. The dragon attacked a village outside of Heorot. Beowulf and Wiglaf went to the cave of Grendel’s mother, to search for the dragon. A battle ensues and the dragon was finally killed with Wiglaf’s help. The dragon was then revealed to be the son of Beowulf.

Wiglaf: Wiglaf is one of the warriors who went with Beowulf to the cave to fight the dragon. However, he was the only one brave enough to help Beowulf, while the rest run away in fear. Beowulf died in his arm when he succumbed to the injuries from the battle with the dragon.

Unferth: Unferth is portrayed by John Malkovich. He is King Hrothgar’s most trusted adviser who is jealous of Beowulf’s fame. Unferth is not brave enough to fight Grendel himself.

Wealhtheow: Queen Wealtheow, Hrothgar’s wife is the Queen of the Danes.

The other minor Beowulf characters are Shield Sheafson (the legendary Danish king), Hrethric (Hrothgar’s elder son), Hrothmund (the second son of Hrothgar) and Hrothulf (Hrothgar’s nephew).

Transformers is a story about the battle between the Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Both are robots from the planet, Cybertron. When their planet was destroyed by Megatron (a Decepticon), they came to Earth and hence continued their battle for the energy source, which is the All Spark. The leader of the Autobots is Optimus Prime., whereas Megatron is the leader of the opposing side, the Decpticons.

Directed by: Michael Bay
Produced by: Steven Spielberg (executive), Tom DeSanto, Don Murphy
Written by: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, John Rogers
Narrated by: Peter Cullen
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Hugo Weaving (voice)
Music by: Steve Jablonsky
Cinematography: Mitch Amundsen
Editing by: Paul Rubell, Glen Scantlebury
Distributed by: DreamWorks, Paramount Pictures, United International Pictures
Running time: 143 minutes
Budget: $151 million

Plot Outline:
When the planet Cybertron was destroyed by Megatron, the Autobots and Decepticons continue their battle on Earth to get the “All Spark”. The film stars Shia LaBeouf (of the Even Stevens TV series, Constantine) as a teenager named Sam Witwicky who got entangled in the war between the Autobots and Decpticons. Bumblebee, one of the outstanding Autobots disguised as a 1976 Chevrolet Camaro, was purchased by Sam.

Transformers Trivia:

• Believe it or not, the tagline “Their war. Our world” was originally meant for another movie, AVP: Alien vs. Predator.
• In the 1984 Transformer movie, Bumblebee’s original alternate mode was a Volkswagen Beetle. But in the 2007 movie, it was altered to a 1977 Chevrolet Camaro (against Don Murphy’s wishes). Michael Bay, the Director felt that the Camaro will project a more friendly quality than the Beetle. He also wanted to avoid comparisons with Herbie the Love Bug.
• As a tribute to the 1984 Transformer series, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle appears next to him at the car shop and as a joke Bumblebee damages it.
• Due to the intense stunts, the camera was kept in a bulletproof glass box while shooting. Shia LaBeouf joked, “The camera’s in a bullet-proof box, but what about me?”
• Jess Harnell is the only voice actor in the film to play both an Autobot (Ironhide) and a Decepticon (Barricade).
• Throughout the film, Bumblebee communicates using his radio, in a manner reminiscent of the Junkions, denizens of the planet Junk, featured in The Transformers: The Movie (1986), who spoke entirely in the form of television broadcasts/commercials.
• Did you know that the word “transformer” was only used once throughout the entire film? That’s when Ron Witwicky said “Looks like they’ve got a blown transformer.”
• During filming, Megan Fox (as Mikaela Banes) put on ten pounds.
• The Decepticon Frenzy was originally named Soundbyte.
• Optimus Prime consist of 10,108 pieces